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Spend some time this morning to open up to the Lord in prayer regarding what He touched you with during the previous six days. Review your notes and the outline points and verses. Ask the Lord what He would have you share with all the saints. Prepare a prophecy (1-2 minutes long) to share with the saints what you enjoyed this week.

Here is the whole outline for the week, for your reference. And here is a downloadable PDF version.

The Precious Word of God, Message Two
The Bible—God’s Breathing

I. God’s breathing in creation

Genesis 2:7   Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Job 32:8   But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

II. God’s breathing in the new creation

John 20:22   And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

III. God’s breathing to sustain us

2 Timothy 3:16   All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

IV. God’s breathing brings the element of God into us

John 4:24   God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.

John 6:63   It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

A. Truth—truth replaces the vanity of corruption with the reality of all the divine riches

Ephesians 5:26   That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word.

John 13:5   Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

John 17:17   Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

Titus 3:5   Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 119:9   With what should a young man keep his way pure? / By guarding it according to Your word.

B. Life—eternal life not only swallows up death but also renders the life supply

1 Peter 1:23   Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.

James 1:18   He brought us forth by the word of truth, purposing that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

James 1:15   Then the lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; and the sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.

Psalm 119:11   In my heart I have treasured up Your word / That I might not sin against You.

Hebrews 4:12   For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

C. Light—the Holy Scripture not only dispels the confusion but also furnishes divine light and revelation

2  Pet. 1:19   And we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Proverbs 20:27   The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, / Searching all the innermost parts of the inner being.

Psalm 119:105   Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.

Rom. 12:11   Do not be slothful in zeal, but be burning in spirit, serving the Lord.

2Tim. 1:6   For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Eph. 5:8   For you were once darkness but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.

V. The way to receive God’s breathing by praying and singing

Ephesians 6:17–18   And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, By means of all prayer and petition.

Colossians 3:16   Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

 

 

Note: Here is the entire outline for Week 2 if you’d like to have it or print it for your reference.

The Precious Word of God, Message Two
The Bible—God’s Breathing
Day 1

I. God’s breathing in creation

Genesis 2:7   Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Job 32:8   But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

II. God’s breathing in the new creation

John 20:22   And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with. Afterward, read the following portion, either in your morning time or sometime later in the day.

Reading portion:

The old creation of man came out of the breathing in Genesis 2:7. The new creation also came out of a breathing. In Genesis we can see only the breathing of a breath, not of the person of the Divine Trinity, for the creation of man as a part of the old creation. The breathing in John 20:22 took place after Christ had passed through the processes of incarnation, human living for thirty-three and a half years, crucifixion, and resurrection. Before His ascension, on the day of His resurrection, Christ came back to His disciples. He did not teach them, but He breathed something into them. What He breathed into them was the Holy Spirit, who is the life-giving Spirit whom Christ became. This Spirit who was breathed out by Christ was the ultimate consummation of the Triune God. When God breathed His breath into Adam to animate the man of clay with a human spirit, He consummated the old creation. But the breathing in John 20:22 was after Christ had accomplished His New Testament work.

The Old Testament work of God’s old creation was to create the physical things. But the New Testament work of Christ was not like that. Christ’s New Testament work was of four steps. First, He became a man in incarnation. Before His incarnation He was the only begotten Son of God (John 1:18) with divinity only, but through incarnation He put on blood and flesh (Heb. 2:14a) as His humanity. Then He lived with the disciples for three and a half years. This living was His working. After this He entered into an all-inclusive death, and then He entered into resurrection. His incarnation was to bring God into humanity; His crucifixion was to terminate that humanity; and His resurrection was to bring the crucified humanity into divinity, that is, to bring man into God. In His resurrection Christ’s humanity was “sonized,” and in His “sonized” humanity He was born to be the firstborn Son of God (Acts 13:33). Christ’s coming from God to become a man to bring God into humanity and His going through death and entering into resurrection to bring humanity into divinity was a blending, a mingling, a compounding of God with man and man with God. It was in such a condition that Christ came to the disciples and breathed Himself into them, to compound, mingle, and blend Himself with them.

When Peter, John, James, and the other disciples were meeting in that small room, they represented the entire Body of Christ. When the Head breathed into the Body and told the Body to receive the Holy Spirit, we were there also. After this breathing and receiving took place, the compounding, blending, and mingling of God with man was consummated. At the time of the incarnation there was only one God-man. After John 20:22, however, there were at least one hundred twenty God-men. Today this God-man has replenished the whole earth. Everywhere we can see God-men, who are the blending, the mingling, the compounding, of God with man. The realization that we are the blending of God with man should uplift our estimation of our worth. We are the blending, the compounding, of God with man. No words can tell how great a blessing this is. (The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, Chapter 10)