Daily Bread - July 21, 2004

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

All have sinned and come short of my glory. The favor given to you is without regard to your worth or merit. You do not deserve the merciful and gracious expressions that I am showing unto you. I have been longsuffering toward you and abounding in goodness and truth unto your life. I have delivered you from the distress of this dilemma because of my mercy, love, compassion, and patience. Do not take my grace for granted. You must continually seek to find grace through the prayer of faith, which is offered in humility. Do not rejoice because your enemies are fallen before your face. Unless you had found grace in my sight, you would be one of them in the dark ditch of blindness. Except by my grace, you would be one of those who despise prophecy and the testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not because of any righteousness on your part that I have brought you into this goodly land. It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your own heart that you are going in to possess this rich land that I have brought you into. I have sent you into a good land that I may perform the word that I swore unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

You are a Gentile, but you are Christ's seed; therefore, are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Hate the evil, and love the good. Establish judgment in the gate of the Lord. I will be gracious unto you and those who follow you. I am going to be gracious unto them because of my love for them, not because I have accepted their persons. Your enemies are falling before your face because they think that I am a respecter of persons and regard their persons. They do not know that I am against them because they have rejected the living word sent among them. He that receives you, receives me. He that rejects you, rejects me.

The fullness of grace and truth is available to those who walk by faith in the living word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Rhema of God. Man shall not live by bread alone, but he must live by every Rhema word that proceeds out of my mouth. I have placed my mouth to your ear. I have opened your ears to hear my voice. Now listen to what I am saying unto you. You are saved through the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Now do not do any despite unto the Spirit of grace. Unto every one of you is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Freely you have received this grace, now freely give others this grace, and it will continually flow in and out of your life. You have sinned and so has every man. I freely justified you by my grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Christ was set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of all that believe in Jesus.

Do not despise the fact that they speak of your name as evil and call you a false prophet. Those who are mine shall hear your words. The fact that they call you a false prophet is a revelation that they are not mine and do not know my voice. I am speaking the word of God in your ears that is forever settled in heaven. Those who do not know that this is the word of God are given the spirit of slumber and speak by the spirit of error. You are justified by faith without the deeds of the law. This is the only way that the law can be established, for the law is established through faith. Many think that because they have done good works and consider themselves good that they have found favor in my sight. I am not a debtor to any man. To him that works, is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. To him that does not work but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. The blessedness of those who walk by faith is described herein: Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. David described this, for he knew that there were those unto whom I impute righteousness without works.

The promise that Abraham should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith. It is of faith that it might be by grace. By grace, you have entered into the many blessings all about you. Rejoice and worship in the abundance of grace that has been freely given to you and all who follow you. You have not earned or merited this grace. It is a gift that is accompanied by faith. Continue to trust wholly in the mercy and the favor of your Lord and Savior. Your many blessings are undeserved. In the midst of darkness, my gracious gift is shining brighter than many suns. Have faith in the complete will of God that was brought unto you by Jesus Christ and the gospel of grace. Have no confidence in the flesh, for there is no good thing in it. Look continually unto me, the author and the finisher of your faith. Fear not. I am with you to do an awesome work in the face of gross darkness.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?