Dead spots

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Look at dem bones! 

 

EZ. 37

37 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. 2 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. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 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.’”

7 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. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 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.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: 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. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 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.’”

 

This is a prophetic word spoken to Israel and I don’t want to stretch the meaning or proof text this - but I do think there are things that we can glean from it.

First off, you may have things in your life that seem to have fallen apart and are dead…

hopes, dreams, jobs, relationships, business plans, health, 

and it may seem in fact that these areas of your life are dried up…

You know sometimes in life we have things that we just don’t realize until much time has passed that “hey its dead, there is no life in this” - that is a great place to be, because God works in the dead spaces in our life when we give them to him.

What does it take to have a miracle? an impossibility… or a dead spot if you will.

 

Why does he bring dead things back to life? He says why… so that you know that I am God and in the chapter previous it is also stated so the world knows he is God. God loves to show off in our dead places. When you can’t take any credit, but to say “only God could do that”!

 

We also see that even when things come together, a plan a business a relationship an opportunity -whatever it is… without the Breath of Life- the breath of God in it, its still dead. How many of you have seen a corpse? Still has the skin, tendons, lungs, muscles, bones etc… but no life because it does not have the breath of life in it. 

WHEN GOD BREATHS ON SOMETHING… THINGS HAPPEN. BUT EVEN IF YOU HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER AND GOD HAS NOT BREATHED LIFE INTO IT… IT WILL LAY DEAD FOREVER. 

 

v. 9 come four winds and breath on these bones…? 

The four winds are referred to in the context of extraordinary events or situations as foreseen by prophets, made known to select persons by God in the form of visions, or revealed by Jesus Himself to His disciples.

The four winds are sometimes associated with the four corners of the earth or the four quarters of heaven. 

The power of the four winds of the Bible is tremendous, both figuratively and practically. It can churn the great sea, it can uproot and scatter powerful empires (Daniel 7:2, 8:8, 11:4, Zechariah 2:6). The combined power of the four winds of heaven was to be deployed against the nation of Elam, to scatter the people in all directions (Jeremiah 49:36).

On the contrary, in another situation of a positive nature, the four winds were called upon to gather together and breathe life into the slain so that they may live (Ezekiel 37:9). But of greater significance is the reference to the four winds in the events that would occur when the Son of Man returns in His glory (Matthew 24:31, Mark 13:27). He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other, or from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

 

• The powerful NORTHERN wind (accompanied by lightning) that brings rain, growth, and increase,
• The warm wind from the SOUTH that brings peace, quiet, healing, and comfort,
• The strong and dry EASTERN wind that scorches, devastates, and separates, and
• The wind from the WEST that drives off the devourer and brings relief and the promise of ‘rain’ of blessing and transformation.

 

What is the point? You can speak Gods word over your life, over your dead spots and ask God to send his powerful breath of life, his powerful wind of life into your situation. Wether it is completely dead and strewn around in piles of dry bones or it is perfectly fit together but has the life of a mannequin because it has no life…

doesn’t matter - prophesy Gods word from scripture into your dead spots! Expecting him to act on his word and do what he says he will do!