Matthew was 17 years old when he collapsed during a high school football game. Fortunately, his parents, who were on the sidelines and knew cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), saved his life. CPR is an emergency procedure that involves manually compressing the chest, which pumps blood through the heart, and breathing into a person’s mouth or nose to push air into the lungs. CPR is estimated to have saved more than two million lives since it was developed in 1960.

And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Ezekiel 37:14

As a believer in Jesus Christ, you can perform spiritual CPR. Paul wrote in I Thessalonians 5:11: “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up.” In a world filled with so much negativity, choose to breathe words of life into others with whom you interact each day. Speak encouragement, love and hope. Share God’s Word. Offer to pray when there is a need.

When you perform spiritual CPR, you allow God’s Spirit within you to rescue people who may feel lifeless inside or are facing what seems like a dead situation. Also pray that other Christians would infuse hope in this nation by speaking words of life at every opportunity.

Recommended Reading: Ephesians 4:25-32