When God Breathes: The Attributes of the Godhead

By Pastor Josh Morgan and Jeremiah Johnson

Everything God has done and will do is extravagant and has great purpose. All His actions have a planned objective, even the breath He breathes and the gifts He gives. God the Father breathed granting life to the created man. God the Son breathed, and man now supernaturally received the infilling of the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit breathed fulfilling the promise of God’s manifested power and presence upon and in believers. When the Godhead breathes it brings life, salvation, and power. God breathing illuminates the purpose and giftings given to His creation. The trinity Godhead distributes gifts and endowments to the believer for the growth and increase of the body of Christ. The attributes and gifts of the Godhead are purposed and given to benefit the body while empowering each believer to be more than conquerors. When God Breathes details the design and purpose for each of the Godhead breathing and describes the gifts given by each. The supernatural gifts of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973679974

Pastor Josh Morgan

Josh Morgan is the senior pastor of Covenant Church in Fairmont, WV. Josh has been in ministry for more than twenty years and is recognized for his passion of the gospel. His heart is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry and to bring unity to the body of Christ. He and his wife Sara reside in West Virginia and have four children. For more information visit joshmorgan.org

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Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1     When God Breathes - The Father

The Making of Man

Dry Bones Come Alive

The Word – Divine Inspiration

His Word Will Live Forever

Chapter 2     The Gifts of the Father

1.  Prophecy

2.  Ministry

3.  Teaching

4.  Exhortation

5.  Giving

6.  Leadership

7.  Mercy

Christian - It’s More Than a Word

A Living Sacrifice

How Do You Measure Up?

Chapter 3     Glorious Identity

Christlike Identity

Unveiled Glory

Whole Unity

Chapter 4     Is the King Present

The Price of Compromise

Thirsty Hearts

Habitation Not Visitation

Anointed Spiritual Habitation

Chapter 5     When God Breathes - The Son

Jesus – the Christ, our Savior and Lord

Receive the Holy Spirit

The Acceptable Sacrifice

Breathe on Me

Chapter 6     The Gifts of the Son

The Fivefold Office Ministry Gifts

Honoring the Office

Prostituted Titles

Chapter 7     Under the Anointing

Protect the Anointing

Anointed Impartation

Chapter 8     When God Breathes - The Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit Dispensation

The Holy Spirit’s Manifestation

They Were Filled with the Holy Spirit

Chapter 9     The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

1.  Word of Wisdom

2.  Word of Knowledge

3.  Faith

4.  Gifts of Healing

5.  Working of Miracles

6.  Prophecy

7.  Discerning of spirits

8.  Diverse Kinds of Tongues

9.  Interpretation of Tongues

Chapter 10   What Does It Look Like

By What Power or By What Name

Chapter 11   I Will Pour Out My Spirit

Even Greater Works

Waiting with Anticipation

The Union of Believers

Chapter 12   The Will of Holy Spirit

How Important Is He

Keep the Fire Burning

Spiritual Life Support

Chapter 13   He’s Not Finished with Me

He’s Not Finished with Me Yet!

Chapter 14   Infiltration of Counterfeit Seed

Separating the Wolves from the Sheep

Evil Seeds

Chapter 15   Pastoring the Prophetic

Foreword

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In 1 Corinthians 2, we discover that the Holy Spirit is the only person on the planet that truly knows the deep things of God. Yet, because He is living on the inside of every believer in Jesus Christ, we are invited into a divine partnership with Him where we get to join Him on His own search of understanding the mysteries and revelation of God Himself. What profound and delightful news for you and I. We do not have to exercise our faith in our own strength. What relief and joy it brings to my soul!

As I sat reading this manuscript you are about to greatly enjoy, I kept thinking to myself that it could have only been written with the divine partnership of the Holy Spirit. With insightful teaching and practical application, Joshua Morgan opens up the eyes of our hearts to the role that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit play in our lives. In fact, several times I had to pause while reading because an internal dialogue was stirred up in the depths of my heart as I processed what Joshua was revealing to us through the Word of God. One of my favorite things about this book is that it not only contains a realm of scholarship that is hard to find these days but it is also reader friendly regardless of where you are at in your walk with Christ. I would recommend this book to the seasoned saint as well as to the new believer.

I had the privilege of ministering at the church that Joshua and his wife pastor in West Virginia. Many men claim to possess knowledge and understanding, but few are willing to pay the price to acquire it. When I visit the congregation, I found a healthy and vibrant church that is passionate about the things of God. They love the movement of the Holy Spirit and it is evident that the leadership is committed to the place of prayer and intimacy with the Father.

It is my honor to commend not only this book to you, but this man of God to you. I can now say from personal experience that this manuscript is not written from the place of theory, but a practical outworking of all the years Joshua Morgan has spent in the ministry. He is a humble servant well capable of leading but the posture of a student that he takes causes him to stand out in this generation.

Prepare to be encouraged and activated as you read this tremendous work. I know I was!

-Jeremiah Johnson

Founder and Overseer of Heart of the Father Ministry

Best Selling Author

www.jeremiahjohnson.tv

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When God Breathes - The Father

Everything God has done and will do is extravagant and has great purpose. All His actions have a planned objective, even the breath He breathes. Breathing is so routine that we do it every day of our lives without thought. We only seem to think of it when the air we inhale and exhale is interrupted. Life is granted with each breath we take. Without the fresh oxygen going in and out of our lungs, we would die. It goes without saying that breathing is essential to living. Imagine God breathing well-timed breaths one after the other. Each breath having purpose as He draws air in and expels it. Each breath could be as calm as a summer breeze or as mighty as a hurricane. We are talking about the God who refers to the earth as His footstool. Now take a moment and peacefully draw air into and expel it from your lungs. The act of breathing is the evidence of life. When God breathes, a miraculous and supernatural occurrence takes place. The Bible gives detail of what takes place when God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit breathes. This book is a spirit prompted attempt to describe the purpose of God breathing. Transformation takes place when the Godhead breathes. When God the Father breathes, life is given. When God the Son breathes, salvation is granted. When God the Holy Spirit breathes, supernatural power is imparted.

The book of Genesis tells us that the earth was void and without form. Darkness covered all of creation because life was yet to exist. God spoke and all of creation came into existence. At His Word the world was formed. At His spoken Word, the hills, valleys, oceans, trees, animals, and all inhabitants of this planet came into being, at His breathed word. Words are carried by the air breathed in and out of our lungs.

(Psalms 33:6-7 NLT) "The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created, He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs."

The magnificence of God is unfathomable to the human mind. His abilities are not bound to the comprehension of man’s wisdom or imagination. He is immeasurable, limitless and endless. He is not confined to man’s thinking and understanding. He is time and He has no duration because He is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega.

God spoke all things into existence and declared it to be good.

(Genesis 1:31 NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.

God was pleased with the creation He had spoken and breathed into existence.

The Making of Man

(Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV) 26. Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 27. So God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Man was not spoken into existence like every other thing created by God. Man was intricately and personally designed by the Godhead. God, the three in one, formed and made man in the very likeness and image of the creator. Man is purposed to have dominion over all the earth and everything on it. Man is destined to reign as helmsman over creation.

(Genesis 1:26 AMP) Then God said, let us – Father, Son, Holy Spirit, make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority (Genesis 2:7 NKJV) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Unlike the rest of creation, man required the intimacy of touch. Man is God’s self-expression and workmanship. God carefully and meticulously formed man with His hands, leaving His fingerprints all over the perfect project. Every cell, molecule, and DNA treated as a delicacy. Man was created differently than anything else spoken by God. The creation of man required God’s personal touch. The importance of man’s meticulous creation tells of God’s desired destiny. Man is the trophy produced from the master potter’s touch, formed from the dust of the ground. Destined to be caretaker and groundskeeper of all creation. Man is to exist with creation while having authority and dominion over it.

Man was God’s prized and personal creation, but he did not contain life. The created man was perfect, but not a living creation because