Friday Fight 267: The Holy Spirit - The Source of Our Life

Every Friday morning, during my quiet time with the Lord, He faithfully places something on my heart that speaks to the subtle, internal battles many of us face. This is Friday Fight 267.

Have you ever taken a flower from its stem? Right after it is removed, it may still appear whole. It may still carry its color, fragrance, and shape. Yet separation from its lifesource has occurred, and even though it appears unchanged for a time, it has already entered the inevitable pathway of decline. This imagery also applies to the life of man and his need for the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit: The Source of Our Life

This visible moment in nature reveals a deep truth about the condition of the human soul. To understand this fully, we turn to the words of Scripture: Job 33:4 shows us that “For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” This truth declares that life is not self-made, nor self-sustained, but received moment by moment from the Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit is the very breath of God within us. He is not an influence separate from God, nor a distant power, but the living presence of the Almighty who gives life and sustains His creation. The flower depends upon the stem just as the soul depends upon the Spirit.

Some believe they can walk apart from God and still possess the fullness of life. Yet no branch can flourish apart from the vine, no flower can thrive apart from its stem, and no soul can prosper apart from the Spirit who gives it breath. The Holy Spirit is not present only in moments of need; He is the constant giver of life, day by day and breath by breath.

There is a stream that makes glad the children of God. A stream that descends from the heights of His presence, flowing into the dry, thirsty, and broken places of the human heart. This stream does not diminish; it is not exhausted. It is the endless supply of life flowing from the Lord Jesus Christ through the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is not only life, but healing. Not only healing, but restoration. Not only restoration, but the awakening of what has been made new in Christ.

He goes forth in all the land to gather, teach, strengthen, and nourish, to open blind eyes and unstop deaf ears. In every place, every moment, and in every breath, the Spirit of the Lord is present, bringing the reality of the living God into the hearts of those who will receive.

He does not leave us as we were. He lifts us from death into life and speaks within us a new creation. No longer the old likeness of Adam, bound to decay and separation, but the likeness of Christ—alive, redeemed, restored, and made new by the power of God.

The call remains:

Will we live as those who are disconnected from the stream, or as those who continually receive the life that flows from God Himself?

In His Grace,

Pastor Shannon

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