Day 8—Revive All

Ezekiel 37:11–14 (NIV84)
Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord…

Yesterday we began a new message series at Harvest that we are calling “Revive All.” We are believing that this series along with our 21 Days of Prayer will bring about both revival and a “revive-all” in every one of our lives. The revival will come as we put God first in our lives, and as we continue doing what we learned last week from 2 Chronicles 7:14—humble ourselves and continue to walk in humility, pray continuously and earnestly, and pursue God’s manifest presence every day as we turn away from anything in our lives that is contrary to his word and will for us.

But God not only wants us to have revival in our lives, he wants to “Revive All” in our lives.

In Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel is taken by the Spirit into the middle of a valley filled with dry bones. It must have been a gruesome sight for the prophet—parched human bones scattered as far as he could see. God would soon explain to Ezekiel what the scene represented. 

“These bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.” The Lord later would add that it was because the people had forgotten that he was the Sovereign Lord, and that there was nothing that he could not do. He could (and he would) raise them up. It was his desire to “Revive All.”

Could you fill in this blank with a bone from your own life battles?

“My ____________ has so dried up that I’ve nearly lost hope that it could ever be alive and vibrant again.” 

It could be your relation with God or another person, your marriage, your finances, your business or practice, your family, your dreams.Take the time to write down the area{s} in your life that you would complete the sentence with. Put a name on it. And get ready to declare the word of the Lord to it this week. Get ready for things to begin to come together like these bones did. Whatever you wrote down, you can declare on the authority of God’s Word, “These bones will live again!”