Ebenezer Devotional
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
Isaiah 55:2
Acts 2:46-47
Jesus said to Santanas, it is written that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God, this was said quoting what is written in Deuteronomy 8:3, amidst his contention
with the enemy, he made it clear that the word sustains you, feeds you, gives you life.
Understanding that some biblical passages when they talk about bread, are not referring to food.
What nourishes the body if not that spiritual food that nourishes the soul and spirit.
The word of God is the spiritual bread and it is through which the Holy Spirit nourishes the church, with
She the body of Christ grows, is equipped and trained, to then live under the norms and laws.
from another kingdom: The kingdom of God.
We can clearly identify the above when we read
1 Peter 2: Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, and envy, and
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all defamation, desire like newborns, the pure milk of the word, for
that they may grow for salvation.
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Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me
he will not be hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty.
Something very interesting is to know that the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation,
speaks of Jesus, in him and through him all things were created. And the word of
God in many passages of the Old Testament has prophetically the
revelation of Jesus and of the coming times.
However, once man was stripped of the glory of God, and his were taken away.
the task would not be so easy for him. Not only in a worldly realm, governed by his soul and
careful, but even after receiving salvation what leads us to be now a dwelling of the
Holy Spirit. Only for those who hunger and thirst for God will things be revealed.
Understanding that when the Bible speaks to me about bread, it is not just physical food but that nourishment.
spiritual. It is important to understand that obtaining the revelations of the hidden in the word of God,
sacrifice, study, fasting, times of prayer.
Génesis 3:17-20 17Then the LORD said to Adam: 'Because
Have you heard your wife's voice and eaten from the tree of
which I ordered you, saying: 'You shall not eat of it', cursed shall be the
land because of you; With toil you shall eat from it all the days
of your life.18Thorns and thistles it will produce for you,
And you will eat from the plants of the field.19With the sweat of your
face You will eat the bread.
God reveals himself in his word, just as he does through his creation. In both realms we see him.
then like a God who reveals himself and who also hides himself, giving only
to meet those who genuinely seek him.
Luke 8:4-15 Parable of the Sower
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Having gathered a large crowd and those who came from various cities to
Jesus spoke to them through a parable:5The sower went out to
to sow its seed. When sown, part of it fell along the path, and was trampled and
the birds of the sky ate it.6Another part fell on the rock, and as soon as
it grew, it dried up, because it had no moisture.7Another part fell in the middle of the
thorns; and the thorns, as they grew with it, suffocated it.8And another part fell to the ground
good, and it grew and produced a harvest a hundredfold." While speaking these things,
Jesus exclaimed: 'He who has ears to hear, let him hear.'
Explanation of the parable
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His disciples asked him what this parable meant,10And he answered: "To
you have been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the
to others, I speak in parables, so that SEEING, they do not SEE; and HEARING, they do not UNDERSTAND
