{"id":2218,"asset_id":"2530","title":"40 Days of Communion -\u00a0Bill Johnson & Cheryl Amabile -\u00a0Sep 24, 2025","alias":"40-days-of-communion-bill-johnson-cheryl-amabile-sep-24-2025","introtext":"<div id=\"dispwordtitle\">\r\n<h1>40 Days of Communion -&nbsp;Bill Johnson &amp; Cheryl Amabile -&nbsp;Sep 24, 2025<\/h1>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"archive\">\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.elijahlist.com\/faces\/Bill_Johnson_2023_600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"148\" style=\"float: left;\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"word-truncate\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Article released on September 18, 2025.)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Intro from Cheryl Amabile:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><img src=\"https:\/\/images.elijahlist.com\/email_images\/freephoto_Cheryl_Amablie_400px_viaCherylAmabile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>Since the beginning of the month, we've been partaking in forty days of Communion leading up to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elijahlist.com\/words\/display_word.html?ID=33038\">Communion America<\/a>. Lou Engle exhorted us to draw a boundary line of blood each day around our families and communities. Little did we know that this season of honoring the blood of Christ would be marked by the blood of martyrdom. Our hearts are broken at the tragic loss of our brother, Charlie Kirk. We continue to grieve for his family, for ourselves, and for the soul of this nation.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In today's Briefing, we offer a prophetic application for the moment we are in. Below is a transcript of Bill Johnson leading us in a Communion service at the launch of these forty days. May it serve as a blueprint as you continue to steward the body and blood of Jesus in daily intercession. Let us give thanks that His blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Cheryl Amabile<br \/>Editor The Briefing via TheCall<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"subtitle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>40 Days of Communion<\/strong><br \/><strong>By Bill Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Recently, on August 31, 2025, Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, California led a corporate Communion service that was livestreamed as a precursor to Communion America. We had the privilege of sharing the Lord's Supper together in the same manner that Bill takes Communion in his own prayer closet.)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I try to take communion every day<\/strong>. I stand before a family portrait where I pray over every family member. I like to use these little prepackaged communion sets because the cracker breaks. Honestly, I like to remind myself of the broken body of Jesus. I don't know where this fits into your theology, but I like to approach this moment as though I were sitting at that table at the Last Supper with Jesus breaking off a piece of bread, giving it to His disciples, and saying, \"Take this, it's My body\" (1 Corinthians 11:24).<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I want to approach Communion with that kind of reverence. I don't like falling into routine for routine's sake. If He created a discipline for us\u2014something to be repeated\u2014it's always because there's life in it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The broken body testifies to me of a couple of things:&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elijahlist.com\/words\/display_word.html?ID=33124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"8","created":"2025-09-24 14:44:41","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2025-09-24 14:45:29","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2025-09-24 14:44:41","publish_up":"2025-09-24 14:44:41","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":2,"ordering":"0","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"0","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}