Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:35

35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

Paul thanks God for their preservation thitherto. And there is no such encouragement to hope for future deliverances, as when God doth give us hearts to thank him for deliverances already enjoyed. But he thanked God also for giving them in their necessity such food to nourish and strengthen them, Matth. 14.19. and 15.36. Mark 8.6, 19. and one season more to enjoy it. The acknowledging of God in all things we enjoy, doth sanctifie them to us: otherwise they do defile us: for we usurp them; we holding them by no other tenor but in Franc-Almoine, from God. Neither can they be serviceable unto us, if God withholds his blessing. Hence the Iews would not eat until Samuel had thus blessed their food, 1 Sam. 9.13. And our Saviour himself, to give us an Example, gives thanks before he would have the miraculous loaves and fishes distributed, Iohn 6.11.

Marginal references: 1 Tim. 4.3.