09/15/2026
Bishop Keith Butler
6 hours ago
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. (Exodus 23:25-26)
The promise God made to Israel in Exodus 23 is powerful. He commits to blessing them with the basics of daily life: their bread and their water, and to removing sickness entirely from among them. And He didn’t stop there. He went on to promise that nothing in the land would miscarry or come up barren, and that every person would live out the full number of their days. This isn't some partial, half-covered promise with fine print at the bottom. It reaches all the way across their lives. It covers daily provision, physical health, reproductive wholeness, and a full lifespan.
It is easy to read a passage like this and think of it as belonging entirely to the old covenant, but not directly relevant now. But Hebrews makes clear that believers today stand under a better covenant, established on better promises. If God were willing to make this kind of comprehensive commitment to Israel under a covenant that was, by comparison, inferior to what Christ secured, it would be strange to assume that believers today have less access to health and wholeness rather than more.
The comprehensive nature of this old covenant promise should actually increase your confidence, not decrease it. What was available under a lesser covenant is available to you under a greater one, secured by better blood and a better mediator. Full health, full provision, and a full lifespan were never meant to be exclusive to Israel alone.
Practical Application
Thank God for His promises and that the fullness of health, provision, and long life have not just been promised to those under the old covenant, but also to us who have been grafted into the family in Christ.
Hebrews 8:6; Deuteronomy 28:12
