An Invitation to Dine with the King

welcome everyone to camarillo healing rooms tonight is our teaching on communion

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so i want to welcome you this is a topic that is very dear to my heart

i love i one of the intercessors here in the camrio healing rooms and i just love

worship i love reading the word and discovering god in the word and tonight i um

i just wanted to share a little bit about my experience several years ago as i was studying the attributes of god and

the um the names of god the holy spirit would

highlight certain words and i would study those words for a period of time so about three years ago

the holy spirit brought communion to my heart and so i started really doing a

study on that and asking the lord about communion and so i'd like to share a little bit of what i learned

through that discovery last month marianne taught

on our spiritual identity in christ in the new covenant so when you if you want to go back and look

at that online there's other teachings also many good teachings on that website and we have

several [Music] resources on there that can help you

like the one for communion is the exchange at the cross and and several other really good topics on how to read

the word how to stand on the word for your healing um so that's a great resource for you

so in march we celebrated the feast of purim

and passover and resurrection sunday are coming in a couple of weeks there are many celebrations in the bible

talking about meals there's around you know just like we do now we

we celebrate our holidays around meals and i think the fellowship part of those

meals is the most meaningful for me and maybe for our

lord so the bible records um

like all the way from genesis all the way to revelation where adam and eve were in the garden with the lord sharing

meals and all the way through the bible there they talk about celebrating meals the lord invites people to dine with him and

and people invite the lord to their home to dine with him and then of course in revelation we we

see the marriage supper of the lamb which will be a communion meal between the

lord and his beautiful bride so wes and i together have been

journeying and discovering worship and in living in worship we have discovered

well as you probably know there's many different aspects of worship tithing

forgiving having joy thanksgiving hospitality repentance

fasting all those are aspects of of worship and tonight i'd like to talk

about communion the action of worship where we become intimate with the lord

and all of these acts of worship our intimacy with the lord

but i'd like to share what i've discovered and that we can discover the heart of

our heavenly father and the powerful transmission transformation that happens at the table

so father i want to start with prayer heavenly father

i surrender all to you i thank you for your holy spirit lord

tonight we thank you that you will be glorified in what we're talking about and meditating on

lord i pray for me that you will give me words when i open my mouth that i would proclaim boldly the mystery of the good

news of salvation heavenly father i am so grateful for the

privilege to be invited to dine with you i humbly accept your invitation

i come to your table with a repentant thankful heart that remembers jesus sacrifice i receive

your forgiveness and i receive cleansing lord i love you i worship you i trust

you and i want to know you more i thank you lord that you will help us

to hear your voice more clearly i thank you for the amazing gift of your holy spirit and i look forward with

joyful anticipation when jesus returns and we have the celebration of the marriage supper

so we'll start on your handout there's roman numeral one

the invitation to dine with jesus in remembrance of his sacrifice

and the question is how will you respond and i think sometimes when

i know you know we're welcome at any time but do i sit next to the lord or do i sit at

the end of the table the the big table or do i stand at the at the doorway and

i'm not really not in yet i'm not at the table yet

so i always start these um when i go on these journeys with the lord i always start with definitions so let's start

with the definition of communion in unger's bible dictionary they describe it as the lord's supper

and jesus instituted this when he had communion with his disciples

the night that he was betrayed and this is when jesus chose to transform the meaning of the cup and the

bread now receiving the cup is our personal participation in the blood of christ the

breaking of bread is participation in his body after jesus ascended the lord's supper

was a meal belonging to the lord that took place in houses with ordinary meals

there wasn't a priestly consecration or distribution of the bread and wine to make it valid

now each person would bless their own cup and their own bread as a personal act of worship and

remembering the sacrifice of jesus and i i would say that's

what we're talking about tonight our personal relationship with the lord where you can have communion by yourself

or with your family at any time and i like to go to webster's noah

webster's 1828 american dictionary um for definitions too just to get a

little bit more and uh most of his definitions almost all of them are related to

the scriptures to the bible so he defined communion as loving entirely

agreement of mind will and affections singleness of heart

intimacy a close familiarity or fellowship and harmony

so if i can condense this whole teaching tonight it's about

realizing that there's so much more in communion that it wouldn't be an act of just

taking the cup and taking the bread and we just you know not i want to say not a

religious act that that our heart is connected to the lord and we find him at that table

whether we take communion daily weekly monthly or just only when you're at church

so i'm on letter b now and we were created for fellowship with god

he is seeking worshipers who will worship him in spirit and in truth when we worship god we abide in him

we know him intimately and we experience all that he is

to worship and truth is to have a pure heart free of anything that displeases

him and he inhabits our praises it says in

the word that's how close he wants to be with us communion is an invitation to trust the

lord and lean on his love and wisdom as we come in faith jesus holds a place for us at the

father's table this means that we are welcome into his presence at any time

the veil was torn we have access to the heart of god to the

holy place he sets a table for us in the middle of our messes our battles our storms and

our joyful celebrations and i look at

you know when we share meals everybody brings something to the table right when we we invite our family and friends over

and everybody brings a different type of meal jesus comes to this celebration he comes

to the table what does he bring he brings grace his love

his provision his forgiveness his nourishment his wisdom and refreshing

our first scripture all the scriptures tonight that will be on the overheads are will be in new king james version

but some of them i'll read from the amplified and so now revelation 3 20 i'm going to read

from the amplified behold i stand at the door of the church and continually knock

if anyone hears my voice and opens the door i will come in and eat with him and

him with me and we will be restored so that's the invitation he's knocking

how do we respond do we answer do we open our heart

in matthew 11 26 jesus said all things have been delivered to me by my father

and no one knows the son except the father nor does anyone know the father father's heart

except the son and the one to whom the son our lord jesus chooses

wills to reveal him come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest

and i'm i'm here to say i've experienced this when i come to the lord

with my heavy burdens i leave in rest

as the father loved me i also have loved you abide in my love

if you keep my commandments you will abide in my love just as i have kept my father's commandments and abide in his

love in matthew 6 6 says but you when you pray go into your

room and when you have shut your door pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret

will reward you openly the secret place is that quiet place

that's our choice to decide to come into the presence of the lord to shut out the

noise the schedule all the pressures all the things that are pushing against our time and

demanding our time and start with the secret place where we meet with the

lord we re you can do that by worship by reading the word and where we connect with his

heart so letter c we are children of the light

and i want to say this emphatically tonight light dispels the darkness

in bill johnson's book hosting the presence he says what power of darkness exists that could

block the fellowship of father son and holy spirit

but when we live with a primary awareness of the enemy and his plans we instinctively live in reaction to

darkness and if we do that

the enemy has a role in influencing our agenda and he isn't worthy

my life must be lived in response to what the father is doing that is the life that jesus modeled for

us heaven is filled with perfect confidence and peace we always reflect the nature of the

world that we are most aware of and so tonight as i talk about worship i'm going to talk about the ascent of

worship so that we start to see things as our lord sees them as god sees them

not with our circumstances right here that our eyes would be on him

so letter d how do we become more aware of the kingdom of god how do we enter into the

presence of the one true living god in humility

thanksgiving repentance and worship

we only know the father's heart because jesus reveals them to us we receive the father's love

we arrive hungry and thirsty but we're filled when we're there we are trans transformed and restored

we come to the table one way and we leave a different way it's the miracle of the lord

and i want to ask you to ask the lord there was a season in my life where i felt like i couldn't hear god's voice

and that we were disconnected um and i couldn't

i just didn't put it together and i came to church and pastor larry was here and and i we were talking about something

else and the words just tumbled out of my mind you know i used to be able to hear god's voice but i can't hear his voice and we were

in a real difficult situation at the time and pastor knew about it and he said hmm

i wonder what's happened to your heart because jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever and he's

always speaking so what's happened to your heart what do you think is going on in your heart and it was just like the lord was right

there i don't know why i said that but pastor had a response and then suddenly i

realized oh what lie am i believing and i needed to repent

and the clarity came you know it's like the light comes on and and i

i could begin to hear god's voice again and there that was healing for me

so ask the lord what needs to be removed for you to experience more intimacy and i want to say that there's always more

it doesn't matter if you've known the lord for a hundred days or a hundred years there's more there is more that we

can receive there's more than we can discover about him

intimacy is where you receive god's love hear his voice and transformation happens

so i invite you i'm going to read psalm 139 verses 23 and 24 from the

passion translation it's up here on the new king james but for this one

god i invite your searching gaze into my heart examine me through and through find out

everything that may be hidden within me put me to the test and sift through all

my anxious cares see if there is anything any path of pain that i'm

walking on and lead me back to your glorious everlasting way the path that

leads me back to you i ask you to go

if you find a struggle in relating to the lord or finding more intimacy with the lord

i would like to invite you to meditate on this scripture the whole passage psalm 139. and as an assignment

ask the lord do you love me

and sit with him and write down have a piece of paper big piece of paper i don't think his answer will be one word

i think his answer will be much more than that and then maybe ask him

how do i get free of whatever if you're aware of what it is how do i get free from this

and write down what he says and you know if you're struggling with

your identity if you're struggling with understanding that god loves you

ask him describe me how did you create me it says we're fearfully and wonderfully

made what does that mean for me or what did you create me to do what am i to do if you're searching for an

answer of what's next i think you'll find just an amazing love

of god when you when you journal what he says it's quite remarkable if you quiet

yourself and you can hear his voice so we'll jump over to uh letter e

when jesus desired that his time has almost come to go to the cross

what is his greatest desire he wanted to have a meal with his disciples how do we respond to this

invitation how close are we willing to go to get to jesus

are we known as the disciple whom jesus loves in luke 20 22 15

jesus said with fervent desire i have desired to eat this passover with you before i

suffer and he took the bread gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying this

is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me this cup is

the new covenant of my blood which is shed for you and in john 13

23 says now there was leaning on jesus's bosom one of his disciples whom jesus

loved where are you sitting at the table are you next to jesus

are you at the end of that very long long table

so roman numeral two i find that we have three i think of three things that we discover

in communion we remember jesus's sacrifice and we understand and discover that

jesus is right here right now in our circumstance and then there's of course the the

looking ahead the longing for jesus's return so roman numeral two is dining with

jesus today so father son and holy spirit don't become old or outdated

god is always relevant and current he's omnipotent and omnipresent

in addition to remembering jesus's sacrifice the lord's table is also here for us to have new experiences with the

living god he's inviting us to dine with him commune with him and fellowship with him

only new encounters with god will cause our spiritual growth and transform our lives

in hebrews 13 8 it says jesus christ is the same yesterday and today and forever

but i i just feel like god is expanding i know some of us feel

the effects of what's going on in the world these days and that darkness is growing

but i just dare to believe with faith that god is ever increasing and at a much larger

rate than the darkness so in letter b

drinking the communion wine the cup of blessing is an act of reminding us that we are in a covenant relationship with

god a reminder of the first great commandment commandment the lord our god the lord is one you

shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength

and that means not having any other gods and those gods can be little ones and big ones

it can be our pride our work our the culture all around us video games

you know it can be performers sports whatever has your your attention is more

on that than on the lord he's asking us to put him first

eating the bread is a reminder that we are one in the body of christ in unity

not allowing division we are to love one another

and i'm i'm just this is one of my prayers as an intercessor that fellowship

would be above theology it's great to know the scriptures and i'm not saying

that we we don't need to pursue that and understand theology understand the

scriptures but i think the lord's heart is that we have fellowship with each other we

accept each other we're all growing right we're all growing and learning in different place at different rates

we all have different experiences and we're all discovering things in a different time

so i'll ask you do you remember how you felt when you first believed

go back to that place can you is it alive in you when the eyes of your heart were opened and you decided to follow jesus clarity

came you were set free you were so thankful because you became a new creation and you realize how desperately

you need our jesus i remember so clearly for me i had no idea i was so lost in darkness

i really had no idea i become accustomed to the darkness until the moment the light went on and

and literally you know when wes told me how how do i be born again how do i say the prayer

what do i do i really actually felt like i was lifted out of darkness and brought into this bright

light it's amazing being born again but there's more

there's more and every time we have communion and that fellowship with the lord there's so much more

in second corinthians 3 16 i'll read from the amplified but whoever or

but who whatev whenever a person turns in repentance and faith to the lord the

veil is taken away now the lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty

true freedom and we all with unveiled face continually seeing as in emir the glory

of the lord are progressively being transformed into his image from one degree of glory to even more glory which

comes from the lord who is the spirit then of course in luke 24 when

they were on the road to emmaus now it came to pass that jesus

sat at the table with them he took bread blessed and broke it gave it to them

then their eyes were opened and they knew him he he vanished from their sight and then

they said to one another did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road and when he opened

up the scriptures and i think that's such a powerful verse for us to understand that

holy spirit will open up and reveal things when we're reading the word of god if we're in the word every day

there's just more and more revelation it's beautiful

they become alive and then the next step you know as pastor steve has been teaching us for

for years now is for us to come be part of that scripture for us to

actually live it for it to be so real and intimate to us we have an

experience and encounter with the lord in the word and worship does that we've had i've had

encounters with the lord just during worship just a vision or just an understanding a

revelation the light goes on some truth becomes so real to me just

just by praising the lord so letter d worship prepares our heart

for intimacy with god we are created to worship god we have the freedom to worship whatever

we choose to whatever we value most highly is what we will worship

spending time with our god creates intimacy with him and the path to communion is to come to

the table with a thankful heart when we worship god we become like him and his life

flows out of us we reflect his attributes and we express

his holiness

i'm thinking of a time we used to have guest speakers come and we would have conferences and then

rosie would have a team and they would prepare meals and i was helping one time and and we were

back there and she came out here and counted all the people and she you know looked at the

food and said there's not enough and so we're like okay what do we do you know do we call people do we go to do we

go to a restaurant what are we going to do and we said we're going to pray we're going to pray that god is going to bless the loaves

and fishes and that he's going to bless this food and there will be more than enough and yes

he provided a miracle for us that night and the first time we just really didn't know what to do we were just frantic and

people were coming to eat and we could see that we were running out but we didn't run out that night so the second

time we we pray it happened again and we said you know we had a whole a lot more confidence this time

let's just pray and bless the bread and we prayed the second time we had

more confidence the third time it happened we had it's just like this is just what we do god you know what we need and we just

trust you to supply everything that we need it got easier and easier and so i invite you to use the word of god

for your situations and find him in it find out find

his healing his blessing his provision in it and then you know that's where your

faith starts to grow and that's when you can share your faith with others so

in studying worship um i know if you go to jubilee church pastor steve years ago

provided this ascent of worship and he put different levels and so and

they're all hebrew words that you ascend in worship and so i started

i started studying these hebrew words i'm curious and so

i added one i added seila because i think it's really important so

the hebrew word say law means wait rest hear receive from the lord

pause and reflect on what he said and of course we know it's a musical

notation and you see it in the psalms the book of psalms where they write selah

but i think the challenge is to quiet our minds so when we come to the lord to study or to worship you know we've got

to try and get our mind quiet so that we can hear the lord so that we can enter into that relationship with

him the next level of when we ascend in worship is todah

that describes god's unconditional love for his children his agape love the very

essence of god it describes jesus's love for his father this is our identity

and our relationship with the living god can we receive his love

and then we're so thankful when we do we're exalting god our worship grows right when you you have a revelation

when you have a connection a heart connection your your worship increases

psalm 34 8 says o taste and see that the lord is good and this is what i'm talking about blessed is the man who

trusts in him so when we have this experience with the work with the lord

we i think we have bring so much peace and so much faith our faith grows so the hebrew word for taste is to um

and that means to taste and eat but it also means to discern and perceive

and then the next level is yadah it's the highest level of intimacy and love

as we ascend and worship god's tangible presence comes the shekinah glory

god's abiding presence and that's my desire that i want to be in that god's

abiding presence throughout my day living in worship

where we can discover god's love more intimately discover new ways to worship and experience more of him

so i try to meet with the lord every day

in worship prayer reading and meditating on the word hearing his voice and writing down what

he says as we commune on spiritual food with jesus we experience resurrection life

and power when jesus died the heavens were opened the veil was torn

after jesus ascended to heaven the holy spirit came and the anointing of the holy spirit is still here

at the lord's table every time we eat and drink

of the presence of jesus we are raised up from our circumstances and infirmities

believe believe the word we abide in him and he abides in us and

we receive the very life and divine nature of our god we receive grace

abiding in christ is keeping our attention on the promises of god and living in his marvelous light

go to worship if you feel like you're getting led into darkness start worshiping the lord you'll be right back

in the in in the light

one of the most important aspects of communion is when we remember jesus's death

it breaks my heart to see his crucifixion

and remember that but can we do that with the strong emotions of the of the

crucifixion with the great joy because

yes there was a victory at the cross jesus is alive we are forgiven we have eternal life

because we're reconciled to our heavenly father jesus conquered sin death and satan

so now um i i don't know if it's the next page for you or it's a separate

handout but it says the miracle table rediscovering the power of communion

and i'm going to read that there's a book i brought books tonight in case anyone wants to purchase them

and this is one chapter i've condensed it and and made it just much more simple but

um this is the miracle table rediscovering the power of communion written by andrew murray and this is

chapter nine so he says the book of esther is not a book you would normally associate with the lord's supper

hidden within the story is one of the great secrets of the power of communion once we discover this i believe we will

never approach the communion table in the same way the story of esther is set in the

kingdom of persia where the jewish people were in exile mighty xerxes

was the king of the persian empire and the culture at that time would have allowed xerxes to have a harem of women

and from the harem he would choose one to be his royal bride the royal bride at the start of the book

is queen vashti due to her disobedience vashti was deposed as queen and a search for a new

royal bride is underway the young girl esther or hadassah as her hebrew name

is chosen and she becomes the new favorite of the king haman a wicked man a descendant of the amalekites

has convinced the king to make the law make a law to kill all the jews on a certain day

the jewish people felt powerless to defend themselves their only hope was for someone to ask the king for mercy

queen esther's cousin mordecai told her of the situation and begs her to speak to the king

esther knows that to approach the king without being summoned could cause her death

she's reluctant mordecai persuades her who knows that you have come to royal

position for such a time as this esther asked the jews to pray and fast

for her for three days so that she would find favor with the king when the king saw esther standing in the court he was

pleased he held out his gold scepter so esther approached and touched the tip of the the scepter and the king asked what

is it queen esther what is your request even up to half the kingdom it will be given to you

he asked this twice in the story as believers we've been given access

into the presence of an or not given access to the presence of an earthly king or president but into the presence

of the king of kings and the lord of lords we have been called into the presence of the creator of the heaven

and heavens and earth the one with all the power and authority he is the name above all names the one

for whom nothing is impossible as the church we come into his presence

as his royal bride we have found favor in his sight he has

extended the royal scepter we can come boldly before his throne

and he says ask of me the new testament is full of wonderful promises such as

ask and it will be given to you so what are you asking for today

you're in the presence of the one who's able to give anything and he gives you permission to ask for anything

we have so many needs and wants what are you going to ask for esther's response is remarkable esther

replied my petition is this if the king regards me with favor

let the king and haman come tomorrow to the banquet that i will prepare for them

esther knew something that we as the bride of christ have to come and have to discover

discovering this will change our prayer life and the way we view spiritual warfare esther knew that if she could

satisfy the heart of the king by dining with him because he desired communion everything else would be taken care of

chapter one of the book of esther describes the king's banquet it's one of majesty splendor

and abundance how much more glorious is the banqueting table of our king the

table of king jesus is full of glory and majesty it contains all that we need in

abundance joy is on the menu healing is on the menu provision is on the menu

forgiveness is on the menu life itself is on the menu you can even taste the very presence of the king

himself what a glorious feast that has been prepared for us by our king

queen vashti was having her own banquet and she refused to leave when asked to

join the king at his table the king will always give us a choice do you want to eat at your own table

or the king's table our table is good but nothing compares

to communing with king jesus jesus is calling us to communion sit

with me dine with me fellowship with me eat of me drink of me enjoy me

once we've tasted and seen that the lord is good nothing else will satisfy

you can never go back to dead religion you can never go back to ceremony and

routine the only thing that will satisfy is the presence of the king once you

have dined with the king communed and fellowshipped with him once you have tasted his presence and drink

from his life-giving stream only that will satisfy esther was aware of vashti's choice

and decided to make a better choice esther knew that the desire of the king was to have communion with his bride

she knew this would satisfy his heart her priority was spending time in his presence

in satisfying his heart every need she had and that the jewish people had would

be ought would be met automatically in psalm 27 4 it says the one thing i

ask from the lord this only do i seek that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to gaze on

the beauty of the lord in luke 10 42 it says but one thing is needed and mary has chosen that good

part which will not be taken away from her and we all i think the challenge is the mary martha right

i'm i can be go go go working working working doing doing doing

i love to sit with the lord and it's hard to do both it's hard to i don't want to say balance because the priority

is being in the presence of the lord spending that time with him i find

when i spend the time with the lord first or go to him with a circumstance that i need healing for or deliverance

or or a solution to a problem when i go to him first everything else just kind of

falls into place it's like he leads us in the path that we should go i don't know how you know i don't have it all

figured out but if i follow along i find it's a much i don't want to say easier but it's just

more clear the path to take to receive what he has and matthew 6 33 says

but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you when queen esther

invites the king to dinner she also invites haman her enemy

esther knew that the only way to defeat haman was to bring him to the table this revelation truly shows us the power

of communion surely he has prepared a table for us in

the presence of our enemies psalm 23 whatever your enemy is bring it to the

table for some of us sin is destroying us for some it's addiction for some it's

fear for some it's guilt or shame or a lack of confidence some have an enemy of cancer an abusive

relationship a rebellious child we all have enemies in our lives

bring all these things to his table and allow him to deal with them the table is where we fight our battles

the victory is won and the enemy is defeated it was here again that they sat at the table that the king

turned and said for the third time to queen esther queen esther what is your petition

what is your request only now she knows that she can speak and everything will change she tells the king of the plot of

haman to kill her people the jews the bible tells us that these words the king got up in a rage

when we do warfare at the table something powerful happens god will arise on our behalf and when

god arises our enemies are scattered haman tried to plead for his life

satan's greatest weapon is also his words whether it be words of fear accusation

or lies remember he comes to steal kill and destroy he's

the father of lies he's the accuser if any of those words you hear

those are the ones you need to dismiss and go into the presence of the lord because

god doesn't speak that way to us that's not the lord's voice

as soon as the word left the king's mouth they covered haman's face and haman's face was covered he was no

longer allowed to speak the powerful truth is that satan is silenced at the table

he has nothing to say when confronted with the bread of his presence and the blood of the lamb

the king proclaimed another decree and the second decree overruled the

first the jews will live and haman will die according to jesus communion is an

act of proclamation you proclaim the death the lord's death until he comes we

are proclaiming that another decree has been made satan may pronounce death over us but king jesus makes another decree

death is defeated satan may have pronounced sickness over us but our king jesus makes another decree my by my

stripes you are healed god does not ignore our sins but he makes another decree my blood cleanses

my blood forgives my blood washes away my blood makes you clean

my blood makes you worthy this is the power of the new covenant at the table king cersei xerxes gives

the jews the right to take up arms against their enemies he empowered them to defeat their enemies and see the

victory of god a victory that is still remembered today in the feast of purim

when we have communion with jesus many of our enemies are defeated immediately and we suddenly see breakthroughs

miracles and answers to prayers but then there are other enemies that seem to hang around

we leave the communion table and it seems like nothing has happened but there are two ways in which god

gives us a victory he either deals with the enemy directly or he empowers us to overcome

at the lord's table he anoints our head with oil which speaks of the anointing of the

holy spirit as we commune with the king we are empowered by the spirit of god and we

leave with an authority and an ability to defeat and overcome the powers of

hell it may seem like your situation is hopeless but in a moment god can turn

the situation around for his glory bring your enemy to the table and leave

him there he's defeated

he's defeated amen so roman numeral 3

the invitation to look forward to the great wedding banquet at a later date i hope to share part two

of this which would cover how we the church how we the body of christ

prepare for the return of our lord jesus but for now the lord's table has

abundant blessings the table is always full for now we continue to come to the

lord's table hungry and thirsty we are full but not satisfied

we trust that he satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness

i know the longer i walk with the lord i feel like i receive so much and i'm so

full and then a moment later it's like oh there's got to be more there's so much

more ask for the more be prepared for the

more look for the more

our hunger grows the longer we walk with jesus when you have eaten of the hidden manna and drink from the new wine of his

covenant you know that only the king's table will satisfy your hunger

we'll nourish you and give you abundant life and taking the bread and the juice with

reverence and remembrance is important communion is also about encountering

jesus right here right now we also anticipate and prepare for

his return each time we celebrate communion we get a preview taste

of the wedding banquet of the lamb and his bride when we see jesus face to face and dine

with him for eternity so tonight

let's start tonight let's bring every fear every sickness every enemy every sin

and place it at the lord's table let god arise on our behalf lord we agree with your decree and your

holy word that silences the enemy and empowers us with your holy spirit

with the authority and power that we need to enforce your victory and we give you all the glory

and you know i just want to say it seems like on resurrection sunday doesn't it seem like everybody's so joyful and the

worship is like a next level and i want to just challenge us can we

worship god like that every day every day in our personal time and when we come to

church and we do this and as a as our community can we worship like it's resurrection

sunday jesus is alive and he's right here right now