COMMUNION
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
GEN 5:22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with
God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among
the people of his time, and he walked with God.
13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the
earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy
both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it
with pitch inside and out.
15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75
feet wide and 45 feet high.
16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top.
Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under
the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything
on earth will perish.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--
you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and
female, to keep them alive with you.
20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of
creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it
away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
8:15 Then God said to Noah,
16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds,
the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can
multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."
12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your
father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make
your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this
land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
16:8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and
where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she
answered.
9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and
submit to her."
10 The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be
too numerous to count."
11 The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you
will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your
misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone
and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all
his brothers."
17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and
said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.
2 I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase
your numbers."
18:1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he
was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here
I am," he replied.
2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and
go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one
of the mountains I will tell you about."
12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him.
Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your
son, your only son."
16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have
done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the
stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will
take possession of the cities of their enemies,
18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
because you have obeyed me."
26:2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live
in the land where I tell you to live.
24 That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your
father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and
will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant
Abraham."
28:13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God
of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your
descendants the land on which you are lying.
15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring
you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have
promised you."
31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Go back to the land of your fathers and
to your relatives, and I will be with you."
35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build
an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your
brother Esau."
7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it
was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his
brother.
46:2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob!
Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied.
3 "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go
down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back
again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes."
EXO 3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the
priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and
came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
4:1 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and
say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"
33:9 As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and
stay at the entrance, while the LORD spoke with Moses.
11 The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his
friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son
of Nun did not leave the tent.
34:28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without
eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of
the covenant--the Ten Commandments.
NUM 12:8 With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he
sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?"
JOS 1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to
Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide:
2 "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready
to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them--to the
Israelites.
3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised
Moses.
4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the
great river, the Euphrates--all the Hittite country--to the Great Sea on
the west.
5 No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life.
As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor
forsake you.
6 "Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit
the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.
7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant
Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you
may be successful wherever you go.
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it
day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
Then you will be prosperous and successful.
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified;
do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you
go."
6:2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your
hands, along with its king and its fighting men.
3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.
4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On
the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests
blowing the trumpets.
5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the
people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the
people will go up, every man straight in."
7:10 The LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your
face?
11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded
them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen,
they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions.
12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they
turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction.
I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is
devoted to destruction.
13 "Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, 'Consecrate yourselves in
preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel,
says: That which is devoted is among you, O Israel. You cannot stand
against your enemies until you remove it.
14 "'In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe that the
LORD takes shall come forward clan by clan; the clan that the LORD takes
shall come forward family by family; and the family that the LORD takes
shall come forward man by man.
15 He who is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire,
along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the
LORD and has done a disgraceful thing in Israel!'"
8:1 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid; do not be
discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I
have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his
land.
2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king,
except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves.
Set an ambush behind the city."
20:1 Then the LORD said to Joshua:
2 "Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed
you through Moses,
3 so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may
flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
4 "When he flees to one of these cities, he is to stand in the entrance of
the city gate and state his case before the elders of that city. Then they
are to admit him into their city and give him a place to live with them.
5 If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one
accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice
aforethought.
6 He is to stay in that city until he has stood trial before the assembly
and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then he
may go back to his own home in the town from which he fled."
JDG 6:11 The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah
that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing
wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is
with you, mighty warrior."
13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this
happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about
when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the
LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian."
14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save
Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?"
15 "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the
weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."
16 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all
the Midianites together."
17 Gideon replied, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign
that it is really you talking to me.
18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set
it before you." And the LORD said, "I will wait until you return."
19 Gideon went in, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he
made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a
pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread,
place them on this rock, and pour out the broth." And Gideon did so.
21 With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the LORD
touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire flared from the rock,
consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.
22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed,
"Ah, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!"
23 But the LORD said to him, "Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going
to die."
24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD is
Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
1KI 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a
dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."
6 Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my
father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in
heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a
son to sit on his throne this very day.
7 "Now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my
father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out
my duties.
8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people,
too numerous to count or number.
9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to
distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great
people of yours?"
10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.
11 So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long
life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies
but for discernment in administering justice,
12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning
heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there
ever be.
13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for--both riches and
honor--so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
14 And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David
your father did, I will give you a long life."
2CH 1:7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for
whatever you want me to give you."
8 Solomon answered God, "You have shown great kindness to David my father
and have made me king in his place.
9 Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you
have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the
earth.
10 Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is
able to govern this great people of yours?"
11 God said to Solomon, "Since this is your heart's desire and you have
not asked for wealth, riches or honor, nor for the death of your enemies,
and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge
to govern my people over whom I have made you king,
12 therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give
you wealth, riches and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had
and none after you will have."
PSA 16:7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart
instructs me.
JOH 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor to be with you forever--
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither
sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be
in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father
will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
1CO 10:16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a
participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a
participation in the body of Christ?
2CO 6:16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For
we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with
them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my
people."
13:14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
GAL 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our
hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
PHI 2:1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if
any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any
tenderness and compassion,
2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love,
being one in spirit and purpose.
1JO 1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also
may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with
his Son, Jesus Christ.
REV 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
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