God's Banqueting Table

Today God is speaking to me of His banqueting table. Psalms 23:5 says that God prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies! This is a spiritual feast that He has lovingly prepared and set before each of His children.

When I first learned about this table many years ago, it changed my life. Instead of a table filled with turkey, ham, and mashed potatoes, this is a table filled with gifts from God to us. The table is FULL of blessings that are ours for the taking! It is full of such things as salvation, joy, peace, self-control, healing, baptism in the Holy Spirit, provision, and many many more. The thing is, God doesn't force us to take any of His gifts but wants us to take them all. They are all available to us! Many people only choose salvation and grab a little love. They don't realize that God really wants them to come, dig in and eat to their fill!
You see, many wonder if it's really God's will to always give them healing, or to give them provision. But God already said that it is! He said, "By His stripes you are healed". He said, "I will provide all your needs according to my riches and glory". He said in Isiah 55, "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare!"

I want to share a testimony that happened just now as I was writing this post. I knew that God was leading me to write this today and to stop everything I was doing and just write it. I didn't really have it planned out but God was dropping it in my spirit. So by faith, I just sat down and started writing. As usual, the words came effortlessly. I didn't even know I was going to share that last scripture. God brought it to my mind. I wasn't sure where it was found. I heard Isiah in my spirit, opened my Bible right to Isiah and looked down directly at the right scripture! How exciting is that? I love it when God does stuff like that. I've got goosebumps! Praise you God, you are soooo good and know just what we need to hear each day!

There are hundreds of promises from God to us in the Bible. They are all on the table. How would you like to spend hours preparing a meal for your family, lovingly thinking about each dish and how it will nourish their bodies and how much they will enjoy it, then call them to come eat and they stand back hesitantly, wondering if you really want them to partake, afraid to do so. Because they don't really know if you want them to eat and if it's really for them. You planned, you shopped, you cooked, you called them and invited them to eat, but they don't even sit down. Some take a bite or two and walk away still hungry, still thirsty, rejecting your labor of love. You are heart broken, devastated. You did all you could do, now it's up to them.

Come on family of God! Let's together run to the table that God has prepared for us with all His love. He gave everything. He poured himself out as an offering for us. Let us partake together. Let us please our Lord and have fellowship one with another!