Seated at the Lord's Table

Scripture tells the story of Jesus from when he ministered here on earth. All who follow him to this day serve to embody the Lord’s prophetic, unspoken acts that are hidden in scripture. These prophetic acts speak deeply of the unseen realms of heaven that Christ lived from. Today, history clearly marks His Story in the lives of his disciples, sons and daughters who also walk the earth to minister from heaven as Jesus did in earlier times.

In the Last Supper, Jesus broke bread with his apostles. He also shared the cup that represented his blood in the sacrifice that he was about to make. Here, what came to be known as the first sacrament of Holy Communion is now carried in the body. This Communion continues to be shared to this day in remembrance of what Jesus brought into this earth to redeem mankind.

The scene of Matthew 14 speaks further of what the disciples would carry out and continue in from what would begin with the Lord’s crucifixion. After blessing the bread and breaking it to be placed into the hands of the disciples, the bread continued to be multiplied from the hands that would distribute it further. At the end of the day, twelve baskets of what was left over were gathered. Twelve represents both order and the government of God. Before the Last Supper, Jesus established Kingdom order, as well as the Father’s government from the appointed times that were to follow.

After the miracle of the loaves, Jesus compels the disciples to get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side. When the boat was a long distance from the shore, the wind became contrary and caused the boat to be battered by the waves. Even today, when the midnight hour marks the storms of our lives, Jesus still walks out on the waters.

Peter spoke, “Lord, if it is you, command (order) me to come to you on the water. The word, come (erchomai) means to come from one place to another. It also means to be established, or become known. We often minister to a natural world that is surrounded by natural, chronos times, even while our spirit life ministers from what abides in Christ in times of storms, chaos, and confusion. Our lives on earth are often formed by structures of community, that begin with family, church, etc. Our lives on earth are also built into economic and governmental systems that can be found unsound when any one part becomes stressed, tested or compromised.

In the midnight hour, Jesus still shows up in the Fourth Watch to mark the dawn of a new day. Not only to bring us into a place of rest, dominion, and quiet solitude, but to bring us into counsel from on high. In these times, we need the wisdom of God to understand how to navigate our paths, as well as how to overcome the circumstances that we face. In overcoming, we move forward in the solutions (Promises) that God speaks in these times, where we ourselves then rise up to walk on the waters.

The Communion that is represented in the Last Supper speaks of the Koinonea fellowship of Acts 2:42, where again, the bread of Holy Communion becomes multiplied from one place/dimension to the next – (come -erchomai:) be established, appear in the one who has appeared to you!

How amazing it is to shift from being seated in a storm-tossed boat in one moment of time, to being seated at The Lord’s Table in the next. The fellowship (Koinonea) of Acts 2:42 speaks of community and communion, as well as joint participation. Of the counsel that flows down from what marks the heights of Zion, koinonia further ministers of what we experience as “ a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, as exhibiting an embodiment and proof of fellowship.” Each has a share in Christ to contribute to the others.

What is offered by each becomes a gift to all.

My first discovery in this began among those who shared in the mutual gift of Christ in each other as we all leaned into him and each other. Without breaking fellowship with the only One who could deliver us all, we each gained Him beyond what any of us could receive of in and of ourselves. God’s Kingdom will put motion to your feet, and wind to your sails to Light your path more fully. Where the path becomes broken, or unclear, Jesus still appears where we continue to abide in Him. The storms reveal our weaknesses where we learn to rely more fully on God’s strength. They also cause us to be emptied of self to receive more fully of Christ. These times often serve to establish us more fully to be deliverers to the world around us in what we’re being commissioned for.

As the scriptures witness of, Christ is the gift that continues to give as we remain seated at the Lord’s Table.