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Proverbs 23:7a   For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

This is such a vital Truth for us to consider.  You only have to spend time with someone to get an idea of what they truly think.  In the short term, people will try to project their best to you.  Spend a week with someone and their true nature will come out, good or bad.

Your life is going in the direction of your thoughts!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 1:

1  God, Who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through Whom also He made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of His glory and the Express Image of His Person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the Right Hand of the Majesty On High,

4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent Name than they.

Do you want to know FATHER?  Then focus on Jesus’ Words and acts for He is the Express Image of FATHER.  Some people focus on prophets, angels, signs, etc. but we should focus on The Word made flesh as well as The Word expressed by those anointed to record the Epistles in the New Testament.  Am I saying to disregard the Old Testament?  No!  The Old points to the New.  The shadows and symbolism in the Old, point to the reality in the New.

In chapter 2:

1  Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard (from Jesus), lest we drift away.

2 For if the Word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,

3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

FATHER has placed everything under Jesus’ authority. This means that God has left nothing outside the control of His Son, even if presently we have yet to see this accomplished.

Are there any exceptions to His authority?  No!  We must not neglect what Jesus has done for us.

Paul continues in Hebrews chapter 3:

1  Therefore, Holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

2 Who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.

3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He Who built the house has more honor than the house.

4 For every house is built by someone, but He Who built all things is God.

5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

6 but Christ as a Son over His Own House, Whose House we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

In other Words:

Indeed, Moses served God faithfully in all He gave him to do. His work prophetically illustrates things that would later be spoken and fulfilled. But Christ is more than a Servant, He was faithful as the Son in charge of God’s House. And now we are part of His House if we continue courageously to hold firmly to our bold confidence and our victorious hope.

In chapter 4:

1Now the promise of entering into God’s rest is still for us today. So we must be extremely careful to ensure that we all embrace the fullness of that promise and not fail to experience it.

2 For we have heard the Good News of deliverance just as they did (the Israelites), yet they didn’t join their faith with the Word. Instead, what they heard didn’t affect them deeply, for they doubted.

You cannot twist FATHER’S Arm with repetitive prayers or seeking a prayer chain to convince HIM to act.  Begging and pleading do not help either.  HE already gave us HIS promises and we are by faith to stand on them, doubting not!  Faith pleases GOD.  Our mindsets need to line up with HIS Word.

How often should we take communion?

Jesus spoke in John 6:

26  Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting Life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His Seal on Him.”

28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”

29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him Whom He sent.”

30 Therefore they said to Him, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?

31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'”

32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the True Bread from Heaven.

33 For the Bread of God is He Who comes down from Heaven and gives Life to the world.”

34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”

35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

FATHER gave the children of Israel Bread from Heaven daily and there was no sickness or disease among them.  Why?  They received their Daily Bread (Jesus’ Body).  Isn’t our Covenant superior to theirs?

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 11:

1  Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say:

Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your Name.

Your Kingdom come.

Your Will be done On earth as it is in Heaven.

3 Give us day by day our daily Bread.

4 And forgive us our sins,

For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.”

Did Jesus give us an important key to walking in Divine health on a daily basis within the Model Prayer?  What Bread are we to take?

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2:

42  Every believer was faithfully devoted to following the teachings of the apostles. Their hearts were mutually linked to one another, sharing communion and coming together regularly for prayer.

43 A deep sense of Holy awe swept over everyone, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.

44 All the believers were in fellowship as one body, and they shared with one another whatever they had.

45 Out of generosity they even sold their assets to distribute the proceeds to those who were in need among them.

46 Daily they met together in the temple courts and in one another’s homes to celebrate communion. They shared meals together with joyful hearts and tender humility.

47 They were continually filled with praises to God, enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord kept adding to their number daily those who were coming to life.

Why did the church grow so quickly in the beginning?  Healings and other signs were occurring at the hands of those who took communion daily.

Luke continues in Acts chapter 3:

1  Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;

3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.

4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”

5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them-walking, leaping, and praising God.

9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

10 Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Taking communion daily was (and is) the appropriate reminder of remembering The Body of Christ and Its healing power as well as His Blood of redemption.

With this in mind, Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 12:

1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect Will of God.

The early church took daily communion, renewing their minds.  Jesus said to take communion in remembrance of Him.  Shouldn’t we consider taking communion daily as well?

Do you want strength, health, and wholeness?

Properly discerning The Body of Christ during communion will bring about strength, health, and wholeness. Communion is meant to be a blessing to us by fully acknowledging Our Lord Jesus Christ’s great sacrifice for us when He went to the cross.

As I wrote yesterday, Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Corinthians chapter 11:

23  For I received directly from the Lord Himself what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread,

24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My Body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

27 For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit will be guilty of dishonoring the Body and Blood of the Lord. TPT

28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning The Body (of Christ) eats and drinks judgment on himself.

30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Paul tells us that partaking of communion in an unworthy manner brings forth judgment including weakness, illness, and premature death.  What is the opposite if we do properly discern The Body of Christ?

Strength, health, and wholeness… and we won’t suffer premature death!

Moses was faithful in administering the Old Covenant.  Paul compares the Old Covenant versus the New Covenant as he recorded by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 3:

1  Therefore, Holy brothers, you who share in a Heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,

2 Who was faithful to HIM Who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s House.

3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses-as much more glory as the Builder of a House has more honor than the house itself.

4 (For every house is built by someone, but the Builder of all things is God.)

5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

Consider the benefits of the Old Covenant:

Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”‘

Deuteronomy 8:3And HEe humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that HE might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every Word that comes from the Mouth of the LORD.

4 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

Deuteronomy 29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

It is also written by THE SPIRIT in Nehemiah 9:

19 YOU in YOUR great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.

20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.

21 Forty years YOU sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

How great was the Old Covenant to the children of Israel, yet how much greater is the New Covenant because of The Body of Christ perfecting this Covenant!  We ought to look at these two Covenants in comparison so that we realize the extraordinary benefits we are to receive by properly discerning The Body of Christ as we partake of communion!

Paul continues in Hebrews chapter 4:

14  So then, we must cling in faith to all we know to be true. For we have a magnificent King-Priest, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who rose into the Heavenly realm for us, and now sympathizes with us in our frailty.

15 He understands humanity, for as a man, our magnificent King-Priest was tempted in every way just as we are, and conquered sin.

16 So now we draw near freely and boldly to where grace is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthen us in our time of weakness.

Jesus understands us in all our shortcomings so let us focus on Him Who conquered sin rather than ourselves, especially during communion.

Take Communion in a worthy manner!

Communion is about how good GOD is and not about how bad we are.  Communion is about one of the provisions GOD has given for us to walk in Divine health.  If we don’t recognize what communion is all about, we won’t reap the benefits of it.  Healing is GOD’S idea for us!  We don’t need to convince HIM, HE wants to convince us.

Communion is meant to be a blessing to us.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Corinthians chapter 11:

23  For I received directly from the Lord Himself what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread,

24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My Body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Jesus told us to do this in remembrance of Him, not in remembrance of our sin.

25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant in My Blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the Body and Blood of the Lord.

What does “unworthy manner” mean?

27 For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit will be guilty of dishonoring the Body and Blood of the Lord. TPT

If our mindset isn’t consistent with the intent of “properly discerning”, we will be dishonoring the intent of communion.  Let us correct our thinking and mindset.  Jesus’ Body is fully worthy for us to receive of Him.  It is critical for us to discern this Truth!  It is not a casual event but one that demands the greatest of reverence.  Consider the importance of receiving such a blessing!  It is all about acknowledging what Jesus has done, not about what we have or have not done.  Communion should remind us of our inheritance in Christ, including healing of the body.

28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Let us first take time to examine ourselves and consider our mindset to be sure it aligns with the Divine Intent of communion.  Are we properly focused on this act of reverence toward Our Savior?

29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning The Body (of Christ) eats and drinks judgment on himself.

To discern His Body means to recognize, reverence, and respect Its True worth or validity.  Because Jesus is Our High Priest, FATHER looks at us through Jesus’ behavior, not ours.  It is vital that we understand the significance of THE LORD’S Body! 

What happens if we don’t?

30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Paul tells us that partaking of communion in an unworthy manner brings forth judgment including weakness, illness, and premature death.

We won’t receive the benefits of the cross if we don’t recognize those benefits.  Believers and unbelievers can suffer the same effects if they don’t recognize the benefits of the cross.  We must not let communion simply be a ritual without true discernment. The point of communion is “to remember”!

A symptom of sickness in the Body of Christ is a symptom of their spiritual sickness.  Taking communion in an unworthy manner has a direct impact on our wellbeing.

With the above in mind, consider what Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 8:

17 And since we are His True Children, we qualify to share all His treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that He is and all that He has. We will experience being co-glorified with Him provided that we accept His sufferings as our own.

Jesus surrendered Himself and embraced all our rebellious deeds so that we could be restore as Sons and Daughters of GOD!

Isaiah describes the last week of Jesus on earth and the intensifying of His suffering on our behalf.  Isaiah recorded by THE SPIRIT in Isaiah chapter 53:

1  Who has believed our report? And to whom has the Arm of The LORD been revealed?

2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Grief not only means sickness, but also weakness, distress, anguish, heartache, sadness, mourning (sadness of life), and misery.  Jesus took our inner sickness as much as our outer sickness.

Sorrow means pain of the mind and body, mental and emotional pain of one who is hurt by others.

In His last hours on earth, Jesus carried our griefs and sorrows.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

Why didn’t Jesus respond to His accusers?  It was imperative that He accept the full weight of grief and sorrows so He did not call upon angels, negotiate a lesser judgment, or speak to delay the purpose of His death at Passover.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

9 And they made His grave with the wicked- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His Mouth.

Why was Jesus betrayed?  He had to experience the betrayal of Judas who had just kissed Him before betraying Him.  How many of us have been betrayed as well?  Most if not all.   Jesus knows what it is like and knows how to help us get over the betrayal.

Jesus suffered emotional abuse.

The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 18:

15  And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

16 But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter in. 17 Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not also one of this Man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”

18 Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.

25 Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not!” 26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”

27 Peter then denied again; and immediately a rooster crowed.

The disciples spent 3 ½ years with Jesus and experienced the signs and wonders of His earthly ministry yet denied Him at His time of need.

There is not one sorrow or grief that you have experience that is foreign to Our High Priest!  He fully understands us in all areas!