2. Taking Breathing
Lessons
Review Chapter 1:
• Prophetic Fishing: the presence and power of God
showing up at any given moment to change a life-or
lives.
• It happens when we get out of the way and let the
Holy Spirit work through us – moving in the flow of
the Holy Spirit.
• It can happen ANYWHERE!
• It is available to anyone who is available to the Holy
Spirit in any and every situation.
3. Taking Breathing
Lessons
Review Chapter 1:
• We only need to:
1. Step out in love
2. Ask permission to share
3. Allow the boldness of the Holy Spirit to use us
Our “natural” + His “super” = Supernatural
4. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• Sometimes God will lead us to place where we had
no intentions on going. It’s important to ALWAYS
follow His directions.
Read the “Gym Story” (Chpt 2)
• Have you ever felt “the urge” to go somewhere not
knowing why? What happened as a result?
5. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• Anyone who wants to exercise the gift of prophetic
fishing must learn to practice the presence of God.
• It begins with intentionally letting go of your own
wishes and desires. Then your own wishes and wants
are gone and are replaced with His perfect plan for
your life.
• Scripture is clear that physical and spiritual breath are
connected: Genesis 2:7, John 20:21-22, Acts 2:4, Isaiah
42:5, Job 12:10, Job 32:8, Job 33:4, Acts 17:25, 2 Tim
3:15.
6. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• What does practicing God’s presence mean?
• PRACTICE: the actual application or use of an idea,
belief, or method as opposed to theories about such
application or use. Repeated exercise in or
performance of an activity or skill so as to acquire or
maintain proficiency in it.
• Therefore, practicing God’s presence moves
beyond what we see others do or hear others talk
about…it is actually making it a part of our daily
routine and what we do. Then we can experience
God’s presence on daily basis.
7. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• What does practicing God’s presence mean?
• PRACTICE: the actual application or use of an idea,
belief, or method as opposed to theories about such
application or use. Repeated exercise in or
performance of an activity or skill so as to acquire or
maintain proficiency in it.
• Therefore, practicing God’s presence moves
beyond what we see other people do or hear
people talk about…it is actually making it a part of
our daily routine and what we do. Only then we
can experience God’s presence on daily basis.
8. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• If you want to cultivate a good habit in your life, you
have to do something nineteen times in order for it
to become second nature to you. Similarly, when you
practice breathing in God's presence again and again,
you eventually reach the point of knowing He is
there. You become aware of Him on a deeper level.
• We have to practice, therefore, breathing out our
worries and fears and breathing in the freedom, love
and security of God's presence.
9. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• Exhaling is as important as inhaling. Exhaling
spiritually means letting go. You must exhale the
frustrations, fears and resentment that keep you
from fulfilling your potential in Christ.
• God tells us to forget the things that happened in the
past and press on to the mark of the high calling in
Christ Jesus (Phil 3:13-14, KJV).
• What is the high calling? Him!
10. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• As He breathes His life into us, and then He gives us
the power to breathe it into other people's lives.
• When you know Him in an intimate way-when you
practice His presence-He makes His power available
to you at all times, and you will be able to act in
mighty ways as situations arise.
• "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will
do what I have been doing. He will do even greater
things than these, because I am going to the Father"
(John 14:12).
11. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• When we practice His presence, continuously
breathing in His glory and power, we can take
authority over all things.
• We must ask the Holy Spirit to increase the spirit of
discernment in us so we know whether something
comes from God or from the gods of this world.
• The Holy Spirit does not intrude where He is not
welcome. For this reason, ALWAYS ask permission
from someone before you talk to them about the
Lord.
12. Taking Breathing
Lessons
• Because I am practicing God's presence and listening
so carefully to my Lord's voice, and because He
already has prepared the hearts of those to whom
He wants me to talk, I have never been turned away.
Even if that should happen one day, I would be
satisfied in knowing that I had been obedient to God.
• When a person's heart is open, the Holy Spirit finds
fertile ground for His message of love and salvation
in Jesus Christ. But we must be practicing the
presence of Christ and listening to the Holy Spirit to
know when that sun is shining.
13. HOMEWORK
1. Take some time to practice 2. Then write down at least
breathing in the presence of one thing that you learned
God. Find a quiet place where through this time spent with
you will not be interrupted, Him.
and do not be hard on
yourself if it does not come
easy at first. Perhaps you will
want to spend some time in
the Psalms reading about
God's glory and majesty. Ask
Him to help you grow in a
sense and awareness of His
presence.
The Bible says that God "rewards those who earnestly seek him" (Hebrews 11:6).
He will respond to your efforts to reach out to Him-and your life will never be the same.
