We hear healing referred to as the children’s bread.
Where does that phrase come from, though?
Answer: The story of Jesus healing the daughter of the Syrophonecian’s woman in Mark 7. Jesus said:
It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.
-From Mark 7:27-
While I was praying for a friend this morning, I noted the name “the L-rd Your Healer”, Adonai Rapha, is given to the children of Israel in Exodus 15:26. Now, look at what happens in the verses that follow the giving of that name.
“When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.”
-Exodus 15:23–16:4-
Following the dispensing of this name, the L-rd gave bread, manna, IMMEDIATELY AFTER.
Gang, here is the picture, Yeshua was giving the Syrophonecian woman a statement about health. In healing, which is part of our food, entropy is restrained: Entropy of person, of possession, and of promise.
It’s not just about the instant signs. It is about a lifestyle where the affection and power of and partnership with G-d Almighty is able to flow.
Our partnership is with Him.
Our bread comes from Him.
Read, and re-read this one, gang.
And read the further tie-in.
“When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.”
-Exodus 15:23–16:4-
When the name Adonai Rapha was given, G-d tied it to the keeping of his commands. And when they gathered manna, the same question is put ot them. Will they walk with Him and treasure his words, or not?
Gang, we have been given a HUGE set of gifts from Him, and with that, we have been given a relationship that is tied to simply hearing what He says, when He gives input, and doing it. It’s not just about a set of rules, but rather about a back-and-forth partnership. We are in a RELATIONSHIP with the L-rd.
I bless you, friends, to move from a slave mentality to the L-rd and into a son and bride mentality or actual RELATIONSHIP with Him. I bless you to relate to Dad, and to your Bridegroom.
I bless you to press in for His bread. For what He has for you.
The L-rd is not going to force you into the wilderness of a lonely place and not provide bread to sustain us.
I am getting so abundantly sick of Christ-followers having to feel like they are forced to walk alone in hard times, with no help to process, and feeling like they have to say “all life is just obendience”. Obedience is a midpoint on a line from slavery to being your Father’s beloved son.
Consider, you were made for this, gang. You were made for a depth of relationship that is deeper than a set of rules. True, there are guidelines and boundaries, but there is a love relationship for which you were designed. And in that relationship is bread, even in the wilderness, and healing, and deliverance through the trials through which you are going.