The Very Breath of Me--Ponderings

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen--Philippians 4:23

 

The joy, pleasure, and that which creates delight in you being received from and having everything to do with the Lord Jesus Christ be your very breath. (part 1)

In the other vein....

The absolutely free expression of God's loving-kindness to you manifested in the gift of the Lord Jesus Christ be your very breath.

Daddy, I'm pondering this, and I'm trying to let it get deep into my spirit and affect change in my mind and soul, but I need help to overcome all my ideas of what "joy in the Lord" means. I need your pure heart on this. I need your revelation. Open my heart and mind to hear and know. Lord, speak, apply, train me in whatever way is necessary for this to become daily DNA expression in my life. I don't want this to be something I learn. I want it to be something I live.

The Very Breath of Me

For several days now, the Lord has been giving me the same encouragement or "lesson to be applied."

The joy of the Lord is your strength. -- Nehemiah 8:10

This morning the Lord is still on the same topic. Just a different verse.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen--Philippians 4:23

Grace (charis)--to rejoice. Grace. From its root, this word denotes that which causes joy, pleasure, that which creates delight in the recipient or observer.
     In reference to God we might understand it as the absolutely free expression of His loving-kindness to men, finding its only motive in His bounty and benevolence as the Giver.

Spirit (pneuma)--breath, to breathe

The joy, pleasure, and that which creates delight in you being received from and having everything to do with the Lord Jesus Christ be your very breath. Amen