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  Date / Time: 5/31/2009 10:40 AM UTC

  HEALING IS THE CHILDREN'S BREAD
  

  HEALING IS THE CHILDREN’S BREAD

   

              During Jesus’ earthly ministry many of the children of Israel came to Him for healing.  On one occasion a Gentile woman approached Him for a healing on behalf of her daughter.  Before the Cross, Jesus’ ministry was only supposed to be to the nation of Israel.  In Matthew 15:24-28 He explained it to the woman like this: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
  Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.  And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.” Here Jesus said that God’s children were entitled to healing. It is a benefit that we as God’s children can expect, even as a natural father would provide bread for his own children.  Because of the woman’s persistent faith, He made an exception and granted her daughter healing even before the Cross.  God cannot turn away anyone who comes with expectant, and persistent faith.  At the Cross, salvation and healing were provided for all mankind through Jesus shed Blood and the stripes upon His Body.  All who call upon Him in faith are entitled to the benefits He purchased and freely gives us…salvation, healing, deliverance.  If you are a child of God, healing belongs to you, for “healing is the children’s bread.”  In Matthew 7:7-11 Jesus explained how our Heavenly Father desires to give us good things:

   

  “ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?  Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
              No good thing will God withhold from them that walk uprightly.  We simply must ask Him in faith, knowing that He has already provided the healing for us through the Cross.  Isaiah 53:3-5 promises:

   

  “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  Surely he hath borne our griefs (diseases), and carried our sorrows (pains): yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

   

  We simply must ask in faith, nothing wavering, knowing that if God promised it, He will do it, for “God cannot lie.”  Sometimes He answers immediately, and manifestations are instant, as in the cases of miraculous healings.  Other times a healing may be gradual.  However God chooses to manifest His healing power, it is His promise and He will keep His word.  If God allows us to have our faith tested in delaying our promised healing, it’s only to make our faith stronger.  God wants us to be blessed spiritually as well as physically, and the testing of our faith is how we progress spiritually.  I Peter 1:7 states that God allows our faith to be tried so that when Jesus appears we can have a glorious reward in heaven.  God allowed Abraham to be tested for 25 years before His promise [Isaac] was manifested.  During that time Abraham grew strong in his faith, giving glory to God.  He thanked God and praised Him for Isaac, even when it was physically impossible for Abraham and Sarah to have a child.  Faith pleases God.  That is why Abraham was called the “friend of God”.  He trusted God’s promise even when he couldn’t see the manifestation right away.  “But without faith, it is impossible to please God, for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”  (Hebrews 11:6) Are you waiting for a promise of God to manifest in your life?  Then praise Him and thank Him for it until He manifests it to you.  God wants you to prosper in your spirit, as well as physically and financially (III John 2.)  Put God first.  Keep diligently seeking Him.  Meditate on His promises in His Word, and He will bring His word to pass for you!
   

   

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