Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "table". We'll be looking at these two verses: 

Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. KJV

Matthew 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. KJV

In Psalm 23 the Hebrew word is "shulchan". Strong's Concordance says: a table as spread out; a meal. Brown-Driver-Briggs says: used of a king's table. The Theological Word Book of the Old Testament says: this is used in several variations, all deriving from the use to which a table is put. It describes the physical table itself, a table spread with food with an emphasis on the meal, also fellowship shared with those seated around a table. 

In Matthew 15 it is the Greek word "trapeza". Strong's Concordance says: a table usually for food (a meal). Thayer's Greek Lexicon adds: the food placed upon the table, a banquet or feast. Vine's Expository Dictionary says: what is provided on the table, the Lord's table, denoting all that is provided for believers in Christ on the ground of His death.

In Psalm 23 the LORD is telling us that as our Shepherd, JESUS will provide for us anything and everything that we will ever need! In easy times or trying times, JESUS will never fail us! He will ALWAYS be the SOURCE for all that we will ever need! And His delights in providing that for us! 

In Matthew 15 we see a women who was not an Israelite desiring that JESUS heal her daughter. As a foreigner, she had no right standing with God and no claim to His promises. Her faith in the provision of the LORD to HIS people, was so great that she was convinced that even a breath of God's power would set her daughter free! And under this new and better Covenant, we have SO MUCH MORE than was provided under the old! If we can keep these TRUTHS ever before our eyes, there will be nothing that can ever stand in our way from experiencing ALL that the Lord has provided us! In fact, many ministers of God have received similar prophetic promises that the time of a SUPER harvest is upon us! I'm READY! I  know that you are, too! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Good Grace":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!