"Speak to the bones!" God said to the prophet.
Can you imagine what Ezekiel thought? Speak to them? God, if You want something said to skeletons why don't You just do it?
But Ezekiel obeyed and said, "O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord."
And they did! Bone came to bone, flesh came on them.
There was no life in them, however, and Ezekiel's next assignment amazes me more than prophesying to the bones.
The Lord said, "Prophesy to the breath." Later in the passage we're told that the breath he was prophesying to was the Holy Spirit.
God didn't say, 'Prophesy by the Holy Spirit,' nor did He say, 'Prophesy for the Holy Spirit.' God said, 'I want you to prophesy to the Holy Spirit.'
Ezekiel did and the Spirit of God did what a man told Him to. Incredible!
Did the prophet actually command the Holy Spirit? Not really. He wasn't commanding God; He was commanding for God.
As has been God's plan and heart from the Creation, He was partnering with man.
Father and Sons, Inc. managing the planet! God working through the prophetic declaration of a human being.
Who can fully understand such a thing?"
Today’s Prayer Note: #108 Prophesying to Bones and Breath, taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (pgs. 227, 228)
The next Prayer Note: 1/22 Talking to the Wall: Prayer Note #109
Today’s quote: Oswald Chambers - “Intercession means getting the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray, that is what is meant by ‘filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ’; and that is why there are so few intercessors.” Sept. 16, pg 537, of his Devotions for MORNING and EVENING with Oswald Chambers]
Our thought for today: Joyce Meyers says, "Be willing to do whatever God asks of you and watch what happens!"
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