The Spirit of life was present at the time of creation, breathing life into every area of the earth. International missionary and evangelist Lester Sumrall confirms this, stating,

“The first place in recorded Scripture where we see activity of the Holy Spirit is in Genesis 1:2. It is remarkable that the first page and second verse of the Bible shows the activity of the Holy Spirit. …It was the act of bringing cosmos, beauty, and loveliness out of chaos. The earth was without form and void. God was involved in His creative masterpiece, and the Holy Spirit moved to help Him. The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, and cosmos came out of the chaos.”4

Where in your life do you sense a void or see chaos? Where do you need the Holy Spirit of life to bring beauty, order, and freedom? Pray and ask Him to show you. Surrender these areas to Him in prayer, asking Him to move over them and bring order, just as He did at creation.

Check out Philippians 4:6-8; 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 37:4-6.

Are you worn out from the busyness of routine? The Spirit of life wants to strengthen you with His might. As you spend time with Him and get to know Him, He will renew your strength. Take a moment and meditate on these powerful promises from God:

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding. He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].

—Isaiah 40:28-29 AMP

It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!

—Romans 8:11 The Message

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me...].

—Philippians 4:13 AMP

What is the Holy Spirit speaking to you through these verses? Write a prayer asking the Spirit of life to infuse you with inner strength and make you as alive as Jesus when He walked the earth.

For Further Study...

Genesis 1:2; Nehemiah 9:6; Isaiah 40:12-15; Psalm 8:3-9; 104:24-30; Job 33:4

Day 4 Devo

WE MUST TOTALLY DEPEND ON HIM

…You won’t succeed by might or by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Armies.

—Zechariah 4:6 GW

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was totally dependent on the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Father. Everything about Him, from His conception to His resurrection, was a result of the Spirit’s work. Scripture says…