Children’s Bread (Daily Devotional)

Hello everyone, thank you for joining in. We continue on the theme of healing. Today, we will talk about healing as the children’s bread. We have a reference to healing as the children’s bread in the passage of Mathew chapter 15, verses 21 to 28, it is the incident when a lady who is not part of the covenant, someone who is not a Jewess comes to Jesus and her daughter is afflicted severely by a demon spirit and she reaches out to Jesus, she makes a request for the deliverance of her daughter. But Jesus, we know Him as this compassionate person, however, in this situation, He is quite stern and He reveals to her that He has only come for the sheep of the house of Israel. He says something like the bread cannot be given to the dogs. But what He was trying to tell her and what she actually understood, in those times, I’m sure she got it right away what Jesus was trying to tell her. What Jesus was saying is that here is a lady who is in need but she is outside of the covenant. Even if Jesus wanted to, it was difficult for Him to release that healing or deliverance which she was looking for. However, look at the faith of this lady, in verse 27 of Mathew chapter 15, she says, ‘yes lord, but even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.’ She extends her faith to Jesus and she says this children’s bread which you are talking about, who are the children? The Jews or the people of the covenant are the ones who have this bread which is healing but this woman extends her faith and says Lord, even the dogs have the crumbs. Jesus goes on to comment her faith and says, ‘O woman, great is your faith.’ And then there is a release of the power and her daughter is delivered. The point that we gain out of this incident is that when we are in the covenant, Jesus said that healing is the children’s bread. We know that earlier, those who were the seed of Abraham were part of the covenant. However, now each one of us who believe, we are part of the better covenant that Jesus has accomplished for us. Now that you and I as believers, are part of the covenant, the children’s bread belongs to us. We are the children and the bread that Jesus talked about was healing and deliverance or the power of God to set us free, the power of God to bring wholeness to every part of our being. So, friends, I just want to encourage us, the power of God is available for us to receive by faith. All we have to do is to press in by faith, just the way this lady, she didn’t let go of Jesus, but she extended her faith, demonstrated her faith by what she said and Jesus was so pleased with her and said, ‘great is your faith, you will receive the deliverance’ and her daughter was healed. Even as we extend our faith right now, I believe that God’s power is being released into each one of our bodies and souls. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you that the children’s bread is ours. We claim it in the name of Jesus and we thank you that we are children of the covenant and that healing will be made manifest in our bodies, we give you thanks and praise, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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