Healing is The Children’s Bread!!!

When I started going to holiness churches, I began to hear this saying.


HEALING IS THE CHILDREN’S BREAD.


I had never seen this saying in THE WORD, or heard it said anywhere else for that matter, so one day, I decided to look it up!!!


It seemed awfully strange, but I couldn't find it anywhere in THE WORD!!!   


So, I asked THE LORD about it!!! 


GOD told me that this saying comes from the passage of scripture that tells about how the Syrophoenician woman came to Jesus and asked HIM to heal her daughter!!!   


Matthew 15:22-28 (KJV)

²² And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

²⁴ But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁵ Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

²⁶ But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

²⁷ And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

²⁸ 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.


This healing is recorded again by Mark. 


Mark 7:24-30 (KJV)

²⁴ And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

²⁵ For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

²⁸ And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁹ And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰ And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.


If we read the record of this event again in Matthew using the New King James Version, we find that because of her great faith, this woman’s daughter was HEALED the very minute that Jesus spoke. 


Matthew 15:25-28 (NKJV)

²⁵ Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

²⁶ But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

²⁷ And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.


This woman was determined to get to JESUS and she was determined to seek HIM until she got what she wanted!!!


And when Jesus saw her GREAT FAITH, HE HEALED HER CHILD!!!


Matthew 15:27-28 (WEB)

²⁷ But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.


Now let’s go back just a minute to Matthew 15:25-26 in the New King James.  Do you see where this woman asked Jesus to help her?  Do you see verse 26?  Jesus called HEALING, THE CHILDREN’S BREAD!!!          


Matthew 15:25-26 (NKJV)

²⁵ Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

²⁶ But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”


Just in case you don’t know who Jesus is calling “the children” in this passage, let’s look at verses 22-24.  When the disciples complained that this woman was following them and crying after Jesus to help her, Jesus said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 


Matthew 15:22-24 (NKJV)

²² And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

²³ But He answered her not a word.

And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”

²⁴ But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”


So, “the children” that Jesus is referring to are "the children of Israel - the Jewish people, who everyone in that land and everyone all about knew were GOD’s chosen people!!! 


This woman knew who Jesus was referring to when HE said. "the children."  She knew that HE was referring to HIS people, the Jews-The children of Israel.   


Matthew 15:25-26 (NKJV)

²⁵ Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

²⁶ But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”


And her response is recorded for all time!!!


Matthew 15:27 (NKJV)

²⁷ And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Jesus honored her GREAT FAITH!!! And HE HEALED HER DAUGHTER!!!


Matthew 15:28 (NKJV)

²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.


The King James says, “made whole!!!”


Matthew 15:28 (KJV)

²⁸ 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.


And now because GOD planned before the beginning of time, to adopt us into HIS FAMILY, HE sent HIS SON to die for us ALL, so that we might become HIS CHILDREN!!!  Because GOD loved us so much that HE wanted us to be HIS CHILDREN, HE allows anyone who chooses to become a child of GOD, to be called HIS VERY OWN!!! 


Ephesians 1:5 (AMPC)

⁵ For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]—


So, when we say in our churches today, that HEALING IS THE CHILDREN’S BREAD, we mean that anyone who comes to JESUS CAN BE HEALED!!!  Anyone who comes to JESUS CAN BE MADE WHOLE!!!


HEALING IS INDEED OURS, BECAUSE WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH!!!