The Wind Is Blowing Again
All through the Bible we are given symbols of the Holy Spirit: through these symbols we learn who the Holy Spirit is and how he manifests himself and inter-acts with his people.
(Fire) (Oil) (Water) (Dove) (Wind)
Fire: Purifying, Illuminating, searching
Oil: Healing, comforting, consecrating
Water: Cleansing, life giving
Dove: Gentle, peaceful, comforting, guiding, warning
And finally the Wind
I don’t really have time to talk about the wind but if I did I would bring to your attention:
* It was the wind that opened the red sea, (it was the wind that closed it again)
* The wind opened the way for their escape, and the wind moved the waters to return and close upon and destroy their enemies.
* It was the wind that dried up the flood waters from the earth after it had rained for 40 days and 40 nights
* It was the wind that brought the plague of locusts upon the Egyptians, and it was the wind that took them away.
* It was a wind from the Lord that brought quail to the complaining Israelites
* It was the wind that brought the rain that ended a 31/2-year drought in Israel.
*The wind speaks of Gods Power and it speaks of change:
When the wind of God blows it brings change.
Somebody here today who needs a change, you need the power of God, the wind of God to blow through your life.
You can’t see it I can’t touch it, but it’s changing,
I don’t know how God’s going to do it but its changing.
Eze 37:9 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.
It was not the fire in the valley that day, and it was not the oil, and it was not the water, and it was not the dove that brought restoration and resurrection to a valley of dry bones
*(But is was the Wind of God, the Wind of Heaven, the Power of God, the Breath of God)
Sometimes we need the fire, and sometimes we need the oil, and sometimes we need the water, and sometimes we need the dove.
(But when you need a change, when you need a resurrection, when you need the Power of God to come into your life and quicken and raise up something in your life that has died or is dying (You need the wind of God to blow)
That same power, that same anointing, that same wind that blew through that valley of dry bones is ready to blow in this house right now.
Lift your hands right now and tell God: Let the wind blow
What if I do not have enough Faith to see change.
Romans 3:3. For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
Gods faithfulness, is not based on our faithfulness, or on the faithfulness of those who are around us.
No matter what, He remains faithful
2 Timothy 2:13. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
We should never let other people’s opinions, no matter who they are, carry more weight, than what God has already provided for, paid for and promised to us!
What other people think usually just waters down and tends to kill your dreams anyways!
Just because they don’t believe in you, should not affect what you believe anyways,
1Ki 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD;:
When the wind blows things change:
When Elijah was hiding out in a cave afraid that Jezebel would take his life, the bible says that the Lord passed by is cave, and when he did there was a Wind, and earthquake and a fire
The Lord caused it all: I want to focus for a minute on the wind that blew that day. It was not a soft gentle breeze of a warm summer’s night.
* This wind ripped the mountains apart and broke the boulders in pieces.
After this wind passed by the mountains was gone
The wind of God is getting ready to blow through your life today and it’s going to not only destroy your problem, but when God gets through moving there will be no evidence that a problem was ever there.
We all thank God for the soft gentle breezes of his love for us.
But sometimes we need more than just a gentle breeze, sometimes we need a mountain rock smashing wind to blow through our lives.
Some of you are facing mountains in your finances; others of you are up against the mountain of health issues that refuse to change.
Some of you are dealing with the mountain of rebellious children, and grand children.
There are all kinds of mountains, and your mountains may be different but the one thing they have in common is that they look impossible, and they refuse to move.
And the circumstances refuse to change.
Just like Elijah was afraid and hiding we get excited when God tells us something.
Don’t let Other people set the limits for your life.
It doesn’t matter if other people don’t believe, their unbelief should not keep us from believing, in our God given hopes.
When God gives you a Word, when Jesus says come, you don't have to ask the ones around you, "did you hear something"?
If it’s a Word for you, they not going to hear it,
The Bible gives us a classic example in,
Matthew 14:29. So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water
When the Lord gave Peter a word to do something impossible,
It doesn't say Peter turned around in the boat and ask for the advice of the others,
"What do you guys think? I think He wants me to go out there and do what He's doing!
Did it sound like He said ’Come’? I’m not quite sure. What do you think John, what do you think Thomas?
I'm sure you probably are thinking what Thomas was going to say, Thats right, I doubt it,
John probably thought a lot of things at that very moment, like I thought I was your favorite disciple Lord,
Peter didn’t ask anyone, because he had heard the Word of the Lord for his situation and that was all he needed,
When the wind blows: Everything changes.
I love Eze 37:1-10
Because we are first presented with all the broken-ness, the hopelessness, and despair, and we see how for the devil will go to destroy humanity.
In that valley we see every phase of broken humanity. (broken marriages, broken dreams, broken health, sickness and disease of every kind) cancer is there, sugar diabetes is there, asthma is there, kidney trouble, liver problems, heart trouble, fear and depression, anxiety, worry, stress It’s all there in that valley.
And they were very dry:
The moisture, the joy, the essence of life was gone.
This scene is so dark and hopeless that when God asks his mighty prophet of faith “can these bones live again” Ezekial cannot find enough faith to say yes, but only (Lord God thou knowest)
This was not great faith on the Elijah’s part, but it was great obedience.
That should encourage somebody today (It’s not great perfected mountains of faith that God needs from you, it’s just enough faith to obey God)
Jesus wants to be your faith partner,
He can give you the courage, like He did Peter, so that you know, that you know, that you know your need will be met and He will not let you down!
*That's the kind of faith that will move mountains,
*that's the kind of faith that causes cancer to flee,
*that's the kind of faith that will take you through the fire, safely over to the other side and let you stand in victory,
*that’s the kind of faith that will make you victorious over every situation in your life,
You may be looking at your own valley of dry bones right now, and it may look impossible.
But God is going to turn your valley of death into a mountain of life,
He will turn your valley of sickness into a mountain top of health, Your valley of debt into a mountain top of blessing.
Your valley of loss into a mountain top of fullness and overflow, filling every empty area of your life.
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Weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning.
Scripture says all things work together - that means every event in your life, when you love The Lord!
God wants you to experience that WIND that can bring the power of Pentecost blowing away all the past, all the waste, all the hindrances that have STOPPED YOU
Because His Word declares.
Philippians 1:6. being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
Lift your hands and begin to praise him, and as you praise him you’re going to activate the wind, the anointing, the power of God.
Message Bible 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24. May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he’ll do it!
As you praise him, the wind is blowing, as you praise him the devils works are being destroyed, (sickness is being destroyed, debt and lack are being destroyed, bondage's are being broken, yokes are being destroyed, habits and addictions are being destroyed)
There is no power from hell that can stand against the wind of God: When the wind blows everything changes.
