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Make me like the winds that blow, to be here then there. When I get there no one will really know and when I leave the same also. What I am speaking of here is the desire to be more of a spiritual person, rather than depending completely on my five senses.

We may hear the winds sweeping through the trees or feel the delight of them across our brow but we never actually see them. We see and feel the affects of them. The same as when lightning strikes and you hear and feel the rumble of thunder but you have no idea where it dissipates to. Does that rumble continue on forever? If the rumble goes deep enough within you it very well could last forever in you at least in thought, because of the image that it gave you.

How does the wind lose it force and then gain it again? Does its members just disassemble themselves and then reassemble again? If I could only walk in the Spirit when I choose to I could be like the winds. Because the Bible says that everyone that is born of the Spirit is like the wind, so it must be possible.

If I walk only according to my reasoning (human knowledge) I will surely fail and I know that I am more than a conqueror. I must seek first the Kingdom of God and He said it is his pleasure to give me the Kingdom. The Bible says that the Spirit searches all things, yes even the deep things of God. We need that intimacy with Him. Holding back the Spirit can cause death in so many ways. Don’t take the term death so literal but consider what was said “he who has ears to hear let him hear” that is a part of spiritual death if you cannot hear the word from God. You don’t see it physically but you know that it has departed from you and that is from my own personal experience.

Does the wind know when it has lost part of its force? Surely we can tell when it is not as strong as it once was, and so it is with the Spirit. It’s strength comes from a place that we cannot see. Like flowers get there strength from the sun but you don’t actually see the energy transferred from the sun to the flower. Our spirits get there charging from being connected the one who breathed it into us. Sit back and enjoy the breeze let your spirit flow freely so that you are not hindering it. Hindering it will hinder the answers to the questions that you have, to the prayers you have prayed and to the deliverance that we all so badly need. Yes we all need deliverance from something, and if it’s not us then it’s a friend or a relative.

We may be free physically but we are bound by love and the commandments to help those who are in need whether it is a brother, neighbor, friend or foe. So whether you’re in bondage to something or not, if there is someone who needs your help you are bound to help deliver that person. We must teach them how to be delivered the same way that we were taught. It’s like the saying I can give you some fish to eat but its better to teach you how to fish for yourself or yes I will pray for you but it is better to teach you how to pray for yourself.

We are like the rain and snow that fall from heaven. They do not return there but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud, that is who we are. We will no longer return to our former states of mind, but the Word that was given to us we will take to others to make them bring forth good fruits. We have to be more spiritually minded and not so self centered. Our job is to participate in making his enemy his foot stool and this starts with a mindset. These verses will help you obtain that mindset.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Romans 8:37-39

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mathew 6:31-34

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Luke 12:32

“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Isaiah 55:10

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater

Hebrews 10:12-13

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.