Ezekiel 37:1-13
Has Gods spirit ever led you to a valley of dry bones? Dry people? Dry environments? Has he ever tested your faith by asking you to resurrect something from the dead? Do you believe that you have the authority and power to do so?
I’m here to tell you, that you do.
In the book of Ezekiel, chapter 37 the first thing that we can see in verse 1 is the hand of the Lord was on him, and he was brought out by the spirit. Let’s just start right there.
First of all - it doesn’t say the enemy brought Ezekiel to a valley of dry bones. So my question is have you ever been taken to an uncomfortable place and complained because you did not believe God meant to bring you there?
The problem is, is that sometimes God wants to stretch us and he wants to stretch our faith but we don’t like being in dry places because dry places don’t thrive. But if God brought you there and has his hand on you, what do you think your purpose is in the dry place ?
In verse 3 we can see God asking Ezekiel if he believes that these dry bones can live. We know that God is all knowing so it’s not a matter of him sincerely asking Ezekiel, it’s a matter of him testing his faith. Ezekiel responds with “Lord God only you know“ because even if Ezekiel could not physically see it, he knew that God could.
But here is the catch, God then tells him to prophesy to the dry bones. He is telling Ezekiel to activate his faith, and he’s telling him to speak the word of the Lord to these bones. The power of life and death is in the tongue, and what more powerful way to speak life into something.
Question:
Are you prophesying and speaking the word of the Lord in your dry valleys?
See because verse 7 says that he prophesied as the Lord had commanded.
Question:
Are we listening to the Lord or are we choosing to complain about our circumstances? or about what it looks like?
Ezekiel starts to prophesy, and he starts to see the vision that God had given him. He starts to see the manifestation of the outward appearance. The bones start rattling, they come together, the tendons appear on them, the flesh starts growing. God is showing him in the physical realm what he’s about to do. I believe that if we are obedient to God, and begin prophesying to a dead thing, a dry thing that he would begin to allow it to thrive physically so that our physical eyes and minds would believe. But it is not only for our belief, it is also for the belief of the unbeliever.
BUT - Although we can see now, there is still one thing missing. The breath of God must dwell in these dry places so that it may be sustained. Which means even though we can see, the process is not yet complete, because it is lacking the breath of God. Nothing can truly come to life until we breathe into it, just as God breathed into Adam.
For example you can have a business, you can have the storefront, but if you have no inventory, you will not thrive. You will not survive because you are empty. Make sure that when you begin to prophesy you don’t just have an an empty shell, but you fill it so that it may succeed.
Ezekiel did all the things that God told him to do and because he did that, including breathing into these dry bones a vast army stood before him. Ezekiel had enough faith and hope in God that he knew what ever he was doing, God had his hand on him. See because when we don’t have hope we become dry.
Verse 11 says that the bones dried up because the hope had perished.
We know that hope deferred makes the heart sick. We also know that we are called to walk through the valleys and speak his word with his authority. Don’t get stuck in the valley of dry bones, complaining. Don’t allow your bones to dry up with the rest of them. You were not intended to stay there - you were sent on a mission to assist God in opening up a grave.
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