Manna (Daily Bread)

Illustration of Manna (Daily Bread)

During the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, God provided manna as daily sustenance when the people complained of hunger in the wilderness, with the substance appearing as a fine, flake-like deposit on the ground each morning for forty years until they entered Canaan. The people gathered and baked it into bread that tasted like wafers made with honey, following divine instructions that prohibited storing it overnight except before the Sabbath to prevent spoilage. This miraculous provision demonstrated God's ongoing faithfulness and tested the Israelites' obedience and trust in his word. In Scripture, manna is recorded in Exodus 16 and Numbers 11, later serving as a symbol of divine care that Jesus referenced when identifying himself as the true bread from heaven.

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Significance
Taught daily dependence on God. Jesus called Himself the true bread from heaven that gives eternal life.
Materials
Supernatural food - white like coriander seed

Key Passages

Manna Appears

Exodus 16:14-18

A14nd when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

Jesus the True Bread

John 6:48-51

I48 am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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