Church of the Harvest | Riverhead, NY

We are a bible-believing church located in Riverhead, NY, that follows Jesus Christ as Lord and joins God in the work he is doing in the world today. We do this by Equipping Believers, Serving the Community & Offering Hope.

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How Shall We Then Live (Part 2)

Jan 19, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

How Shall We Then Live (Part 1)

Jan 12, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Life On Purpose

Jan 5, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Where Are You?

Dec 29, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Redemption's Benefits

Dec 22, 2024 • Abe Smith

What Good Can Come Of This?

Dec 15, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Are We There Yet?

Dec 8, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Perfect Imperfection

Dec 1, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Growing In Gratitude

Nov 24, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

The Things You Need To Know About The Call Of God

Nov 17, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Fear

Nov 10, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Living In The Shadow Of The Cross

Nov 3, 2024 • Jim Whelen

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A Word From Pastor Mike

December 29th, 2022

Weekly Devotional

THE CHILDREN’S BREAD

“A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession.’ He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.’ ‘Yes Lord,’ she said, ‘but even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.’ Then Jesus answered, ‘Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.’ And her daughter was healed from that very hour.” Matthew 15:22,24,26-28 That woman had great faith! Even though she was a Canaanite, a woman excluded from partaking of Israel’s blessings from God, she recognized Jesus for Who He was. I think Jesus was testing her to see what was in her heart by explaining that she wasn’t entitled to anything from God because she was an outsider under the law. She turned around the example He gave her, the children’s bread, and showed Him what was in her heart. She was content to have just the crumbs of the children’s (Israel’s) bread. She knew that even a crumb from Jesus would heal her daughter. She believed in Him. That is some faith! We also read in Luke 17:11-17 about the ten lepers healed by Jesus. We know that only one returned to thank Him. “He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked Him – and he was a Samaritan.” (vs. 16). Why is this in the story? Does it really matter what his nationality is? Here again we see an outsider getting a healing. Luke makes a point of telling us that this lone man returned, and he wasn’t even a son of Israel. He was a double outcast, a leper and a Samaritan. Yet Jesus healed him. He also recognized Jesus for Who He was and believed in Him. Then there is the story of the centurion (Luke 7:1-10) who asked Jesus to come and heal his servant. He didn’t even let Jesus come all the way to his house because he didn’t feel worthy to have Jesus there but knew Jesus would heal his servant. “But say the Word, and my servant will be healed. For I, myself, am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this’ and he does it.’” Jesus… said, ‘I tell you I have not found such great faith even in Israel.’” (Vs. 8-9). These three foreigners saw what most of Israel missed. They saw Jesus for Who He was. They believed in Him while most of the lost sheep of Israel stayed lost. Even though Jesus came to the lost sheep of Israel we see a foreshadowing of God’s great plan in these three people. “…Look, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, ours as well. Do we recognize Him for Who He is in our lives? Because Jesus died and was raised to life we can now partake freely of the children’s bread because we are the children of God! “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1John 3:1)

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