Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. The positive covenant promise following the prohibition of other worship: worship the Lord and His blessing falls on every basic provision — food, water, health. The connection between covenant loyalty and physical wellbeing is not mechanistic prosperity theology but the covenant structure of Deuteronomy 28: blessing flows from covenant faithfulness, curse from covenant unfaithfulness. John 7:38 says whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them — the blessing on food and water in Exodus 23:25 is the type of the living water that Christ promises to those who come to Him.

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