The Miracle of CommunionFire: Your Daily Destination

What Jesus Has Prepared For You Is Absolutely Wonderful

Your Daily Destination: A Four Part Series

Part One: The Daily Embrace Of Jesus' Grace
Revelation 3:20 and Psalm 23

We are destined by our new life in Christ to participate in “The News of The Good News”. 

Is there some way our daily destinations can be determined by Jesus? In this series we will take a look at Psalm 23 to understand how developing our relationship with Jesus at His Table also releases His map for your life.

“I wish I knew for sure what God’s will is for my life.”

Have you ever said this? Most of us do. Once we have experienced the embrace of grace should we stand at the edge of the cliff and jump, hoping that we land where the Lord wants us?

You know that the grace of Jesus provides for us on every level and what is included is: His plan for your life! How can we know what the Lord wants even on a daily basis? The answer is in Psalm 23.

We can, if we wish to ignore His leading in our life, do what we want and work in our strength by our own personal GPS. Or, we can encounter His love everyday and feed on what His love determines for our life. It sounds vague but it is not. Jesus prepares to share His plan with you very specifically 24/7.

It begins with His embrace not a business planning meeting. We need to understand just how Jesus shares His plans with us. When we first heard Jesus knocking at the door of our life and heard His voice calling our name we responded by opening the door. His promise on this great occasion is that He will come into you and sit down at your table.

He says:
1)       “I will dine with you” and then
2)       “You will dine with Me!”

When Jesus taught about prayer He said, “Pray this: Give me today my day-to-day bread.” In other words He is speaking about ‘dining’ again.

When Jesus dines at our table He releases us to empty ourselves. His presence gives us permission to let go of our past and everything that bothers us. He knows we carried guilt, shame and condemnation that He suffered for us to set us free. He knows we were hopeless and helpless without Him. He loved us so much He stood at the door of your life for years. Then you heard Him knocking and recognized His voice, opened the door and invited Him in. He let you know how much He loves you by absorbing all your confessions of grief, sin and fear replacing them with His love, joy and peace.

Then He becomes your Good Shepherd, your personal Pastor who leads you from your table to lay down in His pasture. He feeds you on the glory of His presence. It is something like the healthy green grass that sheep feed on, while laying down! This is how the disciples ate with Him when He shared the last Passover meal and introduced the first Communion to them. You are also close enough to drink from His springs of calm waters without fear. He does this first to restore you! As you experience His Shalom, He restores your spirit, mind, will and emotions to balance you and center your life and faith on His glorious grace.

There is a seat prepared for you in heavenly places. How do you find your way there?

Then you can stand up restored to follow Him. Where is He leading? It is the same place He will lead you every day! No worries because He will lead you there. He will lead you on the same paths that billions of other Christ followers have walked over the past 20 centuries. He leads you through hills, valleys and even confronts the shadows of death, as you deal with dark clouds from the past that you encounter on the way. But what is the Good Shepherd’s destination?

Suddenly you arrive. You turn the corner after watching Him confront your enemies and those that challenge your love and commitment to Him.

It is His Table in the wilderness prepared by Him for you.

Now He brings you to His Table where you will dine with Him. There may be others there but at Jesus’ Table you now dine with Him! He can’t wait to share His life with you!

It is a personal, intimate, one-on-one encounter that will feed your relationship with Him. You become a first-hand witness of who He really is! You see His expressions. He meets you where you are, as you are for who you are. Dining with Him our transformation becomes a result of His daily embrace.

The Lord’s destination every day is His Table.

When you sit down with Him, even for a few minutes, it is because He led you there, prepared His Table for you and a meal that is filled with all the Spiritual nutrients you need to grow strong and healthy in His grace. As you do, somehow, He imparts His GPS destinations for you so that His map is what you experience the rest of the day. It all begins with the embrace of His grace. He first loved you and gave Himself for you so that you might encounter His glory, filled with grace, day-to-day at His Table.

Alleluia!


Next - Part Two: The Meal Is Real