The Communion process is how you transition from a hard heart to a broken heart. Matthew 26:26-29 says, “26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” Paul even describes the LORD’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 says, “23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death till he come.” When Jesus took the bread, He didn’t take His literal body, but He showed His disciples how this represented what would happen to His body! John 1:1, 14 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Jesus, who is the Word, took his body, blessed it unto God, broke it, and gave it to His disciples. There were 4 steps Jesus had to do with His bread, or body, before His disciples could eat of it.

First, He took, or received, the bread. When God speaks a Word, you must receive it as your own. In John 6:1-13 and Mark 6:32-44, we have the story of where Jesus fed the multitude of 5,000 with 5 loaves of barley bread and 2 fish, which was a poor meal that only a little boy from a poor family could afford to eat! But when Jesus received that bread, He received it as it were part of Him, for before He blessed it, He looked up to Heaven, and gave thanks to the Father for what they had, even though it was small indeed! That bread and that Word might not be much to some people, but when you give thanks for it, and you have lived as a testimony of that Word that God has given you, no devil in hell can stop it, and you will be able to feed a multitude of believers, a number in which no man could number. Before you can do any damage to the enemy, you must first receive the Word of God, and you can only receive by opening your spiritual ears to God and listening and obeying what the Lord speaks to you, for the Bible says, in Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” When you take this Communion, you are showing God that you are receiving His Word because you desire for Him to build up your most holy faith! Before multitudes can be reached out to, you must allow God’s Word reach out to you, so that Word can be received, be praised for, be broken, and be multiplied, and at the end, there will be 12 baskets full of the fragments of that Word! God can surely take a little and make a lot out of it!

Second, He blessed it. “Blessed,” means in this passage of scripture, “to speak well of, praise, and prosper.” We must praise God for His Word that He has given us so that it may prosper us! Christ’s body was blessed through the sufferings that He bore, for it is by His stripes we are healed! He was the Word made manifest in the flesh so that the works of the devil would be destroyed. What are those works? They include sickness, disease, cancer, death, sin, anything that pertains to evil. Christ died so we could overcome those things. His flesh was torn as the cat-of-nine-tails ripped across His body. The crown of thorns sunk through His skull, as His blood emptied from His veins and drained down His body like a river. Nails would pierce through His hands and feet, as He would hang on an old rugged cross. Yet, in spite of knowing all that was to come, Jesus said that His body was blessed. We, as the body of Christ, are blessed today because of the redemptive price He paid. We can be prosperous in every area of our life as a result of just believing on Him and trusting in Him.

Third, Jesus Christ broke the bread. Before the Word can be distributed, it must be broken! Jesus’ body had to be broken so our needs can be supplied. Yes, not one bone of His body was broken, which fulfilled Bible prophecy, but His flesh was broken! said, “No man takes my life from me, but I lay it down myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father!” (John 10:18) It was a commandment for Jesus not to let anyone destroy His life, but He had to break it Himself so that so many generations of people could kneel down at the foot of that old rugged cross and have an intimate relationship with the Father. Jesus could have called for twelve legions of angels to come get Him and retrieve Him into glory at any moment, but He refused because souls hung in the balance, and the eternal value of a precious soul is priceless! In order to be whole, one must be broken, and for our lives to be made complete, Jesus had to pay the debt that we owed, one we could never, ever afford to pay!

Finally, the bread was then given away to His disciples. Jesus’ body experience all of the blessing and suffering for this one purpose:  to be given away. His love covers a multitude of sins, and His Word had to be deposited in the lives of His disciples so that could carry His Word with them and present it to others. It was to be an unending process that still continues today! Matthew 28:18-20 says in the NASB (New American Standard Bible), “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” These disciples were to commune with Jesus Christ so that what they have learned and feasted from God’s Word, they were to take it throughout the world, reaching countless souls with the love and gospel of Jesus Christ. That is why they waited for ten days in the upper room for God to show up, which is believed to have been where the LORD’s Supper took place, and the church was formed as cloven tongues of fire fell upon each of them in the room as they began to speak with other tongues and the Spirit gave them utterance. After that, they did similar works that Jesus Himself accomplished, seeing lame people walk, dead people raised back to life, even Gentiles baptized in the Holy Ghost! It all derived from the Word they received and believing on that very Word. Your Word is not too little, but has meaning, and you may not have it all figured out, but as long as it is straight from the the throne room of God, everything is going to be alright!

As a Christian who communes with God, He Himself will work this very same process through us. As His Word is deposited in us, He will take, or receive us. (John 14:1-3) God will receive any who is willing to believe and call on His name. Many are called, but few are chosen. What distinguishes the called from the chosen is whether or not you respond to the call! Then, He will bless you. There is no greater blessing from God that exists than eternal salvation, and once we are ready to be received by Him, He will bless us with those things. For those who have been saved, do you remember the joy of your salvation when you first experienced it? It was a glorious thing. Nothing could compare. That love was to never become stagnant, but rather only grow more and more as time continued! We are blessed due to our obedience towards Him. Although the enemy will attack God’s people, we can honestly say we are blessed as a result of serving Him. David said, “I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor the seed begging bread,” and the scripture still holds true today. We are extremely blessed, but after we are blessed, we will become broken. Brokenness is the key to perfection, sanctification and strength. You have to be be broken from your bad habits, relationships and addictions. You have to get to a place where you are free and separated from sin, and it may result in some heartache, but it will only make you stronger. How could we ever know healing if we had never been broken? Brokenness is a huge part of consecration, because we must come to the Lord broken if we desire to be used by Him!It is when we are willing to break ourselves, willing to die in this flesh so that our spirits can live, that we find that perfect place in the center of God’s will that God can use us to bring forth a Word, sharper than any two edged sword, to bring life where there is death! Psalms 51:17 says, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Sometimes you have to have a broken spirit and a collapsed heart before God can truly use you, but, at the end, when it is all said and done, everything is going to be just fine. It is a sacrifice worth making, one that God truly honors. It is that brokenness that lead you to that one place where God gives you away, the never ending process. That broken heart is what allows you to have a change of heart and receive a heart of flesh, one that comprehends the tangible and unfailing love and healing power of God. It creates a testimony in your life that you would have never had if you would have never went through that experience. God will allow that brokenness to position you into a place of humility and servanthood, to better understand the grace of Almighty God. You will go through this process multiple times, which is why they are many different seasons in life, but it all leads to the winning of lost souls and the discipleship training they need to grow in Him!