Life-Giving Breath

Uni-verse 861/10,000 Life-giving Breath Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: Ezekiel 37 v 5 What causes us to survive is our breath. It sustains us . But what causes us to live is the breath of God. It is the life-giving breath-life in its fullest and deepest meaning. Man became a living soul after God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. The breath of man is a mixture of gases but the breath of God is the life-giving, life-enhancing, life-restoring and life- renewing Spirit of God. Without the spirit of God in us, our very bones become dry and our life would tend to disintegrate into its skeletal remains. But Jesus is the ligament that holds the different joints, organs and parts of our life together. The Word of God holds the spirit of God in it as it is God-breathed or inspired. So when we speak the Word to the bones of an afflicted person, it penetrates the dry bones and begins to revive life, health and strength at the point where marrow meets bone. The Word penetrates the core of our spirit, minds and bodies and resuscitates us. Yesterday, I met a man of God who was critically ill from an auto immune degenerative disease that afflicted him in 2009. His wife and he being strong believers began confessing their faith in scripture verses that the Lord quickened to their minds. For several months, he was declining in health and reduced to a virtual bag of bones. Then the breath of God came upon him and revived, renewed and restored him to fullness of health and even greater faith. Last week I also heard of a gospel singer’s child who was born with rickets that makes the bones weak and brittle. The parents in their desperation mixed with hope began to confess promise verses of healing over their paralysed child. He could not walk for many years till the breath of God came miraculously upon his dry bones and enabled him to walk and run. The power of resurrection lies in the breath of God. That same power which resurrected Jesus from the dead is now available and at work to heal, to deliver, to strengthen, to restore, to revive and renew the faithful all over the world. We should not wait to be afflicted but every day we must invite the Lord to breathe on us and particularly the areas of our lives which are spiritually dry, areas where we have not exercised our faith, areas where we feel hopeless and are facing challenges. We must intake the Word of God that is the condensed breath of God. As we intake continually the breath of God in this manner, the promise that “ you shall live” will be fulfilled in all its aspects. Prateep V Philip