Mon.’s Devo -Healin is the Children’s Bread

Read: Leviticus 20:22-22:16; mark 9:1-29; Psalm 43:1-5; Proverbs 10:18 God said that if they did’t want the land to vomit them out like it was doing the ones before them, they needed to not only know his laws but put them into practice. *** God had set them apart from all other people so they were to be holy like he was holy. God made a distinction between what was pure and what was foul. No contact was to be made with the dead by the priest unless he was related to them by blood. The priests were to show no open signs of mourning for the dead. These represented the dead without Christ. *** Priests were not to marry any woman except a virgin because he represented Christ and his wife represented The Bride. *** Since the high priest represented Jesus, he was to have no defects of any kind. He was the only one who was to offer the offerings of the people to God and only the priest’s family could eat the sacred offerings. *** We know that healing is ours to claim because Jesus called healing the ‘children’s bread’ in Matthew 15:26 and Mark 7:27. We are the priests who can eat the bread of God’s presence. *** In Mark, Jesus made the statement that some of them standing there would not taste of death until they had seen the kingdom of God come with power. This happened at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to man (Acts 2). It will happen again when Jesus returns. *** Jesus took Peter, James and John to a high mountain and transformed before them. They saw him in his glorified body. They also saw Elijah and Moses talking to Jesus. Elijah represented the prophets and Moses represented the Law. They were Jesus’ two witnesses. *** Peter wanted to make three tabernacles for them since it was the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. But instead, they disappeared and only Jesus was left. God spoke from heaven telling them to listen to his Son. Jesus told them not to tell anyone what had happened until after he had risen from the dead. *** Elijah had already returned in the body of John the Baptist and they killed him just like the scriptures predicted. *** They returned to a huge crowd. A man brought his son who was demon possessed and the disciples had been unable to cast it out. Jesus rebuked them for their lack of faith. Jesus required that the father believe before he cast it out. When he proclaimed he believed and asked for help to overcome his unbelief ,he was repenting and putting his trust in Jesus. Jesus then cast the demon out of his son. Jesus later told his disciples that this kind only came out by prayer and fasting. Lord, help our times of unbelief and may we eat the bread of your children. May we put all our trust in your unfailing love.