The Lord shows me things. That can seem weird to some. But it’s a usual day to day walk in my life with the Lord.
Not all the time is what I see “good things.” I use to always think something was wrong with me. Honestly, I would repent every time. I thought if I saw something that was not “good,” to me, meant I must have been doing something “bad.”
I am no longer combative with the Lord or myself over things I see now. But, it did take time for me to learn who I was in the Lord and how He was using me.
I felt this next bit might help someone else who might be struggling with the same things. Because at some point, someone else is marching out into their Day One of learning and becoming who God has called them to be.
Tonight I heard a message on Ezekiel and the dry bones, and it got my gears turning.
Ezekiel starts out by telling us the hand of the Lord came upon him and took him out in the spirit. This is a vision.
Imagine a valley filled with scattered, sun-bleached bones—dry, lifeless, and hopeless. That’s the scene God showed the prophet Ezekiel. This is an eerie valley. It was not pretty. The imagery of the dry bones in Ezekiel’s vision is stark and unsettling. The bones lay on the surface of the valley, like the remains of corpses denied a proper burial and left for scavenging buzzards. This is not something we would classify as “good” to see as man or woman.
But, Ezekiel 37:1–14, God, through this vision, brings both a historical promise and a timeless message of HOPE.
God is giving a prophecy of hope. Inside this ugly, messy place Ezekiel is being shown, there is HOPE!
As God leads Ezekiel through this eerie valley and asks, “Can these bones live?” Ezekiel, unsure, replies, “Lord, you alone know.” Then God tells him to prophesy to the bones: “Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.”
As Ezekiel speaks, the bones rattle and assemble, covered with tendons, flesh, and skin. But they’re still lifeless—until Ezekiel prophesies again, calling breath (God’s Spirit) from the four winds. Suddenly, the bodies stand up, a vast living army!
I just want to encourage you, when you see the dry dead ugly places in life, we are shown to release a prophetic cry of HOPE into an area that is currently hopeless.
When you see the ugly, and God says to prophesy His word, know, it involves speaking truth to power, exposing sinful practices, and guiding people towards God who is the author of HOPE!!
The act of prophesying is not just informative but transformative
In Ezekiel 37 and the Vision of the Dry Bones, “prophesy” refers to the act of Ezekiel speaking or proclaiming God’s message under divine command, delivering words that carry God’s authority and power to effect change or reveal His will.
Prophesying here is not Ezekiel’s own words but God’s message spoken through him. It’s a direct communication of divine intent, as Ezekiel acts as God’s mouthpiece (Ezekiel 3:4, “Speak my words to them”).
It isn’t on you to have the words. When God says to speak, he provides the words.
The Hebrew word used for “prophesy” in Ezekiel 37 is nāḇāʾ. This verb, means “to prophesy” or “to speak as a prophet” under divine inspiration. Prophesy was a command to speak with divine inspiration, proclaiming what God wants to make known, which was, before now, unknown.
“If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God’s Word into our sermons; even if we paraphrase it into our own words, it must still be his Word upon which we place our reliance, for the only power which will bless men lies in that.” (Spurgeon)
