Communion / Lord’s Supper

Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men

Matthew 9:27-30

… Prayer, "to saved ones," is communion with God. And to persons seeking salvation, it is asking for what you need and expecting to receive it through the name …

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… The operation of sin upon your spirit is most injurious to your communion with God. You are like a man who has taken a noxious drug, whose fumes …

The Cause And Cure Of Weariness In Sunday School Teachers

Galatians 6:9

… it not the highest joy that we can enjoy on earth, next to communion with our Lord, to see these little ones saved? Taking the Sunday school, however …

The Wedding Garment

Matthew 22:11-14

… You and I see nothing of God, by way of communion with him, until first we have been brought in by the message of mercy to the marriage …

God Or Self—Which?

Zechariah 7:5

… They have no enjoyment of His Presence, they have no communion with His Son, they have no indwelling of His Spirit but they enjoy the day for all …

Pray For Jesus

Psalm 72:15

… me! It will be a delightful satisfaction for me in my times of communion with my Father who is in Heaven to say to Him—"and, my Father …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… If we were good soldiers, such as we ought to be, we should select every favorable opportunity in private as well as in public communion with our fellow …

The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind

John 3:8

… Oh there is nothing like communion with the Spirit of God to counteract the earthly tendencies of a business life! There are some men that get covered with …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… You have walked with God, and you have not grown weary of the holy communion. Sometimes that walking with God has cost you much effort, much struggling with …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… callous condition; but when the heart is right with God and living in communion with God, we feel a sacred sensitiveness, so that we do not need the …

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… If we go to the Communion Table and revilers say, "What is the use of eating a piece of bread and drinking a drop of wine? Why think …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… Promises of justification, pardon of sin, adoption, union and communion with the Church, access to God. Promises of wisdom, knowledge, Divine teaching—promises beyond mention! Promises of every …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… If we, as dear children, bring forth much fruit unto God, we shall have much boldness in prayer and much communion with God—and a thousand blessings which …

The Warrant of Faith

1 John 3:23

… and mark you, if you rely upon your frames and feelings, nay, if you rely upon your communion with Christ, in any degree whatever, you are as certainly …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… We have far more presumptive evidence that they "know even as they are known"—that they still have communion with the living Church on earth and that the …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… But such dreadful excitements are often followed by years of peace, quiet usefulness, holiness and communion with God! Satan knows that God is about to set a limit …

Ten Wrong Kinds of Hearers

Isaiah 58:1

… They came to the Communion Table. They used to hear sermons indoors and out of doors. "You have taught in our streets." 27. But He shall say, I …

Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad

Psalm 147:14

… to say calmly, sternly, yet lovingly, to those who come before us seeking communion, without satisfactory evident that they belong to the living family of God, "You must …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… Christ, or bring others to Him unless you have first been with Him. Communion with Jesus is training for service! To abide with your Lord must be your …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… here, from the bass of humility up to the highest alto of glorious communion, all the different parts are represented. It is a full song—the swell of …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… people, Believers in Jesus—is there any sin that has parted you from communion with Christ? Have you fallen into anything which has provoked the Spirit, so that …

The Way

John 14:6

… So, too, the way to have communion with the Father is the same. "Oh how I long to talk with God," says one. "He seems to be a …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… In your daily communion with your people, they will not be slow to mark the all-pervading decline of your graces. Sharp eyes will see the grey hairs …

The Fair Portrait of a Saint

Job 23:11

… your soul and if it is so and you thus live in daily communion with a personal Christ, my Brothers and Sisters, you will then, with your feet …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… commandments." He does not rest till he has introduced the convert to the communion of the faithful. For our work, Beloved, is but half done when men are …

The God of the Aged

Isaiah 46:4

… times has he had sweet banquetting with the Lord! How many periods of communion with Jesus! How many hallowed services hath he attended! How many songs of Zion …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… Your faith must be convinced of Christ and must have had communion with Him, or else it would not be faith at all! So you see, dear Friends …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… it should be "meditation of him." For want of it much communion is lost and much happiness is missed. I will be glad in the Lord. To the …

Later Literary Works

… is dim, We meet to offer prayer;”— —another, intended for singing at the communion,— “Amidst us our Beloved stands, And bids us view His pierced hands, Points to …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… As long as there is any esteem of God, he is not yet gone; there is some light and love yet left, manifested by our desires of communion …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… had the hand of the Holy Spirit on his soul; tell him about communion with God, plunging in Godhead’s deepest sea, and being lost in its immensity …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… On his knees or at his work in the house of God or in his own house, in controversy or in communion, at rest or in labor, he …

Psalm 56

Psalm 56

… Walking at liberty, in holy service, in sacred communion, in constant progress in holiness, enjoying the smile of heaven—this I seek after. Here is the loftiest reach …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… How I long for my bed! Not that I may sleep—I lie awake often and long! but to hold sweet communion with my God. What shall I …

Psalm 5

Psalm 5

… If you would have communion with Christ in sweet acts of love, you must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, nor those that act them …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… Whoever in personal communion with the Wellbeloved has listened to his voice will feel that "never man spake like this man." Well did the bride say of him …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… Remember the spot of ground where ye said it in prayer, where ye said it at the communion table. Ps 42:6. The stones of the place will …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… Though now and then I certainly say some very hard things about Church and State, yet I love the old Church, for she has in her communion many …

Psalm 122

Psalm 122

… her element is not the hurricane of debate, but the calm of communion. Observe that our Jerusalem is a city of palaces: kings dwell within her walls, and …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… for there are many whose formal prayers and false professions will never bring them into communion with the Lord. To pray in truth, we must have a true …