Jesus In The Midst

The Bible has much to say about breath:

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife...

OK, that one I threw in for fun. Our breath may sometimes be powerful, but not in the way God’s breath is powerful!

In Ezekiel 37 we see the dry bones of an old battlefield come together as skeletons, and then organs and tissues and skin are added, but they laid there like corpses until v. 9:

Ezekiel 37:9-10

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. [10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

The Bible was written by inspiration of God. And the word ‘inspiration’ means “God breathed!” He used human writers as instruments, and each one sounded differently as God’s breath blew thru them, but they had no power of themselves…the power was in the breath of God.

It was the breath-like wind of the Holy Spirit that blew the disciples around at Pentecost, and it's that same powerful breath of God that will sail our ships on this sea of life.

I like this fact: we don’t have to be gifted or capable or have great abilities…only availability! How wonderful that God doesn’t send us to do something that can’t be done, for there’s nothing that He can’t do thru us!

There’s nothing I cannot do, if Jesus is in the midst. There’s nowhere I won’t go, if Jesus is in the midst. There’s no limit to what God can do in this church, if Jesus is in the midst. There’s no peace I cannot find…because Jesus in the midst makes me peaceful! No joy eludes me, because Jesus in the midst makes me joyful! No job in the church should ever go undone, for Jesus in the midst will make us useful!

But absolutely nothing will be accomplished without the powerful Jesus in our midst!

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