Victory Life KY

Communion

Episode Summary

Being able to come to the Lord’s table, free of all sin, made completely righteous by His sacrifice, can be an absolute life changer for us.

Episode Notes

• There’s no better way to leave whatever’s harassing, tormenting, manipulating you, there’s no better place for restoration and healing than gathering around the Lord’s table, and walking away with a renewed mindset, renewed trust in Jesus. 

• 1 Peter 5:7,AMP- Casting all your cares, all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all on Him, for He cares about you with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully.

• This is why our faith is absolutely vital, anyone who comes to God must believe… Believe He is a burden removing, bondage destroying, barrier braking God. The God of peace that passes understanding.

• So today, come to the Lord’s table with a divine expectation. And let these words from Jesus settle into your thinking.

• John 14:1,NKJV- Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 
• In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 
• And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

• v.27, Jesus repeats His point, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

• Seriously, if the Almighty, my Heavenly Father tells me to not let my heart be troubled… If He tells me I’m victorious, forgiven, blessed, prosperous, favored, healed, why wouldn’t I accept what He says as truth? 

• 1 Corinthians 15:57,AMP- Thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory making us conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Romans tells us we are more than conquerors. Then Paul tells us to imitate him like he imitates Christ. Say what he says, do what he does.

• Think about it, why shouldn’t I say what my Father says about me?
• After all, Jesus told us, rivers of living water will flow from our born again nature.

• Psalm 34, How blessed, fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God is the man who takes refuge in Him.

• Unfortunately, human nature has made it very clear that as long as we can live without more of God, we will.

• Whether you’ve walked with Jesus most of your life, or you’re just starting your journey, 

• Because of human nature, because we have an enemy, there will be times when we question God, our relationship with Him, His promises, our failures, things we don’t understand, etc...

• And it’s in those times that being able to come to the Lord’s table, free of all sin, made completely righteous by His sacrifice, can be an absolute life changer for us.

• The reason I talk about communion before we take it is because we all need reminded from time to time that communion is this divinely inspired place of revelation from the Father. 

• It allows us the opportunity to acknowledge that Jesus alone made us worthy to stand in His presence. 

• He’s counting on us embracing the fact that He made us heirs to the Kingdom through what He suffered.

• Today as we gather around the Lords table, let the Holy Spirit help you see His crucifixion, His sacrifice as so much more than just our passage to Heaven.

• May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that we can embrace the hope of His calling, so that we can walk in the exceeding greatness of His power.

• John 6:51,NKJV- “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever...”

• Earlier in this same gospel Jesus told us, the Father is looking for those who will come to Him with the recognition of who He is. With a humble attitude of worship. Those who will worship Him in spirit and truth.

• The Samaritan women is a beautiful picture of God’s divine love, destroying racial agenda, reaching past moral failure to extend His true nature.

• While we’re here, something else Jesus constantly brought to light was the destructive nature of religious tradition.

• John 4:10,NKJV- Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

• v.14,NKJV-“but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

• Here’s the thing we’ve got to keep out in front of us as we follow Jesus. He said, “I only do the will of My Father who sent Me.”

• John 10:10,(paraphrase), I came from Heaven to give you a rich and satisfying life. A better life than you've ever dreamed of. A life to enjoy in abundance, to the full, till it overflows.

• Communion isn’t just acknowledging Jesus’ sacrifice, it’s embracing and reverencing the fact that Jesus actually restored us to our rightful place with God.

• Today as we honor and reverence our King’s sacrifice, let His Spirit minister to you, embrace what Jesus did, what He said, and embrace who you are because of Him.

• This is why having moments like this, around the Lord’s table allow us the privilege of drawing closer to Him. 

• Something very important to remember is that communion is something a Christian can practice anytime you feel led to.

• Remember, Jesus has already made us alive together with Him and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Him.

• Understand, we’re not just citizens of Heaven, we’re heirs to the Kingdom, appointed ambassadors of our King, assigned here to establish His kingdom. 

• And there is no better place to be reminded, no better place for fresh perspective, no better place to draw closer to Jesus than around the Lord’s table.

• I tell you this all the time, communion is one of the most spiritual things the born-again can take part in.

• In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Corinthians we receive the very same revelation from Jesus concerning communion.

• The bread is His broken body and the cup is the blood of His new covenant.

• Regardless of what you may be facing, let today's communion encourage you that you are made whole by His broken body and shed blood. They are still declaring, "It is finished."

• As we worship Jesus today with communion, as we draw closer to Him, may our spirits see Jesus and all that He accomplished for us clearer than ever before.

• My prayer today is that everyone of us  see Jesus with a fresh perspective as we partake of the cup and the bread.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16,NLT- When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? 
• And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ?

• Let today’s talk remind all of us of His supreme sacrifice. Let todays communion helps us discern in a little more depth the fear of the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 11:30,NKJV- For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
• v.29, For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

• By faith, acknowledge Jesus’ body being broken so that yours can be whole.

• Matthew 8:16-17,NLT- That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and He healed all the sick.
• This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.

• Today, let’s come to the Lord’s table with a fresh understanding that Jesus’ broken body and shed blood provide deliverance for us, spirit, soul, and body.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:23,MSG- May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master.

• When Jesus told us in John that He came to gives us live, He literally meant, wholeness to our spirit, soul, and body.

• Let today’s communion help you see Jesus with a fresh perspective as we partake of the cup and the bread.