Holy spirit breath of god

HOLY SPIRIT BREATH OF GOD
EDITED BY GLENN PEASE
All through the Bible the Holy Spirit is portrayed as the breath of God, Spirit and breath
are the same word, and it can also mean wind. The Holy Spirit was with the Father from
the start and was an agent of creating the universe along with the Son, the Lord Jesus. As
you read the texts below you will see the breath of God time after time being the agent of
creation, for He is the wind of God and the breath of God.
Gordon Robertson writes, "The Hebrew word behind spirit is ruach, and it means "air in
motion." It is the same word for "breath." It also means "life." By resemblance to breath
and air in motion, it means "spirit." Thats where we get the translation, and the Hebrew
word contains all those different meanings. If we just leave it with our English word
"spirit," were not getting the full attributes of what the Bible is trying to describe. Its
trying to describe that theres a breath involved.
Lets take this into the New Testament because we have almost the same thing where Jesus
is talking about the Holy Spirit. He says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born
again.' The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where
it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit" (John 3:608,
NKJV).
Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit, and Hes saying it is like wind. When you get into the
Greek behind that, the Greek word is pneuma, which again means "a current of air,"
"breath," or a "breeze, " and again by analogy, "a spirit." So both the Hebrew and the
Greek word are talking about breath. Its talking about wind.
Back in Creation, back in Genesis, youve got how we were made. "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" (Genesis 2:6-7, NKJV). Some translations call that "a living
soul." Its from the breath of God that we actually get our life. And so now you get the
linkage of how we were created. How we were created in the image of God is because of our
breath, and it is because of the breath of God coming into us.
The same thing happens when we are born of the Spirit. When we are re-born, it is from
the breath of God. In the Gospel of John, where He is giving to His disciples the Holy
Spirit, just as God breathed on Adam and gave him the breath of life, Jesus breathed on
His disciples in John chapter 20: "'Peace to you! As the Father sent me, I also send you.'
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit'"
(John 20:21-22, NKJV).
The Holy Spirit, the breath of God. When you get into that kind of analogy, you now
understand better what the attributes are. Its no longer something spooky, but its
something very close to you. Its as close to you as your very breath. The Bible says, "In

Him we live and move and have our being." I love the current praise song that says "You
are the air I breathe, Your holy Presence in me." We can literally breathe in the Presence
of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit with our breath.
Jesus didnt just breathe on the disciples 2,000 years ago. Every time we are baptized in the
Holy Spirit, it is Gods breath on us. Just imagine that. It is not a one-time thing. I think
Christians today have gotten into the baptism of the Holy Spirit as some kind of one event.
We have got that in Acts chapter 2, but we fail to look forward to Acts chapter 4 where
they get baptized in the Holy Spirit again. It says very clearly in Acts chapter 4 they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit as they were in a prayer meeting: "After they prayed, the
place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and spoke the Word of God boldly." So it is not just in Acts chapter 2; it is also in Acts
chapter 4. This means we can be filled with the Spirit continually."
The following text make it clear that the breath of God made man the creation of God and
the breath of Jesus made man the sons of God.
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GIVEN BY THE BREATH OF JESUS
“Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut
where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst,
and said unto them, ‘Peace be unto you.’ And when he had so said, he showed unto them
his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said
Jesus to them again, ‘Peace be unto you: as my Father has sent me, evenso send I you.’
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, 'Receive you the
Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit]'.”
• John 20:19–22
That single word in Greek “he breathed” is the only occurrence in the New Testament. It
literally means, “he exhaled.” It is important to understand that when Jesus Christ after
His resurrection, after He is glorified (see John 7:38–39), breathes on someone, that action
has a powerful affect.
[Jesus’ breathing on the disciples took place after He ascended to His Father (John
20:17) and after He literally poured His blood on the altar in heaven (Hebrews 9:12–22).]
When God performs the blowing, what results is the ruach of God, the Spirit of
God. The breath of God is His ruach. It has the effect He desires. It can give life in
any measure He desires. It can give physical life as in Genesis and Ezekiel, or, as
in the New Testament it can give spiritual life and immortality. This is what Jesus
breathed on the disciples in John 20:22. He literally blew the Spirit of God into
them.

God’s Breathing
When God created Adam, God breathed life into man and he became a living soul:
“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 soul.” Genesis 2:7
Breath of God
To gain the world and lose your soul
Is too great a price to pay
Just thirty pieces of silver
Bought Judas's soul that day
Fame, Lust and Greed
For this some souls are traded
Only to find just emptyness
When all their joy has faded
So walk with God where ever He leads
In Faith always believing
Darkness comes when we think not
To tempt us while deceiving
For me this world's forsaken
Tho some consider it odd
But see my soul is priceless
For it's the Breath of God
Copyright © Larry Belt | Year Posted 2010

As we look at the text below about the Holy Spirit breath of God we see that He is working
in the world continually, and He is available to every believer continually.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Revelation 11:11
But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they
stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.
Psalm 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their
host.
Job 26:13
"By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.
Job 33:4
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 32:8
"But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Ezekiel 37:Breath and life are linked all through the Bible.
1 THE hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and
set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the
open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God,
thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into
you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and
Behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin
covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own
land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His
mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
Exodus 15:10
"You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty
waters.
2 Samuel 22:16
"Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare By
the rebuke of the LORD, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
Psalm 18:15
Then the channels of water appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare At
Your rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of
the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of
His lips He will slay the wicked.
Isaiah 42:
5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth
the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein
NOTE:

Using the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance we see
that the word “breath” (7307 ruwach) in Psalms 104:29
and Psalms 146:4 is the same word interpreted “spirit”
(7307 ruwach) in Job 34:14 and Ecclesiastes 12:7. The
word “breath” (5397 nshamah) in Job 34:14 is the same as
used in Genesis 2:7 ...breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life... (5397 nshamah).
"Not all men who draw breath are alike. Some are lively, some are dour; some kindly,
others mean. You are never merely a living person, you are a certain kind of living person.
So the kind of person you were was in your 'breath' too. Whatever unique qualities made
you 'you' were in your breath. So when the Hebrews wanted to describe a personality
change, like King Saul's, they said that a "different breath came into him" - I Samuel
18:10). When Job says, as he sits covered with boils, "I am repulsive to my wife," he says
(to render the Hebrew of Job 19:17 literally), "My breath is strange to my wife." He does
not mean he has halitosis; he means he has changed in her eyes. When Jezebel asked Ahab
why he was in such poor spirits, she asked, literally, "Why is your breath bad?" The sort of
person you were, inside yourself, you referred to as the sort of breath you had. That is how
the word 'breath' came to mean your 'spirit.'
So they spoke of God this way too. The God He really was 'inside Himself,' so to speak, you
referred to as His Spirit.
You cannot see a man's breath, a man's spirit; you have to gauge what sort of spirit his is
from his speech and his behaviour. That is how you evaluated the nature of God's Spirit
too: from His words - spoken through His servants the prophets, and His deeds - wrought
in nature and in history. So Isaiah (11:2) described God's breath (His Spirit) as a "spirit of
wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and
righteousness."
That is the sort of God He is, so that is the sort of Spirit He has. His Spirit is a holy Spirit -
for God in Himself is holy."
THE SPIRIT AS WIND
"So far we have looked at the idea of breath in the word for 'spirit.' Now let us
look at the other idea, wind.
Again, to see it at its simplest, the air we breathe is the same air we experience as
wind. And since God is Almighty, His breath is not a weak, but a powerful thing;

so what better symbol of His Spirit could you find than the powerful wind? God's
Spirit, like the wind, is an invisible, but powerful reality, having an energy and
motion of its own.
In the Old Testament this emphasises a big truth - that the Spirit of God is
sovereign and free.
When its writers speak of the Spirit of God as wind, they have in mind the thought
of vigour, of enormous energy ... almost, you might say, of violence. So Isa.
30:28, "His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck."
Flash floods are irresistible torrents that sweep you off your feet (see also Isa.
59:19) ... though Elijah in his cave learned to think of Him in gentler terms as "the
whisper of a gentle stillness" (I Kings 19:11-12), an insight echoed in Jesus' own
perception of the Spirit as a dove, Matt. 3:16. But these were rare insights;
generally the Spirit was thought of as David thought of Him in II Sam. 22:11, "He
is seen upon the wings of the wind."
What this means is that the Spirit of God, like the wind, is emphatically not under
man's control. Isa. 40:13, "Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or like a
counsellor instructed Him?"
This is what Jesus meant when he spoke of the Spirit as a wind to Nicodemus. "It
blows where it wills. You hear the sound of it, but you know neither where it
comes from nor where it goes to." (John 3:8) No-one can tame the wind; no more
can anyone tame the Spirit of God. You cannot 'domesticate' Him. He may affect
us, as the wind does, but over Him we have no control at all, any more than we
have over the wind. Like the wind He is invisible, but real ... powerful, but free -
not subject to man."
"At Pentecost, the disciples can do nothing to bring about the Spirit's descent, except wait.
He comes, not in answer to their prayer, but in answer to Christ's: "I will pray the Father,
and He will give you another comforter to be with you." John 14:6
When He is given to the Samaritans in Samaria, He is not given until after their baptism,
but when He is given to the Gentiles in Caesarea, He does not wait for that! He can't be
sysystematised.
The Spirit is sovereignand free!
2. Whilst He supplies the inspiration to the church in its missionary outreach, He does not
do so in line with human wisdom. Paul and Barnabas think the obvious thing to do is to
take the Gospel into Bithynia, but the Spirit forbids them, Acts 16:7. Phillip is taken away
from a successful campaign in Samaria and sent to one man in the lonely desert.
The Spirit is sovereignand free!

3. There is no way a person can choose the gifts the Spirit will bestow.
To some He gives the gift of prophecy, to others the gift of teaching; to some He grants a
power to heal, to others the ability to lead; to some He grants a 'tongue,' to others a power
to interpret tongues. But no-one is given all His gifts, and how He distributes them is at His
own sovereign discretion: see I Cor. 12:11, Heb. 2:4."
"In Haggai's day, the Jews believed the Spirit of God was their exclusive possession
(Haggai 2:5). But they mistook God's free act of blessing for a 'rule' by which to bind Him;
they built a wall around their nation and said, "The Spirit of God is here." And then one
day, at Pentecost, there blew a great wind of the Spirit that levelled their wall of partition
to the dust and poured out His blessing on all nations."
God's Breath
A kite dipped, twirled, and soared as it flew
The string pulled taut by the wind as it blew
The sound grew loud, of those rustling leaves
The boy’s hair a mess, wild flapping sleeves
Elated, laughing… relishing God’s breath.
Mother grew restless looking on, reading
Pages flew forward, she thinks of conceding
Angry the breeze ruins her fiction
She pins down pages, stubborn conviction
Scornful, scowling… withstanding God’s breath.
Fisherman’s sail puffed out, moving boat further
He grinned as he reeled, catching with fervor
The nets filled quickly, surrounding his feet
Ensuring his village dinner to eat

Thankful, rejoicing…praising God’s breath.
Copyright © Steve Voorhees | Year Posted 2008
BY JOE ON FAITHLIFE
"As we look at Yahweh’s design of man, and the production of speech, we learn a great
truth about the Father, Son and Spirit. The spirit of man is invisible, but it is who the man
essentially s. The character of man is bound up in his spirit. His thoughts are formed in his
spirit. Yet neither the character nor the thoughts of a man are evident until they are given
expression. The chief way that God has designed man to express himself is through speech,
and our speechis generated as we exhale the breath that is within us and this breath is
given shape as it passes overour vocal cords.
What a picture this is of the Trinity. Yahweh is also invisible, for He is Spirit. His character
and His thoughts remain invisible until they are given expression. His expression is His
Son, who is called “the Word of God”, and this Word was formed as the Spirit, or Divine
Breath of God moved."
Stephen Beale
"The Holy Spirit and the Breath of Jesus
The Spirit prepares men and goes out to them with His grace, in order to draw them
to Christ. The Spirit manifests the risen Lord to them, recalls His word to them and
opens their minds to the understanding of His Death and Resurrection.
The biblical image of the Holy Spirit as the breath of Christ is connected to the Incarnation
in a special way. In the Incarnation, God, who is eternal, took upon Himself our mortal
nature, down to our hair skin and bones, all of which, under normal circumstances, are
subject to death and decay. Of course, that’s not what happened with God Incarnate. His
bodily resurrection therefore gives comfort to use that our perishable flesh will one day see
eternity.
This promise is extended and reinforced through the Holy Spirit. Again, it is most striking
that the Spirit is depicted as breath. Because what could be more indicative of the passing,
ephemeral nature of a human being then his breath? As Psalm 39:6 puts it, “My life is as
nothing before you. Every man is but a breath.” And Psalm 144:4, “Man is but a breath,
his days are like a passing shadow.”
In the Holy Spirit then, an emblem of our mortality is transformed into one of eternity, just
as the Holy Spirit Himself will transform our human existence so that we become partakers
of the divine life."

O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God
1. O breathe on me, O breath of God,
fill me with life anew that I may love
the things You love, and do what you would do.
until my heart is pure;
until my will is one with Yours,
to do and to endure.
my will to Yours incline,
until this selfish part of me
glows with Your fire divine.
so I shall never die,
but live with You the perfect life
for all eternity.
"I am otherwise known as Ruth and am a Priest in the Anglican church.
My spirit wants to dance
my wings take flight and soar
I want to cast myself upon the winds
and glide the breath of God.
Up and up, in a spiral of His love
my spirit fuses with the sky
in sheer abandonment of soul
I ride a sunbeam to it’s source
fearful of naught and wanting all
my bursting heart will hold

I surrender to the Son."
"BIBLE IS GOD'S BREATH
THE BREATH OF GOD
"What is the Bible? We know that the word "Bible" means "the Book." But what is this
book? The Bible itself says, "All Scripture is God-breathed" (2 Tim. 3:16). The Bible is
the breath of God. It is not merely the word or the thought of God, but the very breath of
God. Whatever we breathe out is our breath, and this breath proceeds out of our being.
So the Bible as the breath of God is something breathed out of the being of God. The
Bible contains the very element of God. Whatever God is, is contained in this divine
book. God is light, life, love, power, wisdom, and many other items. All these items of
what God is have been breathed out into the Bible. Whenever we come to this book
with an open heart and an open spirit, we can immediately touch something divine: not
just thoughts, concepts, knowledge, words, or sentences, but something deeper than all
these things. We touch God Himself.
Seeking the Source
Where can we go to get a fresh breath of life? The apostle Paul says in his second
epistle to Timothy (3:16, 17): "All Scripture is God-breathed . . . so that the man of God
may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." The Bible is a reservoir of God's life-
giving breath. When I open the Holy Bible I imagine that I am going to the seashore of
life-giving breath. I picture myself standing before an ocean of breath, and deeply
inhaling the fresh breath of life from the Scriptures."
“The Jewish name for God – Yahweh – was not spoken, but breathed. Its correct
pronunciation is an attempt to imitate the sound of inhalation and exhalation. We do that
every moment: our first and last word as we enter and leave the world..” (Richard Rohr).”
An old hymn. You may like to make this your prayer this morning.
O Lord, breathe Thy Spirit on me,
Teach me how to breathe Thee in;
Help me pour into Thy bosom
All my life of self and sin.
I am breathing out my sorrow,
Breathing out my sin;

I am breathing, breathing, breathing,
All Thy fulness in.
I am breathing out my own life,
That I may be filled with Thine;
Letting go my strength and weakness,
Breathing in Thy life divine.
Breathing out my sinful nature,
Thou hast borne it all for me;
Breathing in Thy cleansing fulness,
Finding all my life in Thee.
I am breathing out my sorrow,
On Thy kind and gentle breast;
Breathing in Thy joy and comfort,
Breathing in Thy peace and rest.
I am breathing out my sickness,
Thou hast borne its burden too;
I am breathing in Thy healing,
Ever promised, evernew.
I am breathing out my longings
In Thy listening, loving ear;
I am breathing in Thy answers,
Stilling every doubt and fear.
I am breathing every moment,
Drawing all my life from Thee;
Breath by breath I live upon Thee,

Lord, Thy Spirit breathe in me.
A B Simpson ( 1834-1919).''
Holy Spirit, living breath of God,
Breathe new life into my willing soul.
Let the presence of the risen Lord,
Come renew my heart and make me whole.
Cause Your Word to come alive in me;
Give me faith for what I cannot see,
Give me passion for Your purity;
Holy Spirit, breathe new life in me.
Holy Spirit, come abide within,
May Your joy be seenin all I do.
Love enough to cover every sin,
In each thought and deed and attitude.
Kindness to the greatest and the least,
Gentleness that sows the path of peace.
Turn my strivings into works of grace;
Breath of God show Christ in all I do.
Holy Spirit, from creation's birth,
Giving life to all that God has made,
Show Your power once again on earth,
Cause Your church to hunger for your ways.
Let the fragrance of our prayers arise;

Lead us on the road of sacrifice,
That in unity the face of Christ
May be clear for all the world to see.
Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music (Adm. by CapitolCMGPublishing.com excl. UK &
Europe, adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family,
songs@integritymusic.com)
GOD BREATHING OUT AND WE BREATHING IN witness lee
In the New Testament, there is the thought that we can breathe God in. For example, in 2
Timothy 3:16 where the Apostle Paul was talking about the origin of the Bible, he said that
the Bible is God-breathed. This indicates that when we are reading God’s Word, God is
breathing out toward us; He breathes out and we breathe in. Not only so, but in both the
Old Testament and the New Testament, the word for “spirit” in Hebrew and Greek has a
three-fold meaning: spirit, wind, and breath. The Lord said in John 3:6, “That which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.” Verse 8 also says, “The wind blows where it wills, and you hear
the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is
everyone who is born of the Spirit.” The wind in this verse and the Spirit in verse 6 are the
same word in Greek.
Genesis 2:7 shows us that when God created Adam, He used the dust of the ground to form
the shape of a body and then breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and he became a
living person with a spirit. When we come to John 20, after the Lord died and resurrected,
He appeared to the disciples and breathed into them saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (v.
22). From this we can see that the Bible, from the Old Testament to the New, has the
thought that God is breath to us.
However, this is not the religious thought concerning God. The religionists consider God as
someone great and unlimited; they only take God as an object of worship, as someone
supreme and grand. We human beings are low and have no way to contact God; God is
someone far away from us. But the revelation of the Bible shows us that God to us is a
matter of breath; this matter is also of the Spirit. Romans 10:8 says that this resurrected
Christ has become the living Word, being near to us, evenin our mouth and in our heart.
Just consider a little. If our great God is not breath, how can He be in our mouth, and how

can He enter into our heart? Today many people have a wrong view of God and
misunderstand God, thinking that God is so great that He is unapproachable. In John 4 the
Lord Jesus was talking with a Samaritan woman about the matter of worshipping God.
The woman said, “Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men should worship.” Jesus told her that God is Spirit and those who
worship Him must worship neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem, but in spirit and in
reality (vv. 20-24). Therefore, for us to worship God is to contact God the Spirit in our
human spirit.
You may say that we have already heard a lot of this kind of teaching in the Lord’s
recovery, but unconsciously these things seemto have vanished in our living. This is
because we have been too deeply influenced by the traditional religious thinking that God
is too great, too solemn, and too majestic. Although there is nothing wrong with this aspect,
God is also practical; He is breath. He breathes out, and we breathe in; this breathing in
and breathing out is life. Hymn #255 speaks specifically about this. Because the writer of
the hymn had such an appreciation and experience of the Lord, he said in the chorus, “I
am breathing out my sorrow, breathing out my sin; I am breathing, breathing, breathing,
all Thy fulness in.” This kind of hymn is indeed profound; merely singing it will cause us to
be cleansed and be washed from all the spots and wrinkles in our lives. Today if we can
learn the secret—to come to the Lord to breathe Him in, to call on Him from deep within,
to breathe in this breath of life of the Lord—then our spiritual life will surely be healthy.
1. Holy Spirit, breathe on me,
Until my heart is clean.
Let sunshine fill its inmost part,
Without a cloud between.
Breathe on me, breathe on me,
Holy Spirit breathe on me,
Take my heart and cleanse every part,
Holy Spirit, breathe on me.

My stubborn will subdue,
Teach me in ways, of living flame,
What Christ would have me do.
Holy Spirit, breathe on me,
Take my heart, and cleanse every part,
Holy Spirit breathe on me.
Fill me with power divine,
Kindle a flame of love and zeal
Within this heart of mine.
4. Holy Spirit breathe on me,
Till I am all Your own,
Until my will is lost in Yours,
To live for You alone,

UNKNOWN
"The human body is an amazing machine that God has created. It can endure hot or cold,
wet or dry. It can go 3 to 5 weeks without eating food. 3 to 5 days without drinking water.
But only 3 to 5 minutes without getting a breath of air. There is nothing that is needed
more for this physical body than a breath of air. The leading cause of death for premature
babies is the lungs can’t function. You see, when they are in mama’s tummy they don’t
have to breathe. Mama’s doing it for them. But when they are born they have to begin to
breathe on their own. As I said a while back. I had the privilege to see all of my children
born. When they are just first born they aren’t breathing. You wait for that moment when
they’re lungs expand and suck in that first breath of air. You say come on kid, come on ,
BREATHE. And then you hear whaaa. It’s a beautiful sound for about.......... two seconds.
Then they won't hush for the next 18 years."
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GENTLE AND STRONG
"It is almost difficult to use the masculine form in speaking of this blessedperson, so
womanlike is the sweetness and softness of His touch.
His is that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even,
That stills each doubt, and calms each tear,
And speaks to us of heaven.
In keeping with this figure the Hebrew and Greek word is the same as that used for the
wind, or the breath. The Holy Ghost is the breath of God. This emblem expresses at once
the gentleness and the strength of the Holy Ghost. His coming may be as quiet as the
evening zephyr, or mighty as the tempest’s power. When He descended on Pentecost, there
was a sound as of a mighty rushing wind; when He came afterwards to the assembled
disciples, the place was shaken where they were assembled; when He answered the prayer
of Paul and Silas the prison rocked to its foundation, and the bolts and bars were loosed.
This is the unique work of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Breath, for as Saint Paul assures us
“the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we
ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

uttered” (Romans 8:26). The word translated “groanings” is stenagmos, which more
properly means “sighings”–in other words, the subtle sound of the inner breath.
Saint Paul also informs us that these “sighings of the Spirit” are alaletos, unutterable, and
therefore cannot really be spoken by human beings, though they can be approximated. Our
part is to meditate and enter into the Holy Spirit’s utterance of them, the Holy Spirit’s
speaking (breathing) which gives us life–the Life in (and of) Christ. “Praying always with
all prayer and supplication in the spirit [subtle breath], and watching thereunto with all
perseverance” (Ephesians 6:18).
Through meditation we literally breathe the Holy Spirit, becoming filled with and united to
the Life that is the Holy Spirit. Meditation is in truth the “praying in the Holy Ghost”
enjoined by Saint Jude (1:20). “I will pray with the spirit [breath], and I will pray with the
understanding also” (I Corinthians 14:15).
A RUSHING VIOLENT WIND
In Acts 2:2 we have the symbol of a rushing violent wind. This verse says, “Suddenly there
came a noise out of heaven like a rushing violent wind, and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting.” In the Lord’s resurrection the Spirit of resurrection life is likened to
breath, breathed into the disciples for their spiritual being and living essentially. In the
Lord’s ascension the Spirit of ascension power, poured out upon the disciples, is
symbolized by the rushing violent wind for the disciples’ ministry and move economically.
The essential Spirit of resurrection life is for the believers to live Christ; the economical
Spirit of ascension power is for them to carry out His commission.
We need to see clearly the difference between the breathing in John 20 and the blowing in
Acts 2. The breathing in John 20 is for the imparting of the life-giving Spirit into the
disciples essentially for their spiritual being and living. But the blowing in Acts 2 is for the
pouring out of the economical Spirit of power upon the believers, who have already
received the essential Spirit into them. The pouring out of the Spirit of power is not for the
believers’ spiritual being or living; rather, the outpouring of the Spirit of power is for the
believers’ ministry and move. Therefore, the essential aspect of the Spirit, symbolized by
the breath, is for living, and the economical aspect of the Spirit, symbolized by the rushing
violent wind, is for ministry. We praise the Lord for the breathing of the Spirit in John 20
and for the blowing of the Spirit in Acts 2. The breathing is for life, and the blowing is for
move. Furthermore, the breathing gives us inner strength, and the blowing gives us outer
authority. Through the breathing and the blowing we are fully equipped."
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Keith And Kristyn Getty - Holy Spirit Lyrics
Holy Spirit, living Breath of God,
Breathe new life into my willing soul.
Bring the presence of the risen Lord
To renew my heart and make me whole.
Cause Your Word to come alive in me;
Give me faith for what I cannot see;
Give me passion for Your purity.
Holy Spirit, breathe new life in me.
Holy Spirit, come abide within;
May Your joy be seenin all I do—
Love enough to cover ev'ry sin
In each thought and deed and attitude,
Kindness to the greatest and the least,
Gentleness that sows the path of peace.
Turn my striving into works of grace.
Breath of God, show Christ in all I do.
Holy Spirit, from creation's birth,

Giving life to all that God has made,
Show your power once again on earth;
Cause Your church to hunger for Your ways.
Let the fragrance of our prayers arise.
Lead us on the road of sacrifice
That in unity the face of Christ
Will be clear for all the world to see.
The Soul Of A Breathing Life
by F.E. Marsh
I. Inspiration.
II. Invigoration.
III. Exhalation.
"He breathed upon them," and said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit," and by that act Christ
came into contact with His disciples in a new relationship and power. In the life-giving
power of a breathing life, He endowed His own for life and service.
Christ, as the Breather of the Holy Spirit, reveals the intimate relationship there is
between them, and shows the Life-giver, and the Life given. Therefore "Breath" as an
emblem of the Holy Spirit speaks of Him in the livingness of His Divine inspiration. The
thought is happily expressedin the following lines:
"Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Fill me with life anew,
That I may love what Thou dost love,
And do what Thou wouldst do."

There are three main embodying thoughts found in connection with Breath in the
Scriptures:
Inspiration, or The Inbreathing of Life.
Invigoration, or The Power to Perform.
Exhalation, or The Breathing out of Blessing.
I. Inspiration.
Inspiration signifies in-breathing, or the power which gives life to anything, hence
Channing says, "One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him."
Man owes his natural life to the Spirit. Elihu declared long ago, "The Spirit of God hath
made me, and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me life " (Job 33:4). Man's spirit-
nature was created before his body was formed, and after his body was formed, God
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Man was a
created spirit before he was a living soul, for the image of God in man is, as Dr. Dale says,
"The nature of God," that is, man, like God, is a spirit-being. The soul or breath unites the
spirit and body. Angels are spirits, but have no soul or animal life; but man has, and is, a
spirit, soul and body. Therefore a man is a breathing personality, as a live human being
under present conditions. When he dies, like the son of the widow of Zarephath, there is
"no breath left in him " (I Kings 17:17). Things that are dead are again and again
described as having "no breath" (Psalm 104:29; 135:17)
Spiritual life is essentially the impartation of the Spirit, as Christ declares, "That which
is begotten of the Spirit is spirit." Perhaps no finer illustration of the Spirit's living work
can be found than that which we find in Ezekiel 37, where the restoration of Israel's
national and spiritual life is depicted, under the metaphor of a valley of dry bones, and how
they live by His operation.
First, God promises in relation to the dry bones, "I will cause breath to enter in you, and
ye shall live." Then there was a shaking among the dry bones, and they are adjusted to
each other, and covered with sinews and flesh, but there "was no breath in them." Then
the prophet was commanded to prophesy to the "Breath" (margin) and to say, "Thus saith
the Lord God, come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they
may live. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Breath came into them, and they
lived" (Ezekiel 37:4-10).

The spiritual resurrection of Israel is a type of the Spirit's quickening of dead sinners.
Like Israel, sin has slain us, death has mortified us, and we are dry and helpless. There
may be, as the vision suggests, the shaking of the dry bones of conscience and interest in
Divine things: there may be the placement of bone to bone, in a clear conception in the
mind of how we may be saved; there may be the covering of the dry bones by the flesh of
religious profession and the sinews of self-determination, but these are not life. The sinner
has sense-consciousness in his body, life-consciousness in his soul, and self-consciousness in
his spirit, but the one thing which makes the saint to differ from the sinner is God-
consciousness. As long as the sinner is without God, he is without at least seventhings:
without the blood of Christ, which alone can remit the past and release the sinner from the
hold of sin (Hebrews 9: 22);
without Christ, Who alone can save, sanctify and satisfy (Ephesians 2:12);
without peace which alone can calm the mind and silence the conscience (Isaiah 57:21);
without hope, which alone can clear the vision and make the future bright with coming
glory (Ephesians 2:12);
without life, which alone can qualify to see and enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3,5);
without strength, for the sinner has no ability to rise to higher things (Romans 5:6);
and without the Spirit, for those who are not the Lord's are summed up in the destitution
of their need, as "having not the Spirit" (Jude 19).
On the other hand, how much is expressedby the pregnant statement, "alive unto God."
The Greek word rendered "alive" in Romans 6:11 is "Zao," and is a primary verb, and
means to live. An interesting study is suggestedby the use of the word as applied to the
spiritual life.
It is a God-imparted and a Christ-secured life, for Christ came by way of the Cross that we
might "live through Him" (I John 4:9)
It is a Christ-identified and a Christ-associated life, for He says, "Because I live, ye shall
live also" (John 14:19).
It is a God-derived and Christ-sustained life, as Christ declares: "As the living Father hath
sent Me, and I live by (because of) the Father, so he that eateth Me, evenhe shall live by
(because of) Me " (John 6:57).
It is a self-displacing and a Christ-centred life, for all those who know Him cease to "live
unto themselves, but unto Him" (II Corinthians 5:15).

It is a Spirit-inscribed and a Spirit-indited life, for believers are the epistle of the living
God, and He inscribes His character on their inner being (II Corinthians 3:3).
It is a Christ-indwelt and a Christ-revealing life, for each indwelt believer recognizes what
the Apostle said, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in Me" (Galatians 2:20).
It is a brethren-considerate and a Lord-controlled life, hence brethren who "live unto the
Lord" do not despise nor judge each other (Romans 14:7-9)
It is a saint-helping and a missionary-loving life, for it ever hears the voice of the
missionary plea, "Now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord" (I Thessalonians 3:8).
And it is a God-controlled and a God-goaled life, for being "alive from the dead" we
recognize we are "alive unto God" (Romans 6:11,13).
II. Invigoration.
Scott speaks of
"Two dogs of black St. Hubert's breed,
Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed."
Here he used "breath" to indicate ability and freedom of action. The potential fact of
Christianity is, God never asks from us anything without giving us the power to perform it.
What is indicated when Christ breathed on His disciples and said, "Receive ye the Holy
Spirit ?" There is no article in the original, therefore it should read, "Receive ye Holy
Spirit." Godet says, "The absence of the article before Holy Spirit, shows that the question
is not yet the sending of the Paraclete promised," but the "receive" indicates "He puts their
will in unison with His own, that they may be prepared for the common work."
The promise of Pentecost was to "be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49),
and that power was the accompaniment of the Spirit. "Ye shall receive power, the Holy
Spirit coming upon you" (Acts 1:8).
"There is," says one, "a magnetism in a personal appeal, which no words conveyed
through another can possess." Every personality wields a power for weal or woe: therefore,
personality means power. Christ especially emphasizes this when He says: "Ye shall receive
power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8). He brings the power, and is
the power. He does not give us the power that we may use it, but He is the power that He
may use us. There is a sevenfold power that believers need: namely, power to be, power to
do, power to suffer, power to keep, power to pray, power to give, and power to speak.

Power to be
Power to be "strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness" (Colossians 1:11); or, as Rotherham renders it,
"with all power being empowered, according to the grasp of His glory, unto all endurance
and longsuffering with you." As the potter by the power of his skill is able to form the
beautiful vase, so the Holy Spirit, as He grasps us in the hands of His grace, can form our
character in such a manner that the traits of patient love and enduring grace shall be
evident in all our life, for these graces are the development of His work within, and not the
accretion of work without.
Power to do
The greatest work ever performed was that which God performed when He put forth "the
strength of His might" in raising Christ from the dead (Ephesians 1:19, RV), which we are
exhorted to "know" through the Spirit's enlightening grace (Ephesians 1:18-20). "Give me
a grip of your conquering hand," was the request of an officer to his commanding general,
when commissioned to carry out a difficult task. He felt that if he had a grasp of the hand
which had obtained so many victories, it would be an inspiration to him. We not only want
to grip the hand of the Spirit, but we need to be gripped by Him: then we can do, because
He does. The grasp of His might will give us such a grip, that we shall grip to some
purpose.
Power to suffer
Many of God's people are so continuously occupied with their own comfort, and so
frequently complain against suffering, that they miss the special empowerment which
comes to those who are equipped to endure by the sufficient grace of the Lord. Paul's
summary of the lessonwhich he learnt in the school of suffering, through prayer and faith,
was: "I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may spread a tent over
me" (Rotherham, II Corinthians 12:9). That enveloping power would never have been
known, but for the blast of trial. Out of the "eater" of suffering comes the sweetness of
grace. Bethel's hard pillar is the bottom rung in Heaven's cast-up way of promise. Joseph
found that Egypt's throne was reached by the prison.
Power to keep

"I need to get all the religion I can, to keepwhat I have got," said a believer in relating his
experience. Surely he was occupied with the endeavours of his own attainments. The true
and effectual keeping is to be "kept by the power of God." His keeping is instant, like the
eyelid preserving the eye (Psalm 17:8); His keeping is incessant, like the stream which
keeps clean the stone lying in its bed (Psalm 19:13); His keeping is invulnerable, like the
warrior who is encased in bullet-proof armour (I Peter 1:5).
Power to pray
The reason why the Lord is able to do above anything we ask or think, is because of "the
power that worketh in us" (Ephesians 3:20). That power, the Spirit Himself, must be
effective in His working within, if we would know the exceeding abundance of God's supply
from above. We prevail so ineffectively with Heaven, because we allow so little of the
Spirit's effectiveness within. "The Spirit Himself maketh intercession," and for this we
need to be in the Spirit, that is, in ungrieved communion with Him. Praying in the Holy
Spirit is the pre-requisite for the Holy Spirit to pray in us, evenas the atmosphere is
essential for the transmitter of wireless telegraphy to send the message.
Power to give
Paul, in calling attention to the liberality of the churches in Macedonia, says: "According to
their power, I bear witness, yea, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord"
(RV, II Corinthians 8:3). The moving power which caused them to give so frankly and fully
was "the grace of God bestowed" (II Corinthians 8:1). When the life of God is low in the
experience of the child of God, then the giving will be small; but when the warm heart of
love is throbbing, then the willing hand of giving is liberal. It is not then, how little can be
given, but how much is He worthy! The principle that the spiritual believer observes is
found in the words of Christ's prayer to His Father, when He said, "All Thine are Mine,
and Mine are Thine." When we know that what He has is ours, we recognize that what we
have is His.
Power to speak
"They were all filled with the Holy Spirit ... and with great power gave the apostles witness
of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 4:31,33). Speaking without the Spirit is like
talking in a foreign tongue to those who do not know the language; while speaking in the
Spirit every word is intelligible to those who hear. Looking to ourselves, we shall say with
Jeremiah: "I cannot speak, for I am a child"; but filled with the Spirit, we shall know the

Lord's assuring word as He says: "Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth" (Jeremiah
1:6,9).
How many men owe everything in life to one young heart that trusted them when all was
doubtful, one faithful love that kept them company as long as everit could! "I never was
anything till I knew you," wrote Tom Hood to his wife. How true are those words, "I never
was anything till I knew you," applied to the Holy Spirit, every believer testifies! And we
shall never be anything, nor continue to be anything, except we "know Him " -- know Him
in the power of His life, in the strength of His might, in the glow of His love, in the lowliness
of His humility, in the sanctity of His holiness, in the wisdom of His guidance, in the
inspiration of His Word, and in the glory of His Personality.
III. Exhalation.
Exhalation describes the act of out-breathing. One expresses the thought in speaking of
Nature being clothed with the beauty which comes from the dawn:
"Clothing the palpable and familiar
With golden exhalations of the dawn."
Speaking of the death of a man in his helplessness, we read, "His breath goeth forth, he
returneth to his earth " (Psalm 146:4). In general operation exhalation expresses the
fragrance of the flowers, the ministry of the trees in purifying the air, and the action of heat
drawing forth the vapours of the earth. Taking these thoughts only: we may say, they
metaphorically express the work of the Spirit. He draws forth the natural powers from the
swamp of our sinfulness. He causes to come forth the graces of His holiness, and He brings
forth the fragrance of His flowers of character.
The Spirit draws forth the natural powers from the swamp of our sinfulness, and
changes them into the garden of His productiveness. "The heavens remit in bountiful
showers what they had exhaled in vapour," so says one in writing of the action of the sun in
drawing the vapours from the earth. We can imagine if the sun could reach the malarious
swamp with its miasma the poison of the gas would be dissipated, and the swamp
annihilated. The same change can be accomplished in the realm of moral and spiritual
spheres of the heart and life.
A working man, who had spent his life in dissipation, but was turned to God, and made a
new creature in Christ, was twitted by an atheist, who denied the miraculous by saying,
"You don't believe that Christ turned water into wine!"
"Oh, yes I do," replied the savedman, "and what's more, if you will come to my home, I
will show you something more wonderful!"

"What's that?" was the ready question.
"Why, in my home, He's turned beer into furniture!"
Sin will cause men to change the glory of the incorruptible God into man-made images of
their own creation, and cause them to walk in all unholy and unnatural living (Romans
1:23-32); but the Holy Spirit can change the mind of thought, so that we are transformed
into the likeness of Christ, evenas He was transfigured in His body. (See the words
"Transfigured" in Matthew 17:2, "Transformed" in Romans 12:2, and "Changed" in II
Corinthians 3:18, which are one and the same in the original.)
The Spirit can cause to come forth from Himself in us the graces of His holiness.
One has said, "The under side of every leaf is furnished with thousands of tiny mouths,
through which the leaf breathes back upon the world the air it has purified and sweetened
for human uses. And so the foliage of a mighty forest is like a cluster of fountains from
which health and quickening alchemies are everpouring, which supply the needs of all
those kingdoms of life gathered under its shadow. And in the same way the Holy Spirit of
God breathes upon us from every point of our environment. Through countless mouths His
soul-quickening influences flow silently unto us, neutralising the doubt, sloth, and sin
exhaled from the lower nature, so that we can breathe back our souls to God in faith and
desire continuous as the river from God's throne."
What a difference between Paul as Saul "breathing out threatenings and slaughter"
against the disciples of the Lord, and the benedictions of his Christly service on behalf of
others.
We often see a notice of a shop to let: "These premises will be converted to meet the
wishes of the incoming tenant": thus if a grocer takes the shop which had been occupied by
a butcher, the whole place has to be converted. Try and think what Saul was as Saul, and
what Paul became as Paul.
Saul versus Paul.
Did much evil (Acts 9:13). Did much good (II Timothy 4:7)
Causing others to suffer (Acts 9:14). Suffering with Christ (II Corinthians 11:23-28).
Breathing out threatenings (Acts 9:1). "Behold he prayeth" (Acts 9: 1).
Kicking against the pricks (Acts 9:5). Serving the Lord (Acts 27:23).
Journeying towards Damascus with ill-intent (Acts 9:3). Pressing towards the mark for the
prize (Philippians 3:14).

Self-righteous in his religion (Philippians 3:4-6). Gaining Christ (Philippians 3:7-9).
A malignant persecutor (Galatians 1:13). A mighty witness (Galatians 1:15-24).
An old soldier in Cornwall once described conversion as "Halt. Attention. Right about face.
Quick march." Halting in the course of sin: paying attention to the call of the Gospel:
turning to the Lord: and then going onward in the Divine life; and that going forward is
only possible as we are energised and equipped by the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit brings forth the fragrance of the flowers of His character.
An author, in describing the work of another, says: "A breath of beauty and noble
feeling lives in and exhales from the whole of his great work like the fragrance from a
garden of flowers." And another has sung of flowers:
"Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved thee long and well,
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell,--
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That, 'midst your sweets and 'midst your bloom
There's a soul in every leaf."
Where there is the soul of the Spirit's reality, there will be the fragrance of soul-lifting
influence. So many Christian lives are not attractive. They are more like bare trees in the
winter time. They lack the beauty of foliage and flowers. There is life, but no fragrance. It
is said of Sir Isaac Newton, that he had "the flower of a blameless life." When
blamelessness is wedded to fragrance there will be the offspring of appreciation. A little girl
was once sitting opposite a Quaker lady in a tramcar, and noticing the sweet face of the
latter, she suddenly exclaimed, "Do let me kiss you!" "Yes, my dear, certainly," she
replied. A friendship sprang up between the kissedand the kisser. In the afterwards the
girl said, "Were you not surprised that day in the tram when I askedyou to let me kiss
you?" "Oh no, dear, they often askedme that." One commenting upon the incident
remarks, "The purity and sweetness of her life shone from her face, and made her so
winsome and bonny that people could not help wishing to kiss such a face. Her life had
flowered."

God breathes in His life, that He may breathe out His blessing to others. Through His in-
breathing life and His indwelling presence, He out-breathes what He asks us to do.
All the Spirit can breathe into us, and out-breathe from us, is by means of that Word
which is said to be "God-breathed," for "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (II
Timothy 3:16). The word rendered "inspired of God" is literally "God-breathed." The
Scriptures are the Breath of God, therefore, if we would inbreathe God we can only do so
by breathing in the Word. We do well, therefore, to inbreathe the Word of God, for it is not
only God-breathed. but God breathing, and as we do so we shall become like it.
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The Breath of God
By Dr. Keny F. Bastien
Scientists have made several attempts to put together all of the ingredients, and to meet
all the conditions supposedly required to create life. They have failed. Maybe someday,
they will uncover the great mystery of life. Until then, we have to rely on the fact that life is
nothing but the breath of God. The scriptures say that God breathed in man’s nostrils and
man became a living soul.
What was it in the breath of God that gave life? What types of elements or chemical
formulas are responsible for life? It is impossible to describe all the elements present in the
breath of God. God claims the title of being the Alpha and Omega. Certainly all the
elements of the universe are present in His breath. But above all we know for sure that
oxygen must have been one of the most important components of this breath. Oxygen
appears to be the giver of life. It is an explosive element, spontaneous, volatile and unstable.
It is never stationary. It penetrates everything.
Oxygen is manufactured by plants through the decomposition of carbon dioxide and
water, and is essential for all forms of life on earth. Oxygen enhances life. It generates heat,

improves oxidation, growth, and catabolism (the burning of calories and removal of waste
products). It affects every individual differently yet its impact in the lungs, blood and
tissues is the same. Oxygen fosters radiant health. With high oxygen intake, the arteries
become elastic, the heart is active and agile, the pulse grows stronger, the skin is healthy
and the mind is extraordinarily positive.
Assimilation and utilization of nutrients is improved by oxygen. A healthy consumption
of oxygen also improves our sexual performance. The fountain of youth is linked to oxygen.
According to Dr. Bernard Jensen, youth and health demand oxygen. It is amazing to
consider how our nervous systemprocesses information and sends messages to different
parts of our bodies in the presence of oxygen. In the presence of oxygen, our capillaries
undergo an increase in vasodilation, which enables them to carry the greatest amount of
important nutrients to the nerve cells. The presence of oxygen reduces the amount of waste
products and toxins generated by neuron catabolism. It limits the size and the activity of
glial cells such as the astrocytes and the oligodendrocytes, which are identified as the
garbage of the brain.
It is extremely important to keep in mind that we increase our oxygen intake when we
breathe consciously. We are made in such a way that we have to breathe for the body
during the daytime and the body for us by night. By breathing consciously, which means,
that we deliberately inhale the fresh air, hold it for 20 seconds, and then exhale it slowly
and powerfully, to the extent that all the alveoli of the lungs become completely empty.
Holding our breath is like holding God at hand just for 20 seconds. This should certainly
give us enough time to let Him know about our love and appreciation, hope and
expectations, misdeeds and needs. Holding God just for 20 seconds, sixty times in the
morning and sixty times in the evening provides us with plenty of opportunities to rebuild
our body, renew our strength, and build up our faith in health and in life. By choosing to
breathe consciously, we will increase the strength of our immune systemand the glow of
our skin. The quality of our sleepwill greatly improve and most of our minor discomforts
will simply go away. It is extremely difficult to believe that something so simple can have
such a tremendously positive effect on our health. It is simple indeed, easy to perform and
available at no cost to everyone. Perhaps that is the reason no-one takes the extra time to
breathe consciously. For those who practice daily, however, the reward will be perfect
health and joyful living.
Respectfully submitted by Dr. Keny F. Bastien
5/21/01
Kenor International Corporation

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