Breaking the Curse Starts Here: How the Word Breaks the Lies Over Your Thinking

We find that Jesus is speaking to the people, and He says, “You seek Me not because you saw the signs [the miracles], but because you ate of the loaves [of bread] and were filled.”

In other words, Jesus is saying, “You seek Me because I’m feeding you in the natural, but I’m not just feeding you in the natural, I am also feeding you spiritually as I teach you about the Kingdom of God—and as you learn, you realize that I am the bread of life. You want to know what this place is and you want to know how to live there. You want to know why I’ve come as Yeshua Messiah—because I’m going to give My life so you may go to this Kingdom place of rest and peace in your souls.”

The people were intrigued.

I find the Scripture to be very interesting because Jesus says specifically, “you seek Me not because you saw the signs [mir-acles].” Sometimes people just seek after Jesus for miracles, but we need to seek Him for the bread of life that He provides. The Word is life and it breaks the curse of the fall; it breaks the lies over our thinking and doing. When you seek Him, you’re eating from the Word of God.

The meat that endures to eternal life is Him, and He is the true bread of life—He is the Word. Jesus is saying, “I am the bread of life and I am filling you with the Word of God and you’re following Me.” Jesus taught before masses because He was speaking the Word, God’s Word. Jesus is the Word of God (John 1). The Word brings hope, faith, and joy.

Yes, signs, miracles, and wonders are amazing and it’s wonderful when we see that happen. But in this Scripture passage, people were seeking after God for the bread of the Word, and they were filling themselves up on that. They were gorging, they were advancing. He wanted them to follow Him for the Word.

Miracles were recorded throughout the Word of God. All kinds of amazing things happen, and everybody loves to see a miracle, but one miracle cannot sustain you. It might shift you into a new level of belief, but tomorrow another issue comes right along. You might easily forget the miracle that Jesus did. When He caused miracles, many people didn’t even say thank you. We see that lack of gratitude with the miracle of healing the lepers (Luke 17:17).We can easily receive a blessing from God, but it doesn’t mean we stick around.

You can feed off the Word of God every day, you can sit and read the Bible or you can listen to it, no matter how you choose to absorb His Word, it increases your faith and encourages you. It is manna from Heaven, it is bread we must live off and be nourished by every day.

Also in John 6:27 (NKJV), Jesus says, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

That word labor in the Greek is ergazomai, which means occupation. His statement, “Do not labor” means do not toil from your occupation or toil for your meat or where you get your meat. Jesus is saying, “You are following Me because I am feeding you.” Jesus is feeding them (and us!) the Word that fills up and changes our soul. Your soul is your mind, your will, your emotions. The Word makes you love God. It makes you love yourself, and it causes you to love others.

Then Jesus says, “but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed” (John 6:27 KJV). This is the meat that He wants us to eat. That word meat in the Greek is brosis, meaning food, and broken down to bibrosko, and a verb bosko, which means “to feed or graze.”

Jesus, in essence, is saying, “I don’t want you to spend any more of your time toiling for that occupation or that food or drink or whatever you think you need right now. I want you to receive Me, the bread of life and the meat that endures to everlasting life.” Jesus is saying, “I’m going to give you everlasting life if you believe in Me as Messiah and Savior. This meat I give endures to everlasting life and gives rest in My pasture.” A pasture is what we are to seek after, as in Psalm 23 and like the Garden of Eden—a place of rest and peace. It is like the dream, the place of light and breath with no darkness or toil.

Jesus is saying, “Stop going about the daily routine, which is toiling to gain every day for food that perishes. Get off the cycle of gain and the treadmill of toil that wears you out, the same old fears of not having enough.” It is time to break that by faith in Jesus redeeming us as sons and daughters of the King. He says, “I want you to come into the place where there is bread and meat from My table, which only I can give you. This is how you will survive and sustain an abundant, good life.” He says, “Real life is receiving Me as bread that opens the door to everlasting life of meat and rest in My pasture. You must partake of Me and you will have eternal life.”

John 6:28-35 (NIV) tells us:

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

I pray for your faith to increase in this place and space. You may still be thinking that your bread is what you’re toiling for, but Jesus says, “No, I give you your bread and your meat, your rest. For I am the bread of life.” He means for you to rest while you are working because of what He has done. Rest in the pasture. Psalm 23:1-3 (KJV) says, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”