Thursday, February 26, 2026

The Valley Of Dry Bones

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 see

Dennis Stevenson - To see 2 of 2

1.     “The Valley of Dry Bones” by Dennis Stevenson.  1995 © Copyright.  Used by permission.

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