Let us take a look at both words ‘Quickening’ and ‘Spirit’ and find the true meaning behind this name.
Quickening means
1) To give life, make alive.
2) It is to cause to live, to restore life.
3) A pregnant woman is said to feel a ‘quickening’ when she first feels life in her womb.
4) It is used as a metaphor of seeds being quickened into life, as with germinating.
For the word Spirit:
1) Refers to Spirit (of God)
2) Spirit (of Christ)
3) Spirit (of truth)
4) Holy Spirit, third Person of the Trinity
When we put the two words together, we have Jesus as the Quickening Spirit, as He quickens us ‘alive’ by taking us from death to life spiritually. Jesus, by His life saving power can spiritually arouse, invigorate and restore the life within us. We are dead in our sin, but the Lord, as a Quickening Spirit gives life, gives joy, and gives inner peace.
The Lord desires to make each of us alive unto Him. He desires to fill us with His Spirit, that we will experience the quickening of the Holy Spirit working within us. Jesus is the one who gives life, the Quickener, and He gives it by the power of the Holy Spirit. One writer has said that: “the Holy Spirit is the medium through which the Mediator, Jesus Christ, mediates.”
The Amplified Version of I Cor 15:45 reads: “…the first Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit (restoring the dead to life).
My Prayer: Father, thank You for sending Jesus, our Quickening Spirit, who breathes life into us through the Holy Spirit. I pray each one reading this will be blessed, quickened and filled with the fullness of You, our living God. I pray this with thanksgiving in the wonderful name of Your precious Son, Jesus Christ, our Quickening Spirit. Amen
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