Communion
Receiving Communion
You don’t have to wait until you go to church to receive Communion.
You can receive Communion anytime and anywhere.
Take the time to put yourself before God over the Communion table and speak these powerful words over your life.
Lord, it’s not right that I should suffer from sickness and disease. I judge it now as being from Satan, and I reject it. I refuse to receive it any longer. I partake of the sacrifice of Your body, and I receive the healing that You provided in Jesus’ Name. When I partake of Communion, I make a point of judging myself to the fullest extent. I won’t just receive it halfway. I accept everything Jesus’ sacrifice provided.
Father, I give You thanks for all You have provided for me in Christ Jesus. I confess this day that I am blessed of the Lord. This covenant I entered into at the new birth is a covenant filled with the exceeding great and precious promises of God, and I am a partaker of those promises now!
I am healed. I am redeemed. I am delivered from the authority of darkness. I am translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. I am the head and not the tail. I am above and not beneath. I come behind in no good thing. All that I set my hands to prospers, and I praise You, Father, for the newness of life I now enjoy.
In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Scriptures for how to receive communion
The Communion table is an emblem of Jesus’ sacrifice for us. When you receive it, be ready to partake of everything Jesus’ sacrifice provided:
salvation, peace of mind, healing and total prosperity.
Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely, He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
Cross Reference: Matt. 8:17.
Matthew 26:26-28
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread and, praising God, gave thanks and asked Him to bless it to their use, and when He had broken it, He gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat; this is My body. And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink of it, all of you; For this is My blood of the new covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
1 Corinthians 11:28-29
Let a man [thoroughly] examine himself, and [only when he has done] so should he eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discriminating and recognizing with due appreciation that [it is Christ’s] body, eats and drinks a sentence (a verdict of judgment) upon himself.
remember forgiving
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?
Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.” —Matthew 18:21-22 (NIV)
There is a story told about Clara Barton, the great founder of the Red Cross, who was said to never hold a grudge. One day she encountered someone who had done her wrong in years past. Another friend said to her of the slight, “Clara, don’t you remember?”
“No,” Ms. Barton replied without hesitation, “I distinctly remember forgetting that.”
As believers, we must be intentional about forgiveness.
A grudge left to fester, slightly addressed or not at all, will come back to haunt. It will weigh down our souls like an anchor, preventing movement from darker waters into light.
Dear God, who do I need to forgive today? What old wrongs must I forget? Help me bring them into the light, and throw them into the sea of forgetfulness, as you have done for me. Amen.
IT IS FINISHED
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:28-30)
When Jesus, spoke the words "IT IS FINISHED," He was covering a lot of ground. He didn't mean that His life was finished. He didn't mean that His torment on the cross had ended. He was saying that the work that He had come to perform had been completed.
Jesus Christ had come to fulfill the Old Covenant and write a New Covenant in His own blood. He was saying that no longer would it be necessary for man to be separated from God because of sin. No longer would we be separated from the throne of God by the veil of the temple. No longer would the blood of animals be required for an atonement that was only temporary. Why?
Because the Lamb of perfection, the Lamb of the ultimate sacrifice, the Lamb of God, shed His blood on the altar, and God received that sacrifice for the total and permanent remission of our sins.
Original Meaning
The New Testament was originally written in Greek. If you were to study the word "finished" in the original Greek you would find that it is a banking term. The word is "t-e-l-e-o" (pronounced tell-ay-o). Do you know what that means? It means PAID IN FULL! Glory to God!
So what Jesus was saying when He cried out on the cross at Calvary was, "PAID IN FULL!"
When Jesus finished His work on the cross, we are told in Colossians 2:14-15 that He had blotted "...out (erased the debt of) the handwriting of ordinances (legal decrees and demands) that were against us, which were contrary (hostile) to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
When Jesus said, "It is finished," He was saying that if you accept me as your Lord and Savior:
Sin shall no longer have dominion over you (Rom. 6:14)
Your sin debt is paid in full
Death and the grave have been paid for
Debt, lack, sorrow, pain, sickness, and disease have no power over you because of the price paid on the cross
And He was saying that He will be merciful to our unrighteousness, and our sins and iniquities will He remember no more, because He has bought, paid for, and finished a New Covenant on our behalf, that is established in His own blood! Hallelujah!
Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow!
Dear brothers and sisters, we owed a debt that we couldn't pay, and Jesus paid a debt that He didn't owe! And because He did...it is paid in full, and once and for all, IT IS FINISHED!