The Children's Bread

Mark 7:25-30 New King James Version (NKJV) 25 For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”28 And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord,yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”29 Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”30 And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed. -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------

Deliverance is for God's children, its their bread. There are a lot of people that believe in God but need deliverance. There are a lot of people in the church that need deliverance. Deliverance is a blessing and should be desired by God's people. This is why Jesus said “Let the children be filled first”. God's people should not be ashamed of deliverance. Those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness shall be filled (Matt. 5:6) Only those who crave for righteousness will be filled. We should crave deliverance. Deliverance helps you live righteous because demons hinder you from developing spiritually. In the text the woman was a Greek by birth which disqualified her from being a descendent of Abraham and an heir by birth. This is why the Lord ignored her plea and told her that “it was not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.” However the woman had unrestricted faith that open the door for her to be a true spiritual daughter of Abraham which entitled her to bread. The Lord then responding to her faith by saying “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” God accounts our faith as righteousness. (Romans 4) (Galatians 3:26-29). Deliverance must be received by faith. One of the reasons that so many people in the church are not receiving deliverance is due to a lack of faith. Notice in the text that the woman came to Jesus on behalf of her daughter because she believed that Jesus was the remedy. We today believe that the psychologist, the therapist, and the medication are the solutions for people that have been “demonized” in the mind and emotions. I believe in counseling but not as a substitute for deliverance. Counseling needs to partner with deliverance. Jesus told us to cast out demons not counsel them! Today the people of God are quicker to put their children on psych medication then seeking Jesus for deliverance. When parents start seeking Jesus with unrestricted faith and start acknowledging that their children may be demonized then we will see a great breakthrough in our children.