You Will Live!

Earlier this week, the Lord lead me to a piece of scripture that I have not been able to shake. This happens to me often. It's as if God calls upon me to share it with a particular person or group, and until I do, it remains stirring in my spirit.

Yesterday evening, while I was at church for Thursday Night Prayer, it was there that God lead me to share the scripture. Words can not properly describe how this piece of scripture came alive in that place as we began to apply it directly to so many areas of life.

This morning as I awoke and began my daily activities, again, I felt God's prompting to share the same piece of scripture...this time with all of you.

Please, read the words slowly and carefully. God has a message for you this morning through this.

Ezekiel 37
1-14

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"

"I said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know."

Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, "Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord."

So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live." So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet--a vast army.

Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, "Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off." Therefore prophesy and say to them: "This is what the Sovereign Lord says; O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from 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, declares the Lord."


May each of you be encouraged by the hope that is found in Jesus! He's saying to you that He will open the graves, bring you up from them, put His spirit in you, and YOU WILL LIVE!

To this, I say, "Yes Lord, Yes!"