Included in this post is an example of how to take the bread and wine for ourselves.
As Messiah said to His disciples, which includes each of us.
As often as you do this remember Me.
Communion came out of this Passover Pesach celebration of remembrance and when we take the bread and wine, remember these 4 cups and what the Lord has done for us and it also puts Paul’s admonition into perspective. 1 Cor. 11:17-26.
When we ‘take communion’, we are drinking cup 3, the cup of redemption and it can be drunk with grape juice or water. It is symbolic and does not have to be wine containing alcohol.
The small white commercial wafers often used, do not give us the most detailed insight, as we do not see the patterns in the matzah bread.
Even if you cannot use matzos, use a small piece of dry cracker or bread. It is not in the items themselves but rather the motivation and attitude of heart that the Lord looks on and the faith that what we are doing is according to His commandments.
Obedience and faithfulness in being ‘doers’, are the keys. We need to come in humility and with repentant hearts, truly seeking to improve in the coming days more than we have achieved so far.
As Messiah said to His disciples, which includes each of us. As often as you do this remember me.
This is not an option, but rather it is a forgone conclusion that we will be doing this often. And breaking bread together is an opportunity for nourishment on many levels.
There is no reference in scripture restricting how often we can ‘partake’ or that a priest or even an ordained minister is the only person who can administer the communion service. If that were the case Jesus/Yeshua would have clearly said so, He was talking to His disciples, His followers and that surely includes all believers.
Many devout believers including men like Smith Wigglesworth took it every day and so can we.
“The real change in Smith Wigglesworth did not come until he started getting up every day at 4 a.m. to take Communion. Like clock work, he would begin each day by remembering his covenant with Almighty God by taking the bread and the cup.
Wigglesworth knew the danger of pride, and never let it invade the sanctity of his fellowship with God. To do this, he took Communion every day, recognizing that the acknowledgment of Christ’s accomplishments served as a powerful antidote against pride. He saw earth’s circumstances from heaven’s perspective.
Smith Wigglesworth took communion “everyday” of his life mostly by himself and was one of the greatest men of God I ever knew.”
Below is an example of how to say the communion for ourselves at home.
It’s a source of life and healing for us and a renewal of covenant, and keeps us close within the intimate relationship with the Father in the Name of Yeshua/Jesus.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house…Acts 2:46. We are still in the book of acts and are able to do this as often as we remember…
In receiving the bread and wine, the significance of the bread/matzot /matzah cannot be overlooked.
Matzo, matzah, or matza (Yiddish: מצה matsah,
Hebrew: מַצָּה matsa; plural matzot; matzos of Ashkenazi Hebrew dialect) is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and forms an integral element of the Passover festival, during which chametz (leaven and five grains that, per Jewish Law, can be leavened) is forbidden.
Take the bread, a piece of matza is the best. Why? Because when we examine it more closely, it is so clear what Jesus/Yeshua did for us.
Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melek ha olam ha motzi lechen men ha aretz.
Blessed art Thou, LORD our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.
or: Blessed art Thou, LORD our God, King of the universe, who brings forth the living bread from heaven.
In the picture of the Matzah it is easy to see the holes all over the surface.
These represent the piercings for our sorrows, sadnesses, griefs, betrayals, abuses and everything that has pierced our hearts and souls throughout our lives.
Next are the darker brown areas where the heat has burned the surface. These represent the bruises for our iniquities, sins, transgressions and every thing that has ever been the cause of our separation from the Father resulting from anything we have ever done wrong. In this time of repentance and forgiveness, all broken fellowship is restored and our relationship with Him is healed.
If we look at the matzah, the small holes are in straight lines. These lines are symbolic reminding us of the stripes He bore upon His body and they are for our healing and wholeness, physical, spiritual and mental.
When He said this is My Body which is broken for you we see it in the breaking of the whole piece into smaller ones. His life became broken bread and poured out wine as He gave of Himself to all who were in need.
The piece of matzah is flat and has no yeast in it, meaning it is unleavened. Leaven is representative of sin and as He was sinless/unleavened bread of life/bread of heaven, we can clearly see the meaning that He was innocent.
The blood is for our cleansing our forgiveness and cries mercy for us from the kapporet/mercy seat on the ark of the covenant, where it was always placed by the High Priest.
We can say thank you father that as I take this matzah I see the brown marks that represent the bruises scripture says that were for my iniquities, sins and transgressions. I ask you to forgive me for every sin in thought, word and deed that I have committed against you and others. I ask that any broken fellowship be restored between you and I, and that our relationship be healed and whole.
I see in the matzah that it is unleavened and has no leaven in it, that represents sin and you were the sinless Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world and included all my personal sins.
I see the holes in the matzah, and I think of the piercings for my griefs, for my sorrows and sadness. For all the sufferings, mentally and emotionally, for abuses, for rejections, for betrayals, for anguish and pain and all manner of ways in which my life, soul and body has been pierced by the enemy.
I see the stripes, the lines, that remind me of the lashing upon Your Body and how the scripture says by Your stripes I am healed. For every stripe and for every root cause of sickness and disease, I believe You bore upon Your physical body and all manner of mental torture as they pressed the crown of thorns into Your head; all so that I can receive healing in mine.
Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melek ha olam Boray pri ha gafen.
Blessed art Thou, LORD our God, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.
Or say something like the following:
When I take this cup I am reminded of all 4 cups and that as I drink of You, I am receiving into myself the same power, the same resurrection life that raised You from the dead that will quicken my mortal body and make me alive in You.
As I eat and drink, I recall you are the Bread of Life, the Bread that came down fromHeaven and as I eat, I also remember that You said, ‘whoever eats of Me will not hunger and whoever drinks of Me will never thirst.’
So I thank you that I am forgiven by the washing in and cleansing power of Your blood though my sins were as scarlet, they have become as white as snow. I am forgiven, redeemed, sanctified, set apart, made holy, by the cups offreedom, rescue, deliverance, redemption and I am being taken unto Yourself.
Your Blood cleanses me and pleads for me, crying mercy – racham, and I am safe in the place of hiding within the racham/womb of Your love. Thank you Father for Jesus/Yeshua’s sacrifice and for all that was accomplished on the cross.
I lift a grateful, praise-filled heart to You and joyfully receive all you provided for me in this covenant of love/ahav. Everything I have is yours and I thank You Father in Jesus/Yeshua’s Name for Your forgiveness, healing, wholeness, joy, shalom and courage for today.
Amen.
El Melekh Ne’eman
God, faithful King
El Melekh Ne’eman is an affirmation of faith.The rabbis interpreted the word Amen as being composed of the initial letters of El MelekhNe’eman (Shab. 119b).
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