It has been a long time since I have
written. I have spent the last two years pursuing my Associates Degree and in January
I will be continuing on for my bachelor’s with a major in Sociology. For the
past 3 months I have been feeling like something was missing and this morning
when I was looking over some past blogs to get inspired, I came across one
I wrote in 2013- “Making Room for God to Become the Air You Breathe.” After reading it, I realized not only how far
my writing has come, but I realize how much I have been suffocating the past
few months. I am posting a reboot to remind
myself that we need to make Him the air we breathe. (Sorry I had to edit the
grammar. I couldn’t believe I had published it with that many errors.)
I have
learned, that regardless of how much we go to church and pray, we can still
suffocate if we don’t breathe Him in daily. This means we need to be in the Word daily and worship daily. I was spending time listening to podcasts in the
car, and I would do quick, one to two verse devotions, but I wasn’t taking those
deep, full breaths of Him that I needed. I invite you to reboot by taking a slow, deep breath of His goodness and mercy for all of us.
"Making room for God to do as He pleases and then cooperating
with Him is the greatest thing we can do to see an increase in signs and
wonders" - Bill Johnson.
The song "I Need You More" by Jesus Culture has
the lyrics "I need You more... more than the air I breathe, more than the
song I sing, more than my next heartbeat, more than anything.:"
God desires for us to hunger
after Him. He wants us to put Him, above all else, in our lives. I have learned
on my journey with Him that He MUST come first. He IS the air I breathe and the
water I thirst for. Without air and water, we die. When I begin to
let other things take me away from my daily time with Him, I feel like I am
dying. When I look to Him as the air I breathe and the water I drink, it makes
it easy for me to put aside the things of the world and spend time with Him.
But that's not enough. We
don't stop what we are doing to breathe, we breathe as we are doing. I
want to be so immersed in His presence that a minute doesn't go by without
Him being acknowledged. I want my actions to permeate with His love
and presence.
In Luke 5:1-11 Jesus had just finished
a night of miraculous signs and when He told Simon Peter, James and John to
cast out their nets after not catching anything all night they obeyed. Out of
their obedience, when they were tired from working all night, they themselves
were granted a miraculous catch that almost sunk two boats. Jesus then gave
them the invitation to leave everything and follow Him.
What is it in our lives that keeps us from dropping everything to
follow Him? I believe it's the same thing that the disciples struggled with -
fear and unworthiness. Jesus wouldn't call us if HE believed us to be unworthy,
so are we going to call Him a liar and agree with the enemy?
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "God
made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him, we might become
the righteousness of God". If you have accepted Christ as your
savior, you have become the righteousness of God, this makes you worthy of all
that He has for you.
As for fear; 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God
did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of sound mind.”
It is time for the Church, the
Bride of Christ, to step into our true inheritance, to lay our lives down
for Christ. Invite Him to be the air you breathe, and as you go
about your day breathing Him in, He will permeate your life till those around
you begin to see and feel the love of God. Invite Him to partner with you in
all you do; at work, at home, at school, and at play. Wherever God has placed
you on this earth let Him reign there.
