Wrote this in my journal a few days ago and thought I’d share. Just a little snippet of what the Lord is stirring in me….
As I sit alone in the cool of the shade on one of the hottest days we’ve experienced here so far, a cool breeze begins to blow through my crazy, Chia-pet hair. So refreshing. So needed. Coolness washing over me. Awakening me in this heat that so easily sucks the life right outta you. And He brings this verse to mind:
“When you send forth your Spirit (breath), they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.” Psalm 104:30
And so I breathe in deeply the cool air.
I breath deeply His Spirit breathing on me, into me. Creating me. Renewing me. Transforming me. Inhaling more of His Kingdom. His love. His presence. Taking in as much of the Spirit as I can. For what you take in is what will come out. What you inhale is what you will exhale. So in order to pour out the things of God – His Spirit, His Kingdom, His love – I must first be filled. Overflowing. And so with every breath I’m taking in the new and its overpowering the old. The Spirit is overtaking the flesh. Every breath is creating me. Giving me life. Building within me the holy dwelling place of His Spirit, His glorious presence. Every breath is renewing me. Enabling me to produce fruit for His Kingdom and the glory of His name. And so with every breath I’m being changed. I’m being filled with more. With the love I was created for. With the life I was born to live. And so I will settle for nothing less than His Spirit breath consuming me. I will be filled with nothing other than the heavenly. I am a new creation walking in the light of His resurrected life and it is by that power I choose to live. I choose to live as a daughter always open to all the Father’s favor He so graciously chooses to unleash upon me. Living from heaven to earth as my heart is open and ready for His love to flow in and through me. I’m going to chase the Father’s heart recklessly and I refuse to let peoples’ perceptions hinder my pursuit of the heavenly. By the Spirit I’m living in His reality, called to be a reflection of JEsus to the world around me.
And so I breathe in deeply. Soaking and reveling in who Christ is for me and in me.
