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Breathe On Me

Where would one be without breath? Have ever been underwater for long enough to come up gasping for air!! Dying to breathe-what an anomaly of an expression, for what is not breathing is considered dead. How many times do we look at life's situations and wonder where the life is? May be your first part of the year was one saddled with lifeless situations that just made you despair. You may even feel life is really dead in certain quarters. I just want you to realise that as long as you are still alive that situation can become alive.

In Genesis chapter 2 we meet a story of creation where God made man but until He breathed into him he was lifeless. Once God breathed into man He became a living soul.How do we deal with lifeless situations?
  1. Appreciate the little that you have, however little it is. Many times we complain about something and lose focus on the many other things that are working for us. Think about you may have many shoes to go to work and cant get a job but some one else is in a hospital bed and cant lift a leg.
  2. Patience and process. Many times we want it all now. Yet God is interested in the process of life. Never expect a garden to be beautiful without hard work. Why do we expect life to be different from our gardens? Life is a garden we have to work the process as we see the seeds turn into flowers and grass. Part of the process involves removing weeds that would destroy the outcome.
  3. Pray. Commit to God the Master of Creation. He didn't breathe into animals but He breathed into mankind. Prayer brings one to the environment of the Giver of life. Anywhere God breathed on anyone life was fruitful.
  4. Don't give up. Thomas Edison believed that he could create a light bulb. He experiment ed with thousands of resources in an attempt to get a bulb that would work for a day. When he succeed it was because he believed that he could give people a light bulb. You have a "light bulb" to give mankind. Dont give up!!!
My prayer is that the second half of the year will be full of the God kind of life. May whatever in your life appears dead arise as the Giver of Life breathes on you. Fruitfulness awaits you as you believe that God is able to turn the situation around.

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