Pray for the Wind to Blow: The Holy Spirit is the Heavenly Wind who is needed from above in the hot desert of this world. He bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries. He sendeth out His word, and melteth them: He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow. Thou knowest not the way of the spirit. The Wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of The Spirit. Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. You can't make the Wind blow outside, only The Creator can. And you can't make the Wind blow within you either, only The Almighty Spirit can. The rushing mighty Wind is needed here again in 2023.
The Holy Spirit turns our imaginary riches into deep poverty. He is the only Quickener of a dead soul. The Spirit of the Lord sends Light into the Soul making us conscious of sin's deep pollution and power within us. We should always be praying for the Heavenly Wind to blow in our lives and in the hearts of those we are trying to reach for Christ. Without the Holy Spirit, no true change will ever occur in the heart and soul.
The sinner's Understanding must be enlightened first by the Law. For by the Law is the knowledge of sin. Then the Gospel comes home to the heart in power as the divine Remedy for Sin. The Holy Spirit reveals to man his obligations to his Maker, and his transgressions of these obligations. The Spirit of God shows us the evil of our sins, our guilt and imminent danger, and the Impossibility of us escaping that danger by any efforts or merits of our own.
The purity of the Law condemns us all, but Christ redeems us. The Law reveals Sin, Christ removes Sin. The Law is the Net that catches from our element of Sin. The Law is the Storm that drives us to the Safe Harbor. The Law is the Sheriff that arrests and remands us, so we will seek Freedom through Christ. The Law empties us, but the Grace of Christ fills us. The Law wounds us, but Mercy heals us. The Law is the Sheepdog that fetches the lost sheep to the Shepherd. The Law is the burning heat that creates a real thirst deep within and leads to the cool waters of the Gospel. We have all fallen way of the divine standard of the LAW. The Law is the Bloodwork that the Holy Spirit uses to detect and reveal to you the deadly Illness in your Soul.
The Law is broken in a thousand pieces by us each day, and we cannot repair the damage we have done. The Law demands Perfection, but Christ provides me His Perfection, that is, He gives me His Righteousness. The perfect obedience to the Law was absolutely essential: so the Father sent the Son, and Christ thought no sin, knew no sin, and did no sin whatsoever. JESUS was without a blemish in the sight of God; He was the spotless Lamb of God slain in the place of sinners like me.
The divine Wind reveals to the sinner God's way of Salvation: The Person of Christ, His finished work, His Blood and Righteousness, and its suitability and freeness. We obtain eternal Redemption in Christ Jesus by the simple act of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting in what He has done, not in what we do. You can't have Salvation your way; Jesus is the only Way.
Let there be Light: Only the LORD can speak Light into your dark, void Soul. Divine Light pours into the heart when we receive the Light of the world, Christ Jesus Himself. The whole credit and glory of the supernatural work of Salvation belongs to LORD alone: He removes the darkness from the Understanding; He opens the blinded eyes of the Soul; He illuminates the conscience and intellect, He regenerates the heart and renews our inward nature. It is most needful for the Father of lights to interpose for us.
The heart of every man is Darkness itself. The entrance of God's words giveth light and understanding. God covereth Himself with Light as with a garment. For God, who commanded the Light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Divine Light's entrance into the heart and mind is instantaneous and miraculous, He comes at the speed of divine light. The path of the just is as the shining Light. JESUS calls us out of darkness into His marvelous Light. He opens to us the Scriptures. The LORD Himself opened the heart of Lydia, and then she believed. No sinner ever comes to Christ except the Father draw him. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. In Thy Light shall we see Light. O send out Thy Light and Truth. Truly the Light is sweet, and a Pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Son.
The LORD thinketh upon me; Thou God seest me. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the Soul of the needy. The LORD knows all about your sinful activity from day to day. The Spirit of God begins to blow upon your heart, and you start to feel your inward corruption, sense your evil thoughts, and your tendencies to sin and propensity to depravity. You choose not to retain God in your knowledge; He is the last person on your mind throughout your day. But you become you become conscious of your deadly condition; You begin to pray, try to repent of sin, bemoaning disobedience, and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and hope in His mercy.
No sinner will ever receive the Holy Spirit by his own works, merit, or religious activity. The Holy Ghost goes to the root of the matter, and cuts at the tap roots of Unbelief and Self-Righteousness. He penetrates deep within us, into our reins and searches the heart and discerns our intents. He applies Christ's Wondrous Medicine where we need it the very most. In the hidden part, Thou shalt make me to know Wisdom. Faith itself is the divine operation of the Spirit of God. Faith is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Sin's paths lead one way, and the way of Sin goes in the opposite direction from God. The way of transgressors is Hard. Turning from the folly of sin to the glory of God is Repentance. Confessing wrong thinking, wrong talking, wrongdoing, wrong habits, lamenting our transgressions, abhorring evil lusts, and desiring pardon and renewal of inward nature. Precious in the sight of the Lord are tears of Repentance and the sighs of Contrite hearts. True Faith from above leads a man to hearty earnest Repentance towards God, that is, an intense loathing of our sins against God, and an actual forsaking of those sins.
The Heavenly Wind blows Repentance into our hearts, and we give up the objects of our idolatries: money, pleasure, the pride of life, the world's vanities, fleshly desires, and the devil's wiles and snares. The aim of our Being is to worship and please God. The eyes and affection of the heart turn upward. We yield obediently to the sway of the Holy Spirit, become willing to do what He bids. We walk in the Spirit, think what He teaches, and be what He commands. We are transformed, renewed in our minds, a willing and obedient mind, sincere obedience to the Father in our secret, private, and public life. Humbly believing in JESUS. They believed and turned unto the LORD. (Acts 11:21) We ask JESUS Himself to deliver us from the present dominion of our sinful habits. Seeking humility, sobriety, morality, thrift, chastity, purity, sincerity, honesty, mercy.
The poor in spirit are always feasting on the Bread of Life. The poorest, vilest, weakest, guiltiest are welcome at the Cross today. An empty vessel simply receives, because it is empty. Free gift of divine mercy found in the Precious Blood. Spiritual bankruptcy and utter penury stare you in the face before you are born again of the Spirit of God. You need Divine Charity: a handout from the hand of God. Behold the Lamb of God; Look unto JESUS, not into yourself.
PRAY FOR THE WIND TO BLOW!
