Welcome to Part 2 of our Road Trip Series, “Daily Bread”. 

Did God’s journey create a desire within you to start walking in Christ – the way? If so, today you will learn about the next step – how to start knowing God’s will.

What exactly is God’s bread and how does it relate His will?  Most importantly, how can you start receiving it today?  Let’s find out.

Recently, my wife and I noticed a bird’s nest outside our bedroom window.  Three baby red birds were in it.  One morning while in my recliner, I saw the mama bird fly from the nest to our bird feeder about twenty feet away.  She gathered some seed in her beak and flew back to the nest to deliver it to her children.  Then, the baby birds suddenly opened their mouths wide to receive it. Here is a pic of them:

Nature teaches us many lessons.  Here we learn an important one.  The Father knows your needs.  Each day the Holy Spirit, like a dove, wants to bring you fresh bread from Heaven’s storehouse to meet them.  As His children, we are simply to open up and receive His provision.

Daily bread reveals and brings God’s will not only from Heaven to earth’s nest, but from Heaven to your nest – your life, your work, your family, your spouse, your children, & your home. Christ prayed, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread...” (Matthew 6:10-11). 

What is God’s daily bread? It is His Word.  As it is written, “‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'” (Mat 4:4).  His living word contains everything we need – both spiritually and physically.

While on a road trip adventure, one may come across many variations of bread – donuts, bagels, biscuits, croissants, breakfast burritos, and cereal for example.  Christ Himself is the word of God (John 1:1).  He is our daily bread.  However, His word (bread) can come to us in many forms. God is infinitely creative.

How can you begin receiving it today?

First, open up each morning to God

Shortly after Israel started on their road trip wilderness adventure toward Canaan, God began sending them bread from Heaven. When the morning dew lifted, it would appear on the ground just outside their camp (Exodus 16:21).  They would gather it morning by morning.  But, when the sun became hot, it would melt away (Exodus 16:21).   Although it came to where they were, in order to receive it, they needed to get out of bed, open up their tents, and seek it.

According to the prophet Isaiah, Christ also gathered bread (God’s word) each morning while on earth: “He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord God has opened My ear (Isa 50:4).  Every morning Christ intentionally opened up His ear and heart to God. Then, He sat quietly listening and receiving.

It takes 20 minute to eat a meal on average.  After you wake up each morning, consider taking the first 20 minutes to open up to God.  Open up with prayer (listening and speaking), worship, & the reading of His written word.  Voice your needs to Him, your desire for His will, and then ask Him for bread.

Secondly, receive it by faith

God intentionally placed the bread outside the Israelites’ camp.  Opening up and walking out of their tents to receive it each day took trusting in something they could not see.  Everything God provides, both physically and spiritually, is received by faith. While we may not feel the bread go down our throats each morning, we must believe we have received it into our lives after we ask for it. The digestion and manifestation of that word/provision will often come later in the day.

Lastly, today’s bread is enough

God gave strict orders to Israel regarding how to collect their daily bread. They were not to eat yesterday’s bread.  It bred worms and rotted the next day (Exodus 16:20).  While Christ’s promises hold true, His sustaining word to you for yesterday, last week, or last Sunday will not meet your needs for today.  Our needs are ever changing.  This is why fresh daily bread on our road trip is so important.

While the past can corrupt our daily bread, our future can also.  How so?  Worry!  You see, some Israelites attempted to collect too much bread and at the wrong time.  They were worried about their lives and didn’t trust God for tomorrow’s provision.

Don’t let worries about tomorrow consume today’s provision.  Jesus said, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (Mat 6:26)”.  Your Father will always provide for you, beloved.

Conclusion

God commanded Moses that a portion bread be put in a jar to display for future generations (Exodus 16:34).  He was ordered to place it in front of the Testimony (the law) within the ark of the covenant. What’s the shadow?  Out of Christ (the ark of the covenant) comes the word (the Testimony) which manifests our provision (bread).

His bread is not some hyper-spiritual idea.  It is real and puts Christ unseen reality on display.  Here is some of my bread that testifies of Christ.

Remember that bird’s nest outside our window?  It was actually daily bread God sent to my family and I for one day.

Our home has been opened for adoption for over a year. Recently, we receive an unexpected call for an adoption match for two children.  A few days after the call while gathering bread (God’s word) one morning, I prayed about it.

Later that morning, three little baby red-headed birds get noticed and are heard chirping in a nest outside our bedroom window.  Later that afternoon, a random comment from a family member (without any mention of the nest), “There is an old folklore.  If you saw red birds just outside your house, its a sign God is sending you new visitors”.

Later that evening, a call with the adoption agency.  Then, a picture of the children shortly after.  Can you guess their hair color?  Red.  Our son, Elijah, had hints of red hair when he was younger.  Three little red-headed birds in our nest….

Heaven’s bread for one day revealing God’s will.  What’s His word?  Bob Marley’s song “Three little birds” summed it up well:

Don’t worry, about a thing.  Cause every little thing, gonna be all right.  Rise up this mornin’. Smile with the risin’ sun. Three little birds, pitched by my doorstep. Singin’ sweet songs of melodies pure and true sayin’, “This is my message to you…”.

Open up to Christ first thing each morning.  Receive by faith the bread and provision He has you personally, in all its various forms.  Be careful to share and preserve (record) it for future generations also, so they too can taste and see that our God is good and Christ is truly alive.