You Must Be Mouth-to-mouth With JESUS To Succeed, Thrive And Prosper
Certainly, you’ve heard about mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, haven’t you?
You may even have performed it in an emergency.
Well, to have Resurrection Life and Power in our lives and make it in CHRIST JESUS, we need to continually be Mouth-to-mouth with Him with our every breath — receiving His HOLY SPIRIT, being led by Him.
“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive THE HOLY SPIRIT.“” John 20:22.
Just “as the body without the spirit is dead” (James 2:26), so also life in CHRIST JESUS without THE HOLY SPIRIT is dead.
Many in The Church today are ‘Sardis believers’: they are alive but dead (they are alive in the flesh but are spiritually dead!).
As THE LORD has said:
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He Who has THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD and The Seven Stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” Revelation 3:1.
They are alive but dead because they elect to be carnally minded, living worldly instead of GODly.
“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace.” Romans 8:6.
We cannot live in JESUS without continual dependence on, fellowship with, and obedience of, His SPIRIT.
Yet, many believers live like that.
That was what caused the failure and eternal rejection of the foolish virgins in Matthew 25.
They didn’t take extra oil (that is, they didn’t have continual dependence on, fellowship with, and obedience of, THE HOLY SPIRIT — being filled by THE SPIRIT as according to Ephesians 5:18).
They didn’t continually have “The Supply of THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST” (Philippians 1:19-20).
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to THE SPIRIT, The Things of THE SPIRIT. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against GOD; for it is not subject to The Law of GOD, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD.” Romans 8:5-8.
To please GOD, we must always seek Him and be led by His SPIRIT in all things at all times.
We must pray to always have an ear and hear What THE SPIRIT says to the churches.
And obey What He says.
As THE LORD JESUS CHRIST repeatedly says in Revelation chapters two and three,
“He who has an ear, let him hear what THE SPIRIT says to the churches.”
We must be Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS (receiving His SPIRIT, being led by Him always) to please GOD.
I had a dream two days ago. And I get hilarious, laughing with THE LORD every time I remember a particular phrase from it.
Sometime ago in the mission field in Ghana, THE LORD had moved me from one part of the country to another for a little over two years.
While there, I heard a praise song that was so sweet to my spirit:
Mine mine mine
JESUS is mine 2x
JESUS is my SAVIOUR day by day
Mine mine mine
JESUS is mine 2x
I have since been singing it often to THE LORD, being jolly every time.
Then in my dream two days ago, a sister (unknown in the natural), was singing the song, and I think she was trying to sort of teach me how to sing it.
But when it came to the chorus, she sang the lyrics as:
“JESUS is my SAVIOUR day by day
Mouth-to-mouth
JESUS is mine”
When I woke up, I was HILARIOUS about the line “Mouth-to-mouth JESUS is mine”.
And I haven’t stopped laughing since then, whenever I remember the curious line.
In fact, I’ve been giggling intermittently while writing this.
Every time I recollect the line, I just burst out laughing with JESUS.
( I’m always like that with Him anyway. He is my Joy. Always. )
So, “Mouth-to-mouth — JESUS is mine”: What does it mean to be Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS?
When you are Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS, you are continually receiving His Breath (THE HOLY SPIRIT), by depending entirely on “The Supply of THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST” (Philippians 1:19-20) and doing only What He says.
“For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and The Supply of THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST, according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also CHRIST will be magnified in my body, whether by Life or by death.” Philippians 1:19-20.
The only way to succeed, thrive and prosper in this troublesome world is to be Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS every moment of our breath, “holding fast to The Head [i.e. CHRIST], from Whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with The Increase that is from GOD.” (Colossians 2:19).
I wrote previously, and write now again:
Whatever we seek must be from GOD, and by His Grace. Not our own efforts.
Whatever effort we make must be by His Grace: His Will, Direction, Provision and Protection.
“…And walking in The Fear of THE LORD and in The Comfort of THE HOLY SPIRIT they were multiplied.” Acts 9:31.
This is how you prosper in CHRIST JESUS.
It is HOLY SPIRIT-revealed, -enabled and -led.
It is by being Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS continually.
When you are Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS, you proactively seek to know and do only His Will in all things at all times.
“Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what The Will of THE LORD is.” Ephesians 5:17. (And do It.)
Without JESUS we can do nothing. Yet many do things without Him, and have many troubles as a result.
Just as a branch must remain connected to the tree to be alive, so we must be Mouth-to-mouth with JESUS to live in Him.
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in The Vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I AM The Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My WORDS abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My FATHER is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.“ John 15:4-8.
“The LORD Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.” 2 Timothy 4:22.
“Farewell” Acts 15:29.
~ Jacob Addison Awagah
Jacob, an apostle of JESUS CHRIST by The Will of GOD, according to The Promise of Life Which is in CHRIST JESUS, (2 Timothy 1:1).
Like John, I like to put my head to The Heart of JESUS so as to know and do His Will always. What’s in His Heart is what matters now and FOREVER. His Heart’s Desire is my only desire. My will is to do His Will.
As John was, I am the disciple whom JESUS loves. And like Paul, I am “the prisoner of CHRIST JESUS” (Ephesians 3:1) for His Purpose forever: to obey Him always.
NB. Surely, the disciple whom JESUS loves and “the prisoner of CHRIST JESUS”, like ALL The Promises of GOD, are available to every believer to obtain, just as John and Paul did.
“And having been perfected, He [JESUS] became The Author of Eternal Salvation to all who obey Him,” Hebrews 5:9.
Beautiful..amen.