Daily Communion With The Lord

The Battle Over Daily Communion

Daily communion with the Lord is one of the most precious gifts given to the believer, yet one of the most fiercely contested. The enemy’s most deliberate tactic is often not dramatic temptation, but the subtle disturbance of our emotions. Feelings can cloud clarity, distort truth, and create confusion, doubt, and delay in resting in Christ. Emotions are unstable – like wind, like chaff, like waves that rise and fall without anchor. Scripture warns us of this instability: “He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed…A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." (James 1:6-8). This is why God commands us to set our minds on what is lovely, pure, and true (Philippians 4:8).

The Enemy’s Work In Our Emotions

We do have control over our thoughts, and we can learn to temper our emotions, but habits can become deeply rooted. Coping mechanisms feel familiar, even comforting, and it is easier to return to what we know – overthinking, replaying conversations, retreating into old patterns – than to turn toward God. And this is exactly where the enemy works. Satan subtly convinces us that our emotional way of handling things is easier, safer, and more natural. He whispers that our feelings are more trustworthy than faith, that our internal reactions are more reliable than prayer, and that leaning on our own understanding is more comforting than speaking with God. But this is deception. It only feels easier because the flesh gravitates toward what it already knows. In reality, it keeps us from communion, because communion with God requires the renewing of the mind, the deliberate turning of our thoughts toward Him, and the willingness to let Him reshape our inner world. The enemy wants us trapped in familiar emotional cycles; God wants us freed into fellowship.

Discerning the Lord’s Voice

So how do we know when it is the Lord’s voice and not our own? There are simple, biblical markers. If a thought pulls you away from God, contradicts His Word, or leads toward sin, then it is not His voice. If it aligns with righteousness, obedience, and the character of God, then it bears the imprint of His Spirit.

Another question is this: Are you living righteously? We won’t always get it right, but we can sincerely strive toward the perfection He calls us to, knowing His Spirit enables what our flesh cannot. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48).

Are you seeking Him? Are you directing your life toward Him? Are you genuinely striving to obey? If the answer is yes, then you are walking in His will, and those who walk in His will can trust that He communes with them. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:6).

The Desire To Grow

There is no hierarchy of spiritual worthiness among believers. The same Spirit teaches every Christian, and Christ is not less effective in one believer than another. The difference often lies in desire – the thirst for knowledge, the hunger for righteousness, the longing to grow. Some Christians learn slowly because God is shaping them through particular lessons. Others may not seek as earnestly, yet they still belong to Him. But every true believer has a Spirit-given desire to know God more deeply and to live out that knowledge.

Anyone can read a book and forget its details, but the Christian does not depend on self-memory - the Holy Spirit brings truth to remembrance. Our righteousness is not ours, nor is our understanding. Two people may appear equally moral, but only the one who belongs to Christ walks in true righteousness, because Christ alone is the mediator who makes communion with God possible.

Drawing From His Wells

God promises that those who live righteously draw from His strength: “With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” (Isaiah 12:3).

And again: “Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.” (Psalm 65:4).

This means that the nudges, the thoughts, the quiet impressions that arise in a righteous life are not random. If they are not sinful, if they align with His Word, if they lead toward obedience, then why should they not be God communing with you? The Spirit guides, convicts, comforts, and directs – and He does so in the daily flow of life. Communion is talking, but it is also receiving. It is the exchange between Heaven and earth that Christ Himself makes possible.

Holding Earthly Things Lightly

Everything belongs to God: “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” (Psalm 24:1). Because of this, life changes – sometimes gently, sometimes explosively. God does not want us to hold earthly things tightly, as if life must remain contained and predictable. He wants us to hold everything lightly, trusting His sovereignty. When we build our own barriers, He allows them to stand long enough to show us the difference between living in self and living in Him. When we fully hand our lives to Him, life becomes simple. Not easy, not without storms, but simple – because trust becomes simple. Faith becomes simple. Like breathing.

Through trials, chaos, and tests of faith, there is a steady stream of living water within us – courage, strength, wisdom – keeping us afloat. “He will not suffer thee to be tempted above that ye are able.” (1 Corinthians 10:13).

This is the part that takes practice. Prayer. Communion. Discipline.

The Instability of Our Hearts

When something goes wrong, who do we run to first? Self? Man? Or God? Our emotions rise sharply and paint the moment as final, as if the story has closed and better days have slipped away forever. But that is the instability of our own hearts, not the nature of God, who remains unchanged. We change. Our emotions shift, our thoughts fluctuate, our perspective wavers, but God does not. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8).

The enemy wants us to cling to our feelings more tightly than God’s promises. He wants us to treat our emotions as truth and God’s Word as distant. But God calls us to remember Him - not our feelings. Emotions are not the compass. God is. Communion is the act of returning to Him again and again, even when our emotions pull in every direction, because He remains steady when we do not.

The Steadying Peace of God

Peace is not always bliss or the absence of trouble. God knows our frame; He knows we are flesh. Peace is the quiet, steady current of trust – the water from His well that keeps drawing us back, even when we wander. Peace is the assurance that comes from living righteously. “Great peace have they which love thy law.” (Psalm 119:165).

Peace is not the absence of storms; it is Christ holding you upright in the midst of them. Communion is what keeps that peace flowing, the continual daily conversations with Him that steady the soul.

How Do We Prove Our Trust?

To prove our trust, we must live. Walk in faith. Include God in all things. Ask, seek, knock. “Ask, and it shall be given you.” (Matthew 7:7). Reading many books may weary the flesh, but: “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

Daily communion is simply this: talking with God, listening to Him, living righteously, seeking Him, trusting Him, and tempering our emotions by His Word. And He will commune with His people.

And in doing this, in walking in Him, obeying Him, seeking Him, and returning to Him again and again, we glorify Him, because a life lived in daily communion reflects His character, honours His Word, and shows the world what it means to belong to Christ.

Written by Charlotte Waddell