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Scripture:
Ezekiel 37: 1-10
(NIV) – “The hand of
the Lord was on 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,
‘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,
breath, from the four winds 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.”
Message:
I
was
brought out, by the hand of
the
Lord
Delivered by the
Spirit, to a valley below
In the wide
valley, dry bones did lay
Scorched by the
sun, the
heat of the day
I cast out
my eye, over them bones,
Filled with dry
dust, Dead as the stones
My sovereign Lord
spoke, bade me display
Prophesize His
word, to the
bones on the
clay
As I obeyed, my
God's command,
I
heard the
bones rattle,
come together
and stand
He
covered
them
bones,
with
new
flesh
and
skin
Filled them with
breath, from the four winds
Before
me, invincible,
a vast
army
stood
The
whole house of Israel, my
God had
restored1
Prayer:
Dear
Lord, I pray
you can
restore me,
just as
You did them Dry
Bones. Amen!To
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“The Valley of Dry Bones” by Dennis
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