Our spiritual rhythms require intentionality. And yet when we look more closely even at our bodily rhythms we discover that these are not as automatic as we might think.

Life comes from God.   Physical life comes from God.  Spiritual life comes from God.  Breath is life.  Life and breath is miraculous and mysterious.

Some people think covenant keeping is a grind. It’s not! Life is a grind until we learn how to be covenant keepers.

“The new covenant is God’s revelation of who He is, and His perfect and complete plan to restore all who would enter into covenant with Him to their created purpose of intimacy of relationship with Him and with one another.”

Some people think of the Old Covenant as a covenant of “Works” and the New Covenant as a covenant of “Grace” but all the Covenants God gave us are covenants of grace & responsibility.

God is a relational covenant making, covenant keeping God. The story of Biblical faith is a story of a covenant relationship that God carefully established in stages ultimately culminating in the New Covenant Jesus established as an adequate, permanent, and eternal solution to the root problems of our lives.

...we face a dark time in the history of God's people. In spite of some encouraging signs, the forces of evil seem to be gathering for a colossal assault on the work of God in the world. Satan has unleashed his power in a way perhaps unparalleled in the history of the Christian Church. If ever there was a time we needed renewal, it is now.

Billy Graham, p. 318 “The Holy Spirit”, 1978.

1 Corinthians 6:19 (Phillips) “ Have you forgotten that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you, and that you are not the owner of your own body? You have been bought, and at what a price!”

When you are filled with the Spirit, you are filled with an overflowing supply of grace, everything you need for a good and beautiful life that pleases God.

Today we will consider two categories. The category of being spiritually lost, and the category of being Saved and how it relates to our series theme “His Presence”.