The breath in our lungs is not so we can have an opinion; it is not for self-promotion; it not so we can criticize other people; it is not so I can cut down someone else. The breath in our lungs has been placed there so we can praise the Lord. Psalm 150 says, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”

We were given breath to be a blessing; to speak the word of God; to release blessings; to build up people, cities, nations; to sing songs of praise to the God who gave us breath. Have you ever really thought about the truth of why you were given breath? What are you doing with the gift of breath you have been given?

We have been given breath to become a living soul. Breath is what gives us life. Our words are breath; our very being is dust and breath. Genesis 2:7 “Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”

Dust in Hebrew is ashes, earth, mortar, powder, rubbish, debris. Breath in Hebrew is spirit, wind, inspiration, source of life. When breath is put into dust we come alive. No wonder He makes beauty from ashes (Isaiah 61:3).

It is easy to see the dust in people, but can you see the breath in them? Can you be like Ezekiel 37:9 and hear the Lord say, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”

Use your breath to speak to their dust and tell it to come alive. We must stop being dust speakers and dust seekers, for when dust meets breath, we come alive. If all you can talk about is the dust that people are, you need someone to prophesy for breath to come into you. Friends, when dust meets breath, they come alive. Prophesy to the breath! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org