Back from the grave

Ezekiel 37
“The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones. He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out.”

This vision from God represented to Ezekiel the condition of the nation of Israel. Desolation, Death, Division, and Dried out. In a nut shell Israel was in bad shape.

As you read this passage today the vision takes upon a similar but different interpretation:

If you were able to see everything going on in just this city you would get a similar vision. But in this vision God would begin to show you and the people of your city beat up, raped, high, killed, mugged, abandoned, depressed, alone, forgotten and angry.

If God were to open your eyes and you were able to see these things you would become overwhelmed.
But God didn’t stop at just showing Ezekiel the condition of the city he then asked the question: Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?”

What God was asking Ezekiel and he is asking of us today is “is their any hope?” After Ezekiel saw everything he saw he answered the only way someone could answer: “Only you know God. “

God asked the question to reveal the obvious!!! The only way that this city, state, nation, world can ever see a significant change is through God.

And God’s next action displayed how things are going to change. HE USED A MAN!!
And he is still using men and women today to PROPHESY HIS WORD TO THE DRY BONES!!!



You must get ready in:

1) Your identity: stop copying what you don’t want to become.
2) Your speech: God’s word must be on your lips
3) Your heart: detach yourself from THINGS and attach yourself to God.
4) Your standard: become an instrument of righteousness.
5) Your resolve: let this conviction be in your heart. IF NO ONE ELSE WILL GET UP THEN GOD MUST BE READY TO CHANGE A NATION THROUGH ONE MAN!!!
6) Your passion: this means pursuing God even if you don’t feel like it. You pursue him not because of feelings but because.

Your friends around you are crying out “Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there's nothing left of us.'

And God through you is going to say: “God, the Master, says: I'll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I'll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you'll realize that I am God. I'll breathe my life into you and you'll live. Then I'll lead you straight back to your land and you'll realize that I am God. I've said it and I'll do it. God's Decree.'"

There is a hope and it comes in the shape of people proclaiming Gods message.

Will you rise and prophesy? God is waiting for you and so is a city….