Breath of God - A Pentecost Meditation by Olly Ryder

The Daily Still - Guided Christian Meditation, Reflection, and Devotionals

Cindy L. Helton

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week we come together as a faith community to focus on "Pentecost and The Breath of God" with a favorite encore guest meditation by our friend, Olly Ryder, from Plymouth, England. Olly is an Anglican priest and church planter.

Olly shares in his meditation that scripture tells us the breath or wind of God is a recurring picture of God's Presence with us, through the Holy Spirit. In Genesis, God's Spirit hovers over creation itself and God's breath brings life into Adam. And the New Testament tells us God's Spirit rests on Jesus throughout His life and ministry. The wind of God empowers the Church from the day of Pentecost. And it's God's breath that is available today to give life to you, and to me. We can be assured, when we invite God to fill us…He does.

Where has the air in the room of your soul gone stale? Where do you need the fresh wind of God's Spirit to refresh you?

Breathe in Spiritual Air with each physical breath you take. Let the wind of God reach the hidden places of your heart. God's Breath is available every moment of every day to put fresh wind in the sails of our souls.

Prayer: Breath of God, Holy Spirit, come breathe on us we pray.

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."

John 20:21-22

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Still podcast, a place to pause. Here we create space to listen for the whispers of God.
0:13.2	I'm your host Cindy Helton, and I believe one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves is room to be still.
0:23.4	Spiritual listening embodies all of our senses, and it also requires a response to live
0:30.0	out what we have heard.
0:33.4	This week we focus our thoughts on Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit, the very breath
0:40.3	of God.
0:42.8	Scripture tells us it is the Spirit of God that empowers us to live out the work of God.
0:50.7	I'm honored to offer an encore presentation of a guest meditation from our friend Ollie Ryder.
0:58.0	Ollie is an Anglican priest and church planter who lives in Plymouth, England.
1:03.0	Ollie shared with me that Christian meditation helps him slow down and tap into more stillness, silence, and solitude, experiencing the undercurrent
1:15.0	of God's spirit beneath all the surface noise. My prayer is that we would be filled anew with the
1:22.3	breath and inspiration of God. I pray we would experience the undercurrent of God's spirit, enabling us to see and believe
1:31.8	that the power of God is available to us in this generation. Acts 2 1 through 4 tells us,
1:41.3	when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
1:46.3	Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole
1:53.5	house where they were sitting. And all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.
2:02.6	May our prayer be Psalm 14310,
2:06.6	Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.
2:12.6	May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.
2:20.9	So find a quiet space.
2:23.9	Tune out the noise around you and within you.
2:27.8	Take several slow, deep breaths, and let's settle in and begin.
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