Humble your soul, release your spirit
Humble your soul? Release your spirit? God teaches us to act on our spirit's YES even when our soul is crying NO. For then his life can flow.
Humble your soul? Release your spirit? God teaches us to act on our spirit's YES even when our soul is crying NO. For then his life can flow.
Exhaling the life and breath of God, you move by and with his Spirit. As you release what you've received from him, he sends out his life through you.
Inhaling the life and breath of God, you open up to Christ in you. You’re filled with the Spirit. In the midst of real life, you really live.
As breath is vital to the body, being filled with the Spirit and living in the power of the Spirit are vital to life in Christ.
Elijah was human, like us. The spirit, power, blessing in his life hinged on God who gave them, and the undivided heart that welcomed them.
If ever you find yourself broken and spent, listen for God’s cry to the breathless – his call to wake you, his promise to revive and restore
When God’s people push against, instead of moving with, his Spirit, he knows the situation is dire. He sounds the alarm: My people aren’t breathing! Code blue!
Living by the Spirit creates intimate oneness with God. That is, your spirit learns to move with God’s Spirit, as one moves with a lead partner in a dance.
When it comes to dealing with anything spirit, the church has a long history of ignoring, twisting, adding to and taking away from the truth that gives us rest.
If God wakes you up to lifelessness and powerlessness in people who identify themselves as his, time is of the essence. But what in the world do you do?