“Man does not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God”
Deuteronomy 8:3
I’m departing from the sailing analogy of recent posts. I wanted to explain why I called this site The Bakery – Fresh Bread.
Although I love to bake and eat fresh bread, I have loved God’s words ever since my dramatic healing in 1990. I was alone in my room, desperately crying out to a distant God for help after 12 years of chronic depression that didn’t go away. And in that place, on my knees in desperation, the Presence of God came to me. And I stood up as He spoke “Stand up, you are Mine; I have called you by your name..and I love you”. I knew then that God was my Father.
That was the great turn around in my life. I was filled with joy and cried with relief. My depression left and I was healed and set free. I met God’s Holy Spirit and Jesus spoke, too, asking me if I would follow Him now and not turn back. I gladly said “yes” for in that moment I knew God personally and felt His love and affirmation for me.
The Bread of Life
After that amazing encounter I started to live in the truth and power of God’s Word, the Bible – led by His Spirit. I treasured His words and He ministered them to my heart. I discovered that:
“As the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from My mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it..”
Isaiah 55 v.10-11
And those words written by the prophet Isaiah about the supernatural power of God’s words in the Bible and from His Spirit have been so important to me in the last 30 years.
Jesus – the true Bread of life
Isaiah was an Old Testament prophet, speaking God’s words as he received them from God. But Jesus is God’s living Word.
…Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.”
John 6:35
I baked a fresh loaf for today. But nothing can satisfy my hunger like Jesus.
I thank my Father in heaven for Jesus and pray that this post gives Him all the glory due to Him today.
The Bakery 
Amen Kate I love the mystery of this word. “Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.”
John 6:56-57 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/jhn.6.56-57.NLT
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Thank you, Susie. That’s so special. You spoke on Sunday about wanting to have more “mystery” revealed this week….and I love the mystery in His word, too…buried treasure!
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We can be thankful that ‘ my God will liberally supply your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus’ . Philippians 4:19
When we are baking / cooking we are making food for our friends, family, work place or sometimes when we are alone just for ourselves. It is important that we take are of our natural / physical side of life. When the young girl was raised from the dead by Jesus ( Luke 8:55) the first thing Jesus told her parents was to give her something to eat.
Thank you God for the skills of those who cook and bake for us. For those of us who cook and bake we thank God that we can physically nourish others and ourselves so that we may love and serve the Lord.
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