Warriors in Prayer Daily Breath
How important would prayer be if every single day, when your eyes open from sleep, you had 60 seconds to acknowledge God and ask for the ability to breathe for that day? If you failed to do this, you would suffocate and simply die. It's an extreme and provoking thought. Except it's not too far off from the reality of how detrimental our lives depend on God and what He has to sustain us in our daily lives. Satan loves to work alongside our fallen nature; he loves to support and help justify all the reasons and excuses for placing God on “standby” or putting Him “on hold.” Satan knows all he has to do is distract us, and we will soon forget, only to remember too late in the battle of the day. Could you imagine the feel of complete terror and desperation to run into a battle and suddenly be surrounded by the enemy, then, with complete confidence, reaching for your weapon and realizing you left it back at camp? Prayer is no different. Train your spiritual life to be solely dependent on prayer, and when you are lacking in prayer, you find your spiritual life out of breath, lacking oxygen, and quickly going to God in life-sustaining prayer. So, how do we get from waking in the morning, grabbing a cup of coffee, checking your phone, taking a shower, maybe saying a quick prayer, and heading out the door? I suggest using your phone: set your alarm to wake you, but instead of a traditional alarm sound, program it to something completely different, almost awkward and bizarre. When you hear it, say good morning to God. This is the same God who sustains you all through the night while you sleep, taking each breath without any effort on your part, and then waking to a new day. For the next 5 days pray and ask God to open your eyes and show you all that he does in giving you the opportunity to breathe Him into your daily lives.
Prayer primers:
Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. –Genesis 2:7
As long as I live, while I have breath from God, my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies. –Job 27:3-4
But there is a spirit within people, the breath of the Almighty within them, that makes them intelligent. Job 32:8
For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. – Job 33:4
If God were to take back his spirit and withdraw his breath, all life would cease, and humanity would turn again to dust. – Job 34:14-15
But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust. When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth. – Psalm 104:29-30
God, the LORD, created the heavens and stretched them out. He created the earth and everything in it. He gives breath to everyone, life to everyone who walks the earth. – Isaiah 42:5
This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD. – Ezekiel 37:5-6
Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.” Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. – John 20:21-22
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. –Acts 17:24-25
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