Right side Up or Upside Down?

My life has been turned right side up since coming to daily dine with the Lord Jesus at His Table. In the eyes of most of my kind and loving brothers and sisters in Christ, however, it appears to them that my world of faith has turned upside down.

COMMNIONFIRE: When you Become Bold enough to Believe in the reality of the bread and wine and offer it to Jesus for His blessing, He takes it, blesses it, breaks it and gives it back to us as something transformed by His eternal power. Jesus calls Himself the bread of life and then says that if we eat the bread He blesses to become His glorified flesh, and if we drink the wine He blesses and it becomes His glorified blood, we partake of His eternal life with the promise that He will raise us up on the last day. He also said when we do this we are within Him and He is within us. "Christ in you the hope of glory!" 

In Jesus, the vail of the law is torn away.. the Passover is replaced by the Eucharist...
and when you sit down with Jesus and say, "Lord I believe, help my unbelief", He does!

As a young believer, who asked Jesus to be my Savior on Superbowl Sunday 1971, my muster for daily witnessing, prayer and Bible study was relentless for the next 20 years.

Every day gave birth to another opportnity to share the Good news, pray for the lost and study to show myself approved of God, a workman that need not be ashamed. I was always ready to give an answer for the reason my faith. I lived in the types and shadows of the Old Testament, New Testament and the witness of all that went before me.

I had heros of faith, role models of faith and ministries that I paid attention to to stay in tune with what the Holy Spirit was saying to the churches. It was my way of orthodoxy or as one article called it, inadvertantly I cultivated my own form of orthopraxy!

I also learned early in the 1970s that there were enemies of the faith because of street witnessing and college campus open air evangelism, passing out tracts and Jesus Papers (a form of newspaper that had a counter-cultre feel. We did this in the evenings, twice a week, while working in factories to care for my young family and provide work for people we rescued from cults was a way of life. Our earliest and biggest warfare was with groups that had such cool, biblical names like:

The Children of God a fast growing christian cult that went global almost overnight from California beaches to colonies set up throughout the United States and various parts of the world. Others included The Way (Bible Institute); Jesus Saves; The Local Church, Greater Grace World Outreach and Jesus Only.

We tangled with these folks for years. They would even try to imitate us to gain new followers. The early church faced off with similar cults like the Judaisers, Arianism, he Knostcs and the like. The late Fr. Jack N. Sparks wrote our handbook called Mindbenders. We were always on the radar learning to identify the "new cult of the week" sprouting during the evangelical/charismatic revival and renewal poured out from heaven in the early 1970s that ran to the early 1980s.

After 45 years I am still fighting the good fight of faith but this morning, (thank you Jesus), the Lord showed me how there were precious truths that got buried under my pursuit to stay "New Testament". I'm not sure how it happened, but it did. The "we" became the me.

When I was left and alone after almost 2 years of stoking the revival fires of the 70's, I burned out. I lost my family, my ministry, and my personal sense of mission. 

As an act of total surrender to the failures of my own efforts for the Lord, I spent the next 20 years trying to be succesful as a full commission salesman. I lost no love for Jesus, but I was living in the wilderness of my sojourn caring for the demands of a temporal life. In my heart was an anchor called Matthew 6:33.

I tried my own business and my goodness was taken advantage of until I came to the end of that track for 6 years. Then I was on the road selling various forms of media, marketing and advertising. Monday through Friday blurred into one day to me. I worked hard and became independent enough to pay my bills but never quite got passed living paycheck to paycheck. I became a top ten guy in an international company and even won the prestigious "Professional of the Year" at one point! More good effort but in my own strength.
 
I wasn't getting younger and the effects of working so hard and being on the road 5 days a week  for 14 years was diminishing my vision and aspiration. Trying again in my own strength to maintain a commitment to professional excellence and sense of mission, at least on a personal level, began to give way and I became less and less able to maintain a winning attitude. I had tried to climb the corporate ladders but each ladder had its own set of built in flaws and I was exhausted.

Then in 2012 something remarkable happened that stirred all those years into a sense of destiny and eternal purpose. My wife and I made a decision to have the bread and wine of Communion as a husband and wife, at home, as often as we could and daily if possible. I was finished and then I found out Jesus wasn't. But He was about to let me in on a new understanding of 3 words He declared on the Cross...   

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Matthew 26:26–27 and Mark 14:23–26 describe the Commnion meal with Jesus and the disciples

Luke 22:18–20 describes the same evening but is the only one to say (referencing only the bread he says, “do this in remembrance of me” verse 21 reveals the betrayer Judas! (Luke was not at the last supper or first communion - He leared from the Apostle Paul who was taught communion by Jesus directly - perhaps during his 3 days of blindness or some other moment of epiphany:

1 Corinthians 10:15–21 Flee Idolatry - foods offered to demons vs. Commnion in the Bread of the Body and the wine of the Blood of Christ is as bread and wine; our offering to God and the what He gives back when He receives it, blesses it and gives it back and we break it and share it; has become what Jesus calls “His Flesh: The Bread of (divine) Life, Real (Heaven Blessed) Food - His flesh; not the flesh of a man but the flesh of God that has been transformed by Jesus and so than has the power to transform us.

(See 2 Corinthians 3:18:12–18) The Bread and Wine, once offered to the Lord for his blessing - thus becoming His Flesh and Blood means that Jesus shows up to us in the form of Bread and Wine.

(See Luke 24:13–49 ) The First Miraculous recorded long time engagment on the afternoon of His resurrection (for 7 miles the two ‘disciples’ leaving Jerusalem to return home very sad and depressed encounter Jesus as He just appears next to them and begins a dialog with them) One was Cleopas and the other His wife, Mary Cleopas who was at the foot of the Cross with John, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene among others. Cleopas and Mary are the aunt and unle of Jesus as Mary Cleopas shares the same grandmother with Jesus; St. Anna but was born to Anna’s second husband (believe it or not - Cleophas) so Mary married a guy ‘Cleopas’ with almost the same name as her Dad) Mother Mary was the daughter of St. Anna and her first husband Joachim sho died. (Yes there are scriptures and church orthodoxy to back this up.

So, Jesus shares about Himself in the Law and the Prophets (again Luke 24) disclosing who He is - but the Lord allowed or “held their ability to see and recognize Jesus” until He sets the example for the entire age of the Church, the Bride of Christ until the end of the age. So before He could disclose Himself to them inn the the Psalms or Books of poetry (Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs etc…) they compelled Him to come into their house in Emmaus for something to eat about dinner time. (Revelation 3:20 literally and figuratively and

2 Cointhians 4:7–18, especially verse 18 - but (consider the Emmaus Road when you read Luke’s account of the condition of Mary Cleopas and Cleopas in Luke 24 then read 2 Cor 4:7–18.) Here’s the clincher: Mary and Cleopas were NT in the Upper Room! So when Jesus ‘is invited into their house’ He dines with them then takes their bread, blesses it, breaks it and when He gives it back to them what happens? He opens their eyes to recognize Him! (This is where 2 Corinthias 4:18 happens) Then as soon as they do He disappears! (Why? you ask? He had accomplished His afternoon mission by revealing Himself to those who should have known Him through the breaking of the bread!) Then what happened?

They take off to run back 7 miles to the Upper Room in Jerusalem where they find the 11 disciples and others and when they explain that they SAW and RECOGNIZED Jesus through the taking, blessing, breaking and returning the blessed bread to them that their eyes opened to recognize Him - Jesus (again) appears in their MIDST! Where 2 or 3 are gathered there am I in the midst of them… Here was the Evening miracle on the first day of the resurrection! What did He do the rest of the evening and on past midnight? He opened the scriptures about Himself in the Law, the prophets and the Psalms! And He opened their minds to receive what He was saying.

From then on - from the Last Supper (Last Passover) and First Commnion, Communion is meant to be an encounter with Jesus. It is brief and only morsal to morsal, sip to sip… but as John Wesley indicated it shoulld be done at least 4 times a week and if possible everyday.

Eastern Orthodoxy and the Orthodox (400 million worldwide) offer the “Divine Liturgy” up to 4x per week and the Roman Catholics (1.2 Billion worldwide) offewr the Eucharist 9the Great Thanksgiving) and in both cases all worship is centered on the bread of Jesus Flesh and the Wine of Jesus Blood (so called the Divine Liturgy and the Eucharist). But there are 800 million non-orthodox (eastern catholics) and non-roman catholic western catholics) who at best offer the Eucharist or Communion or the Lord’s Supper (Anglicans, Lutherans, and some Presbyterians and Methodists once per week; and others: Anabaptists Brethren, Baptists, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Charismatics and 40,000 schizmatic churches, fellowships and denominations at best once per week or in most cases once per month, once a quarter, once a year or even in some cases not at all.)

Some call Water Baptism and The Lord’s Supper “Sacraments” in their bylaws or constitutions but most have man-centric, band-centric stages for worshiping. not to detract from corporate worship which is sweet - but first and foremost shouldn’t we be calling for Communion Table -Communion Centric Worship as the weekly and daily Source as the Summary and Summit of our Christianity?

See John 6 How many times does Jesus say He is the Bread of Life… what happens to those who, after accepting Him nto their heart, life and home who “Eat my Flesh and Drink My Blood”? If you do: You have eternal life, Jesus will raise you up in the last day; and you abide in Him and He abides in you… BUT - if you don’t: “You have no life in you!” In other words you are the strength of your faith not Christ in you, the hope of glory! I tried to serve, preach, minister, study, pray and write for Jesus for 40 years.

He stood at my door and knocked and called out my name and I opened the door and let Him in and He dined with me… He ate everything I put in front of Him and He never condemned me once. He just waited. Then in 2012 I dined with Him at His Table as did my wife. We did like Mary and Cleopas, we let Him in and now everyday for almost five years we have Communion with Jesus at His Table every morning in our home and 2 or three times from house to house with others who have redicsovered the Fire! We call it CommuionFire.

Check out our website/blogsite at Blog and use the search window to see the results of 4 years of research, posting and journaling about this wonderful, miraculous, powerful and yet, quiet revival going on in South Carolina and other parts of the world now.

(1 Corinthians 10:11) Note that on the blogsite there are 9 subheads/topics you can explore… Enjoy and then if you google → youtube communionfire you will see links for CommmunionFire, BeBoldBelieveNetwork, and other topics and links… I do a daily 2 minute to 15 minute GoLive on facebook each morning now as well… its not pretty but like Chesterson said, “If something is worth doing badly!” LOL… new to this go live stuff so don’t be too judgemental… enjoy the passion and the subject… though we’ve done this over 1500 times and have journaled each encounter, experience and ‘show n’ tell’ shared from heaven through communion… and as simple as it is…

The best experience is just doing communion, as Paul outlined in 1 Corinthians 11.

His is the only complete set of instructions for how Jesus taught Him! just try communion at home and when you do think of 2 Corinthians 3:18, 4:18, 5:17 and Hebrews 12:24. The bread is “showbread” Behold the Face of Jesus and the wine of his new covenant blood speak… better things than theblood of Abel!

Come to to Jesus as the Good Shepherd who leads you where?

To His Table (Psalm 23) (See Psalm 22–24) to offer your bread and wine to Jesus asking His blessing upon each… then when you eat the bread - close your eyes and look for Him… What do you see… or what does He show you? In the wine listen for His voice… what does He say, or what does the Holy Spirit whisper? When done share with eachother. Make your personal and corporate worship communion-Centric and watch how Jesus demonstrates His presence to each man, woman and child… yes even children! Communion - presenting our bread and wine to the Lord and when we do He ‘takes it’ ‘blesses it’ and ‘gives it back’ and and we share Him as real food (the physical presence) and then dine upon Him spiritually in His fire or glory… thee veil is gone and we have access into His presence by His blood. it is the bread of medicine that brings wholeness and the wine of fire that ignites His life within us and both make us aware of His presence. So much more… since 2012 the graphe scriptures, logos Jesus and rhema Spirit have come alive - for men shall not live by bread alone but by every rhema that comes from the mouth of God!

The next study might be taking a look at 1 Corinthians 11:23–26.

Don’t touch verse 27 if you think you can earn a place at the table… you cant. Jesus did it all! Eating worthily simply means you understand that we don’t clean up to come to the table of the Lord Jesus. he made a way where there was no way, He is the Way: Psalm 23, the Truth: John Chapters 13, 14–16, 17 and the Life: John 6 He is the Bread: John 6 of eternal life and He is the Vine: John 15 of eternal of eternal life…

I grew up United Methodist, Accepted Jesus January 14 1971, was baptized in the Holy Spirit in February 1971, and in water March 10, 1971 by Dr. John Pepper, Furnace branch Baptist Church in the Chesapeake Bay. I am Anabaptist, Evangleical and Charismatic. I have 45 years of ministry experience and only 5 in CommnionFire. I feel like my Christian life has just started. I now rest in the finished work of Jesus! When He said, “It was finished, it was!” There’s not a thing I can do to improve on what He has done for me. It is attending his Table each day with my wife that allows me this kind of outpouring every day. We started at 5 a.m. this morning and I wrote this off the cuff from my experience in about an hour. Its now 11:54 p.m.

The Lord Bless your Life with the Fire of his Glory as you learn to get comfortable with Jesus being in charge at His Table. Hint: Come empty handed and ready only to receive. Come hungry and thirsty for Jesus and all He has pepared for you - you will not be disappointed!

​Love in Christ Jesus,
Your Brother in Christ
Bob Bonnell, The Communion Pastor
pray4communionfire@gmail.com

​Ecc-Humanism of the 20th Century vs. True Christian Ecumenism of the 21st Century - 2017: Get Ready!  

One dashed the church into 40,000 schisms outside the Eastern and Western Catholic Churches in the 50's and 60's. The first was an attempt to bring Unity to the Church's Witness (Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 10:11) to the Testimony of Jesus (Revelation 19:10, John 17) The advent of Vatican II was overwhelmed by the powerful influences of a "second age of enlightenment" with temporal 'new thinking' from lightening fast advances of technology and the ensuing complications of social upheaval. Both were secular and based on humanism.

Now is the rebirth of a true move of God to answer the Lord's Prayer in John 17 and thus birthing a true, trinity-epiphany of Eccumenism/Ekklesiology & Escatology.
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The outgrowth of Unity of Christ and His Bride brings heaven ever closer to answer the final prayer of the Church in Revelation 22:20, from on earth as in heaven to "Een So, Come Lord Jesus".

I also believe we are seeing the generational fulfilment of the restoration of David's Tabernacle to Mount Zion prophesied by Amos 9:11 and the prophecy of James in the 1st Jerusalem Counsel recorded in Acts 15. It is important to keep in mind that this restoration in the day of King David was only one generation of 33 years! Let it be so in our day.

Another significant and amazing witness are coming from the ecumenical travels Pope Francis. Since he began His ministry as Holy See, His purpose driven life is clearly aimed to bring reconciliation to all of Christianity throughout the world including the restoration of the Old Covenant Jewish peoples of Israel (He started there and then went from the Elders of Israel in Jerusalem first - after the pattern of The Apostles Paul and Peter then to the Upper Room Mass and then to Byzantium/Constantinople modern day Istanbul - with the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; then went to Cuba, Guadalupe, and other locations worldwide including a time of fraternity with Evangelicals and Charismatics by virtue of Bishop Tony Palmer, Kenneth Copeland and a host of other leaders who all vistited the Vatican after exchanging iPhone messages (Feb 2014) between Rome and The United States...

Therein we also heard about Modern Jewish Patriarch and Mystical Rabbi Ytsak Kaduri (108 years old) and his 80+ year old sons who revealed that their father spent the last year of his life encountering the True Messiah on a reglar basis - Yehoshua Meschiach (Jesus is Messiah). Whose message was related publically one year after His death. He also prophesied that with the death of Ariel Sharon (January 2015) Jesus would be returning very soon after that but not before.

Now we have the arrival of serious ecuumenical commitments from Anglicans, Lutherans and others with the advent of the 500th Anniversary of the 95 Theses and the protestant revolution. As you consider looking at the following understand we are on the brink of seeing a total mission much suprior to that of St. Paul, St. Peter, St. Thomas and the others in the early Church. I search the clouds each day looking fo that blessed hope...
I pray you do as well! If you are not having daily Communion with Jesus - or as Wesley said "Constant Communion/Communication through the Eucharist" (Sermon 101) - "at least 4 times a week but every day if possible" then I wonder if your lamp has fresh oil?
Christ (The Anointed One) Jesus (Deliverer, Savior, Son of God, Son of man, King of kings and Lord of lords, is the Anointed Jesus... The oil of His anointing is found in the very simple experience of responding to His invitation to "dine with Him" Revelation 3:20. He invites All who will to come to Him... for His Bride has made herself ready
Matthew 25:10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

His Table is where transformation happens - preparedness for His Jubulent and Powerful Return. 2 Cor. 3:18, 4:18, 5:17

Got Communion? Its where the "Oil Supply" from the Anointed One, Yehoshua, Jesus Christ, is dispensed. His Glory is accessed by The Eternal Life Giving Bread of His Flesh and the Eternal Life Giving Wine of His Blood in Communion that brings us into the Holy of Holies of His Eternal Life Giving Presence! There we encounter Him in His glory! It is His Glory, Anointing, Presence that we see in His Face, so gentle, kind, loving and good and our ears open to hear His Voice by the Spirit who is The Lord and transforms us from one degree of glory to another... The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us fee from the law of sin and death. Dont forsake the Table, it is where we find the Tabernacle of David in the New Covenant for just one last generation.

When your life and being is fully engaged in His Life then His righteousness replaces the chains of slavery to sin-consciousness, guilt, shame and condemnation. You can do nothing to 'save yourself' - Jesus alone is Savior and Lord. #BeBoldBelieve ! Come to His Table as you are, for who you are where you are. Jesus is crying out with all His heart, love and joy "Come to Me"!

With the Love of Jesus whose Sacred Heart ever intercedes for you,
The Immaculate Heart of Mary that pounds for you
The CommunionFire Pastor 161015

Your Thoughts?
The Chiastic Heart of Scriptures Psalm 22, 23, 24?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnSv018iK7I

THE PROPHETIC PREDICTIONS BY RABBI YITZHAK KADURI !September 24, 2001
The views of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri were broadcast by Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio show host, Yehoshua Meiri stating – “On Hashanah Rabba, the actual war of Gog and Magog will commence and will last for some seven years.”

October 7, 2001
On the eve of Hashanah Rabba, the 7th day of Succot, the United States military began strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The War on Terror and the Gog Magog War officially began.

Early winter of 2004
After a private session with a middle aged rabbi, Rabbi Kaduri told his attendant, “I have just seen the face of Moshiach (“The Messiah”).

December 12, 2004
In the Yediot Acharonot News, Rabbi Kaduri predicted “great tragedies in the world are foreseen”. He pointed the direction of the catastrophes as being in the region “where Jews are going to the East.” Rabbi Kaduri also announced to the Israeli press at this time, “The Maschiach is already in Israel”.

December 24, 2004
The Great Indonesian, Indian Ocean Tsunami killed greater than 150,000 people along the Indian Ocean. Since that day, the world has become transfixed with the increasing catastrophic climatic and earth changes that have been occurring on this planet.  Out of this concern the world’s populations are now giving increased attention on what is called “global warming” or as BibleSearcher’s attest are “Catastrophic Preparations of this Planet for the Coming of the Messiah”.

September 14, 2005
On the Arutz Sheva National Radio Show, Rabbi Kaduri made the declaration that it was imperative that the “Jewish people return to the Land of Israel due to terrible natural disasters which threaten the world”. He proclaimed the Jewish year from 2005-2006, was to be a year of “Secret and Revelation” and during this year the Jewish messiah would be revealed.

Rosh Hashanah, 2005
The aged sage went into a deep period of concentration for about 45 minutes during the afternoon prayer session.  Suddenly he raised his head with a smile, declared, “The soul of the Messiah has attached itself to a person in Israel.”

January 28, 2006
After a brief bout of pneumonia, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri breathed his last breath.  Before his death, he left his last testimony in a sealed envelope with his seminary with instructions that it not be opened until one year after his death.  The legendary image of this man who affected so much the hearts and minds of the Jewish people could only be reflected that at his funeral twenty-four hours later, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people thronged the streets of Jerusalem to pay tribute to the “mystic sage” that touched their hearts and gave them hope in a world of progressive chaos that their messiah would honor his promise to come and guide them though their coming “time of trouble”.

Last Prophecy of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri (2006).
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Before he passed away in 2006 at the age of 108, he left a note for us. Per his request, the note was read a year after his death. In it Rabbi Kaduri states that he met the Messiah, who will come shortly after the death of Ariel Sharon. He also said that the name of the Messiah is Jesus Christ. Mr. Sharon is currently in a coma, makes you think … could it be that they keep Ariel Sharon in a coma to avoid the return of the Messiah ???

Deuteronomy 3:27-28
The Law sees the Kingdom but Only Yehoshua - Jesus (our Joshua) can bring us in.
"Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. 28 'But charge Joshua (Yehoshua) and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see."

Deuteronomy 32:48-50
Look at the Land of Promise that Jesus died to provide you and I.
"The LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, "Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession. "Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people."