Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: The Breath

(03-20-2022) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=The Breath=

*Ezekiel 37:1-4
"1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.

+No life

2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

+Very impossible to live

3 He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know."

+is there any probability that they shall live?
+can any ways and means be devised, or any methods taken to cause them to live?

"Sometimes God puts us in a very impossible situation, for us to see our limitations and understand that only God can do the impossible."

+He is acknowledging that God is All-Knowing and All-Powerful"

4 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

+Preach the Word and believe that there is power and life in His Word.

5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.

+Revival comes only from God.

"Revival is restoring life to something that had been long dead."

6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' "
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

+When God restores, He puts things together in the RIGHT WAY.

8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

Hebrew: "ruah" --> Breath, Spirit

+Flesh without God's Spirit is dead.

9 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' "

"Ezekiel was commanded by God to PRAY, to boldly prophesy to the SPIRIT to come upon those on whom the Word of God had worked. Without prayer and the work of the Holy Spirit we cannot have results."

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet--a vast army.

+He prophesized and prayered for the work to be completed.

"The bones were not revived to become a group of spectators or to live for their own comfort. They became an EXCEEDINGLY GREAT ARMY. They live to act under the orders of the one who gave them."

11 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.'
12 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, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.' "

+When the Lord speaks, He will do it.

B-elieve in the power of God's word.
R-evival comes from Him.
E-very restoration us completed through preaching and praying.
A-ctivate the revived life God has given you.
T-ogether we become God's Army.
H-ighest adoration and glory to God.