{"id":1825,"date":"2020-03-27T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:35:52","slug":"his-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"His Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I have been thinking a lot about my breath.&nbsp; I love breathing and taking a full breath of fresh air into my lungs &#8211; I think we all do. &nbsp;I have never had a serious lung issue, but I have had moments of anxiety in college and as a young adult when I felt that it wasn&#8217;t possible to get a full breath, and they were terrifying. As I listen to the news and watch the hospitals and doctors repeat over and over the desperate need for more ventilators &#8211; I am finally realizing that it is our (His) precious breath that is being taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly a year ago today, I wrote a blog titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1679\">Breath of God<\/a>&#8220;.&nbsp; My prayer last year was&#8230;&nbsp;<br><em><br>My Lord, I pray that You guard every utterance of my mouth so that the words I speak will never again pollute the sweet scent of Your breath, but instead will carry forth from my being to bring You Eternal Glory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, while we still have His Breath in our lungs let us truly Glorify Him with every breath we take, we must pray without ceasing.  I have found that <br>breathing in on\u00a0<strong>-Je<\/strong>\u00a0and out on the &#8211;<strong>sus<\/strong>\u00a0<br>OR <br>breathing in on the \u00a0<strong>-Thank<\/strong>\u00a0and out on the\u00a0<strong>-You<\/strong>\u00a0<br>align perfectly with my inhale and exhale rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genesis 2:7 \u2013&nbsp;<em>Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.<\/em><br><br>Thessalonians 5:16-18&nbsp;<em>Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been thinking a lot about my breath.&nbsp; I love breathing and taking a full breath of fresh air into my lungs &#8211; I think we all do. &nbsp;I have never had a serious lung issue, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,123],"tags":[54,1260,1261,67,2810,2815,2646,2671,92,2657,1503,2809,2812,15,55,297,802,1765,53,12,51,10,46,2811,2814,2813,588,299,2668,2816,90,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-prayer","tag-best","tag-breath","tag-breathe","tag-christ","tag-exhale","tag-for-this-is-the-will-of-god-in-christ-jesus-for-you","tag-genesis-27","tag-give-thanks-in-all-circumstances","tag-god","tag-his-breath","tag-holy-spirit","tag-inhale","tag-je","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-mary","tag-mother-of-god","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-pray","tag-pray-without-ceasing","tag-rejoice-always","tag-sus","tag-thank","tag-thank-you","tag-thessalonians-516-18","tag-ventilators","tag-you","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}