All tagged remember

Pinocchio, Geppetto, Communion, and Heavenly Things

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, True Communion

Have you been purified? Do you acknowledge in communion that the blood of Jesus Christ has not only cleansed you of sin, but that it also purified you in preparation for an eternal heavenly existence? How often do we take communion and casually remember Jesus? Even worse, how many times do we take communion without thinking of Him at all? This is the danger of repetition, but if our repeated communion is performed with the proper spiritual preparation, it strengthens our memory and makes an act of faith, like that of communion, a holy and powerful one that enables us to perform it and believe in it perfectly each time.

A New Song of Communion, and Remembrance

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Sing a New Song

As men and women of faith we take communion, and in consuming the body of Christ we honor His instruction by remembering Him as we do so, but what are our remembrances, and how do we enter into them? Sometimes we stand in a line before the communion table, and one by one we take the body and the blood of Jesus, then individually we pray as the vision of His life races through our minds. At other times we are led together to consume the elements, and then recite known prayers in a singular form of remembering. Yet, what do we remember as we do this? So, when we pray alone we remember those things that our own spirit sees, as a group we all pray together what the spirit has laid on the heart of whoever directs us, but what is the effect of praying separately yet together? What does the result of Saints singing individual prayers together sound like, and present to the Lord?