The Meal That Heals

The Meal That Kills

What Makes Us Worthy or Unworthy? Our personal relationship with Christ makes us worthy to partake in Communion. A person without a relationship with Christ must repent of their sins and confess Christ as Savior before receiving the Communion supper. Communion is a token - a sign - that you have committed your life to Christ. His blood has cleansed you from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). People who live a double life, who appear to live for Christ at church, but who do not live for Christ outside the church doors, should repent before God and confess their sins before ever receiving the Lord’s Supper. Often, people who are suffering with a terminal disease will search out any method to bring restoration to their health. Some will seek a certain minister to pray for them, some will attend a special healing service, and some will call for the elders of the church to pray for them. At times those who are unsaved will ask God for healing. The Bible indicates that God is able to heal such a person, but only after they confess their faults (sins): “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:14-16 Don’t Underestimate the Power Do not underestimate the power of the Communion meal. Confessing your sins and believing upon Jesus Christ will bring you salvation and eternal life, but the Communion meal can actually preserve and keep you during your earthly life. The bread and the cup are so important that Christ said He would eat it again when we enter the kingdom at the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:19).

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