DON’T SETTLE FOR CRUMBS

But he answered and said, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. (Matthew 15:26). Our opening scripture was an encounter Jesus had with a syrophoenician woman who came to meet Jesus with a request for her daughter who needed deliverance. When she finally met Jesus, His response was "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.” The next verse says,“And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.” (Vs 27). Crumbs are very small quantities of food which drop on the floor when someone is eating or which are left on the plate after eating. That was what the woman settled for. If the crumb the woman got was enough to give her the miracle she needed, you can imagine what the bread in the plate could do.

One thing is very instructive in that discourse, bread is for legitimate children. Those who are not children of God are called dogs and are not entitled to any good thing from God. The little they have is allowed by grace and mercy but everything God has, rightfully belongs to those who are His. Beloved, are you a child of God? That is the only way you will get preference in anything that belongs to Him. Health, wealth, success and so on are freely available in the plate. Don’t settle for crumbs. Don’t settle for just enough. Who told you that you can’t be a millionaire? Who told you that you can’t marry a handsome rich man? Who told you that your children can’t be successful? Begin to think big. These are normal inheritances of children of God. If you are a child of God and you are still living in the crumbs of life, it means you are either walking in ignorance or you are not doing what you ought to do. From today, do away with the crumbs and enjoy the bread in every area of your life.

FEED YOUR FAITH

 God has dealt to everyone a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3). One characteristic of living things is that they grow. Faith is a living thing and so it grows. To buttress this point, at one time in the scripture, Jesus asked the disciples, “Where is your faith?” (Luke 8:25) which means they had no faith at that point. At another time, he said, “o ye of little faith…” (Matthew 16:8). Yet another time, He described the centurion as a man “with so great a faith” (Matthew 8:10). This goes to show that there are different levels of faith which means that faith grows.

According to the scriptures in Romans 12:3, “…God has dealt to everyone a measure of faith” so no one will say he or she does not have faith. Once you get born again, faith is imparted into your spirit but it is now up to you to feed your faith so it will work. How do you feed your faith? By the word. Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” The Word is the food that faith eats. The more time you spend in the presence of God and you hear faith-filled words or study the scriptures, the more your faith grows. When you then spend quality time in prayer, especially in tongues, you stir up the faith to work for you. Don’t let your faith remain at the level it is for a long time. There is a limit to what your faith can produce for you per time. The next level of expectation will be brought by a next level of faith.