Today we took communion at Church. Unlike last week, I had my heart prepared. God wants us to take heart in Him. So, Vanessa and I went up and took communion together. While we were walking up to the front, I felt God's Love upon us and was given a vision of the nature of communion.
In this vision, I felt the weight of God's watchful eye over us. I felt Him examining our hearts. I felt His jealousy on behalf of His sacrificed son, and at once I understood the wrath of God that results from taking communion in vain. I was given wisdom on the seriousness of partaking.
But praise God that He gives us forgiveness. What I was most aware of was His Love. I sensed His watching us, and I sensed His searching our hearts, and I sensed the punishment possible if I wasn't justified before Him...but most of all, I felt a covering of His Love.
Once in the vision I saw the covering as a type of space enveloping us. Inside this cloud of His Love, we were clean and blameless, while outside of His presence there was only emptiness, condemnation and jealous anger. We had been covered by the blood. We had been atoned for already. There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1); instead, we can overcome by the blood of the lamb (Revelation 12:11). Hallelujah!
God really showed me the importance of communion. He wants us to take it in remembrance, but our hands must be clean, and our hearts need to be pure. Otherwise we are just inviting judgement. But if we confess our sin, He is so faithful to pardon!
Then we need awareness of forgiveness. He calls us first; we love, only because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). He calls us and offers us forgiveness for all our sins, and healing for all our problems. The only acceptable thing to do is accept it...but to accept forgiveness, we need to repent first. He is waiting for us to repent! We don't need to wait to be forgiven. Once again, it is awareness of His forgiveness that motivates our repentance. It is communion that motivates our heart change and allows us to remember Him.
In this vision, I felt the weight of God's watchful eye over us. I felt Him examining our hearts. I felt His jealousy on behalf of His sacrificed son, and at once I understood the wrath of God that results from taking communion in vain. I was given wisdom on the seriousness of partaking.
But praise God that He gives us forgiveness. What I was most aware of was His Love. I sensed His watching us, and I sensed His searching our hearts, and I sensed the punishment possible if I wasn't justified before Him...but most of all, I felt a covering of His Love.
Once in the vision I saw the covering as a type of space enveloping us. Inside this cloud of His Love, we were clean and blameless, while outside of His presence there was only emptiness, condemnation and jealous anger. We had been covered by the blood. We had been atoned for already. There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1); instead, we can overcome by the blood of the lamb (Revelation 12:11). Hallelujah!
God really showed me the importance of communion. He wants us to take it in remembrance, but our hands must be clean, and our hearts need to be pure. Otherwise we are just inviting judgement. But if we confess our sin, He is so faithful to pardon!
Then we need awareness of forgiveness. He calls us first; we love, only because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). He calls us and offers us forgiveness for all our sins, and healing for all our problems. The only acceptable thing to do is accept it...but to accept forgiveness, we need to repent first. He is waiting for us to repent! We don't need to wait to be forgiven. Once again, it is awareness of His forgiveness that motivates our repentance. It is communion that motivates our heart change and allows us to remember Him.
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