We all know of how Jesus took a group of 4,000 men, without counting children and women, and fed them with seven loaves of bread, and a few small fish. If you don’t, He did after preaching to them, and ended up collecting remnants of 7 baskets; all of this is found in Matthew 15:30-39. Well, this week on the Bible Rave (fbook), I found a story that is a bit more interesting. It helps shine light on how deep God can get with His words, and how Jesus plays with words at times to see how deeply people understand His overall message.

When we consider how many times we are like the 4,000 people, just waiting for food, and what seems to not be enough, actually turns out to be what we need, it is relevant to point out that a lot of us are just blind to our blessings. In Matthew 15:18, there is a preface to how a lot of us get confused how speech is powerful. To start, God spoke the world into existence, He shared the 10 Commandments, He uses angels to speak to us, the serpent had to tempt with speech, and so forth. It says in Proverbs 18:21 that “death and life are in the power of the tongue”, and in James 3:3, “if you put bits into…mouths to make them obey us, we guide their whole body as well”. So hopefully now you can see neurolinguistics, is very important on your mental and emotional help, but in this verse, 18, Matthew shows us even more; it states,

“But those things that come forth from the mouth, go out from the heart, and those things defoul the man. For the heart go out evil thoughts [or out of the heart cometh evil thoughts], manslayings, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings (or testimonies), blasphemies.”

Matthew 15:18

Here it shows that gossip, speaking poorly of others, creates opinions and feelings, and those feelings create actions. See as spiritual beings, or a soul that lives forever, our heart can be viewed as the living of host. So, in other words, the heart causes the body (host) to live, so the heart will hold the earthly desires as listed within this verse, but your spirit causes your soul to live. The things that you speak to go your host heart, and from the heart, evil thoughts can come because you have formed opinions and feelings that will then turn to action, just by exchanging sound waves (of if hearing impaired, body language, or visual language).

The verse that I really want to focus on though, is the one from this week’s post, and it is of a woman who runs to Jesus because her daughter has been travailed by a fiend/devil, and His responses. Well, first note the word fiend for devil, does that just not go back into the highlighted verse above, something you crave that is not good? So to me it does, so I will continue with this premise. The next thing that happens is Jesus’ disciples asked Jesus to send her away, and Jesus said, “I am not sent, but to the sheep of the house of Israel”, and she came and worshipped Him. After Jesus said,

“It is not good to take the bread of children, and cast [it] to (the) hounds. And she said, Yes, Lord; for [the] whelps eat of the crumbs, that fall down from the board of their lords. Then Jesus answered, and said to her A! woman, thy faith is great; be it done to thee, as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.”

Matthew 15:26-27

As this story stuck with me, and I had to ponder, I really wanted to share how hard this message is unless you really do have faith, so I did (on the Bible Rave Insta), but here I want to expand on the fact that a lot of the times we are surrounded by the hounds of life, the wolves looking to devour what you have like the disciples did, but you have to hold faith in God privately because he will always send the blessings you need. Just as the people sat with Jesus for 3 days, and the whelps (baby wolves) he provided as they were humble, patient, watching, learning, and understanding he will not leave them fasting. So, as you approach season of apparent drought, know that He is always on time, even four days late, and He can bring to life those old thought dreams/desires, but is up to you to keep faith that it could happen, even if you see not hope.

So this week, remember Isaiah 55:11, “So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; it will not return to me void (useless without result). Without accomplishing what I desire. And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it” because our mouths are front and center for us and others. Keep your words to yourself kind, expansive to your dreams, and to others loving because you don’t know what God has planned. Even if those wolves desire to take your bread of life and run, you are to remember the 7 baskets of the past, present, and future, and be the active participant in allowing your spirit to shine through your inner child.