Taking Communion 2

Craig Cooney talks about taking communion with meaning

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Yes, we all have wounds, we all have stuff from our but God's will is not that you go through 80 years of your life broken, just carrying this brokenness around as an excuse for you know your misery, your bad behavior. Jesus wants to heal your brokenness. His body was broken that you might not be broken. Everything that was broken in Aden, Jesus came as a second Adam to fix it. And so when Jesus died on the cross and when he rose again, everything that we lost in Eden was undone. And we got the fullness back of that intimacy with God, that communion with God. That's why we can hear his voice. But also that brokenness, that hiding, that shame, that all of that, I believe all of that was restored. Now ultimately there's a final restoration when we go to be with him. But I believe we can live in some element of the fullness of that right now. So communion for me is so vital, so so vital. I would say communion probably four or five times a week at home. We take communion in church all the time. I I just as I I would take it every day if I could remember. But particularly at those times of warfare, there's something spiritual that actually the spirit of God, when you when you receive it with the when you're not casual, I'm just you know, I'm just throwing away from drinking the juice real quickly. When you're actually intentionally, consciously reminding your that's why the apostle Paul says, don't do this casually, because some people have gone so have become sick and even died because they've done this casually in 1 Corinthians. Why would that be with if it's just a casual bread and juice? There is something more powerful in the spiritual realm behind that, that the demons recognize, that the enemy recognizes, and that the Holy Spirit recognizes. So I believe it's not the physical body and blood of Christ, but I actually believe that a spiritual transformation happens in the bread and juice when you bless it, when you remember what the Lord has done. I actually believe I'm taking in something off the presence of Christ into my body when I say take the bread and the juice. And so I have seen things shift dramatically. And like I say, I've seen healing, I've seen deliverance come to people. If I'm going to do anything where there's you know likely to be warfare or an attack, I always make sure I take communion. I brought a bunch of communion kits with me here. I brought oil. As soon as I walked into my hotel room, every door was anointed with oil. What is that with you? I don't know what's going on in that hotel room. Right. I don't know who was there a week before and what they brought into the room. I don't know what little demons or spirits are hovering around the place. So I anoint every single doorpost and I say, Holy Spirit, fill this place. Because doorposts are access points. Yeah. Like with the cross. You know, when we were in Dublin, particularly, we used to say this a lot. People would move into houses and they would say, Craig, things are flying off the wall. Or I remember even my first church, there was one the people called me and they weren't even believers. They said, Craig, there's one room in our house that no matter how long we have the heat on, it's freezing. And they said, We went in there the other day and a picture flew off the wall. Wow. They said, We don't know what's going on. Would you come round? And I went round and I anointed the room with oil, and everything shifted. And a week later, the people who used to own the house came and called and they said, We are so sorry. We should have told you. And they began to talk about how there'd been a Ouija board done and there'd been all of this stuff that happened in that house, and particularly that room. But as soon as I anointed it with oil and filled it with the presence of God, things shifted. I have a pr