I don’t think that anyone would dispute that sickness and disease are enemies of mankind. Historically, people have continually looked for the fountain of youth and for cures to vanquish disease. But the good news is that Jesus has already thoroughly defeated sickness and disease, and if we will believe it and learn to receive it, we can live healed.
Today, I want to continue establishing the truth that divine healing belongs to us.
And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed."
But He answered her not a word.
And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"
But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."
And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Matthew 15:22-28 NKJV
Notice that Jesus called healing “the children’s bread.” Who are the children? During the time of this event, the children Jesus referred to were the children of Abraham—God’s covenant people. Jesus was saying that healing belonged to the seed of Abraham. This Canaanite woman was not a daughter of Abraham and therefore, did not have a covenant with the God of Israel. However, her faith could see that even a crumb that fell from the children’s table would be enough to heal a dog—a non-covenant person.
Throughout history, bread has been a staple of life for mankind. Even the poorest of people had bread to sustain them. How fitting that Jesus would call healing “BREAD.” Bread is for EVERYONE, not just a few privileged people. Therefore, we can conclude that healing is for everyone. Jesus paid the price for everyone to be both saved and healed.
In another text, Jesus referred to Himself as the bread of life.
I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."
John 6:48-51 NKJV
In the Old Covenant God used many types and shadows of things to come. One of those types was the manna which rained down from heaven every morning and sustained the children of Israel for 40 years in the wilderness. Jesus was saying that people who were spiritually dead, yet in covenant with God, ate supernatural bread in the wilderness to sustain them physically. But now He came down from Heaven to give spiritual life to those who would believe. Spiritual life includes healing and health. Jesus said, “The bread that I shall give is My flesh.” Let’s look at what the Bible also says about the flesh of Jesus.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 NKJV
Jesus IS the Word of God made flesh. Therefore, if Jesus is the bread of life, the Word of God is the bread of life. As we feed upon the Word of God, we are feeding upon the bread of life.
Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 6:53-58 NKJV
Jesus said, “I live because of the Father”—He never had a sick day in His life because of the life of the Father in Him. Then Jesus went on to say, “So he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.” If we feed on His Word, we too can live free of sickness and disease. Now lest you think Jesus is endorsing cannibalism, He went on to clarify what He meant.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63 NKJV
Jesus was not saying we must eat His physical flesh and drink His physical blood to have His life. He was saying that His blood will set us free from the power of Satan, and if we feed upon His Word we will have His life and health.
Psalm 23:5 says, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” The Lord has prepared a table before us in the presence of our enemies. One of those enemies is sickness. I wonder if there is any bread on the table?
YES, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY BREAD ON THE TABLE!
The trouble is that so many have their eyes on what the enemy is doing instead of the provision on the table that’s right before them. You are invited to partake of God’s healing bread on the table He’s prepared for you, and you can do that right now.
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