Conclusion:

By tapping in to the power available to us through the Holy Spirit, we are able to live the way God intended us to live. If we try to live this life in our own strength, we won’t be able to bear much fruit and live the way God wants us to live. We need to rely on the Holy Spirit every day.

As we learned earlier, a helpful tool that will enable us to do this is a simple illustration around breathing. Just as we breath in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide, so too we can breathe spiritually. Spiritual Breathing is simply this: We breathe out our sin, through confession (which we touched on a couple of weeks ago), and then we breath in by appropriating the power available to us through the Holy Spirit. If you do this regularly, you’ll be able to live the life God wants you to live.

Look Forward

The most important thing will be how we apply what we learn, and so we want to help each other find ways to do that. Some questions to help us do that: