November 25
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VALLEY OF DRY BONES
A poem by ILMA
He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor
They were scattered all across the ground and were completely dried out
Then he asked me, “Can these bones become living people again?”
“O Sovereign LORD,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”
Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones
So, I said, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD!
The LORD says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again
I will put flesh and muscles and cover you with skin and breathe life into you.
Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley
The bones of each body attached themselves as complete skeletons
Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones
Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.
Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the wind”
The Lord says “Come, I breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.”
So, I spoke the message as I was told and breath came into their bodies
They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.
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MEMORY VERSE
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! – Ezekiel 37:5
Read: Ezekiel
This prophecy of the Valley of the Dry Bones was spoken to the Israelites by the Lord God himself through the prophet Ezekiel. It is a great promise of God to his own people to restore them from their spiritually dead state into full life again.
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REFLECTION
• How can believers hold on to the hope of the promise of God that he can restore even dry bones are have been dead for many years?
• How can we focus on God’s power to resurrect dead and dry bones into life again?