Blind See, Deaf Hear: Encounter Jesus in Communion

STARE AT THE CENTER UNTIL YOU SEE HIS 3D HEART

SEE - HEAR - UNDERSTAND - BE TRANSFORMED and MADE COMPLETE

In the light and warmth of CommunionFire we see Jesus and He shows and tells us His story in a way that makes us a part of it. We remember that those who literally saw Jesus when He walked on the earth that He was showing us what He looks like, sounds like and how He confirms the reality of His presence with signs and wonders.

We ask in prayer today with those who saw and heard Him physically, "Lord why do you speak to us in parables?" 

(This is how He shares with us in Communion at His Table just as He did when He was here physically), 
 
11 And he answered them, 

“To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 

12 For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 

13 This is why I speak to them in parables, 

because seeing 
they do not see, 

and hearing 
they do not hear, 

nor do they understand. 

14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

“You will indeed hear 
but never understand,
and you will indeed see 
but never perceive.”

15 For this people’s 
heart has grown dull,

and with their ears 
they can barely hear,

and their eyes 
they have closed,

lest they should 
see with their eyes

and hear with their ears

and understand with their heart

and be transformed 

and I would heal them.’

16 But... 

Blessed are your eyes, 
for they see, 

and your ears, 
for they hear. 

17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed 

to see what you see, 
and did not see it, 

and to hear what you hear, 
and did not hear it.

He is not Here - Today He Shares With Us At His Table

What's Your Story?
More and More Are Asking

Bob, Are You Catholic? or, What Are You? or...

Well, while your busy trying to figure it out - I just keep coming to His Table experiencing 
greater and greater daily revival, 
ever increasing faith, 
wave after wave of grace and 
transformation 
from one degree of glory to another! 

Stop watching, scratching your head and get on board! Had Communion Today? 

We have and it was more amazing than yesterday! It just gets wilder, more powerful and makes the reality of my personal relationship with Jesus and encountering eternal life more and more tangible! His presence has become the rudder in my boat and His Spirit fills my sails. He takes me to so many ports of call you would only understand if you shared His Table every day for two years too!

Don't leave it to the Lord to say, "I never knew you, depart from me." Because your response will be, "But Lord... Didn't we do this or that? Didn't we pray hard? Didn't we study hard? Didn't we worship hard? Didn't we do missions?"  

I confess - for 40 years I tried to follow and do for Jesus. Had 2 radio broadcasts, wrote 4 books, started two Bible schools, Witnessed, preached and taught from coast to coast, wrote over 100 songs and hymns, yada yada yada! Yes I was a prolific Christian Windbag! Giving fodder for others from others trying to sound original!

All along, I was a miserable worker of iniquity because I did not know "how" to follow the Lord. I did what everyone else told me and even went to a great Bible School! My only point of reference of personal faith was reconstituted from the books, mouths and lives of others. I read the authors of the day, was a follower of Jesus, His disciple, a servant, leader, pastor, teacher, founder, worship leader, prophet, preacher, broken, faith-filled, poor, prosperous, loving and angry, divorced... bashed up and finally at the end of my Christian rope. I felt if I kept up the faith and did my best and try to hang on til Jesus came back - I had the assurance that... 

I got to where I felt like I failed everywhere with everyone Christian or not... and most, even 'friends' were not shy to tell you that! My only victories were in what the Holy Spirit did sovereignly and what I thought I did to "work out my salvation with fear and trembling" ! It wasn't about Jesus it was about who I thought I was in Jesus. 

After I accepted Christ, got baptized and Baptized in the Spirit I was still left to my own devices and my own devices took me down many roads but not all were roads of righteousness led by the Good Shepherd. 

well I just plain felt that I never measured up... for anybody! Thank God when I fell it was into His arms!

Jesus was the only one who would accept me for who I was, as I was where I was. I only learned this for real at His Table - no where else! No where! 

Nuff said. You know who you are. All I can say is that if you're ready to come to the Table of the Lord empty handed, hungry and needy - He will feed you and fill you with more goodness, life, love, forgiveness, peace and joy than you have ever known! I feel like my whole life is being consumed by Jesus as I consume the Bread of His Body and the Wine of His Blood. He wraps me in His presence and He fills me with His presence. No longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me - my hope of glory! 

I am on fire for the Lord because I know His love for me first hand. personally - every day, every time! I don't have this love because of anything I merited. By spending time with Jesus at His Table I encounter His love everyday. 

He demonstrates His love just by being there! 

Sometimes I see Him in a beach scene and sometimes near a mountain but I never know until I get there. When I see Jesus sometimes He is nearby and sometimes at a distance. 

Usually the visual part of Jesus' 'show n' tell' happens when I am eating the bread of His Body. It is gentle and quick but always produces an amazing sense of the reality of His presence. This has been happening for two years now virtually every day. 

Then when I drink the wine of His Blood the emphasis shifts to the hearing part. This morning it was "Look up Exodus 14:3". Do you know what Exodus 14:3 says? By the end of the day We were in a theater watching the new Moses Movie and when they got to the Red Sea - I wept because that is the verse that Jesus gave me in communion this morning!

MY STORY: It Took Me 40 Years To Follow Jesus To His Table http://www.communionfire.com/communionfire-blog-notes/it-took-40-years-to-follow-jesus-to-his-table