Brandie J. Muncaster: What Do You Need?
Do you have a desire for God to meet a need in your life right now? Maybe you need healing in some way, or you’re craving a change in your marriage. Perhaps you desire spiritual growth. Whatever the need is, Jesus is more than able to provide, and He is willing. I know this because He’s done this for me.
When I was in my twenties, I was working at a car dealership as the front desk receptionist. Having financial insecurities, I wasn’t sure what I was going to eat day to day. I was twenty years old, and the past two years had been full of hardships. I was living in survival mode, just trying to make ends meet. I had been kicked out of my home at eighteen years old, and without a car or a college degree, I found it difficult to hold onto a job. I went from job to job and stayed at each one for as long as they would keep me, or for as long as I could stand to stay.
Sitting at the dealership that day, I silently told Jesus I was hungry. I was not sure how He would answer, or if He even cared about me because the hardships I had endured had skewed my perspective of His goodness. Despite my feelings, I prayed because I had nowhere else to turn, and I needed Him to intervene. About two hours later, a man I did not know walked up to my desk, set an Egg-McMuffin in front of me, and said, “I got you a sandwich.” Then he walked away.
That gentleman did not know my situation, but Jesus did, and through the man’s kindness, my need was met. I learned from this experience, and others similar to it, that Jesus not only cares about us, but He also loves to feed His people. All we need to do is ask Him to fill our desire.
Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.” And He took seven loaves and the [two] fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left. Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides woman and children.
~Matthew 15:32, 36-38 NKJV
In the Bible, Matthew chapter 15, we read a story of Jesus multiplying a loaf of bread and a few fish in order to feed five thousand people. This is the only miracle that is recorded in all four Gospels, which tells me this is an important message that Jesus wants us to understand and absorb.
In the story, Jesus spends time throughout the day, teaching a crowd of people about many things. He feeds their hungry souls with His words, their hungry spirits with His presence, their hungry minds with His perspective, and their hungry bodies with food. This story paints an incredible picture of who He is for us today. Jesus is the Bread of Life. He is the Provider, the Miracle Worker, the Supplier of all our needs, and the Multiplier for the desires we need whether it be emotionally, spiritually, mentally, or physically.
“I am the bread of life. … I am the living bread which came down from heaven.”
~John 6:48, 51a NKJV
“The Bread of Life” has two different meanings. “Logos” is the first primary Greek word for bread and means “The inspired Scripture of God, the Bible, Jesus, the Living Word.” The second word for bread is “Rhema,” which means “an utterance.” Rhema is a portion of scripture or a verse from the Bible that the Holy Spirit brings to our attention that applies to a current need for guidance or help in a particular situation. It can also be a word or an utterance spoken to us through the Holy Spirit. What we learn from this, is that Jesus, the Living Word, desires to meet our specific needs.
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~Brandie J. Muncaster, Author of Garden Tales: A Seed’s Story
Friend, I ask you today, what do you need? Do you desire emotional healing from a traumatic event? Is it encouragement from His Word that you need? Are you seeking to grow spiritually? Do you need Jesus to heal your mind? Are you in need of Jesus to heal your physical body? Whatever your need is, rest assured that Jesus loves to feed His people, and He is more than able to meet your specific need. As He was a prayer away for me, He is a prayer away for you as well, and He deeply loves you.
What do you need? Are you willing to pray about it?
Lord Jesus, Your word says You are the Bread of Life. Please feed my hungry soul today with Your words, my hungry spirit with Your presence, my hungry body with the nutrients it needs to thrive, and most of all my hungry mind and spirit with the knowledge of who You are and the sacrifice on Calvary’s cross You made to save me.
Amen.
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BRANDIE J. MUNCASTER
Brandie J. Muncaster’s passion for writing is fueled from her desire to help people discover what it means to live and walk in their true identity in the Lord Jesus Christ. As someone who has known the powerful transforming work of God in her own life, she is passionate about seeing others experience the same. Through prayer, and applying the Word, she ministers the love of God.
Brandie is a devotion writer for VineWords: Devotions and More and Kingdom Winds.
She is the author of the children’s book Garden Tales: A Seed’s Story. Her work-in-progress is a memoir entitled A Story of Redemption, where she shares how God has brought inner healing through His Word.
Brandie is a conference speaker. She has ministered at Life Potential for Women Conference hosted by Jozel Kale and Luke Laffin; Forest Hill Church Women of Valor Conference hosted by Marilyn Chadwick and Stacey Martin; Southbrook Church Rooted Conference, and Southbrook Church Live Out Loud Event, both conferences hosted by Kathy Johnston; and other venues.
She is a member of Word Weavers of Charlotte; Hope Writer’s Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and Kingdom Winds Collective.
She and her husband have three children. She enjoys spending time her children playing sports, or visiting the coast or the mountains. Brandie enjoys reading, painting, running, and homesteading. She resides in Charlotte, NC.
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I like your way of putting things. Great testimony.
Thank you, Rebecca. 🙂
What a moving story and great testimony. Double check those Greek translations though. Neither mean “bread of life. Rather, they are both related to words…logos is the spoken word, while “rhema” is best understood to be an utterance that is inspired by God. I see what you were going for though.
Thank you. And I appreciate your correction….I will have to look into that! 🙂
I love how He builds our faith through personal stories like the one you shared. He really cares about us on an individual basis. It is so easy to take that for granted, but it is the greatest of gifts.
Thank you. 🙂
What a great testimony and devotional. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Ed.
Brandie, your testimony of God providing your needs, and how He willingly provides ours, is touching. Thank you for sharing this important truth.
Thank you, Diane. I’m constantly amazed at God’s provision….
You’re welcome Brandie. I agree. God’s ongoing provision is amazing.
What an amazing testimony to share of how Jesus provides our needs. As I read your devotional it made me consider that He may calls us to be the man who provided the sandwich. Thank you for sharing your heart, Brandie.
Absolutely! Now that you say that, I’m realizing I need to be more sensitive to who God puts on my heart day to day…and I need to be sure to reach out to them & simply see if they need anything. I also need to be more aware when I’m out and about. The man who gave me the sandwich that day did not know me or my situation. He was just a co-worker that I did not know very well at all. I love that God always gives us opportunities to partner with Him & be His hands and feet.
I’m always amazed at how God has given me whet I needed; often times before I realized I needed it or had given up on my request. Thanks for the blessing Ms. Brandie.
Yes! That’s a good point–about how God gives us what we need before we even know we need it, or even when we give up on our request…..I love that!