THE WORD GIVES LIFE: Devotion for Wednesday May 11, 2016
Text: Ezekiel 37:1 – 14 Memory verse: v 7
Many lessons are in this biblical passage especially when we feel discouraged in life. It shows us the power of God over hopeless situations. It also reveals the power in God’s word and inabilities in man. God alone is the one whose word stands. The bible says in Lam 3:37, “Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, when the Lord has not commanded it?” God used this revelation to illustrate how He will restore Israel from their hopeless situation in captivity to glory in their land (37:12–14). God likened the spiritual dead situation of Israel at that time to dry bones.
Your church may seem like a heap of dry bones to you, spiritually dead with no hope of vitality. But just as God promised to restore His nation, He can restore any church, no matter how dry or dead it may be. Rather than give up, pray for renewal, for God can restore it to life. The hope and prayer of every church should be that God will put His Spirit into it (37:14). In fact, God is at work calling His people back to Himself, bringing new life into dead churches. On the other hand, your spiritual life, your business, your marriage, etc, may be as dry as bones and there seem to be no more lives in them. Never mind, God is able to turn it around. Go to Him in prayer today.
Food for Thought: God has answers to dryness in our physical and spiritual lives.
Prayer: Lord God, cause life into any dryness in my physical and spiritual life.
2. God revive everything in your church especially where I worship.
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