These are the titles of the messages I will be bringing within the next few month:
1. The Wind of the Spirit
2. The Wind of Miracles
3. The Wind of Life
4. The Wind of Opposition
5. The Wind of judgement
6. The Wind of Doctrine
7. The Wind of New Beginnings
When we talk about the wind we think about the natural flow of air; we know it's there and the only thing we can see are the effects it has on us and our surroundings. We can't hold it in our hands, yet we can feel it's strength and at times it's gentle breeze. We also know in the natural it can bring warmth or cold, dryness or moisture according to the seasons of change.
But the winds that I want to talk about in this message are the winds of God and how he used wind, a very natural element of this earth to accomplish great things. God also set a particular number and types of winds to help us better understand how he worked then, how he is working now and how He wants to work in our future.
Let's begin with the Hebrew word for "wind" which is "Ruwach". As we search the Lexicon for the Old Testament these are some of the meanings given: Air that is being breathed, breath and was also applied i.e, as the creative Word of God, air put in motion by divine breath, the element of life in a person, i.e., his natural spirit, the human spirit as breathing by God into man, the divine, miraculous power by which inanimate things begin to move and was used in reference to the Holy Spirit.
As I take you step by step through scripture you will begin to see some of the ways God used wind. Some were meant for correction, some for encouragement and others will be a specific Prophetic word.
1. The Wind of the Spirit: Acts 2:1-4 & John 3:
Verse 1: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2: When suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind(rushing of a violent tempest blast) and it filled all the house where they were setting. 3: And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each on of them. 4. And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression (in each tongue in appropriate words).
The word wind here is the Greek word "Pnoe" and means to breath or blow. So we see that God blew His very breath into the house that symbolically represents the Spirit of God Himself. It came as the sound of fierce wind that was so familiar to the disciples who had fought violent wind and waves as fishermen. This was the power they could relate to and understand.
Can you imagine being there on that day? Suddenly, unexpectedly hearing the very
Spirit of God coming in the sound of physical wind that was magnified and energized with an overcoming power which literally penetrated every fiber, every atom of their beings? Then feeling an energizing force being poured into there spirit and soul that was the very breath of God Himself! And to top it off they were bathed in the fire of the Spirit and began to speak in a language they did not know or understand. You see, once you have experienced the fire of God, nothing else can compare. It will ignite your spirit with a passion and authority beyond anything else you can experience, except salvation. It takes you to a new level in your walk and experience with Jesus and you move in a different realm that overtakes and overcomes the world, the flesh and the devil. You begin to comprehend your authority in Christ and you step out of the old and into the new. He shifts you into position with Him and a realignment in the Spirit takes place.
Further into Acts 2 it tells us in Verse 17 & 18: And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy (telling forth the divine counsels) and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream (divinely suggested) dreams. 18: Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy(telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God's kingdom).
I have highlighted seven words in verses 17 & 18 that are so important for us to understand. If you look up the word "pour" it means: To gush out, to move freely from one place to another in large quantities and in a steady unbroken stream. The Lord reminded me of Physics in the natural which is: The science of matter and energy and their interactions. Physics deals with heat, light and other forms of energy and how they affect objects, matter or mass. And also what a gravitational field is: Which is the region of space around an object that has mass (a large unspecified quantity or body of matter that forms or makes a whole), within which another object that has mass experiences the force of attraction.
So what God created, put into motion and what we experience every day in the natural can help us to understand how things work in the supernatural realm. We see in scripture how Jesus worked within the confines of the natural laws to bring forth the supernatural. Every day Jesus crossed over and through the barriers of dimensions to bring forth miracles, signs and wonders. Such as turning natural water into wine that they could drink or walking on water. The Holy Spirit is not limited by our measurements, dimensions, time or space. His power defies all reasoning, barriers, mass or force. When we seek the Holy Spirit, He interacts with our spirit and our spirit draws Him as gravity does in the natural. Our spirit is that mass that attracts Him and when we come together we form a whole and we are complete. And when He moves in us or comes upon us He emerges with our spirit with a unmeasurable power that brings resurrection life to a spirit that once was dead. He is a force that affects everything about us and can not be denied nor held back. He is that energy that moved over the face of the waters in Genesis 1:2, yet He can take the form of fire and not burn. When He pours Himself into us we are forever changed and His light overtakes the darkness.
Next week Part II of "The Seven Winds of God"
Blessings,
Elma Garlock
