Feed On His Love

1 Cor 11:23-26 (NKJV)
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat;this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.

Recently I started taking the Holy Communion privately on a regular basis. It has changed my life. This morning when I awoke the Lord impressed on my heart to 'feed on the breast of the Lamb'. Pastor Prince taught us that this meant that we were to feed on the love of Jesus for us.

On the night of the Passover, on the night before He was to be crucified, Jesus the true Passover Lamb told His disciples to 'Take' and 'Eat'. When you eat something you don't stare at your food and intellectualize it. Jesus wants us to partake of Him as receipients. As I held the bread in one hand and the juice in the other a few nights ago, I had this feeling of great intimacy with Jesus. It was as if I was in a bridal chamber with the Lord.

It was an intimate moment.

I had nothing in my hands but a piece of bread and a cup of juice, but what I had in my hands was all I would ever need. His blood was shed for me so that my sins would be forgiven, would be cleansed, would be forgotten. I would be made righteous. It was His blood shed for me. It was shed in love.

That means that my prayers will now be answered.

His body was broken for me so that I could be healed. He bore my sicknesses and my diseases, and by His stripes I am healed. His Body was broken for me. It was broken for me in love.

So when Jesus instituted the Holy Communion, He instituted a time where you could be intimate with Him and be touched by His love. A love that bore all your sins. A love that paid for all your sins by being judged in your place. A love that took all your sickness and pain. So that you can come away healed, knowing you are righteous, knowing you are loved.

Tonight I visited my friend Kevin's mum. I shared with her about Jesus being the true Passover Lamb, that as the lamb lay on the table in the midst of the disciples, Jesus was in essence telling them that He was the True Passover Lamb. I told her that just as the Angel of Death had to passover those who observed the passover on that fateful night in Egypt, death would have to passover us who have the true passover lamb in our hearts.

Then as if to confirm His word, when I reached home, I felt compelled to read Pastor Prince's book to look up the chapter on the different sacrifices. I picked up the wrong book -- the Destined to Reign Devotional instead of the Destined to Reign book -- and without thinking opened the book. It fell to the page meant for April 20th. The title of the day's entry was 'Jesus Our True Passover Lamb'.

I came accross this wonderful entry this morning in http://tycm.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/the-food-that-delights-both-god-and-man-part-2-peace-offering-1st-service-20-july-2008/

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

In Genisis chapter 1, the Hebrew word translated us “there be” is היה hayah (Strong’s 1961) which means that Gen 1:3 can be understood in the Hebrew as Let HIM be light.יה is yah which is the short form of יהוה YHWH which is the name of our Lord.

God was saying in Gen 1:3, Let Jesus be light, and there was light.

The blogger had actually taken notes from Pastor Prince's sermon entitled 'The Food that Delights both God and Man'!

The wonderful truth here for me is that in YHWH actually shows me Jesus our sacrifical lamb!

Here's an extract from http://hubpages.com/hub/A-True-Thomas-Moment:

The Hebrew letters that make up the name Yahweh are YOD, pictured in the ancient Hebrew pictographs as an arm from the fist to the elbow, meaning my hand or works; HEY, pictured as a man standing with outstretched arms,meaning behold or God’s grace; VAV, pictured as a tent peg or nail, meaning a nail, peg or bound; and YOD, again, the arm from the fist to the elbow, meaning my hand or works.

There it is, so obvious, yet not. A man standing with outstretched arms, they seem to be held out right in front of us, showing us the HAND and the NAIL or nail hole, and saying, "'Reach here with your finger and see MY HANDS...and do not be unbelieving, but be believing,' and see My gift of GRACE."

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
As Jesus hung on the cross, his accusation was posted above his head for all to see. In Hebrew, this accusation would have read, "Yeshua (Jesus) HaNazarei (the Nazarene/of Nazareth) Vemelek (the King) HaYehudim (of the Jews)."

The acronym formed by the first letters of each word in this accusation in Hebrew (Yod Hey Vav Hey) is YHWY, or Yahweh. If you will, take a moment and capture this image in your head: Jesus, arms wide, nailed to a cross, beaten and bloody,mocked by the accusation “Yeshua, HaNazrei Vemelek HaYehudim”.

So when you realize how much Jesus has actually done for you through His sacrifice, you see the light or the truth. You see your life, with all your problems, struggles and failures in the light of His love for you. That's the truth! But when you only see your problems, struggles and failures and feel you're not loved, you're not seeing the truth anymore.

Feed on His Love and continue to let Jesus be your light!