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Have you ever felt like your bones were all dried up and your hope was gone, cut off from life?
Exzekiel 37: 1-14 tells us that’s exactly what the children of Israel felt like when God instructed Ezekiel to prophecy over a bunch of dry bones.
God brought Ezekiel to a place full of bones and asked him if he believed the bones could live. The man of God acknowledged that only God knew that answer. I honestly don’t know if he was being humble or if it was a lack of faith. Either way, he trusted the outcome to God.
God didn’t berate him or put him down. He gave him a job to do and Ezekiel obeyed.
“Tell these bones they will live again.” No matter how impossible it seemed, Ezekiel took a step of faith and he spoke the truth God gave him over the situation.
When Ezekiel trusted God and spoke the truth, “…breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet–a vast army.” (vs. 10)
God told Ezekiel as sure as he breathed life into the bones, he would bring the Israelites back to their home. And then they would know he was the Lord.
He told them: “I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it…”
And as we trust God with the outcome and speak the truth over our situation, we will see God do the impossible as He breathes life and hope into us.
Which is hardest for you?
Acknowledging God’s sovereignty in your situation
or speaking the truth about it?
Can you have one without the other?
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Angela, God wanted me to read this today, to refresh my weary and parched soul from the stressful challenges of the past 7-9 months. Along with Ezekiel 37, He took me to ~ "The Lord will always lead you. He will satisfy your needs in dry lands and give strength to your bones. You will be like a garden that has much water, like a spring that never runs dry." Isaiah 58:11
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Merrie, Thank you for sharing that scripture. Sometimes I wonder how I can write and truly believe and try to live by something then later the very same day fall flat on my face trying to live it out. I needed to hear that part about satisfying my needs in dry lands. I need a "trust transplant"-straight from the heart of God!