GLEANS - HOPE FOR DRY BONES

TOPIC: HOPE FOR DRY BONES

TEXT: Ezekiel 37:1 - 11

The condition the nation is now is similar to what the children of Israel were in the text above. Everyone is asking "IS THERE HOPE"? A new experience is coming into everyone's life. 

The situation changed from dryness to freshness.

When Ezekiel prophesied, he said, "Hear ye the word of the Lord". As you hear the word of the Lord, your life will change.

God gave him the word and he prophesied as commanded. Ministers of the Gospel must be faithful. Ezek 37:10 “So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.”

When he prophesied, the bones and flesh came together, yet they were lifeless. We are not through until He is through.

Your weakness will vanish away, your problems will evaporate.

POINT 1: HELP FOR HOPELESS SOULS

Job 11:13 – 19; Matthew 15:21- 28; 1 Chronicles 4:9, 10; Acts 27:20

We came to the retreat seeking something. Make up your mind to get something. Do not just be in the spectators’ corner.

There is hope.

God is saying, “You are coming out of darkness”.

There is help for hopeless souls. Before God can do anything for us, we must believe that He will and can do it. God changed the situations of women with children, men with children, young men who called upon Him. It is done as you call on God.

POINT 2: THE HERITAGE OF HUMBLE SONS

2 Chronicles 7:14; 33:12, 13; Micah 6:2 – 8; Luke 15:17 – 24, 7

We are to humble ourselves and not wait until someone does something that humbles us – that is humiliation.

We pray because we are humble. We pray because we cannot help ourselves. Religion, churchianity, profession will not save us. Only God can. If your life must change, you must come to yourself, like the prodigal son did.

Pride will compare one’s morality with another. Do more than intend, act!

POINT 3: THE HEART FOR A HIGHER SUMMIT

Psalms 61:2; 42:1; 62:11; 63:1; Jeremiah 29:11, Hosea 10:12

Our prayer should be "Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I"

The power to change you belongs to God.