Speak To Your Dry Bones

One of my favorite sermons is by first lady Milagros Nuñez from the book of Ezekiel.

She says Ezekiel means, “‘God will strengthen’ and if you read the book of Ezekiel you will find God had to strengthen him. The purpose of his book was to speak a word to an exceedingly sinful and hopeless generation, but through his prophetic ministry, he attempted to bring them into immediate repentance and into confidence into the distant future. So he in turn taught six points:

1. God speaks through human messengers even in defeat and despair.
2. God’s people need to affirm his sovereignty.
3. God’s word never fails.
4. God is present and can be worshipped anywhere.
5. People must obey God if they expect to receive blessings
6. God’s kingdom will come”

In Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel is in the middle of “a valley of very dry bones.” Which is odd considering, a valley is normally filled with water. When God showed Ezekiel the valley of dry bones, God told him to do something– prophesy. In other words, he had to open his mouth and speak. The bones were not going to come to life on their own and that’s why his part was so important. God did the work of putting the bones together and covering them with muscle and skin, but the bones would not live unless Ezekiel prophesied. His obedience caused the dry bones to come to life. So,

“Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 37:4-6

In this season of the pandemic, fear has been silencing a lot of voices. This is not a new strategy for the enemy but in this season the stakes are raised. Fear is all over and instead of speaking what God wants us to speak, we have been verbalizing fear. But as we saw with Ezekiel, the Lord wants to bring to life the dry bones in your life. But no ordinary words will do the trick. You need to speak His words. Notice that the Lord gave Ezekiel the words to speak.  “Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord!” And He has given you His words to speak which are in His word. Now is the time to speak His word over the dry bones in your life because He wants to bring them to life. 

It’s being said that, the Word of God spoken out of our mouths is as powerful as the Word being spoken by God Himself. The silence must come to an end. No matter how impossible your situation seems and no matter how great the giants appear to be begin to speak out what God has told you to speak. 

Speak the words He has given you in the secret place.

Remember Lazarus. 

He had been dead for four days by the time Jesus reached him. All hope of him surviving had been lost and to everyone, it seemed like Jesus was too late. There was nothing that could be done but to bury him and that’s what happened. 

Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here so that they will believe you sent me.” Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in grave clothes, his face wrapped in a head cloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”

John 11:40-44

But as Jesus spoke out, he prophesied, to the dead Lazarus and he came back to life. For the impossible to happen, Jesus had to speak out. 

He shouted out with the authority He had been given by His Father.  For the dead bones to come to life you need to speak out His Word. As sons and daughters of the God Almighty, you have the authority to speak to the dead situations in your life. 

Do not let fear keep you silent any longer but prophesy. 

The time is now to see the manifestation of God’s power and glory in your life, in the people around you, in your state, country and world. 

Declare His word and see the dry bones in your life come to life.

God bless you.

This article is based on a sermon by Pastora Nuñez. Listen to it here.