The Strength Giving Meal

Focus: 1 Kings 19:7-8 - KJV

7. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 8. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Before the Lord created man, He had made for him meat for food in the garden where He placed him. He made the food necessary for the strengthening of man. He who created him knows what is best for his body. When a man goes without food, his body mass begins to reduce and his physical strength wanes. Nonetheless, where a person receives food that is presented by God, it contains better nutrients than every ordinary food. The Creator knows what nutrients best serve His creature. The only bread that comes from heaven is Christ and He has given us His body to take from time to time, for strength.

The first time men had bread from heaven for food was with manna. Because it was supplied from on high, it had all the nutrients to strengthen Israel for forty odd years in the wilderness. At the time of Elijah, when he got wary, God sent birds to feed him with bread from heaven. The meal he took sustained him for forty days without the necessity for a meal. In the case of the believer, the Lord has given us His body and blood to take as a body. It is called the Holy Communion meal. It is to strengthen the believer through the stress of life and to take them in the journey to life in eternity. The Lord assures us that anyone that partakes of His body shall never die. That is the kind of power that is obtained from that very meal. It is in a sense, the fruit from the tree of life.

The Lord is saying it is a misnomer for the believer to abstain from the Holy Communion meal knowing the potency of the meal. He is concerned that despite all that He has made available to us, we wallow in weakness while refusing to partake of the meal often. It is imperative to note that most of the things we seek of God in the place of prayer are made available on the communion table. We are therefore, to ensure we partake of that table more often than not so as to manifest the goodness of God as received from the body and blood of Christ. Let us put an end to weakness going forward by often partaking of the meal.

Please pray:

Father, I thank you for the opportunity we have to partake of the fruit from the tree of life and therefore have eternal life. Help us to be obedient to your directive to take part of the communion from time to time and more often from now on, in Jesus’ name. Please take away my infirmities and weakness by reason of your body and blood of which I partake often, in Jesus’ name. Let me never die but live according to your word in Jesus’ name.

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