This is the second petition. Jesus now turns our attention to what interests God. I fear that most of us care about what interests us—our needs, our wants, our selfish interests. We live in the me generation: “What’s in it for me?” We never seem to ask, “What’s in it for God?” So much praying is man-centered and a form of manipulation—to seek God for what we ourselves want in this world. Jesus makes us focus on God and His interests. I myself was deeply gripped many years ago by some of the sermons