Thursday July 24th, 2025
« For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” »
48 Yes, I am the bread of life!
49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.
50 Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”
52 Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.
54 But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 I live because of the living Father who sent Me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”
Basically, the reason we eat is so that we can have strength, good health and life.
- When I was younger, we had a slogan that said, “We eat to live, we don’t live to eat”.
The regular meals we eat however, have some limitations.
One of the limitations is that there is no one food that has all the nutrients in it, so no ordinary meal can give you all-round vitality.
There is however one meal that gives life in abundance.
- It is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.
Until you eat this meal, you have no life in you, John 6:53.
In Joshua 14:6-14, one of the people who ate the Passover meal, Caleb, said at the age of 85, “I am still as strong today as I was 45 years ago”.
When you eat the Holy Communion, your strength is renewed; weakness becomes a stranger to your body.
Some years ago, I went to hold a programme in a foreign country, and during one of my prayer walks in the morning, I started feeling faint. I couldn’t walk much further and had to go back to my lodge. Later on, I recalled that we would be eating the Holy Communion that evening so that gave me hope. In the evening after eating the Communion, my strength came back to me.
In Psalm 105:37, the Bible speaks about the children of Israel who ate the Passover meal: there was no feeble one amongst them. They all had robust health.
Sickness will become a stranger to you when you eat this special meal. In John 6:54Amplified, the Lord Jesus Christ said concerning the Holy Communion:
« The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it], and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day »
We eat to live, have strength and be healthy, but the Holy Communion goes far beyond those three basic things.
It acts as a medicine – not an ordinary kind of medicine, but one that defies death.
Exodus 12:13 says death will pass over you when it sees the blood.
This is the blood of Jesus which is represented by the wine in the Holy Communion.
I am believing God for you that when next you eat the Holy Communion, death will stay away from your home, in Jesus’ name.
Application – The Holy Communion is the most important meal anyone can eat.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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