Study Bible: The Message from Zion by Brian P. Hall God’s Halitosis
because I knew I had to be the purest
9 1As we, the children, were told: 2The
one there. 6I believed, with glorious
wind was God’s breath, and entwined in
9:1 Dt 4:9; Dt 6:20-25; Eph: 6:4; Joel 1:3
other children because I spoke to
His breath, we could find His messages to us, the children of God. To hear His
9:2 2Ti 3:16; Jn 3:82; Eph 4:14; Jas 1:6
words all we had to do was follow the instructions of our youth pastors and parents. We had to stand outside the
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breath to sweep over us. If our hearts and minds were pure, we would hear
9:3 Ps 24:45; Mt 5:8; Ps 73:1; Hab 1:13
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we should repent because our sins had
made us deaf. 5
I was convinced I would not be
deafened by sin because the year before,
9:4 Eze 18:30-32; Lk 13:5; Rev 2:5; Lk 15:7
9:5 aRo 10:910; Ac 3:19; Ro 5:6-15; Lk 18:13-14; Mt 7:7; Mk 7:30-37
so I stood in front of all the children
else, I separated myself from the
them, so I would receive the message first, showing that I was special. Before being instructed to
wait for God’s exhalations, we, the children, had been sitting on bales of hay and sweltering under the canopy of the Children’s Ministry tent, which
9:6-7 Col 2:18; Ps 44:8; Pr 22:4
was one of the many tents at Jesus ’88. 9There were many Jesus Festivals—with one even billed as a
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forgive my sins and to live in my heart,
wanted to say something to someone
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at the age of nine, I prayed the sinner’s prayer with my dad, asking Jesus to
anyone at that moment, I knew it
children and stood further ahead of
God speak to us, telling us his plan for our lives. If we did not hear God’s words,
Jesus daily. If God would speak to
would be me. 7But just in case God
Children’s Ministry tent, raise our hands toward God, and wait for His sweet
conviction, that I was better than the
9:8 Ps 40:1; Isa 30:18; Isa 42:14; 2 Pe 3:9,15
“Joyfest Exalting Jesus”—and similar to the other festivals, Jesus ’88 was a