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Communion is to BE

Author: John Enslow  1 May 2005

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Communion is not a place you must go to; Communion is to BE. Only when we segregate our work and service from our love and fellowship are we continually having to journey towards Him to be WITH Him - IT IS A LIE. Those who are truly His come to know, He is always with us, He is always IN us and we are always in communion. This is not to say that you don't have to set aside times to fellowship with the Lord but it is not in those times alone that our communion takes place. He understands our life. He doesn't wait to fellowship with us when we have finished all our responsibilities. He wants to partake in those responsibilities, commune with us in those times, and be with us in those events. Our job is to INVITE Him in. He already is there, ... read remainder of article

Communion is not a place you must go to; Communion is to BE. Only when we segregate our work and service from our love and fellowship are we continually having to journey towards Him to be WITH Him - IT IS A LIE. Those who are truly His come to know, He is always with us, He is always IN us and we are always in communion. This is not to say that you don't have to set aside times to fellowship with the Lord but it is not in those times alone that our communion takes place.

He understands our life. He doesn't wait to fellowship with us when we have finished all our responsibilities. He wants to partake in those responsibilities, commune with us in those times, and be with us in those events. Our job is to INVITE Him in. He already is there, so it must be only in our consciousness of Him that He is lacking. The only thing that is missing is our acknowledgment of His presence not His presence.

There is no work time, quiet time, service time, there is only the fullness of time that encompasses continual union with Him. When we break ourselves down into roles, activities and circumstances we shatter the picture of our life. It breaks us down into pieces like a puzzle, causing us to live in the process of ever putting it together to be with Him whole. This is a lie. There is only One unified life, no jig sawed pieces. There is complete flow between each activity, action and desire. All of it flows completely together, completely in union.

You don't have to get to Him, He's already there. The enemy wants us to have two lives and two systems. This is his plan to separate us from our self and our God. It is incorrect. It is an error. It is a lie to keep us away from Him and where we need Him the most. The enemy says, "He is not with you." It is an awful life to be frantic to find someone who is already there. The continued search blinds us further and separates us more.

Everything that the enemy does is to try to separate us from God and US from our real self. If he can keep us constantly in the pursuit of putting our self back together or to make us EVER in the process of going towards an absentee God, he wins.

    "I've got to put myself back together."
    "I've got to get myself in order."
    "I've got to get myself with Him."

It leaves us in a beggar poverty mentality, continually lacking. It defeats our perception of the all encompassing God. Makes us insufficient. Causes us to moving out of emptiness rather than fullness. But this is not the God we serve. WE serve a God who is of continual fullness. We are in continual fullness. In the fullness of His sufficiency all our moments, all our seconds, all our years, all our events, all our life, EVERYTHING that is, is the Lord's.

   You will show me the path of LIFE.     
    In your presence is fullness of joy,
    at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

    Psalm 16:11 Amp.

    For the [whole] earth is the Lord's and everything that is in it.
    I Cor. 10:26 Amp.   

    For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received  
    [all had a share and we were all supplied with]
    one grace after another and spiritual blessing
    upon spiritual blessing and even favor
    upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.

    John 1:16 Amp.

    Which is His body, the fullness of Him     
    Who fills all in all [for in that body
    lives the full measure of Him
    Who makes everything complete and fills
    everything everywhere with Himself].

    Eph. 1:23 Amp.

    [That you may really come] to know
    [practically through experience for yourselves]
    the love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge
    [without experience]; that you may be filed [through all your being]
    unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure or the
    divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled
    and flooded with GOD HIMSELF]!

    Eph. 3:19 Amp.

    [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the     
    faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate]
    knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive]
    at really mature manhood (completeness of personality
    which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection),
    the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ
    and the completeness found in Him.

    Eph. 4:13 Amp.

In Christ, every moment, every second is complete. There is NO getting TO God. We are with Him now. The enemy's job is to separate us in our mind and thinking from God. When we believe in that separation (and everyone of us has) the enemy has us. Then we are ever on a journey toward Him rather than the experiencing of Him. That makes the moment where we experience him a high point and everything else a low point. It is a complete defeat, for Christ does not dwell only in the moments we feel Him, He is in the complete fullness of time - filling everything with Himself. He wants us to Invite Him into every second. When we feel ecstasy or the drudgery, in everything we do, He wants to experience it with us, in us and through us.

 Copyright ©  John Enslow

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