Time for a Happy Meal

Remember when you were a kid (or maybe you have young children or grandchildren) and were taken out for a happy meal? I love the concept in general because good food (taking away the fast part) is a happy thing and meant to be enjoyed.

Help Where It Hurts

The Lord was ministering to me recently in the midst of a rugged battle. I had been connecting with Him well and standing well in faith – I do know my God, so there were no qualms there. But in the midst, my emotions needed ministry. So, I did what I always do – I went straight to the Lord. I basically told Him, “This sucks and it is hurting my heart even though I know we are overcoming this together.  Help my hurting heart!”

God is so good – He meets us right where we are! He began to minister His comfort, nurturing my soul.

He knows me, and you, and our pain intimately, and He knows how to comfort and nurture us like no one else!

It was time for a Happy Meal.

Feasting on Jesus

In the vision, He grabbed me and held me tight. He began to minister to my heart. Jesus literally began to give of His substance and help me feast upon it. He helped me to feast upon Him.

I was partaking of Christ – I was partaking of Love. (1 John 4:8) He was restoring my soul. (Psalm 23:3)

I emerged– strengthened, at peace, and joyous.

Now, as with every encounter, it needs to pass the plumb line of scripture – rightly interpreted.

The Word says:

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. – 2 Peter 1:2-4 (KJV)

Knowing God

As I was communing with God in the area of my pain, His grace and peace overtook it because I was developing my experiential knowledge of Him. I was experiencing His grace, His peace, His provision, His comfort, and His transforming power. I was partaking of His divine nature.

This feasting on Jesus was graphically brought up when He dropped the following truth bomb on His disciples:

53 Jesus replied to them, “Listen to this eternal truth: Unless you eat the body of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have eternal life. 54 Eternal life comes to the one who eats my body[a] and drinks my blood, and I will raise him up in the last day. 55 For my body is real food for your spirit and my blood is real drink. 56 The one who eats my body and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.[b] – John 6:53-56 (TPT)

It was so scandalous that masses left – this is not the model for a Church growth program! But He had another agenda.

What was He talking about?

Abiding in the Vine

John 15 helps us here:

1 I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father. 2 He cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches[a] and pruning[b] every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest. 3 The words I have spoken over you have already cleansed[c] you. 4 So you must remain in life-union with me,[d] for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.

5 I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches.[e] As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless. – John 15:1-5 (TPT)

To partake of Him, we must abide (or remain without changing). The moment we disconnect by operating separately from Him as a mindset, we start to wither because we are functionally disconnected from Him as our life-source.

This is why He said in 2 Peter 1:4 that we might be partakers of the divine nature. It is not that He disconnects from us if we don’t dot our “i’s” and cross our “t’s” – Jesus did all that for us. It is a matter of awakening to how He has created us to live- partaking and receiving from our union with Him. We need to live awake! This requires supernatural empowerment, which He gives.

I hope this has been an encouragement and a help for you to “feast on Jesus”! You are His delight!

Love,

Catherine