Communion Opens Our Eyes to Recognize Jesus

He is Waiting for You - He wants to share His life with you! When you sit at His Table you are in His Presence!

Now faith is the evidence of things not seen. It is the substance of things hoped for. Hebrews 11:1 Have your eyes been opened to recognize the presence of Jesus when you have Communion? Did you know through Communion we can see the unseen?

Evidence of the unseen and tangibility of the intangible are issues of faith. Faith gives us a new set of eyes. Faith turns the invisible into the visible. Just what is it that faith can apprehend that our talents, energies and strength can't? How does faith place hope into our hands so that it can be held? 

Faith just woke me up. I was seeing something that I was blind to before. With what I saw came emotional reality and distribution of a heavenly weight. I could see it clearly, feel it and sit here and tell you about it. I couldn't sleep. I need to sleep but I needed to come downstairs and meet with you even more. I had to tell you what faith allowed me to see. I have given up on me. Trying to act my way through life pretending hard enough to be someone I was not or to be someone others expected me to be that I was incapable of being sickened me. I grew weary of creating smoke and mirror excuses to try and invent hopes and dreams that did not exist. 'Confessions of a ragamuffin' you might say. I am helpless, corrupt and in total personal poverty when it comes to the ability to produce them by my own strength. In other words without Jesus I am nothing. When I come to His Table it is empty handed and devoid of personal ability to heal my blindness or 'find' the presence of God. I laid down all of this at the foot of the Cross. I have laid it all down and am totally dependent on Him.

All that is replaced by truth. Truth is literally the presence of Jesus. To find it He gave us a way. Jesus literally is the Way. When we find His presence we encounter life and life more abundant than we are capable of comprehending. In that life is the fullness of His Love, Joy and Peace. So what is the Way Jesus gave us to encounter his presence? It is simple yet profound. It is 

2 Corinthians 4:18
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 5:7 "For we live and walk by faith not by (natural) sight!") Titus 3:7 "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (Romans 8:24 "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?") Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,"

The life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God who died and gave Himself for me."  by faith means to live and move and have our being based not on what we can see with our natural vision but rather by looking through the eyes of faith. "Eyes of Faith" (not seeing through binoculars, microscopes, telescopes, lenses, screens, computers, I-pads or kindles) but rather seeing now as if through a dark glass or in the reflection of a mirror. Its as if the Holy Spirit shares the image of Jesus when we encounter the glory of His presence as we eat the bread and drink the wine. Jesus shares His life with us by showing us something, telling us something or making us aware of something. Whatever that something is, it is eternal, supernatural and life infusing! 

What we see is "fire". In His light we see light. Through the eyes of the spirit we CAN see what is unseen to others! What we see is supernatural. It is SO natural it is SUPER natural. What we DO see through the eyes of faith is the clear evidence that Jesus wants to share His life with us. What we encounter in His presence is so real it replaces all our hopes and self-invented dreams with the reality of eternal life. We not only have hope but we have his promise that goes with that hope. It is the "hope of glory" to be with Him in His presence, to dwell with Him in His house forever. 

1 Corinthians 13:12
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." In Communion we see His Body as we hold it in our hands. We see His blood as we look into the Cup of the New Covenant. What we handle is eternal life. We see by faith. We have hope with His promise by faith. It begins tangibly and brings us into the intangible. That is when we see the unseen. That is when we see the eternal. That is when we encounter the real presence of Jesus. That is when we encounter the fire of His glory!

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

The Clincher: Through the bite of an apple Adam and Eve had their eyes opened to good and evil bringing death upon all of us. Through the blessing  and breaking of the bread by Jesus the eyes of Cleopas and Mary were opened to recognize Jesus, the tree of eternal life! Until then they were blind. In Communion we are blinded to sin and death and have a taste to seeing eternal life. 

Luke 24: 30-31
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.

Planning to have Communion? As you approach the Table of the Lord and feast on the meal He has prepared for you just say, "Open my eyes Lord I want to see Jesus" and you will experience the miracle of CommunionFire. You will know you are in His presence and He will not hide from you. He makes Himself known to you in a way that lets you know it is Him.