![]() You have heard my voice do not hide Your ear at my breathing, at my cry.” “I called upon Your name, O Jehovah, from the lowest pit. In fact, in Lamentations 3:55-56, the prophet Jeremiah equated calling on the Lord with breathing. One of the best and simplest ways to pray is to call upon the name of the Lord. We can breathe the Lord in by praying simple, short prayers. So when we pray, we just need to be simple, genuine, and open to the Lord. Prayer isn’t a formal or ritualistic activity it’s how we contact the Spirit to breathe Him in. So exercising our spirit is necessary in order for us to breathe spiritually.Īnd the best way to exercise our spirit is through prayer. Our spirit is the part of our being created by God that has the ability to contact and receive Him. Just as we have to use our lungs to take in oxygen, we have to use our human spirit to breathe in the Spirit. ![]() So how do we inhale this life-giving Spirit? We have to use our spirit We can breathe the life-giving, indwelling Spirit anytime, anywhere, and receive more of His life. Now because He’s in us, He’s so available to us. This is how we could receive Him when we believed in Him. Hence, we become one spirit with Him (6:17).”Ĭhrist in resurrection is now the life-giving Spirit with a spiritual body. When we believe into Him, He enters our spirit, and we are joined to Him as the life-giving Spirit. Now He is a life-giving Spirit in resurrection, with a spiritual body, ready to be received by His believers. His soulish body has become a spiritual one through resurrection. “Through incarnation He had a soulish body, as Adam had through resurrection He has a spiritual body. This section of note 1 on this verse in the Recovery Version explains what happened in Christ’s incarnation and resurrection in order for Him to become the Spirit: The life-giving Spirit is the “oxygen” we must breathe in to live. Now in resurrection He’s the life-giving Spirit, or breath. The Lord Jesus is the last Adam who was crucified for our sins. ![]() The Greek word translated as Spirit in this verse is pneuma. “So also it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living soul’ the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.” ![]() Let’s look at 1 Corinthians 15:45 to find out: What then is the “oxygen” we believers must breathe spiritually? The regular intake of oxygen is an absolute requirement for our bodies. But now we need to continue to breathe spiritually to maintain our spiritual life. We were saved eternally when we believed in Christ, and we received the divine life when we were born again. But if we stop breathing for just a few minutes, we’ll die. We can survive for a period of time without eating or drinking. We all know breathing is indispensable in sustaining our physical life. And as we breathe out, we exhale carbon dioxide, a waste gas that needs to be expelled from our system. As we breathe in, we receive oxygen, which is vital to every part of our body. Physical breathing involves both inhalation and exhalation. Today we’ll look at some key verses from the Bible to see what this means, and how we can practice this kind of prayer in our daily life. But have you ever considered that prayer is our spiritual breathing? ![]() It’s how we contact God, converse with Him, and enjoy fellowship with Him. Prayer is a fundamental part of our Christian life. ![]()
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