Participate In Revival

Intro

Intro

thank you for having me honor the generation that has gone before me and it’s truly humbling to be now partnering with you.

I honor Pastor Drew and Tamera to entrust me with sharing my heart with you guys tonight. I was sharing with some of the parents but it is such an honor to teach your kids the bible every Sunday. I remember when I was first asked to start my training to teach the kids. I was telling my wife they asked me if I wanted to teach the kids I went on to tell her how amazing it will be to share the stage with this man and women of God. So Pastor Drew asking me to speak tonight is honoring and humbling because he’s my spiritual father

Ezekiel 37

Ezekiel had seen desolation come upon his people so when God asks Him, “Can these bones live?” Ezekiel gives a good answer saying o lord you know. Like subtly telling God that he’s the only one that could make them live.

This reminds me of Jesus asking the blind man what he wants. Of course, he wants to see Jesus, wants to see where his heart is. Out the heart, the mouth speaks when the disciples come to Jesus while He is sleeping on the same boat they are freaking out on they asked Jesus where are you?! Jesus responds to you of little faith. When the blind man in luke 18 says I want to see and he says your faith has made you well.

37 The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. 3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” Eze 37:1–3. The dry bones represented an utter hopelessness of someone who just flatlines on the scene of a medical emergency we have hope that CPR or a deregulator could ressocate them but a valley of bones that are strewn across it? that’s utterly hopeless. Scholars believe that one of the reasons Jesus waited so long to go raise up a friend that had died is because in the culture there was a certain number of days that it would take for the soul to leave the body.

what is your response? What are you expecting God to do? Maybe He’s asking when are you young ones that have strayed from God coming back to church. O God you know! Maybe He’s asking when is addiction falling away, when is anxiety turning to peace when is depression turning to joy when is a family restoration coming?! O Lord you know

4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. 6 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ” Eze 37:4–6.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. Eze 37:7–8

9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ” 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. Eze 37:9–10.

CONNECT VERSE 8 TO VERSE 4+5 There was no breath in them. There are people out there that have all there bones and muscles attached but they are lacking breath. In verse 4+5 we can find the missing ingredient that brings very dry bones to have flesh and take it a step further and give life, was the word of God

John 20

11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves. 14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’ ” Eze 37:11–14.

So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” 26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” 28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Jn 20:25–29.