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I'm freshly in awe of this precious hymn. Tonight, an older friend was struggling with anxiety and a racing heart. Over the phone I walked her through the deep breathing steps to help calm her. Afterwards, this hymn welled up in me, freshly reminding me of spiritual breathing too! Praise the Lord, He is so breathable! A brother experienced the Lord as the Spirit in this way and wrote a hymn for future generations to enjoy. Oh, what a rich heritage of faith we have! 🎵I am breathing in Thy answers, stilling every doubt and fear🎵.
Whenever I sing a hymn, my prayer is always Lord give me some “healthy experience “of you that I can leave with the saints to touch you always , like those brothers and like I can touch you through there experiences eg A. B Simpson because they found it by fellowship with you, and the joy they had in that moment , I dot know for some reason I love crying out to Lord and calling out while walking on the road.
Firstly, we need to learn the meaning of calling on the name of the Lord. Some Christians think that calling on the Lord is the same as praying to Him. Formerly, I held the same concept. One day, however, the Lord showed me that calling on His name is different from merely praying. Yes, calling is a type of prayer, for it is a part of our prayer, but calling is not merely praying. The Hebrew word for call means to “call out to, ” “to cry unto, ” that is, to cry out. The Greek word for call means “to invoke a person, ” “to call a person by name. ” In other words, it is to call a person by naming him audibly. Although prayer may be silent, calling must be audible.
To call on the Lord also means to cry to Him and to experience spiritual breathing. “I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry” ( Lam. 3:55-56 ). These verses indicate that calling is also crying and breathing. Crying is the best breathing. I have been told that crying is the best exercise for little babies. Whenever you cry out, you breathe spontaneously and deeply. By crying and breathing we both exhale and inhale. Inhaling always follows exhaling. By exhaling we breathe out all the negative things. Whenever you breathe out the negative things, the positive things of the Lord will fill you up. Let me take the example of losing your temper. When you are about to lose your temper, do not try to suppress it, but call, “O Lord Jesus. ” Then add a short prayer, “Lord Jesus, I am going to lose my temper. ” Do this and see whether you still lose your temper. By calling on the name of the Lord you will breathe out your temper and you will breathe in the Lord Jesus. You will exhale your temper and inhale the Lord. Do you want to be holy? The way to be holy is to call on the name of the Lord Jesus. By calling on His name all the sinful, evil, and unclean things will be breathed out, and all the positive things—the riches of the Lord—will be breathed into you.
A. B. Simpson wrote a hymn on breathing the Lord. Let us read some of the stanzas:
O Lord, breathe Thy Spirit on me,
Teach me how to breathe Thee in;
Help me pour into Thy bosom
All my life of self and sin.
I am breathing out my sorrow,
Breathing out my sin;
I am breathing, breathing, breathing,
All Thy fulness in.
Breathing out my sinful nature,
Thou hast borne it all for me;
Breathing in Thy cleansing fulness,
Finding all my life in Thee.
In 1963 I introduced this hymn to some of the saints in the United States. One day, after we had sung this hymn, a dear saint came to me and said, “I can’t understand this hymn. Breathing, breathing, breathing—breathing what? ” He was somewhat bothered. A few years later, after we had published our hymnal, this same saint said to me, “Brother, my favorite hymn in the hymnal is that hymn on breathing the Lord. ”
After the Lord Jesus entered into resurrection, He came to His disciples. According to John 20:22, “He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. ” The Greek word for Spirit, pneuma, also means “breath. ” This indicates that the Lord Jesus was telling the disciples to receive the holy breath. The Gospel of John begins with the Word and goes on to speak of the Lamb and the vine. Finally, in John 20:22 we see that the very One who is the Word, God, the Lamb, and the vine is also the breath for us to receive. On the one hand, He breathed out; on the other hand, the disciples breathed in.
In 20:22 the Lord Jesus told the disciples to receive the holy breath, the Holy Spirit. We should not analyze the breath but receive it by breathing it into us. Unfortunately, many of today’s Christians know only to reason and consider; they do not have any experience of breathing the holy breath. A. B. Simpson was one who knew the experience of breathing Christ in. The opening lines of one of his hymns read, “O Lord, breathe Thy Spirit on me, / Teach me how to breathe Thee in” (Hymns, #255).
In the Gospel of John we have a record of the divine process. The Word, who was God, became flesh. Eventually, having passed through crucifixion and resurrection, He became the holy breath for us to breathe in.
If we see the steps of this process, we will have a proper and thorough understanding of the Gospel of John. According to John 1:1 and 14, the Word, who was in the beginning with God and who was God, became flesh. In verse 29 we see that this Word become flesh is the Lamb of God. On the one hand, He is the Lamb for accomplishing redemption; on the other hand, He is the tree for imparting life. Therefore, we may speak of Him as the Lamb-tree. According to John 15, the branches of the vine are the living of the vine. Ultimately, the Lamb-tree became the holy breath. Hallelujah! In our experience we have Christ as the Word, the Lamb, the tree, and the breath. The Word is for expression, the Lamb is for redemption, the tree is for the impartation of life, and the breath is for our living.
We cannot live without breathing. Instead of saying that a certain person has died, the Chinese say that he has stopped breathing. No doubt, to stop breathing is to die. However, to keep on breathing is to live. No matter how many schools we may graduate from, we can never graduate from breathing. No one can say that because he has become so knowledgeable or mature, it is no longer necessary for him to breathe. Rather, the older a person becomes, the more concerned he may be about his breathing. How marvelous that for our spiritual life we have the holy breath for our living!
Just to breathe the Name of Jesus is to drink of Life indeed! O Lord! When we call out “O Lord Jesus” we receive the sum total of His Person and work - Amazing! This is different than merely praying—call out to Him as though you were a person drowning in the sea—He will save you, actually and practically in your experience! see Psalm 116 —what a blessing to receive and enjoy Him and to “pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ” 2 Tim 2:22
When you have a time with the Lord to confess, do not seek any feeling; just confess and pray thoroughly. To confess is to empty yourself out, and to pray is to receive the Lord into you. Hence, confession plus prayer is a breathing out and a breathing in. We breathe out our sins and breathe in God Himself. A. B. Simpson wrote a hymn that says, "I am breathing out my sorrow, / Breathing out my sin; / I am breathing, breathing, breathing, / All Thy fulness in" (Hymns, #255). Through continuous confession we breathe out our filthiness until all of our uncleanness is gone, and as we breathe out, we also breathe in. As we breathe out our sins, we breathe in God Himself. Thank and praise the Lord that although we are still filthy, He comes to us with His blood as the Lamb-God, the redeeming God. As soon as I breathe out, my sins are gone, and as soon as I breathe in, God comes in. This does not take any effort. As long as I breathe out a little of my sins, I immediately breathe in a little of God. When I confess my sins a little, God comes in to fill me a little. When I have completely breathed out all of my sins, I will be completely filled with God within, completely filled inwardly with the life-giving Spirit as the consummation of the Triune God.
Calling is spiritual deep breathing. Because I am elderly, the doctors have taught me to breathe deeply. Deep breathing is very useful and should be done often. Moreover, the doctors tell me that when I walk, I should not walk too slowly but should walk a bit faster; this will force me to breathe in more air, increase my metabolism, and spontaneously make my body healthy. When we call on the Lord, there will be a spiritual organic effect. There is a hymn that says, "I am breathing out my sorrow, / Breathing out my sin" (Hymns, #255). When we call, we breathe out all our sin, filthiness, sorrow, sickness, and worldliness. We breathe out the things that should not be in us, and we breathe in the heavenly air that we need. As a result, we are saved and healed.
When we talk to people, we must learn to deny our self and take Christ as our life to express Christ. We should not talk with people by our self. We must learn and practice to talk to people by denying our self. Not only daily but also moment by moment, we must practice to do things, to live, to act, and to have our being in Christ, with Christ, and by Christ. We should also learn how to walk by praying to Him all the time (1 Thes. 5:17). While we are going to work, we have to go by praying. The best way to pray unceasingly is to call on the name of the Lord. While you are taking the cross, you have to do it by calling as a kind of instant and unceasing prayer to the Lord. To call on the Lord's name is to breathe in Christ (Lam. 3:55-57). Whenever you say "O Lord Jesus," you really breathe Christ into you.
When the Lord's recovery came to the United States, a brother who had been a preacher turned this way. One day I called Hymn #255 by A. B. Simpson. The chorus of this hymn says:
After we sang that hymn this brother did not understand what A. B. Simpson was talking about, and he told me he did not like this song. A number of years later pray-reading the Word and calling on the name of the Lord Jesus came into the Lord's recovery, and this brother practiced these things. One day I met him in another city and he told me, "Brother Lee, to me the best hymn is #255 on breathing."
Incarnation, death, resurrection, and regeneration are all clearly unveiled in the Gospel of John. However, this Gospel goes on to show us that Christ gives us Himself as the living water (John 4:10, 14), that He is the bread of life, good for eating (6:35), and that He has breathed Himself into us as the Holy Breath (20:22). From the time of our regeneration we need to always eat, drink, and breathe the Lord. To eat, drink, and breathe the Lord are finer steps in His dispensing. Trees need their roots, but without the root hairs, a tree will not be able to grow. The root hairs are the finer means for the tree to absorb all the riches from the soil for its growth. Regeneration has planted Christ as the "root" in our spirit, but we also need the "root hairs" of eating, drinking, and breathing the Lord. These are the finer means for God's dispensing. We may say, "Hallelujah! God was incarnated for me, He died for me, He resurrected for me, and I have been regenerated!" However, we may still be superficial. Day by day we may not be breathing, drinking, and eating the Lord. Hymn #255 in Hymns speaks of our need to breathe in the Lord. We may sing this hymn, but do we breathe in the Lord day by day? Breathing in the Lord will make us another kind of person. Many Christians today are spiritually dead because they do not have the root hairs. All Christians know that God was incarnated and that Jesus died for us and our sins and was resurrected. However, many do not know what it is to eat and drink the Lord. Many of us in the Lord's recovery do know how to eat, drink, and breathe the Lord, but we may not be practicing this in our daily life. We may not know the practicality of the Spirit spreading Himself with our spirit into our soul and saturating our body. We have the teachings of these matters, but we may not have the reality in our tripartite being.
You may say that we have already heard a lot of this kind of teaching in the Lord's recovery, but unconsciously these things seem to have vanished in our living. This is because we have been too deeply influenced by the traditional religious thinking that God is too great, too solemn, and too majestic. Although there is nothing wrong with this aspect, God is also practical; He is breath. He breathes out, and we breathe in; this breathing in and breathing out is life. Hymn #255 speaks specifically about this. Because the writer of the hymn had such an appreciation and experience of the Lord, he said in the chorus, "I am breathing out my sorrow, breathing out my sin; I am breathing, breathing, breathing, all Thy fulness in." This kind of hymn is indeed profound; merely singing it will cause us to be cleansed and be washed from all the spots and wrinkles in our lives. Today if we can learn the secret—to come to the Lord to breathe Him in, to call on Him from deep within, to breathe in this breath of life of the Lord—then our spiritual life will surely be healthy.
In order to learn how to enjoy Christ by praying, we must drop the old way of prayer. Also, we should not pray for business affairs or personal concerns. Instead, pray to praise Him, to adore Him, to thank Him, to behold His beauty, and to inhale Him. Many times we have to pray by groaning, saying, "O Lord, O Lord...." This is the best prayer. The real prayer is not out of us, so that the Lord will do something for us. The real prayer is the Spirit, who is Christ Himself, working and moving within us, that we would open to Him to breathe Him out and breathe Him in (see Hymns, #255). We must offer Him the free way to go out and to come in to express something of Himself.
d. We must build up the habit of living Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ by building up the habit of prayer, the habit of breathing in the pneumatic Christ unceasingly by calling on Him and conversing with Him—Lam. 3:55-56; Psa. 102—title; Hymns, #255.
a. The Spirit is the heavenly air for us to breathe; by exercising our spirit to call upon the name of the Lord, we breathe in the Spirit and thereby receive the Spirit—John 20:22; Gal. 3:2; 1 Thes. 5:17; Lam. 3:55-56; Hymns, #255.
In 20:22 the Lord Jesus told the disciples to receive the holy breath, the Holy Spirit. We should not analyze the breath but receive it by breathing it into us. Unfortunately, many of today's Christians know only to reason and consider; they do not have any experience of breathing the holy breath. A. B. Simpson was one who knew the experience of breathing Christ in. The opening lines of one of his hymns read, "O Lord, breathe Thy Spirit on me, / Teach me how to breathe Thee in" (Hymns, #255).
Experientially speaking, to live by the Spirit is to receive the Spirit by breathing the Spirit into us. Hence, the words since we live by the Spirit mean "since we receive the Spirit." In A. B. Simpson's hymn on breathing the Spirit, one stanza says,
I am breathing every moment,
Drawing all my life from Thee;
Breath by breath I live upon Thee,
Lord, Thy Spirit breathe in me.
Hymns, #255
A. B. Simpson realized the need to breathe the Spirit continually. To breathe in the Spirit is to receive the Spirit. This is to have life and live.