When Jesus holds your hand, you don’t need to think about where to put your feet! You feel euphoric and your feet don’t seem to touch the water or the ground, as the case may be.
I know this because the captain of a large passenger jet once invited me to come forward to the cabin and sit in the jump seat behind him, and then invited me to stay there while the plane landed. It was one thing to have sat and talked to him and his co-pilot for nearly an hour, and another thing entirely to remain there, with a headphone on so that I could listen to the control tower, while the plane swooped low over the bay islands and touched down at Brisbane Airport.
Then came a roar as the captain put the engines into reverse thrust to slow the aircraft. Walking down to where my wife Lorraine was waiting, I discovered that “walking on air” was real! That’s how Peter must have felt when Jesus took his hand and walked him back to the boat — euphoric!
We could all do with some euphoria from time to time, but walking out on a word — in NT Greek a “rhema”: a word from the Lord spoken in real time, and is different from reading the “Logos”: the Bible generally. A “rhema” word leaps up from the “logos” into your heart, carrying within it the power to create what it describes! Mary the virgin received such a word from Gabriel, received it, and conceived the Son of God! Peter the disciple asked Jesus for a word of command, was told “Come” and stepped out of a boat and walked almost to Jesus. Not on the water but on the enabling “rhema” word granted by the Lord Jesus.
“Give us this day our daily bread” has its origin in the Old Testament, and especially in the daily gathering of “manna”: a bread-like substance that fell overnight around the encampment of the children of Israel during their forty years in the wilderness. Psalm 78:25 refers to it as “angels’ food”. (Read Exodus chapter 16.)
Read the written word daily, if possible, but while doing so open your heart to receive a ‘word from the Word’ — a specific word from the general Word. In my experience, the effect of a “rhema” is that it not only makes a thing possible to believe but impossible to disbelieve!