According to Biblegateway.com there are 615 times in the King James Version of the Bible that the term."And God Said' I haven't looked it up but I imagine almost all of them are followed by the term: "And It was so" Remember the old commercial that had a setting say in a restaurant and two people were talking one mentioned some Wall Street investment company and the whole restaurant paused, and everyone listened to whatever was to be said next, because: "When (forgot the company name) speaks, everyone listens".
It is like that with God, maybe not we human beings, but all of nature, the angels, the heavenly all stop what they are doing and listen. Why? Because God is speaking. ...And God Said.............." for the Earth to be formed, and it was so, And God said .........for water to cover the Earth, and it was so,,,,,,,,,,And God said.........., And God Said, And God Said..............God Just spoke the world into existence God made Adam and Eve, God made everything that is by just His voice, except for one thing. After God formed Adam out of clay, He breathed life into him He did not command for life to come into Adam, He physically did CPR on him and breathed life into him.
OK what is my point? ANYTHING God says WILL happen, But He breathed life into humans. He formed us in His image, and then took a direct step to make sure we had His breath inside us. Ok so That is how much He loves us. The trees, the clouds, the waters of the earth, the mountains, the animals that run around our planet.................were all made by His voice, just Him saying so. You see mankind was lifeless, dead, just as another rock on the face of the earth, until God physically touched us and gave us His breath.
Have you ever taken a CPR class? You know breath 123, compression 123 (Almost sounds like the CHA CHA doesn't it.) I have heard they have changed that now so you can save someone just by compressions only) Have you ever really used CPR to save someone? If you have, your breath (your life) was shared with someone else to keep them from dying. God gave us life by that same way. He breathed into us life, HIS life.
Not only did God make us out of dirt, really, He put Himself into us. Have you ever heard of the "Breath of God"? Songs talk about it, people will ask God to Breath down on us, We seek the breath of fire....things like that? I had never really thought about what these things meant, until recently. God's breath is life, it started this whole human existence. When we invite Him to breath down on us, we are giving Him permission to renew us with His breath. You see, the Holy Spirit is God and when God breathes upon us the Holy Spirit comes into our souls, bodies and mind. Why? To make us feel better, to give us energy so we can dance around with our hands raised.? To make us talk funny? No to give us His power, refreshing, energy, strength............so that we can share Him with others.
When God first breathed the life into Adam, His plan was for us to worship Him as our creator. To live with Him in the Garden. He wanted to share everything with us and commune or talk with Him, to eat, play, work, enjoy all that He had to offer, which by the way is everything, more then we can imagine.
I want God to breath new life into me again. I want that refreshing breath to consume the old me, and bring forth a new, wonderfully changed me. God brought us from death to life once in our life, it is time we allow Him to do it again.
Join me in asking God to Breath down on this World, and help us witness to the dying people around us that need Him and His refreshing breath before it is to late.
Thanks for reading. Chris
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