Free Health And Wholeness Through The Holy Communion by Joseph Prince Page B

exercise. But my trust is not in my own feeble human efforts. My trust is in God to keep me healthy. And God has ordained the Holy Communion as a key channel of health and wholeness for His people.
    The early church believed this. That is why “… they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts 2:42) They majored on the majors. They made a big deal of those things that God made a big deal of.
    They took God at His Word. It is no wonder that they experienced God’s power. In Acts 2:43, 46, we read that they broke bread from house to house, and many signs and wonders were done through the apostles.
    Although the body of Christ today understands the importance of doctrine, fellowship and prayer, few in the church truly understand the significance of the breaking of bread (or the Holy Communion). That is why many are weak and sick, and die before their time.
    Down through history, powerful doctrines like “justification by faith” have come under severe attack by the devil. This is what has happened to the Holy Communion. The devil has pushed the church to two erroneous and extreme interpretations of this truth. On one side are the believers of transubstantiation * and, on the other, are people who have reduced the Holy Communion to a mere ritual.
    *Transubstantiation is the alleged process whereby the bread and wine offered up at Communion are changed to that of the real body and blood of Jesus Christ.
    Discern The Lord’s Body Before Partaking
    I believe that God wants to restore the true meaning and power of the Holy Communion to the church so that His people will rightly discern His body when they come to the Table. This will cause them to become strong and healthy, and to live long.

    The Holy Communion will add years to our lives and life to our years.

    The Lord has made special provision for our health and this is all found in the death of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, when we come to partake at His Table.
    It is one of my great passions in life to see the body of Christ receive every single thing that our Saviour suffered and died to give us. And I know that when God’s people are correctly taught about how healing is dispensed at the Lord’s Table, health and wholeness will follow. It will add years to our lives and life to our years.
    After I released my message tape, Health And Wholeness Through The Holy Communion, I received many testimonies of healing through the Lord’s Supper.
    I have a friend, Pastor Barnabas Mam, who is a pastor of pastors in Cambodia. God saved him from many life-threatening situations when the Khmer Rouge were slaughtering their own countrymen in the 1970s.
    However, due to the impoverished state of things at that time, he developed some chronic physical conditions, including low blood sugar and calcium levels, insomnia and rheumatoid arthritis.
    It was such a cruel irony that God’s man of faith and power, who has a ministry accompanied by signs and wonders, had difficulty sleeping every night. He had to take sedatives and tranquillisers. And they did not always work.
    His grandchildren also had to massage his swollen joints, which were racked with pain from the arthritis. His knees would give the most trouble, especially after more than two hours of preaching on his feet.
    One morning, desperate after yet another sleepless night, his wife pulled out my tape on Health And Wholeness Through The Holy Communion. He listened to it and faith just grew in his heart. He immediately prepared the elements and partook. That night, he slept like a baby!
    The next morning, which was a Sunday, he stood up in church and shared on the power of the Lord’s body to bring health when we come to His Table. After hours of being on his feet, he did not need a massage because he had been totally healed of chronic rheumatoid arthritis!
    Till today, his wife is amazed at his healing. She says that she has found a new husband. He