Breath of His Spirit!

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a hard time because I typically just have my anointed iPad with me with the

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says, when I do bring my Bible up, I still read from my

iPad. H m hmmm. So all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna teach

like I'm an auctioneer. You all ready to listen fast? Okay. So

this past Monday, I was in my reading time and a couple of words

stuck out. One was breath, and specific specifically the breath as it applies

to the Holy Spirit, the breath of His Spirit, and some of the

things that I'm going to attempt to unpack you're going to have to catch by

the Holy Spirit. I cannot necessary right, Mark, I cannot necessarily convey

those and human words. And you get it, right, because it's spirit

to spirit communication. So in the famous words of Bob Jones, try not

to be dull. Okay, Oh wow, I was. I was just

talking to somebody here a few days ago. I think it was at Streams,

and they said that they used they used to pick Uh Mahesh Shabda up

at the airport in Dallas and he Mahesh used to teach. Maybe it was

John Thomas had told me this Thursday night, and Uh, by the time

Mahesh got from the airport to Sojourn, that there's a church in the Metroplex

called Sojourn, he would literally be covered in gold. And they're part of

his This is a little extra rabbit trail caveat part of his uh glory teaching

happened as a result of when Mahesh would minister, almost like a glory bubble

would open up around him and literally gold would shoot out and and just cover

them. And uh, it reminded me of one time we had a portal

open up, which means a gate or door. For you that just think

I was new age. It even says it in the ESD Proverbs stands at

the portals. So in our old office on Sidney Baker and I'll never forget

Becky. Becky's also a wild seer, which I think she left after the

volunteer thing. She was dressed like a ninja. For those of you wondering

who she is. I didn't even recognize her. I was like, I

was like, is that a Muslim? Because she kind of looked like Muslim

because all I could see was her eyes, and and I realized it was

Becky, and I was like, Oh, that's not a Muslim, she's

a ninja, duh. And so but I'll never forget Becky. She was

looking and and and she put her hand and moved it all around and pulled

it out and it was covered in gold. See, y'all, we spend

way more time trying to do things in a natural and getting natural results and

recognizing we're called to a kingdom that is eternal, that is inside of you,

that doesn't manifest in the normal natural realm with soldiers and the way that

they thought was gonna happen when Jesus resurrected. If you don't understand how to

abide in Christ and walk in spirit and truth, it's going to be very

difficult for you to advance a kingdom that you can't tangibly see and wrap your

mind around. But yet you see the effects of that kingdom when you walk

in faith. Are you with me? Listen fast? Genesis one two,

the Earth was without form and void. The Hebrew here literally means that the

earth is like in a state of chaos. Something took place where it's just

and it's almost like, I can't prove this. And for those of you

that understand the gap theory between Genesis one one and one two, there's a

period of time the earth laid in a state of chaos. You can't build

the theology out of that. But a lot of theologians believe that's when Lucifer

bit the dust and he was on the earth and it was like all right,

and this is the result, and the Earth is messed up. So

it's literally, when you really, in my humble opinion, at least I

think it's humble, this is almost a recreation of an existing Earth that was

disturbed. Are you all listening, okay, Hi, stay with me.

So the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face

of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of

the waters. I love the amplified it says the earth was formless and void

or a waste, emptiness. Darkness was upon the face of the deep,

the primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth. The spirit of God was moving,

he was hovering, he was brooding over the face of the waters.

So you have this picture the ruok which is spirit, the ruaq ha Kadesh,

which is holy Spirit. He's over the face of the deep. It's

a total state of chaos, and there is no the land, masses are

messed up. There's water everywhere, there's no boundaries. And he begins to

brood over the earth, and he begins to bring order, just like when

the Holy Spirit comes into your life. He begins to brood over your soul

and begins to bring order over the chaos of sin and flesh and destruction.

Ruoc is breath or wind or spirit, and kadesh means a parkness sacredness.

This is where like when we translate holiness, this is where you have been

set apart. So He who is holy called you to be holy, and

his Ruoch is inside of you. Genesis two seven. Then the Lord God

formed the man of dust from the ground and breathe into his nostrils the breath

of life and the man became a living creature or an ephese, living being.

So God grabs a hold of this primal dirt of the earth, and

like a potter with a potter's wheel, he forms at him and it's just

a body. And then he goes and his breath, the breath of his

spirit, blows life into that pile of dirt, and it becomes a living

being in that very moment. And his spirit goes into man and creates the

spirit of man, who is made in the very image of this spirit,

who is Yahweh. And communion starts Genesis three eight. And they heard the

sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

That word for cool literally means wind. It's ruock. They heard the sound

of the Lord as he comes into the garden in the wind of the day,

the cool of the day. And they knew he was coming because it

was just like acts too, where a sound of the Lord was released like

a mighty rushing wind. All of a sudden, the winds are blowing,

and all of a sudden, it's the cool of the day, and then

the wind intensifies, and all of a sudden they know the Creator's coming.

It's it's the call that beckons us spirit to spirit because it's in our are

very dna, because we are spirit beings first, and we have tried to

live from our soul for too long. We've allowed our souls to rule us

and then wondered why we have temporal results because we have gone from living internally,

from an internal kingdom with an internal king to living external and then asking

him to sprinkle blessings on the things that we've done, because we have been

so bound up with the desires and goals of living this life on earth,

losing the very depths of what Paul said, for me to live is Christ

and to die is Gain. And he was so torn with his intimacy with

Jesus. He says, I don't know what I'm gonna choose. I know

it's more profitable for me to stay in this in this body, but he

longed to be with him. See, it's that spirit, the spirit intimacy

that God's longing for with us. It's a call back to recognize that every

breath you take is the breath of life that came from His spirit. And

they argue that when you breathe and if you say the word Yahweh. Correctly.

It's so from the very first breath you took wherever you were born on

this earth, you set his name, and the very last breath that you

take in this body, you will declare the creator Yahweh, not Eloheim.

Eloheim is used for many gods, but Yahweh is only used for Yahweh.

Kim Clement was with Lance wal now years ago, and they were at a

conference and they broke for lunch, and Lance wal and I was sitting with

Kim, and Kim dropped his head and all of a sudden, he just

got really bummed out, and Lance goes, what's wrong? He said,

I can hear the wind's blowing in the garden, because he had a garden

in his home, and that's where he would pray daily and meet with the

Lord. How many times has he whispered to us? How many times has

he spiritually blown wind? But we've been too dull to recognize this call.

We have too many things on our schedule of the day of our agenda to

accomplish. Y'all. There is a divide happening in the church right now.

There is a separation happening, And I want to encourage you as God continues

to purify his bride and bring separation. Listen, his heart when somebody goes

into a ditch is to leave the ninety nine and go after the one.

We need some ministries of tow trucks released in this hour to go get him

out of the ditches instead of can everyone and taking sides. It is so

pathetic right now, what's happening. I mean, I'm reading Mark Driscoll and

Pastor Lindell and everybody's more concerned about their interaction together than the reality of the

show that took place in a men's conference that had no business being there.

I mean, this is these things are being exposed, and literally the body

of Christ is taking sides. There's no sides, people, it's Jesus.

The only sides you take is the side of truth. And the enemy wants

to bring division an offense, and he doesn't give a rip how he does

it, and he'll do it through deception. He'll do it through your strongholds

that you refuse to allow him to take down. And it's those strongholds that

you will be answered according to your idols if you don't allow him to prune

you. Job thirty two to eight. But it is the spirit in man,

the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. Job thirty three

four says, the spirit of God has made me, and the breath of

the Almighty gives me life. Y'all, you don't even own your breath.

How is it we get so sting and arrogant as human beings on planet Earth?

Do you understand? From the moment God said let there be light,

the universe has been expanding. Wrap your mind around that. Yeah, and

it's still inside of him. The universe is not outside of him, it's

inside of him, and it's still expanding, and it's been. In fact,

science just prove that it's the universe's ex banding faster, it's sped up.

So for a moment, with our tiny little brains, how big do

you think? You are? Not even a walnut. We're like a We're

like a speck of sand of primal existence. And yet the God of the

universe has set his gaze upon you. Listen, There is there, There

is a call, if you'll listen, There is a call of the Lord

of repentance in this hour, not from a judgmental, hateful, heartful,

condemning father, but from a good father. We've got to realize that every

place we don't surrender, every place that we lean on our own understanding,

we're losing our life. By the word of the Lord, the heavens were

made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts Psalm thirty three

six. This is one of my favorites. All ready for this one.

We could just read this one scripture and you could meditate for days Ezekiel thirty

seven nine. Then he said to me, prophesy to the breath, prophesy,

son of Man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord

God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on the

slain, that they may live. I was praying during worship, Lord,

give me a deeper revelation of why it was better for us that you leave,

thinking of what the disciples were thinking in that moment that God was walking

among them. It was prophesied that he would, and there he was.

You've seen me. You've seen the Father, Thomas. Have you been with

me so long you don't see the Father. The Father is in me,

and I am in the Father. In this manifestation of God among us,

the word became flesh and dwelt among us, God walking among us. And

he says the most crazy thing, that the Father and I will make our

home in you. Do you understand the Godhead is inside of you. We

always tend to think of Holy Spirit, you know, and just Holy Spirit

in us, or we think of Jesus. But the Father is inside of

you. Saying that Jesus said, the Father and I will make her home

in you. Well, how is that by the Holy Spirit? The Holy

Spirit is not just a powerful force. He is a person of the Godhead.

Fully God, and the Godhead, the Trinity dwells inside of you.

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I

go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not

come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Now Here we go. Remember in the very beginning in Genesis, where

the Spirit of God blows the breath of life into mud that becomes flesh John

twenty twenty two. And when he had said this, he breathed on them

and said to them received the Holy Spirit. So again breath wind spirit resurrected.

Jesus shows up, and guess what the disciples are? The very first

ones in all of history to be sealed internally with the Holy Spirit. There

comes the wind. What do you think they felt in that moment? They

were quickened new creations never before in history. This humanity that God has set

his eyes on is the only created being that will actually increase in positional authority

and eternity. Let me break that down. You will judge angels, and

Paul rebuked them for acting as mere men. Do you not know you will

judge angels this eternal divine dance with the divine council that we have been brought

into, with the family of God. We will rule and reign with the

council, with his other family that he created with his breath. John three

to eight. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear it sound,

but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit. Now, some

of you intercessors and prophetic people, you're weird, and you blow with the

blowing of the of the wind. You all ready for this one two Timothy

three sixteen. All scripture, everybody say, all all scripture is breathed out

by God. Do you know in the Hebrews when you speak, because life

and death is in the power of the tongue. When you speak words,

it goes out into all eternity and keeps going. Do you understand that they

don't dissolve The words keep going because life and death is in the power of

the tongue. And just like He breathes out his words, you breathe out

his words. And you cod labor with either life or death. So all

scriptures breathe out by God improfitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,

and for training and righteousness. Y'all everything we need for life and godliness is

in his word. And yet we always have a plan B or C or

D or E or F or Z, And some of us when we get

through the alphabets of Z, then we're like, oh, Jesus, please

help me. He's like, son, I've been waiting for you to get

to the end of your rope for three years, because that's where he is.

He's always at the end of your rope. Almost done Acts two thirty

eight, And Peter said to them, repent and be baptized, every one

of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins

and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now remember Passover starts

tonight, and then forty days is what Pentecost. So here they are Acts

two. And when the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in

one place, and suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing

wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting, and divided

tongues of fire appeared to them and rested on each of them, and they

were filled with the ruok hakkadesh and begin to speak in other tongues as the

spirit gave them utterance. But there was the sound, a sound like a

mighty rushing wind, the same sound that Adam and e you've heard in the

garden in the cool of the day. The wind's blowing, and then all

of a sudden, there's an increase of wind. Because the God of the

universe is walking, and to walk with them it literally, if you look

at the Hebrew, it's like to swirl about. So again you see the

swirling of his spirit. You see this application of wind of Greek is numa

air. That's why, like if you have a dream and in your dream

the vehicle is got a flat tire. What fills the tire air numa?

Spirit? And what's the vehicle represents? The vehicle represents your ministry or your

job, or what you're called to. And if you've got a flat tire,

you're lacking spirit, you're quenching him, and it's time for a tire

change. You're all with me. I'm going to land safely. All the

pilots caught that one. Okay, okay, all right. I can think

of no other time of a greater season of preparation for what God wants to

do and is about to do than than where we are right now. I

believe that with all my heart we are in a time of preparation. There's

two ways to look at things. When all of a sudden everything starts to

get exposed, politically, religiously, you name it. Things are being if

you hadn't been paying attention, and things are popping and being exposed all over

the place. You have two ways to look at that. You can be

like some of the church, and when the consequences show up for your sin,

you blame the enemy. Oh I'm under warfare. No, it's a

spirit of stupid that says, God will not be mocked. Whatever a man

sow, that also will he what reap. I want to encourage some of

you that have just in the last twelve to twenty four months, that have

come out of very dark places and been rescued out of very dark places.

You're still walking through the consequences of your choices for the past. God's not

punishing you. Are you with me? But if you want the spiritual momentum

in your life to change, look at me. You have to change the

seeds you're sowing. And if you want spiritual momentum for righteousness, then you

have to start sowing seeds of righteousness. And then eventually the law, the

spiritual law of sowing and reaping will catch up with you. And now all

of a sudden, you're no longer in a field that is full of corruption,

death and destruction. Now you're walking the highway of holiness, and the

abundant life begins to chase you down because you changed the seeds you were sowing.

As a good farmer. That is how you change this spiritual momentum of

your life. Period. If you don't like your harvest, change your seed.

Okay, her teams, look at that we started twenty twenty five minutes

late and I'm only ten minutes over. It's amazing, Wayne. Can I

get a Barren team, Bueller Bueller prayer team. We did have some people

that responded right, y'all. Right now in this moment, there is a

loving Father that I believe has the same piercings in his hands, because he

said it was the Father that reconciled us back to himself in the sun,

God is won, and when he was on that cross, the Father felt

the pain. Kim Clement said that, which you can't prove this, but

I thought it was cool, so I'm going to share this. Kim Clement

said that when God walked by Moses and he showed him his backside, he

saw the scars in his back because he was the lamb slain before the foundations

of the earth. Y'all, whatever area the Lord's dealing with you right now,

stop stiff arming him, surrender give it to him, Stop wrestling with

it. Stop thinking if you keep going back to this one place over and

over and over and over, that somehow you're going to figure out what you

missed every time you go back to a memory without Jesus it's torment. And

when you find yourself going back to the same place over and over and over,

that is called a memorial set up on your mind with a neural transmitter,

that is a rut, and you go, oh, they're over and

over and over. But guess what when you choose to say, Okay,

Jesus, I'm gonna let you into this room because I do believe you're the

restorer of my soul. Lord, what's the truth in here? I've tried

my perspective long enough, and it stinks. What's the truth? And all

of a sudden, that place that drove you nuts for decades, that memorial

of torment on your mind, all of a sudden becomes a stack of stones

for the testimony of Jesus because you encountered the Lord Jesus in that place,

and all of a sudden, there's peace and calm. If you resist him,

you're resisting the only one that has the power to transform your life for

all eternity. You're resisting the very one that is love, who created love.

He is love, and he is the only real love, and all

this other stuff is counterfeit. So Father, I ask right now, in

the mighty name of Jesus Lord release the sound over our region. Thank you

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