Breaathe on Me 1

Hello Everyone,

We need the breath of God! This week as we study where Jesus breathed on His disciples pray for a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit to blow into your life.

Read with me:

John. 20:19-23                                                                   

¹⁹ On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” ²⁰ After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
²¹ Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” ²² And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³ If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” (NIV 1984)

Jesus breathed on the disciples. He exhaled, or blew on them.

He expelled His breath in their direction, on, or over them.

He wasn’t just breathing; He was breathing on them to create an effect. Both what Jesus does, and what He says, this act of breathing on the disciples brings us back to that original breath of God - the creative breath, the life-giving breath, the spirit-empowering breath of God.

This is at the end of His earthly ministry, after the resurrection and before the ascension, and here Jesus breathed on the apostles to reveal His identity as Divine, and as a foreshadowing of the Spirit they were to receive on the day of Pentecost.

Jesus gives this message; His FOLLOWERS need His Spirit to do His work.

So do we. Greater Things are still to come!

Pastor Phil