CommunionFire Under the Pier Part Three July 17

While surrounded by the chaos of this world, He is busy converting us and transforming us and conforming us to the Eternal Reality of His Kingdom.

How?

Communion. The Eucharist. The Lord's Supper. The Qurbana... 
Jesus Flesh & Blood as Bread and Wine

Through the broken "veil" of His Flesh given to each one of us by Him as living manna from our bread, we forget this world for a moment and enter His reality. In His presence we get a glimpse of Him and He opens the eyes of our spirit to see what He has prepared for us. Even one quick moment continues to open up and unfold throughout the rest of our life. It is an eternal seed that continues to grow and multiply. Then there we encounter a "river of life" that flows from His heart into ours. His love flows in the form of heaven's wine coursing into your body and influencing every nerve and cell, spirit, soul and body.

His Invitation to dine at His Table and to dine on what He had prepared for us through a morsel and a sip of His Flesh and Blood as real food, is like a key that starts your spirit engine. The fuel of His meal and the spark of the Holy Spirit awakens and quickens your spirit and translates you into His eternalness! 

Here's what each person encountered or experienced on sunday under the Surfside Pier!

Column One Summary                                                               

Column Two Review from 7/17 Post

Bob
Footprints in the sand from 2000 years of communionfire history
Surrounded by cloud of heavenly witnesses

George
Jesus miracle of loaves and fishes
for a hungry crowd
Jesus preached from the water in a boat

Sharon
Flashlight pointing upward from the sand and its light surrounded by darkness and chaos
Jesus said I love to tell you stuff that will make you think

MaryC
I had that chaos all week she said with so much composure... Then I heard the song of the waves and it washed me in the sweet constant peace of Jesus she said with her eyes closed and her head at rest

MaryM 
Jesus showed me we were surrounded this morning by His perfect light and He said You are surrounded by my perfect light this morning!

Camille
I saw a pulsing rainbow of light surrounding and encircling us
He was surrounding us with promise

Don
I saw an egg floating in front of me
Then as Lord placed His hands around it and as it spun it became the earth

Briget and Jennifer
The egg is at rest.
​No matter what goes on around us in Communion, Jesus keeps us safe and when the bottom falls out, we fall into His water of life safe and sound

Bob: (what His Bread fed me) "The footprints in the sand are like others you see who have gone before you in sharing the Communion since I walked on the earth." (What His Wine poured into me) The message was "This morning you are surrounded on the beach with a heavenly cloud of witnesses." Hebrews 12:1

George: I remembered the miracle Jesus did with the loaves and fishes because the crowds were hungry. Then I could see Jesus preaching to the multitudes from the boat.John 6:5-13; Mark 3:8-9

Sharon: "I saw a flashlight buried in the sand but it pointed up and filled the darkness with light like a broad " V ". Then I saw chaos in the darkness round the light. And then I saw that the chaos was in the world but not in the light of Jesus shining from the sand." (Psalm 23 "He prepares a table for us in the presence "chaos" of our enemies; also John 1:1-5) Then the Lord said, "I love to tell you stuff that makes you think!" 

Mary C.: "I have to share this. I had that chaos all week that Sharon spoke of. But in the Communion this morning as I listened to the waves, it was like being washed in the peace of Jesus." (Psalm 93)

Mary M. shared that with His bread of life Jesus showed me that we were surrounded by His perfect light right on the beach where we are. Then His Precious Blood the same message, "You are surrounded by the light of Christ.".James 1:17; 1 John 1:5

Camille: "Oh now I have to share! I saw a rainbow surrounding us and moving around us as I had The Holy Communion.' Jesus was surrounding us with Promise!" Revelation 4:1-4; Psalm 36:8-10

Don: I can't explain this and I might need help but when I had the bread I saw an egg floating right in front of me. in the wine Don saw the egg start to spin and two hands like those of a magician on either side and as the egg began to spin, it turned into, became the earth spinning.

 ​In the 40 days between Resurrection and Pentecost, Jesus shared about the realities of His Eternal Kingdom. Clothed in His resurrected body in the face of this temporal world He appeared to the disciples and Apostles. He appeared to be like a flashlight planted in the sand, lighting the way to eternal life. 

After He ascended, He sent His Holy Spirit to all who believed.

They have been leaving their imprints in the sands of this planet one generation after another for almost 2000 years as a witness to those of us who follow. (Even under the Surfside Pier in South Carolina!) 

He is still here.

He's never left us or forsaken us.

When us eggheads believe, we are hanging in space without purpose or direction. He comes to us in the real food of bread and wine. By His loving hands it "becomes" His Flesh & Blood, if you believe. So then, Be Bold Believe! 

Then we are invited to dine with Him at His Table, for the meal He has prepared just for you. In that meal He continues to translate us into the reality of His realm, His Kingdom by sharing, surrounding us in His presence.

* Heaven surrounds us with a huge sky of bright clouds above, as eternal witnesses from heaven's grandstand; in the face of this world that surrounds us in its chaos! And in the sand below, Jesus opens our eyes to see a million footprints in the sand of those who also were led to His Table of goodness and mercy.

* When we gather at His Table (though surrounded by our enemies) the sounds of His waves of grace pounds our hearing with songs from his oceans of love as far as the eye can see to flood us with heavenly joy and peace..

* There He feeds us as He did the multitudes of 4,000 and the 5,000 in the open countryside. He does not with feed us with bread and fish or heavenly manna and gourmet quail from the sky. He feeds us with Himself. He comes to us as Heaven-infused and prepared Meal. It is a morsel of the "new eternal manna" and a sip of living water turned to wine in His glory that He calls His Flesh & Blood. 

* He surrounds us in His perfect pure presence as the light streaming of heaven and as He places His hands upon the bread and wine we bring to Him the light turns into a pulsating rainbow of His Promise encircling our hearts, minds and bodies. As it surrounds us we are translated for a moment to catch a glimpse of the King in His glory or the Shepherd in His field or the mighty Creator of time and space to become transformed to be, like Him; Full of Grace and Truth!

CommunionFire embraces us for just a moment. We get one quick glimpse and discover spiritual cognizance of the gracious power of The Holy Spirit. He reveals the Glory of Jesus Christ. It is greatest when we are in at His Table in Communion with Him just as He prescribes. This awareness is heightened even more if we are still for a moment. He opens our eyes in His presence (the CommunionFire) and and our ears to hear the Spirit is saying from the mouth of Jesus.

As we looked out into the Ocean beyond the Pier someone said, "George! Look its the boat!" As though Jesus had been looking towards us and preaching all the time! Just a glimpse of His face and we see and hear all eternity.

​Take me home Emmaus Road! : )

Listen to John Denver's Lyrics as though it is Jesus Singing to you right now!