1:36: “God is with us. If God be for us, who can stand against us?

“NO ONE.

“THIS is the way. Walk in it. In the KNOWING that no one and no thing is more powerful than My People walking in the authority and power of My BLOOD. There is no entity in existence more powerful than My BLOOD. In Communion, you drink My BLOOD. Not a substitute, a mere symbolization. You drink My BLOOD – for this is what is seen in the spirit. My BLOOD carries the Life of God, for ‘the Life is in the blood.’ Grasp this – in communion you are drinking the Lifeblood of God.

“What more powerful thing could you do?

“Want Power to stand up against your enemy? Do you seek My Victory in a situation your enemy fights to control? ‘Eat My flesh and drink My BLOOD.’ Herein lies your power – if you would only have it, accept it. Do not lower the surpassing Power of communion by calling it a mere ritual, a symbol of My BLOOD shed for you. It is NOT a MERE SYMBOL. It IS MY BLOOD SHED FOR YOU. Therefore, take communion often. Take it every day.

“Notice the formation of the words. You do not say, ‘I do communion.’ You say, ‘I TAKE it.’ What are you taking into yourself? My BODY, MY BLOOD.

“Think on this. GRASP this. It is one of My Greatest Mysteries. I say again, My Communion, which I gave you and taught My disciples, IS MY BLOOD SHED FOR YOU. Therefore, TAKE My Communion reverently, earnestly. Some in My newly established church failed in this – and paid a price, even with their lives. I WILL NOT HAVE MY BLOOD DISDAINED.

“Take My BLOOD into your own body – and LIVE IN MY POWER.

“AMEN and AMEN.”
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Notes:

How wonderful to hear God speak to us on this! Months ago–sometime last year–I was talking to the Lord about communion, saying I could not understand the Catholic belief that the juice/wine actually becomes His blood. And He immediately replied, “It changes in the spirit.” What a revelation! Of course this is how communion is viewed in heaven. In the same way–in the spirit–Jesus’ blood on the cross was viewed as the blood of the perfect lamb with the power to buy mankind’s redemption. In studying the Bible, I then realized that Jesus never spoke of eating the bread or drinking from the cup as a symbol. It is a remembrance–a reliving–of the real. This is, indeed, a marvelous mystery, and hard to comprehend. But we “grasp” it by faith.
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Romans 8:31:  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Isaiah 30:21: Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

Ephesians 1:18-19:  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe…

Leviticus 17:11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

John 6:53-56, 63: So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him….It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”

Matthew 26:26-28: While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”  

I Corinthians 11:27-30: So anyone who eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily is guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup. For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.

3:13: “Come unto Me now, you who are burdened. Why carry that weight rather than bring it to Me? Are you feeling down, disappointed, weary of your tasks? Spiritually dry, overwhelmed, mistreated? When these feelings wash over you, how quickly do you bring them to Me? Or do you simply let them overtake you? ‘I just need to sleep. Maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow.’ Why think this way, when I am near and ready to help? I know better than you why you are feeling such things. I see the battle in the spirit that you do not. Come to Me IMMEDIATELY. Hear Me on this. I AM with you ALWAYS. For ALL THINGS. Yes, even your day-to-day emotions due to stresses of life. I offer Joy – ALL the time. I AM full of Joy. Ask Me for it when you need it. Turn your eyes to Me and Praise Me. Ask Me to renew you. Put on this way of thinking – walk with Me every moment. Perhaps I, who see all, might have a remedy for your dejection. Perhaps the all-knowing God sees choices you are making that are leading you to your lowered emotions.

“Look to little children with a loving Father. What is the first thing they do when they are feeling tired or sad? They lift their arms up, wanting to be held. Then burrow their face into the father’s chest. This is what I invite you to do with Me.

“This invitation is much larger than My desire to hold you in the moment. I AM inviting you to build within yourself the habit of turning to Me first in ALL things. Walk through your day – and night – with Me at ALL times. I will teach you when to rest, HOW to rest. I will teach you how to fight. I will teach you ALL things.

“You turn to Me for the ‘big things.’ Don’t forget Me in the small, the mundane, the daily tasks you find as drudgery. ‘Give Me your ALL’ includes your ‘small.’ Nothing in your life is small to Me. In your day-to-day moments, I have much to teach you. Your faith is built on the day-to-day as you train your eyes to look to Me.

“Come to Me – at ALL times – and I will give you rest.”
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Notes:

Matthew 11:28: “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

John 17:13: [Jesus, praying to the Father for His disciples.] “But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.”

Colossians 2:6: So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him.

Psalm 32:8: I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Philippians 4:6-7: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

Psalm 121:1-3: I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.

2:16: “Darkness gives way to light. Always. I AM light. Am I ever about darkness? Do I ever cause darkness? Mine is the day, Mine is the night. Yes. Did I call night into being at the creation of your earth? Or did I push darkness aside by creating a light to fall over the world?

“Darkness is the natural state of absence of My Presence. My Presence IS Light. I always push darkness away. I created the sun, the moon and stars. These are frequencies of light. Yet I rule the darkness. I rule it by allowing it to Be, untouched by My Light. Ocean depths are dark. Yet I designed creatures to live in them. Night is the absence of your sun, yet My moon and stars cut through the blackness. I designed certain creatures to roam about in the night. There is no place on earth or in space that is not filled by My Presence. Yet there are places I choose to remain without light. I RULE ALL.

“Spiritual darkness, too, is the absence of My Light. I AM the Light of the World. I choose spiritual darkness for no one. Man chooses it – by rejecting and refusing My Light. Light overcomes darkness. Yes. But man can choose to hold back that Light within his own soul by refusing Me.

“Do you see the immense Power of the choice I have given mankind?

“Think on this. It is one of My great mysteries.

“Pride within man causes him to reject My Light. Every person therefore would remain lost – BUT GOD. I designed each person’s spirit to long for My Light in a world now oppressed by spiritual darkness. Your spirit lived in Me before I knit it together with a body. Your spirit remembers My Light and yearns for it. Only My Light can satisfy that yearning – although man tries to satisfy it through earthly things. A dark spirit is one that rejects the Light I created it to be. When you accept My Gift of Redemption and Salvation, your spirit is flooded with My Light.

“Even then, your Choice remains. You can choose to hold back from Me pieces of your soul. Sinful desires, hurts of the past, unwillingness to forgive, aspects of your life you choose to rule yourself – such parts of yourself will lack the flooding of My Light and Healing.

“Do you see why I constantly invite you to give Me your ALL?

“Do you see why I describe Myself as a ‘jealous God?’

“Think on these things, these mysteries of light and darkness. And re-examine yourself and your choices.

“My LIGHT awaits.”
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Notes:

Psalm 74:16: Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.

Genesis 1:1-5: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

Psalm 139: 7-12: Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

John 8:12: Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Acts 17:26-28:  “…and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’”

I Corinthians 2:12: “What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”  

Exodus 34:14: …you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Ephesians 5:8-11:  …you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.