John 20: 21 – 22 Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit”.

When you were “saved”, “born again” or “became a Christian” the Holy Spirit came to dwell in you making you a new creation. He has created in you an awareness of how much you are loved by God. Along with the peace that brought to you there also came the awareness that you are now part of something really big and wonderful. You are part of the family and kingdom of God, in the same way that a body has parts and the parts have functions to perform.

When Jesus met with his disciples after his resurrection, he told them that just as his Father had sent him, he was now sending them into the world. For that they needed special empowerment, so he breathed on them and said “Receive the Holy Spirit”.  Ask the Lord to breathe upon you and fill you with the Holy Spirit so you will be able to daily do the things He wants you to do. That is the essence of walking in the Spirit – it is daily, paced, forward movement requiring constant refreshing along the way.

“It is the breath of God that transforms to make whole and to make pure. It is the breath that fills with enabling and wisdom to decipher that which is good and acceptable before God. Lean not to your own understanding but depend on the Almighty God to make his ways known and to show you the way forward at all times. Only in this way will you know for sure what the will of the Lord is.”