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MOMENTS OF MEDITATION

February 20, 2012   Year III Issue 08


 

 


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Solomon said, "My son attend to my words; incline thine ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh" (Pr. 4:20-22). God breathed his breath into his Word, and when we center our life on it, the very life of God is then breathed into us. Learning to breathe seems paradoxical. After all, isn't breathing supposed to be an involuntary response? As far as naturally breathing is concerned, yes. But when it comes to our spiritual life, we must learn to breathe - we must purpose in our hearts to make it a point to breathe so that we are ever conscious of the life we are to live.

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LEARNING TO BREATHE

LIVING THE LIFE THAT GOD LIVES

"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."

                                                    Ezekiel 37:9

 

     The more I study the Word of God, and the more I understand redemption, the deeper the revelation sinks down on the inside of me that God intends for every believer to live a supernatural life. The very idea of being born again expresses a life born of God; and should therefore, be defined as one that has a god-likeness, destined to live the life that God lives.

     When Jesus came into this world his primary mission was to "...do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work" (John 4:34). That work involved the operation of lifting men from the dark domain of spiritual death into a life of divine enablement. He even went as far as to say, "I have come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Too often, this verse has been read with an emphasis on our physical, human life, implying that Jesus came to make us prosperous, to have abundance, to live on the top of the world. But if we look closely at this word "life," we find it is the Greek word ZOE. ZOE is also defined as eternal life or everlasting life. It is the life of God.

     When we came to receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior something happened on the inside that changed our spiritual nature. Paul wrote to the Roman believers and told them: "Knowing this that our old man was crucified with Christ; that the body of sin might be destroyed; that henceforth we should not serve sin" (Rom. 6:6). This phrase, "the body of sin" refers to the principle or root from whence sin originated in us - which, we know was spiritual death (...death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned - Rom. 5:12). We came under the rule of the law of sin and death because of the fall of Adam. The cross was God's way of remedying not only the cause of sin, but its effect.

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FOR EVERY BELIEVER, LIVING THE LIFE THAT GOD LIVES SHOULD BE AS NATURAL AS BREATHING

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     Over in the first epistle of John, we find these words: "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" (1 John 3:9). What John is describing here is a lifestyle free from sin; but more importantly, he is referring to a life within that lifestyle that cannot and will not agree with sin or ever be the cause of sin. That life is God's life in us, and when we receive a sufficient measure of that life, it will thrust us into a lifestyle that lives supernaturally. When Jesus said, "...and that ye might have it (ZOE) more abundantly" he was inferring that there is no limit to the level of God's life we can experience, if we choose to make it our quest.

     Living the life of God is what fits us to live a supernatural life. In other words, we have within us a life that exists as the very life of heaven, and enables us to be in direct connection with heaven. When we breathe in the air around us we are sustained by it. It nourishes our blood stream. Our bodies are designed in such a way that our heart and lungs carry the oxygen we intake to every cell in our bodies. It is what enables us to live here, in this natural world. When it comes to our spiritual life, we are sustained by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4) That's why the scriptures tell us, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Tim. 3:16, 17). In other words, every Word of God has the breath of God in it; and it is that sustaining breath that we breathe into our spirits to maintain our heavenly life. The more we feed on it, the greater capacity for life we create around us, and the more capable we are to live out of it every day of our lives.

     When we choose to live the Word, we are giving the life of God a place in live, and grow and develop in us, until the life of heaven becomes a normal way of life. Miracles will seem natural. The anointing will be an everyday experience. Impacting the lives of those around us will become the norm - all because we have engaged the life of God.

     For every believer, living the life that God lives should be as natural as breathing. We have the heart of God (his nature) and we have the breath of God (his Spirit). All we have to do now is simply learn to...breathe!

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PRAYER

Father, you created in me the capacity to breathe in the breath of heaven. Help me today to be more conscious of the air I breathe. I'm asking you to infuse within me the very life of heaven is such a way that I am more conscious of breathing in the breath of God, than I am my own physical breath. Help me to engage a life of supernatural living, where I live the life that you live. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

CONFESSION    

I am alive with the life of God. It is pulsating through me even now. I connect with this life and choose to live my life out of this life. No more dull days. No more helpless, tired days going nowhere. I am on a quest to live the highest and the best! I am created to live a supernatural life and I will step into my destiny. Today, I choose to breathe in heaven's life, until it overflows in me and flows out through me.

DEFINING MOMENTS...

Breathing in the breath of God is waking up every morning and deciding to live the life that God lives. It is choosing to be a doer of the Word and not just a hearer only. When deciding every matter, every opportunity, every path we walk to be one lived out of the life of God, we create an atmosphere for heaven to manifest. Jesus is a prime example of how we are to live. Day to day, he stepped into the supernatural. Even the early church learned to do the same. It was because they learned what to breath and how to breathe!

 

It may seem like a simple task, but so much of the church has settled for an artificial respirator. Until we learn how to breathe in the life of heaven, we will be stunted in our ability to produce a supernatural lifestyle. For many of God's people, it is time to learn to breathe on our own!

 

 

In His Grace,

  

Pastor David
Faith Harvest Church

 

 

 

Great service yesterday...a residue still lingers in the air...lives were changed...committments rekindled...destinies were carved with greater clarity. A new process has begun...and I believe everyone present left with a heart up for the challenge!
Rodney and Nita
Rodney and Nita Lloyd
 

"Thanks for the impartation
Rodney...such a liberty and such 
a blessing to see God move like he did. You have impacted the lives of Faith Harvest, and the residual effect  will bring forth a new level of leadership in the making of true servant sonship."
                             Pastor David
 

 

 

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