CommunionFire Revival I Sup With You Then You Sup With Me

...I will come in and sup with you

Revelation 3:20 says that Jesus is standing at the door of our life. He is knocking. He is asking, "May I come in?" When we hear the knocking of His voice and open the door, He comes in and says He will sup with us. 

When Jesus comes to our table to dine with us He comes to get your story. He wants you to tell Him everything. Get everything out in the open that is bothering you about Him, yourself, your family, life, death, the good, the bad and the ugly. In effect He has come because He loves you and wants you to share everything with Him. Up until that moment the only bread we have to offer Him is the bread of sorrows. We basically have responded to Him and opened up the door of our life to Him because we heard He loves us - as we are right now, for who we are, where we are. When He sits down at our table and we offer Him something to eat - we find all we have to offer Him is the stale bread of our own life. 

But that's why He's there. He says, "Look - here's how much I love you (and as He takes us by the hand we see the scars where the nails had pierced Him). I want to exchange everything you have and all that you are and ever hope to be and give you everything I have and the plan that I have in mind for you. I made you and and I know what makes you happiest and how you are put together. Just put everything on the table."

When we do, He takes all of it. He puts it in His hands and tosses it into the deepest sea. (How does He do that?) He just does. He removes all that 'stuff' and puts it where even He can't find it. Then he turns to you and fills you in, "By the way, now that the "stuff that has bothered you" is gone, forget about it. Already, I can't remember what any of it was. I have totally wiped your slate clean. When God looks at you from now on He sees that I am with you and that is all the approval you need. In fact because of what I did for you 2000 years ago and now that I finally get a chance to sit down at your table, I just want you to know. We are family!" 

... and you with Me

In the resurrection before Jesus ascended He accompanies Cleopas and Mary on the road to Emmaus. He explained who He was through the Law and the Prophets of the Old Testament and they talked. Talking to Jesus is prayer! So 7 miles of Bible Study from "The Word" Himself and then 7 miles of prayer with Jesus Aunt Mary and Uncle Cleopas, they still didn't recognize that He was the one they were grieving for. What happened next is amazing!

Notice Jesus didn't rent the Jerusalem Stadium to announce His resurrection to 100,000 people. He walked a dirt road with family. 

They invited Him into their house in Emmaus but Jesus wanted to keep going so that He could open up the Psalms to them. Then He agreed to have some supper. As they did, Jesus took the bread, blessed it and as He gave it to them, "Their eyes were opened and they (finally) RECOGNIZED Him!" And He instantly disappeared. Have you had Communion? When you do, let the Holy Spirit open your eyes and let him help you 'recognize' the presence of Jesus. 

We are told in Psalm 23, the part Jesus didn't get to on the Emmaus Road, that as the Good Shepherd Jesus makes us rest so that He can restore us. He leads us from our table to His so that we can sup with Him. 

First He encourages us to lie down in His green pastures beside still, spring-fed waters to restore our soul. After sharing our story with Him, He takes it upon Himself to restore us. 

Then when we're ready, we follow Him in a journey. Where is He leading? He leads us on paths of the righteous. A path so worn into the hills that its easy to follow Him. He even takes us through the valley of the shadows of death but we have no fear. He protects us from all evil threats with the rod of his staff and with the crook or "crosier of promise' He nudges us toward the anticipated destination. 

We turn the final corner and there it is!

A Table all prepared for us surrounded by our enemies. The ghosts of the past, the confusion of the present times and the difficulties of the future. Right there is His Table. Right there is our refuge. right there is the doorway to eternal life. Right there is where He brings us! From our table prepared with the stale bread of sorrows He brings us to his table prepared with the bread and wine of life! 

We sit down to dine at His Table and we ask, "Lord, what's on the menu?" Jesus responds, "the Bread of Life in abundance,  intoxicating wine of truth, exceeding great and precious promises, with music by angels, the candlelight of revelation, all surrounded by the Glory of God! When you eat this meal, it is so good, it will transform you. This bread has my DNA and this wine pours out everything I've ever said, one sentence at a time. This meal is like a memory chip I've designed just for you. When you consume this bread and drink this wine it transforms you from one degree of my glory to another.

"But Lord, just bread and wine?"

"It is enough. This is not bread that just feeds your body but it also feeds your spirit and soul. This wine does not just intoxicate your body, it intoxicates your spirit and soul. It is heavenly food. In fact this bread is my flesh and this wine is my blood. When you eat it I become part of you and you become part of me. When you drink, you are transfused with the blood of eternal life becoming one with Me in my eternal dimension as I infuse you with my words, thoughts and abilities.  

"The more you sit at my table and sup with Me the more you are transformed into my image from one degree of glory to another." 

This bread is natural and supernatural at the same time. This wine is natural and supernatural at the same time just like I am one with my Spirit and our Father. Through this bread and wine you are healed, restored, transformed, delivered and brought into eternal life starting right now! Through the bread and wine you bring to Me with thanksgiving and prayer, I bring you to my Table to eat the miracle of my flesh and drink n the miracle of my blood! We are one by the miracle of the new birth. The purist reality of that union happens through The Gift of Communion. It is at His Table where we encounter our relationship with Him personally. He shares His presence, His glory, His life and love with us. He speaks the words of eternal life to us. it is why He sent the Holy Spirit. He is the Communion Communicator! 

Just as things happen whenever we sit at table with others or alone, all that is good, wonderful and eternal happens every time we dine with Him and upon his presence! He anoints us with revelation and our hearts overflow with His mercy and goodness. The overflow never stops, but it can be refreshed each day. It follows us wherever we go! At His Table we have reassurance that we will be a part of His household forever! Until then He says, "Do this!" Then He says, "Go tell!"

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