The Breath of Life
The average person
breathes 26,000 breaths each day...
16 to 20 breaths per minutes that most of us never think about.
Each breath gives you
life.
Where does your
next breath come from?
In the beginning, God breathed into Adam
and he became a living
soul
The breath of God is as
close as the air you and I breathe.
You and I need both to
live.
I can only image what it would be like
to give CPR to a drowning victim.
To breathe into
a lifeless body.
To see life come back to someone
because you gave them breath.
As a young boy,
I used to sit in church
and see how long I could
hold my breath.
I remember making the 1 minute mark
as the second hand passed 12.
No matter how many times
I held my breath
I could not keep it to myself.
I had to exhale.
We breathe a fresh breath every second
and never give it a thought.
Every second you and I
need a fresh breath of air.
Of all the things we need,
and think we need,
the simplest and most plentiful
is the most important.
We need the breath of life.
God breathed into Adam
and he became a living soul.
It was that breath
that gave him life.
When Adam released that first breath,
he was dependent on the next breath.
We take for granted the air we breathe
and in the same way
we take God for granted.
He is all around us
giving us the ability
to live and move.
Hold your breath
and see how long you can live
without God.
See how long it takes
before you are gasping for Him.
Both the Hebrew and Greek
words for spirit means breath.
You and I were made to live
by the Spirit of God.
He is our breath of life.
Scripture Reading
Genesis 2:1-7 NIV
Thus the heavens and
the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day
God had finished the work he had been doing;
so on the seventh day
he rested from all his work.
3 And God blessed the
seventh day and made it holy,
because on it he
rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
4 This is the account
of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens —
5 and no shrub of the
field had yet appeared on the earth
and no plant of the
field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and
there was no man to work the ground,
6 but streams came up
from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground —
7 the LORD God formed
the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and the man became a living being.
Acts 17:24-28 NIV
24 "The God who
made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven
and earth and does
not live in temples built by hands.
25 And he is not
served by human hands, as if he needed anything,
because he himself
gives all men life and breath and everything else.
26 From one man he
made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he
determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
27 God did this so
that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he
is not far from each one of us.
28'For in him we live
and move and have our being.'
As some of your own
poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
