Part 2 "In The Presence Of Your Enemies" Physical Distractions

What's Your #1 Distraction to Having Communion With Jesus at His Table/

First The Physical Attacks
Devil's Club of "Distraction"    

How do you fight distraction? 
Realize its there. It's real and comes in all kinds of 'costumes'. See it for what it is in all its forms. Say, "I am able to get to His table!" Set the Table and Get to the Table. Let everything else wait while you wait on Him where He will wait on you!   

Why is finding 5 minutes to having the Bread of Life and a sip from the River of Life so overwhelming? The war waged by 'the spirit of distraction' is almost too big and too obvious to recognize. 

Psalm 23 tells us that "we dine in the presence of our enemies". This devil has many associates working at the same time. 

The Devil does not want Jesus to come back soon! He knows His days are numbered and that God's Calendar is almost ready to turn to "The Great and Terrible Day of The Lord" So the devil is busier than ever assembling His minions to Keep Us From The Table of the Lord and to Experience anything meaningful when there!

It could be a simple 'imp spirit' that causes you to spill your coffee or break a dish in the morning. This could easily use up the 5 minutes for Jesus that you planned or you will be (oops another one) the U Will B Late For Work spirit. That one is a thug. He starts beating you with his club the moment you wake up. Schedule, Family, Work, Sickness, Light bulbs, Trash, Tiredness. They are all part of the same "Devil's Club of Distraction".

I believe. 
That's the doorknob. YOU open the door to eternal Communion with Jesus! No one else will. 

Do You?
Turn it and He will come in, introduce Himself and sit down with you at your table. 

He will come into your life at your invitation. Then He will sit down with you. You will share everything about you and all that you are with Him. He will take it all, including the bad stuff. He will bundle up all the bad stuff and toss it into the farthest sea of forgetfulness. 

Then He will begin replacing each thing you offered Him at your table and lead you to a new seat at His Table. He will provide every meal (His Body and Blood from your bread and wine). One day it tastes like honey and clover, another day like prime rib and heaven's sweet wine and another day it will taste like a day at the beach on a festival of joy and gladness. 

Preparing John 4 and 5 for the ongoing saga of The 30 Day CommunionFire Challenge" (which will become 40 days when all is said and done) show us 2 different responses to the presence of Jesus and He is giving us His legs to stand on ("The 5 Porticos" in the House of Grace in John 5) over the past 30 Months. We already know about the "One-on-One with the Lady at the Well" John 4 because "she is us" when we open the door and He sits down at our table.

Like her, we tell everyone, "Come meet a man who told me everything and I know that He is the Savior of the world!"

Jesus is still doing good and healing all who are under the power of the devil

Fight Distraction with Determination harnessed to Faith and Passion. Look for the coming of Jesus with all your heart. His appearance in CommunionFire is a "taste and see" deposit on the day we shall see Him in the clouds with power and great glory! Communion gives birth daily. Getting to the table is the 'labor'. Once there the miracle happens!

Jesus is still doing this! "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him." Acts 10:38

Only one person doesn't receive their Life from Jesus. 

The one who ignores his voice calling their name and His hand knocking at our door. The invitation to dine with Him at His Table is also open to all who will come. There's not one reason 'not to' that makes any sense. 

It is blindness, deafness caused by our pre occupation with the insanity of our sin, self-righteousness, the seduction of the world and if need be every demon in hell that keeps you from the life He wants to share with you. Simply, Jesus said, "If you don't dine on the real food of My Flesh and drink the real drink of My Blood, You Have NO LIFE in you!" D.O.A. 

However, If you "DO eat and drink at His Table" then:
You Have His Life In You - You Have Eternal Life - You Will Be Raised Up On The Last Day

Got Communion? 
If not, maybe there's a reason

This is what Jesus cries out in the scriptures, in church tradition, for 2,000 years, right now and every moment of every day until He returns: 

"Come to me! 
ALL the little children!
ALL who are weary! 
ALL who are heavy laden! 
ALL who are hungry! All who are thirsty! 
ALL who have no money! Bring 
ALL those who are halt, blind and lame! Compel 
ALL who are wandering in the highways of this world and Compel 
ALL who are stuck behind man-made fences of good intentions! 
I want my Table to be full!"

He is preparing us for the Great Wedding Feast where we will forever dine with Him and there will be no distractions because all enemies will be gone. He will envelope us in His love, fill us with nothing but His goodness and we will gush with joy that we have never known.