communion

Bill Johnson teaching on communion starts at 53 minutes. (Brian Johnson music and teaching on overcoming anxiety is first hour).

​Notes & time markers on next page. Full transcript on youtube. Communion releases spiritual forces - take it with gratitude and declarations and forgiveness to others.

53:03 - communion is one of the greatest privileges of my life.

54:04 - My wife and I like to take communion every day and it's one of the most important parts of our lives. Communion was never meant to be reduced to a ritual or a routine. 

55:13 - God actually intended for life to be released through our obedience in celebrating communion.  In the kingdom, physical obedience brings spiritual release. There's always a connection between what we do - we raise our hands, we lift our voices, water baptism -baptism is more than just getting wet. It is that we do something in the natural that God releases power upon that individual at water baptism. Communion is the same thing. It represents the broken body the broken body of Jesus. We take the bread and we break it and I begin to we begin to pray for those that we know of that need a miracle in their body... I like to make confession declarations over my family and over my life, and so in that moment I take the bread, and we hold it before the Lord and we just start declaring...the point is is Jesus made a payment for the miracle that you need.

57:52 - This is not symbolic - this is life.  Paul warned the believers in Corinth - he said many people actually got sick and died because they didn't discern the body correctly in the context of communion. The bread was the broken body of Jesus. You hold something in your hand that's not a magic pill, but it is a moment of surrender, where we yield our hearts to the work that Jesus has actually accomplished on our behalf... I was healed by the stripes of Jesus. I was and I am healed - and he purchased with his broken body literally divine health - it is the inheritance of every believer.

59:41 When it comes to the cup, it's the blood of Jesus that sets us free. The blood of Jesus sets me free. There is no remission of sin, there is no forgiveness, apart from the shedding of the blood of Jesus. This is the legal basis for all of that. I take the cup I hold it before the Lord and I make this Proclamation "as for me in my house we will serve the Lord"... On passover, a lamb was sacrificed to bring atonement for an entire household... So we pray for our children and their are amazing spouses and grandchildren.I pray over each one of them by name, over eac household and I plead the blood of Jesus over each and I (bless them and petition God for them).

62:43 - There are a few leaders in the body of Christ who have chosen to make me a target of books and conferences and different things to to somehow destroy or confront or expose or whatever.... I appreciate their courage and their attempt to please God, but what I like to do as I mentioned their names before the Lord and I say "I ask that you would bless their household and that they would have the privilege of having children and grandchildren. Let them walk in purity let them walk in power let them be blessed with multiple generations that serve you with all of their hearts." And I go through each one of them by name. (If they are sick, we pray for their healing).They are not my problem. They are people that I have a privilege to honor.

66:06 - Take this moment to celebrate the provision of the Lord for the miracle
66:11
you ache for, and our Father, we we thank you for the brokenness of Jesus. Think about this - Jesus became broken that we could become whole - he became empty that we could be full - he became sin that we could be righteous- he was rejected so I could be celebrated - all of those things he became that - so we could have this moment to not just look back but look into the future and declared by the stripes of Jesus I was healed ...There is nothing in this world that is wrong that this cannot fix there is no issue that this cannot solve. You hold in your hand the testimony of the redemptive work of Jesus to heal save and restore fully every broken condition.
 
69:24 - But the most special moment for me in communion is when I have the privilege to bless those who have opposed me. I want you to bring at least one person to mind that you've got a little bit of a struggle with, and I want you to ask the Lord to bless her life. Mention them by name - just make the confession - the blood of Jesus is more than enough to fix that betrayal that conflict that problem. We yield, we confess, we declare, the power of the blood of Jesus is more than enough to fix every ailment in humanity.

As we look for their blessing father we celebrate - view Him blessing them -  some of you need to bless the church that asked you to leave. In this blessing there's so much liberty and forgiveness so much freedom.  Hold this cup before  the Lord and just make the confession (of goodness and blessing) ....we're not talking about symbolism we're talking about reality. this is reality. this is really that which changed everything - it is the death and the resurrection of Christ.Then give Jesus honor and celebration