Devotionals: importance of the Holy Communion
Devotionals: importance of the Holy Communion
Posted on December 22, 2008
THE SUPER MEAL
Memorise: “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in” (Joshua 14:11)
Read: Joshua 14:6-15
“He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;” (Psalm 104:14).
The food you eat has a way of determining what happens to you. Physical food determines physical growth patterns. Expecting physical food to take care of spiritual hunger often leads to disappointments. God’s Word is food for your soul and spirit. When taken, it also affects the body. There is a meal you can take that can positively affect your tripartite nature-spirit, soul and body, as well as your surrounding. It is a physical-turned-spiritual meal. It is a meal you should not miss. It is the Holy Communion.
Some 45 years earlier, Caleb ate this meal (Passover) and later said that he retained his youthful strength even at 85 years. When the promised land was being divided, while others were looking for portions with weak enemies, Caleb asked for the mountains which haboured the giants. He was given and he dispossessed the giants of their land. Eating the Holy Communion has a way of rejuvenating you. It renews your strength and staggers the ageing process.
Psalm 105:37 says that when the children of Israel ate the Passover meal, it eradicated weaklings from their nation. There was no invalid, weak or sick person in a nation because of a meal! Do you know if you take this meal according to Heaven’s prescription, no sickness can remain in your body? When this meal is taken into the body, it becomes a spiritual antibody, and antitoxin, and therefore preys on every bacteria, virus or germ and their accompanying ailment.
In John 6:54, our Lord Jesus Christ said that this meal provides eternal life for the eater. In other words, if the meal is taken the way it should, it makes reservations for your heavenly home and assists you to get there. If you take this meal without obtaining these results, it is a clear evidence that something is wrong somewhere.
Most probably, you have not met with Heaven’s conditions. Harbouring unconfessed sins, bitterness, envy, unforgiveness, etc. can render the meal ineffective. Also, if you take the meal in unbelief, it will not work. Remember it is a spiritual meal. You can activate it through faith. Release your faith. Tie your expectations to the results a similar meal has produced in Scriptures. Look up to God to see Him repeat that miracle in your life. And it shall be so.
Many Communicants approach the Communion table unprepared hence they fail to derive wholesome benefit from it.
