What Does God Say?

Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.
The apostles ate whole grains when they were hungry. Whole grains were a staple then as they are now, and the importance of what seems such a simple crop, would be tragic if they were no longer available to us. 


John 12:24
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
We live so much for ourselves and by our own power and authority, but God wants us to put aside our right to ourselves, our authority for ourselves, and our trust in our own wisdom and turn to Him for these things. As long as we live only for “us” and not for God, we cannot bear fruit for His kingdom. As the grain needs to die to itself in order to grow into a vibrant plant with an entire head of grain, we also must put aside living for ourselves and live for God in order to bear fruit in His name.

Nehemiah 5:2
For there were those who said, "We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live."
How important were grains to the people in this verse? They state “that we may eat and live.” Grains were vital for life in the days of Nehemiah as they are to us today.

Proverbs 11:26
He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Grains were so important in Biblical times that anyone who had grains to sell, but hoarded them in order to benefit in inappropriate ways (possibly to raise the price) was considered cursed. On the other hand, those who sold it at a fair price were considered blessed.

Ruth 2:14
At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.
This is one mention of roasted grains in the Bible. This was a festival to celebrate the harvest and grains were roasted and eaten with great pleasure.

Zechariah 9:17
For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish...
Whole grain still makes us flourish due to their nutritional benefits.

Joel 2:19
The LORD will answer and say to His people," behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine and oil, and you will be satisfied in full with them; and I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
I believe there is great satisfaction with eating whole grains as the Lord said to his people then, and is still saying the same thing to us now.

Psalm 72:16
May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains; its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon; and may those from the city flourish like vegetation of the earth.
Grains are so important that they are presented with poetic emphasis.

Ezekiel 4:9
"But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.
God put together a fantastic recipe for a healthy meal. This is a great mixture of very healthy foods for nourishment and delicious eating.

2 Kings 18:32
… until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die."
What an incredible land this is portrayed as; including a land of grain.

1 Samuel 17:17
Then Jesse said to David his son, "take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers. 
What did Jesse want for his sons to nourish them while in battle? In part, roasted grain!

1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 
Once again, roasted grain is presented with other foods intended to offer delicious nourishment. 

Jeremiah 31:12
"They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord- Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; and their life will be like a watered garden, and they will never languish again.

Hosea 2:22
And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.