SUPERNATURAL SUPPLY OF BREATH

“Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause BREATH to enter into you, and you shall live” – Ezekiel 37:5

Humanity must forever be thankful to God for the SUPERNATURAL SUPPLY of BREATH: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the BREATH of Life, and man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). Without God's Breath of Life, we are empty: “For He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again” (Psa.78:39). Psalm 144:4 confirms the brevity of temporal existence: “Man is like a BREATH; His days are like a passing shadow”! Yet, even in the worst of circumstances, the Lord is willing and able to restore Life by the Power of His Breath: “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause BREATH to enter into you, and you shall live” (Eze.37:5).

We are products of the Breath of the Almighty God – a Breath that is infinite, inexhaustible, unceasing, and eternal. His very Breath of Life transformed a mold of clay, a shell of dust into a living, breathing, active, moving human being with awesome capacity to think, feel, dream, imagine, relate, reproduce, love, and live! Job 33:4 established this truth: “The Spirit of God has made me, and the BREATH of the Almighty gives me life.” I have no making, and no life, apart from that which is continually supplied by His Breath. Oh, I must no longer take this for granted! I must be thankful every moment for the Breath in my being!

That we keep on breathing without a break every second, every minute, hour by hour, all day long, from week to week, and year to year, is anchored on the unceasing Supernatural Supply of God's Breath! If He should withdraw His Breath, just momentarily, only a hollow bag of dust will remain: “You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust” (Psa.104:29). May the Mercy of the Lord continue to sustain the supply of His Breath into our being, in Jesus name. As long as we remain in His Will, to fulfil His Purpose, the Lord shall neither hide His face, nor take away our breath, in Jesus name!

Breathing is a vital function of life! A little biological insight: The lungs add oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide in a process called gas exchange. In addition to the lungs, the respiratory system includes airways, muscles, blood vessels, and tissues that help make breathing possible. Consider this mystery: based on an average of 80 beats per minute, your heart beats about 4,800 times per hour. That's a staggering 115,200 times per day. Over the course of a year, your heart would beat about 42,048,000 times! Only a Supernatural Source of Supply could sustain the close to Seven Billion souls on planet earth! It is He “Who gives BREATH to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it” (Isa. 42:5b).

Our Almighty Father-God is the One “in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind” (Job 12:10). The moment the divine Breath is taken away, a person will breath “his last” and die. Such is the final story of every mortal, as we read in the examples of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob (Gen.25:8,17; 35:29). Job 14:10 says, “But man dies and is laid away; indeed he breathes his last and where is he?” Only God, the Source and Supplier of the Breath decides when a person would breath his or her last! But God's Breath does not only sustain our biological life, it nourishes and inspires our souls: “But there is a spirit in man, and the BREATH of the Almighty gives him understanding” (Job 32:8).

What then should be our appropriate response to these revelations? Fear? Apathy? Hopelessness? No, none of these. Our response should be one of Gratitude, Praise, and Worship of the Almighty God: “Let everything that has BREATH praise the LORD. Praise the LORD” (Psa.150:6).