From Bones to Breath I Robert Madu I Social Dallas

oh I feel God's presence in this place today it's different when we come to the factory in Deep Ellum it's different it's different here today hey I'm so glad that you're here can you give me a wave again if this is your first time ever to social Dallas can I see your hand first time ever so glad that you're here welcome so glad you're here for real thank you thank you for pulling up thank you for finding the venue can I tell on you can I tell on the pastors on the pastor's wife she woke

up today and headed towards Gillies amen that's how we get down in these streets we don't even know where we're meeting and we lead the church so give yourself a hand for making [Applause] it oh if you're visiting with us you need to know that every single year we shape our year with a word and our word this year is unshakable and we just believe that a shaky world needs an unshakable church and every single Sunday of this year we've declared Hebrews 12: 28- 29 and we going to do it today in Deep Ellum as

one big family some people going to do it from memory don't be impressed they've been doing it since January okay so we put it on the screen for those of you who don't know it but come on let's read it with loud uplifted caffinated voices you ready 1 2 3 do you see what we've got an unshakable Kingdom and do you see how thank we must be not only thankful deeply Reverend he is torching all that needs to burn and he won't quit until it's all cleansed God him is fire y'all sound good yes sound

good and then to today we are ending our series we've been in a what how many weeks has it been I don't know y'all know I don't know it's been a long time we've been in a series called lessons from the valley and this is the climactic conclusion of this Series has this series been a blessing to anybody have you been blessed by this series you can go on our YouTube page social Dallas YouTube like share subscribe all those messages are still there but this is the final message in that in this series and maybe

the most famous Valley so go with me to Ezekiel 37 today Ezekiel 37 and I want to look at verses 1 through 10 Ezekiel 37 we'll start at verse number one and then we'll land at verse number 10 I'll give you some time to find it especially if you got a paper Bible Ezekiel is in the Old Testament Ezekiel chapter number 37 and we'll start at verse number one if you're ready to read say yeah yeah if you need some time say hold up whoa that's a lot of hold UPS Lord okay I'll wait for

you Ezekiel 37 it declares the Lord took a hold of me and I was carried away by the spirit of the Lord to a valley Valley filled with bones he led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor they were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out then he asked me son of man can these bones become living people again oh Sovereign Lord I replied you alone know the answer to that then he said to me speak a prophetic message to these bones and say Dry Bones listen to the

word of the Lord this is what the Sovereign Lord says look I am going to put breath into you and make you live again I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin I will put breath into you and you will come to life then you will know that I am the Lord so I spoke this message just as he told me suddenly as I spoke there was a rattling noise all across the valley the bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons then I watched as 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 winds son of man speak a prophetic message and say this is what the Sovereign Lord says come O breath from the Four Winds breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again so I spoke the message as he commanded me and breath came into their bodies they all came to life and stood up on their feet a great Army good stuff did you notice

in the text he had to speak the prophetic word not once but twice my sister is here what's up Ashley he had to speak it twice first he prophesied to the bones then he prophesied to the breath I want to preach today at the factory in Deep Ellum for three and a half hours kidding to the visitors they're like is he for real from this thought from Bones to breath from Bones to breath look at your neighbor one last time and say oh neighbor oh neighbor don't be afraid to talk to your neighbor come on

say neighbor neighbor you're about to go you're about to go from Bones Bon to breath to breath just in case that neighbor was stuck up find another neighbor find another Neighbor come on say other neighbor other neighbor I'm telling you I'm telling you you're about to transition from breath breath to Bones b or rather bones Bon to breath God can do it either way if he wants to see how you just got to keep moving just got to keep moving father thank you for your word speak to our hearts today oh God thank you that

you come that we might have life and life more abundantly it's the enemy who comes to steal kill and destroy that being said favor your team America's team the Dallas Cowboys to defeat every stealer from Pittsburgh today in Jesus name everybody said amen you may be seated in the presence of the Lord I felt that [Laughter] from Bones to breath social fam several years ago several years ago uh not long after I graduated from Bible College a dear friend of mine called me on the phone his name is Robbie Robbie grun wild shut out shout

out he called me up and he said uh hey Robert I I need a huge favor man please say yes which don't you hate when people do that don't don't tell me to say yes till you ask me what it is he said man I just got hired at this church in Pennsylvania uh they just made me the youth director at the church he's like I just found out that I've got to do their youth camp like in two weeks it's my first Youth Camp he's like please bro do me a favor would you come

and preach Our Youth Camp I said come on man you know I got you absolutely I'm there this is my boy Robbie this is my roommate my sophomore year of Bible College Robbie and I went to church together matter of fact we went to the same Youth Camp together and we were Youth Camp directors at the same Youth Camp that we went to now this is important to the story because I don't know how you experience Youth Camp but our youth camp was amazing we had incredible youth camp at my church I grew up in

and this is my concept and Robbie's concept of Youth Camp because we actually went to the beach for Youth Camp yes we did we went to the beach went to Maui can you believe that went to the beach yeah yeah no I'm lying galvaston but it was still a beach we would go to the galvaston beach this is what we did at Youth Camp you know during the day you're playing games Red Team blue team purple team and then you go into the ballroom of a hotel that you are staying at you have service in

that Ballroom I got saved every single week of the youth camp and this is my concept of Youth Camp and this is what I'm thinking when my friend who I went to Bible College with said come preach my Youth Camp I flew doing to Pennsylvania I'll never forget it he said I'll pick you up from the airport he pulls up in the church van at the airport with the kids in the back of the van I never forget it I'm in Pennsylvania I get on the church van soon as I get in this kid comes

to the front hey are you our speaker I was like yes back up Cody just go all the way back it was it was a scary ride driving in this van to the youth camp and y'all we are driving for an hour we drive two hours we drive for three hours and all of a sudden we go on this little road that's kind of off to the side and we're winding down this road and I'm looking around I'm like this is odd I don't think there's any hotels in this area and we get to a

wooded area and we stop I'll never forget it I'm still scarred we stop and he says the scariest words I've ever heard in my life we're here I said huh we're here he's like we're here all of a sudden all these kids exit the van they go to the back I see them getting tense and start setting up tents I said whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Robbie I said where in the world is the hotel man this is where we at he said bro I told you it was a youth camp I

said Robbie don't play don't play you went to the same Youth Camp I went to this is not youth camp we supposed to be at a beach we supposed to be at a hotel you know I don't do tents this ain't Youth Camp this is youth camping there's a difference between Youth Camp and youth campaign how you going to put me out here in the woods this look like a movie where the black dude gets killed first why do you have me out here in these streets he said man my bad I'm sorry this is

the way that you use Camp here he's like grab your tent I said no no no I'm not grabbing my tent I'm going home so I'm he's like but wait a minute you're preaching tonight I said no no no I was preaching tonight you got to figure out something at this Kumbaya camp in the woods I'm going back home and I got in the van and I went home I left him that's not true I did it somebody was like really no I I stayed I stayed I didn't sleep in no 10 I slept in

the van and I hated every minute of it I didn't like the environment but I will say that the camp was powerful several young people their life got changed that week even though I didn't like where I was and I remember that moment because I learned a very critical lesson that I believe is pertinent to our text today and that lesson is this you you don't get to quit your god-given assignment just because you don't like the environment of the assignment you don't get to pick and choose what assignment from God you are going to

take just because it's not aesthetically pleasing to you when you get there you don't get to quit on your assignment just because you don't like the envirment of the assignment can I take it further you don't get to walk away from your purpose just because you don't like the benefit package of the purpose I don't know who this is for today but you need to understand that your calling and your comfort are not mutually exclusive we live in a culture where everybody thinks that if God really called me to it then it should be comfortable

it should be convenient I should like the way it feels and I came to tell you that is not true at all that God will often call you to something that does not feel comfortable that you do not like and he wants to see can you be faithful to what I called you to even if you don't like where I called you to because I am more committed to the calling that I am to your comfort and your convenience I didn't expect to get a whole lot of amens right there because we have a comfort

crisis in our culture today that is the new cocaine it is Comfort everybody is looking for comfort and people think that if it's God's call on my life then I would have like the environment to which he called me to love Michael Easter who wrote a book called The Comfort crisis and he says this in I quote most people today rarely step outside of their comfort zones we are living Pro in progressively sheltered sterile temperature controlled overfed underchallenged safety netted lives and often your destiny will be on the other side of your discomfort and if

you're always looking for comfortable environments you might miss out on your assignment here's the question can you fulfill your assignment in a foreign environment let me bring it to the text can you get your vision in a valley of dry bones that is what is before us in our text today in the Book of Ezekiel Let the church say Ezekiel Ezekiel The Book of Ezekiel is a strange book The Book of Ezekiel is a bewildering baffling apocalyptic mysterious book y'all I'm telling you the Book of Ezekiel is different it is completely different than any other

book in the Old Testament often when I preach I am trying to elicit hunger for the word of God in you when I preach you'll hear me when I preaching sometimes I'll say oh read it when you get to the crib I don't know if I want to say that about Ezekiel because Ezekiel is different matter of fact I could take a poll today at the factory and ask people what is your favorite book in the Old Testament I'm willing to bet anything now one of y'all be like Ezekiel I got my life verse in

Ezekiel Ezekiel is different it is mysterious Ezekiel is filled with visions from the Lord Ezekiel was filled with apocalyptic literature there are things that Ezekiel prophesied that still hadn't even come to pass today it is crazy in the Book of Ezekiel can I just say it like that it's weird it is a weird weird book in the Bible it's interesting because you have to understand that even Jewish rabbis whenever they were training young pupils they would tell them don't read the book of Ezekiel to the age of 30 because of the deep Mysteries that are

in the Book of Ezekiel but I'm going to do the best that I can today and try to break down this text that is found within the Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel was a young man who was born to be a priest that was the lineage of his family but it ends up functioning as a prophet how in the world does somebody who was born to be a priest end up functioning being a prophet because you don't get to pick the environment of your ass assignment here he is supposed to be functioning as a priest in

the temple but yet there is no Temple for him to function in because the Book of Ezekiel is exilic literature this is where he is writing to a people who have been taken from their home they are in Exile they are in Babylon they've been taken captive and Ezekiel has been given the assignment to preach and to prophesy to a people who are far from home they've lost their place of Home they've lost the temple y'all it's one thing to be intense out in a camp and at least have the hope of I'm going go

home like I did it's a whole another thing when you get out there in the camp with the temps and God says hey this is home now this is where the children of Israel were they were in captivity and God watch this strategically put them there God says the reason you have been taken captive is because I orchestrated your captivity your dis obedience to me is what got you in the position that you're in it's quiet in this Presbyterian church today cuz we don't like that aspect of God's character do we we only like the

aspect of his character who's like oh come on in it doesn't matter what you've done come get a hug and come get some love I'm a God of Grace it's okay come under my wings as I cover you yes he has Grace but he's also a god of Holiness he's also a God that has a stand and all of a sudden the children of Israel through years of rebelling against God find themselves being in sold by God into captivity woo that's a scary but safe place to be I would rather obey God and never have

to go into captivity but if I do get sold into captivity at least I'm under his hand at least it's his hand that put me there and this is where the children of Israel are this is who Ezekiel is prophesying to if you study their Rebellion you can really really categorize their rebellion in three categories it was their idolatry it was their immorality and it was their ingratitude that's what got them in a place of captivity I'm saying one more time for the people in the back it was idolatry it was immorality and it was

their ingratitude how many know that is a trifecta of apostasy that is still alive today it's a slippery slope the enemy would love for you to fall into idolatry which ultimately lead to immorality and ultimately lead to ingratitude towards God idolatry is whenever you put something above God it is when you find your fulfillment and your identity in created things rather than the Creator that idolatry will ultimately lead to immorality because whenever you disorientate your worship all of a sudden you will find yourself in the behavior that follows whatever you actually worship so idolatry always

leads to immorality and then that immorality always leads to ingratitude because whenever you're living immoral you're living for pleasure and you're doing whatever you want to do and you are never going to be grateful for what you feel entitled to this is too heavy I should have gave y'all some bubble gum and so ultimately you go to this place of ingratitude towards God and it is a slippery slow hope that the enemy still uses on people today to get you to elevate things equal to or above God in idolatry which will lead to your immorality

which ultimately lead to your ingratitude and this is what you see all throughout the Book of Ezekiel and Ezekiel is the prophet who has to speak against the children of God and let them know this is why you've gotten here no wonder his name mean God strengthens it takes the strength of God to bring hope in a hopeless situation it takes the strength of God when you're the only one standing for righteousness when people have been unrighteous it takes the strength of God to be light in the midst of darkness and this is the prophet

Ezekiel it's interesting because his story opens up with all these Visions from God these Visions I'm telling you y'all don't go to the crib and read Ezekiel y'all when you see these Visions you think Ezekiel is smoking on something with these visions that he has read I'm telling you it's eel chapter 1 it opens up with him getting this Vision that has all these animals these four creatures that have four faces and they got wings and then they got little hands underneath the wings y'all this is weird Stephen King ight shamalan stranger things stuff this

is a vision that Ezekiel is getting and then all of a sudden you see a throne the Throne of God and the glory of God is emanating from the throne this is the vision that Ezekiel gets but we see something different often the Throne of God would be stationary but that's not what Ezekiel sees Ezekiel sees the Throne of God and there are wheels on the throne of God and on the wheel there's a wheel inside of the wheel now we talking about rims dog rims are in the Book of Ezekiel and then on the

wheels are eyes everywhere eyeballs on the wheels on the throne of God and if you read the book of Ezekiel from a surface level it looks like this dude has lost his mind it looks like he's been smoking something it looks like the vision makes no sense at all why would the throne and the glory of God Be On Wheels with eyes but when you dig down deep into the text you remember that he's in a foreign land he's in Babylon he didn't pick the place but God had him in the place and in a

place that he wouldn't have picked for himself he gets a vision of the Throne of God that's sitting on some Wheels with eyes what are those eyes saying that your God is omnipresent that your God sees everything why is the throne on Wheels cuz God is trying to let you know that my presence cannot be relegated to one place I can show up anywhere I can show up when you're in Babylon I can show up when you're in Jerusalem my glory can shine when you got freedom my glory can shine when you're stuck in captivity

my glory cannot be relegated to one place my Throne is on Wheels and it'll show up anywhere I wish somebody in Social Dallas would testify that the glory will show up at the Factory The Glory will show up at dillies the glory will show up at stra Square when 300 people get baptized in an open heaven and go from Death to life and his glory will show up cuz it's not relegated to a building his throne is on Wheel I wish somebody that knew his glory could show up anywhere would take at least 10 seconds

and give God the best praise that you got his glory look at this God got a throne on Wheels thank God God that his presence is not relegated to one place he can show up anywhere oh he can show up at Target if you'll Praise Him in Target he can show up in that cubicle with that coworker that gets on your last nerve I dare you just one of those days just to turn up the volume of your worship right there in the cubicle and start giving God pra and watch his glory show up so

Ezekiel gets a vision of the glory of God and his his throne on Wheels he gets another Vision in Ezekiel chapter number three gets another vision and I love this Vision because the glory shows up in this Vision too matter of fact let's look at it Ezekiel chapter 3 it says then the Lord took a hold of me and said get up and go out into the into the who Valley into the valley and I will speak to you there oo let's pause God speaks in valleys if you didn't get anything out of the serious

that's something to take hold right there that God does not just speak on the Mountaintop if you will tune in your ear to what he's saying he will speak to you in the valley and I will speak to you there so I got up and went there and I saw the glory of the Lord just that I had seen in my first Vision that's the one with the eyes and the wheels by the cabar river and I fell face down on the ground Oho I like that I like when God gives you a vision in

the valley and the vision is of his glory I love Ezekiel chapter 3 give me the valley give me his glory in the valley I like valleys for the glory in Ezekiel 3 I don't like Ezekiel 37 where you put me in the valley not not with Glory but with dry bones Jesus I'm cool with the valley that has Glory give me chapter three all day chapter 37 why in the world would God lead me to a valley full of dry bones y'all it's October y'all know Party City had them in the front aisle I

had to I had to why in the world would God watch this take me and strategically allow his Spirit to lead me to a valley of dry bones question does the spirit of God always lead you to places you want to go you say no but I am confused cuz every time I hear people talking to church about where the Spirit Led them it's always to these beautiful palacious places it's always it's always like it's always like a Cabo it's cracker barel It's Always Somewhere beautiful with beaches and biscuits and God all the spirit always

leads you to a raise I mean anytime you don't like somebody oh I feel like the spirit is leading me on to something else the moment somebody at church actually tries to tell you that that's actually not the culture here oh see I'm leaving I feel the spirit leading me to another church one year you've been on your eighth church this year in Dallas cuz the spirit has led you to another church how how does the spirit only lead you to places you want to go because when I read the Bible the spirit leads people

to places they do not want to go the spirit leads people to environments they would not have picked for themselves the spirit leads people to youth camps where they thought they were going to be at a hotel and a beach and they're sitting on a van trying to to get killed by a bear that's where I find God leading people oh if God always leads you to places you want to go you must be better than a whole lot of people in the Bible you must be better than Jonah where the spirit led him to

go preach the gospel to some ninevites yeah the people that you don't like guess what your haters need the gospel too and Jonah had to realize that God will lead you to places you don't want to go and even when he tried to fight it God said okay you don't understand I speak fish I will make sure you get to the place place that you're supposed to go cuz my spirit will lead you into places you wouldn't pick for yourself you better talk to the Apostle Paul who wanted to go into bethenia and wanted to

go to Asia but the spirit would not let him go to where he wanted to go instead the spirit led him to Macedonia and when he got to Macedonia there was no welcome committee saying we're so glad you're here he did not get an honorarium matter of fact they threw him and his partner Silas in a prison after he had been led to a place that he didn't pick for himself but in that prison at midnight when he could have complained when he could have said God I'm sick of this when he could have said

God I shouldn't go through this instead he decided to start giving God praise and God said that's the sound I'm listening for right there I want to see somebody that'll go wherever I tell them to go and even when they get in the dark place they still know how to give me praise and that's why the presence of God got in that jail and broke them free yeah does does the spirit only lead you to places you want to go do you only get visions that just so happen to fit your own things you like

I just don't find it in the scripture Peter gets a vision act chapter 10 he gets a vision of all these unclean animals and his little kosher self is like oh God no I can't eat that that's unclean God says don't you ever call something unclean that I call clean and the Spirit Led his little Jewish behind right to Cornelius house and he got a revelation that the same holy spirit that moved in you is moving in Gentiles too just the spirit only lead you to places you want if the spirit only leads you to

places you want to go you better than Jesus because the spirit led him into the Wilderness still had the water coming off of him from the Jordan River of baptism and the spirit led him into the Wilderness where for 40 days he was tempted by the devil the Bible says that the hand of the Lord came he didn't have a choice and took Ezekiel and dropped him in a valley full of dry bones allow me to use my exit itical imagination can you see this Valley full of Bones it's interesting because God doesn't even just

drop him off in the vision he takes him back and forth throughout the valley as if he says I want you to see the full Carnage of this Valley here is Ezekiel being led by the spirit of God to a dark Valley that is full of Bones you understand the valley alone would have been offensive to Ezekiel in that culture the epitome of Dishonor was not to have a proper burial but this valley of dry bones speaks to the fact that whoever was here did not get buried they died in that Valley and their flesh

was eaten by animals bones scattered all over the valley by the way how many bones are in this Valley this seems to be the slaughtering of a massive Army you understand the average Army would have been at least 20,000 people in ezekiel's day every single human has 206 bones that is 4 million bones in the valley with no life in it and God says I want you to see it reminds me of us you ever been driving and get stuck in traffic and here you are in traffic annoyed cuz you were already late and as

you're in traffic you're like man this is ridiculous is it a wreck man and all of a sudden you're driving you're stuck you're stuck and all of a sudden when you get up to where the wreck is you realize why everybody was driving slow you was annoyed they were stopping and here you are wow and you look at a car that has been turned upside down and all of a sudden you're wondering what happened are they still alive ladies and gentlemen this is the scene of these Dry Bones every bone tells a story bones are

biographies they tell a story of life that once was oh you don't believe me all your pastor watches is Forensic Files and CSI D it blows my mind it could be a cold case and they dig up a shallow grave and they find the bones and the remains and sure enough from the bones they can tell sir oh yeah this was her this was him Bones tell the story bones are the aftermath of a place that once had life I know clearly that God is talking about the children of Israel who have been scattered bettered

and feel like they've been cut off they are the bones but can we keep it 100 have you ever felt like your life was a valley of dry blones that there is a place in your life that once had life but all of a sudden the life has become dry bones bones are proof that there once was life some of you right now if you're honest about your marriage it is a valley of dry bones no communication disconnected and dry and there used to be life oh come on they used to be life come on

I do the weddings nobody stands at an altar and goes I give this like three years but go ahead it once had life and all of a sudden now you sleep on the couch she sleeps in the bedroom you've developed a dry bone system of no communication what's funny is your gramam looks like it's popping welcome to the life we live in today cuz you have curated this image of life and vitality but in the crib it's dry bones some of you it is your financial situation that has become a valley of dry bones there

used to be a time you didn't even think about it you be like man ship Shopper come on door Dash bring it Chipotle $85 come on bring that and now all of a sudden one phone call from your boss one change in the organization now you're looking at every penny and you don't know how you going to pay your next bill and it is a valley of dry bones maybe it's a relationship maybe it's just you can we talk about it have you ever felt like you were personally in a valley of dry bones have

you ever felt dis disconnected from you psychologists actually have a term called disassociation yeah it's where you feel disconnected from your own thoughts and your own feelings and you don't even recognize you anymore and this Association generally comes after trauma it's the way we handle trauma we just disconnect and some of you you feel like you're in a dry Valley with no hope it's a valley of Despair this is where Ezekiel is and it is in this place that God led him to that God then after he makes him assess the situation watch this ask

him a question now that you've seen the dry bones God says I got a question for you can I be honest I got annoyed when I heard the question because if I'm in a valley of dry bones and God's gonna speak to me God give me an answer don't ask me 21 Questions when I'm in a dry place okay when I'm in a dry Place God if you going to speak to me I need a word of encouragement say something like these bones may endure for a night but joy is coming in the morning give

me a word of encouragement why in the world in a dry place would God ask Ezekiel a question this ain't the place for questions and yet God comes to him in a dry place in a place of disconnection and ask him a very critical question son of man can these bones live again God will ask you a question right at the moment of a dry place he will ask you the right question people think God has all the answers I am convinced that God has all the questions God will ask you the right question at

the right moment and understand when he's asking you a question it's not because he's trying to get information don't forget he's got eyes on Wheels he knows everything he knows the end from the beginning God never ask you a question to get information but he will ask you a question so that you can get a revelation of where you are he wants to know do you realize that nobody can fix this situation but me do you realize that nobody can bring life to this but me have you finally reached the end of yourself where you

realize your friends can't fix it your money can't fix it your connections can't fix it I am the only one that can bring life into this thing that is bad and I want to know do you know I'm the only one that can fix it W God wants to know do you know he's the only one that can bring life into the thing that is dry some of y'all can't cry out to God yet cuz it hadn't got dry enough you're in the valley of corpses so you're like oh I'm good I'm good it's not

that bad yeah you're in a valley that has bones that aren't dry they still a little moist so you're like oh it's fine it's fine but can I tell you keep on living life will bring you you to a place where you realize nobody can fix this no doctor can do it no friend can do it no family member can't do it I can't survive this one through Grandmama's prayers I got to find some prayers of my own on this one right here I can't survive this attack on the preacher's word I'm going to have

to get in the word of God myself God will make sure you reach a place where you're desperate enough to cry out to him where you don't have a backup plan you don't have anything but to respond the way Ezekiel responded oh yeah son of man can these bones live again and look at ezekiel's response I want to meet Ezekiel in heaven and give him a high fire for the dopest response to a god question in all of the Bible because Ezekiel doesn't say no they can no they can't God this is too much Devastation

this this marriage can't come back together I I can't be free from this this is who I this is who I am he doesn't say no which is proof that not all hope is lost I'm hoping that somebody hadn't responded to the question of God by no way life can come to this he doesn't say no he also doesn't say yes which blessed me too cuz I've been raised in church and boy church people people will spit out some Christian EES to you real quick oh I'm telling you some of us if we were if

we were in that Valley we were like of course it can live again you are the alpha and the Omega the first and the last the beginning and the end there is no God Like You Yahweh there's not a doubt in my mind that you can bring these bones back together I trust you boop yes I [Music] do and many of us we hide behind spiritual language cuz we want to deal with the real issue that we're facing we hide behind spiritual language and we put up this fake front cuz we think faith is to

not feel so I'm fine yeah I'm good are you sure it seems like you're in a valley no not a valley God's going to turn it for his glory my story for his glory I'm fine are you sure God is good I know he good are you good all Ezekiel doesn't give a Christian these answer look at what he says he doesn't even say Lord you know he says oh Sovereign Lord Sovereign Lord you know Sovereign y'all I got stuck on that Sovereign because by saying Sovereign Ezekiel was confessing that this looks bad I don't

know how this can come back together again I don't know how you going to connect the femur to the patella I don't know how that skull over there is going to get connected to this vertebrae over here I don't know how you going to fix it but there's one thing I know you are sovereign you rule and you Reign this situation might be out of control but God I know your character you are not out of control Heaven is your throne the Earth is your foot stol I wish somebody would thank God for his sovereignty

that he rules that he reigns that God has never had a panic attack that God knows who he is he is Sovereign and I want to testify that it is his sovereignty some nights that has been my sanity because God I don't understand it I don't know why they walked away I don't know how they could stab me in the back I don't know why I'm going through this but I know one thing you are sovereign you are in control you are God and I am not so Sovereign Lord you know I don't know I

don't know I don't know how this comes back together I don't know how you going to make a way and provide the resources for a building I I don't know how we can meet the needs of a city that's dealing with all kinds of social issues that make me scratch my head I I don't know but there's one thing I know oh Sovereign Lord you are in control and you know you know and when he said that God goes I can work with that Honesty here's what I want you to do watch it Ezekiel I

want you to stand over those bones and declare the word of the Lord Ezekiel don't get on Instagram and get an opinion poll about the condition of the bones don't give facts or stats about the bones here's what I want you to do don't give your opinion about the bones Ezekiel declare what I tell you to declare declare the word of God over those Dry Bones who am I preaching to today somebody is facing a situation that seems hopeless it seems dark it seems like it's a valley of dry bones and God told me to

tell you you better square up your shoulders and start declaring the word of God over that you better declare the word of God over that marriage and said the two have become one flesh I come against every demonic assignment that's trying to destroy this marriage you better speak the word of God over your child and declare that children are an inheritance from the Lord like arrows in the hands of a warrior so shall my children breath I call them back to you God speak the word of God over that dead situation speak it over that

dead finances and said he is Jehovah Gyra my provider my daddy owns the cattle on a thousand hills my job wasn't my source it was my resource you are my source God Speak Life Speak Life speak the word of the Lord over those dead Dry Bones can I give you a warning that when you start speaking life to Bones be prepared to look ridiculous yeah be prepared for people to look at you like you have lost your mind cuz they don't understand how in the world are you speaking of something that is so dry that

is so dead it is obvious to them that no life is there but I dare you to just start declaring the word of the Lord like Ezekiel did cuz watch what happened when he started declaring the word of God all of a sudden there was a rattle as he started speaking then the rattle came oh God some of y'all are waiting to hear the rattle before you start declaring the word of the Lord it don't work that way baby you better start declaring the word of God and as you start speaking it stuff will start

shaking stuff will start shifting stuff will start moving in order but you got to speak it before it ever [Applause] happen he starts declaring the word of the Lord and a rattle a rattle a rattle oh yeah happened rattling Bones start coming up don't forget it's not like these bones were strategically laid as perfect skeletons on the ground it's chaos everywhere but all of a sudden as he's declaring the word of the Lord bones you start coming together things start getting connected the toe Bon found the foot bone and the foot bone finds the leg

bone and the leg bone found the backbone and the backbone found the shoulder all of a sudden here come a skull connected to a ver stuff started moving I bet he was ducking as he was declaring cuz sometimes it looks crazy when stuff is coming together but keep speaking God I feel your presence keep speaking the word is coming together keep trusting him he's moving things [Applause] together you see stuff coming together and all of a sudden his bones are flying and Dio is ducking and declaring oh who's that for every once in a while

you got to duck and declare I got to duck what's coming at me and still declare the word to the Lord he's ducking and declaring and all of a sudden Them Bones Them Bones Them Bones them B Bon them y'all it's October Party City had them I had I had to I had to any other month I had I had to all of a sudden all of this became [Music] [Applause] [Music] that how does this become [Music] that declaring the word of the Lord not your opinion not what you feel the Declaration of God's word

brought that which was chaotic into order oh yeah [Music] this is the system of God that when you come under his word it turns chaos into structure that the word of God is a transforming agent that when you come under it stuff goes from chaotic to structure that's what happened in Genesis in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness chaos covered the face of the deep the spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said and as he spoke the chaos turned

into Cosmos hear me today some of you are trying to live your lives outside of God's word and still have structure and peace and it doesn't work you're trying to bring order and structure to your finances and you won't trust them with the tide yeah you won't live a life of generosity but you want structure in your finances you want structure and order in your spiritual life but you have other gods before him the idolatry which is what got the children of Israel in the place that they were the idolatry of your career the idolatry

of your kids hear me anything can be an idol Idols aren't just evil things Idols can be good things that you've made the ultimate thing and you've put it above God and God says I will share my glory with no one so God says come under my word so that there can be order and structure I wish that was the final step but he prophesied side twice yes sir first prophetic word was to the structure to the order come under the word of God the second prophetic [Music] word is to the breath because what good

is structure and order with no life of the spirit what good is structure and Order without a spirit filled life ladies and gentlemen this was the Pharisees they had the first five books of the Old Testament memorized they had all the word structure and order but still dead sir this is how some of people's lives are especially in Texas in Dallas the Buckle of this Bible Belt the stronghold of religion here's what the enemy would love you to just go through the routine of religion and still be [Music] dead come to church worshiping As Dead

As this skeleton come to church doing all the perun things a form of godliness but you've denied the power thereof y'all you you can be a skeleton and be doing devotions every day in the word posting it on your page but there's no no life there's no vibrancy there's no new real relationship with God that's why you got to open up your mouth and say God I'm not just coming under your word but Lord I'm prophesying again I need fresh wind I need fresh Spirit Holy Spirit fill me again today come on I wish you

would get up on your feet even right now make that your prayer Holy Spirit fill me again fill me fresh I don't want to just go through the routine I need a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit when that winds started filling those bodies that is the Hebrew word ruach that's the same wind that filled Adam and put the breath of lives on the inside of him that is the same Mighty rushing wind that filled some Believers in an upper room and all of a sudden they started speaking in tongues as the spirit gave them

utterance you don't just need the bones you need the breath of the Holy Spirit from Bones to breath the order and the word is not enough Holy Spirit if you don't breathe fresh into me I'm going to ask every head be bowed and eyes be closed today Holy Spirit fill us again fill us again when he prophesied to the wind it went from bones to breath to an army God is raising up an unshakable army but this Army cannot be stuck to religion and forms of godliness we cannot have structure and systems and no fresh

wind of the spirit we need that second word that says fill me again father we declare over this house today an army that is filled with your spirit father that means we have to be uncomfortable sometimes not knowing what the next step is but we trust your spirit to order our steps Holy Spirit Wherever You Lead wherever you guide we follow we follow you fill us fresh fill us fresh fill us fresh come on would you just make that your prayer right now come on even right where you're standing would you ask the Holy Spirit

to fill you fresh again fresh wind come on if you got a prayer language just begin to open up your mouth and start praying in that prayer language right now if you want to receive a prayer language I believe even right now God will feel you feel you without anybody laying hands on you he wants to feel you fresh again come on just begin to open up your mouth and ask the Holy Spirit feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me fresh feel me

fresh feel me fresh today God feel me fresh me come on if you need the wind to fill a dry Place me fill us up Lord me fill us up again me up come on make this your prayer me up me me dry bones we prophesy disconnected things come together today God we prophesy to the bones and we prophesy to the wind God that dead things come back to life God raise up an army raise up an army that is filled with your spirit come on God feel me up God feel me up me oh

God God feel me God feel me me up God me up he me up God he me [Music] up fill us up father from Bones to breath to an army [Music] from Bones to breath to an army from Bones to breath to an army God thank you that you speak even in a valley God we trust you we trust you today Jesus thank you Father thank you Father come on I want to do this if if there's a dead situation in your life that you need order and structure and the wind of the Holy Spirit

to come to you I just want you to get out of your seat and come find a place up here at the front I'm just believing that as you move bones are moving together I'm believing that as you take a step of faith God is moving on your behalf come on don't worry about what anybody else thinks if there's a situation that is dry if there's a situation that is dead come on we sang it earlier this is a House of Miracles get as close to this altar as you can and we're just going to

cry out to God thank you Jesus come on if you got to walk down from the balcony and come to the front come to the front Holy Spirit fill God we speak to dead things we speak to dry things come on get as close as you can get as close as you [Applause] can if there's a dry thing if there's a death thing I want you to get as close to the front as you can thank you Jesus come alive in the name of Jesus Come Alive come alive name of Jesus this is the house

this is the house of everything in the of Jesus everything in the name of Jes this is a house of Mir come on open up your mouth and declare it this is a house in the name of Jesus come alive in the name of Jesus this is the house of Mir to the Fe of Jesus everything in the name of Jes this is the house of I still your I still believe your s God I believe your work all than to God I fix my eyes on Heaven God I receive your vision God I believe

in your word all things to God I believe I still believe God I still believe you're speaking I need your wor all things to God I my eyes fix my eyes on I receive your I believe your work all things come on say Come Alive come alive in the name of Jesus come alive in the name of Jesus this is House A Mir we bring everything to the feet of Jesus everything in the name of Jesus this is we sing Come of Jesus come alive in the name of Jesus this is a house C and

we bring everything to the feet of Jesus everything in the name of Jesus this is the house of Mir come alive in the name of Come [Music] Alive come on as you worship things are coming together things are coming [Music] together as you worship things are coming together the bones are coming together breath is coming into those bones as you worship as you cry out to him it's coming [Music] together the name it's going to come all of a sudden it's going to come all of a [Music] sudden to come all of a sudden TR

come it's going to come all of [Music] su it's going to come out another sun it's going to come all of a su it's going to come [Music] all it's going to come [Music] all it's going to come [Music] all it's going to come all of [Music] thank you Jesus father thank you that you're taking us from Bones to breath God I'm praying for my brother and my sister who needs the strength to speak your word over the dead things God I pray that we would have the strength to keep declaring till we hear a

rattle God we trust you you are [Music] sovereign the situation might seem like it's out of control but you are not out of control you are in control oh Sovereign Lord you know you know only you know Sovereign [Music] Lord we will continue to prophesy and drive alley believing that you're not only connecting the bones there's a fresh wind of your spirit breathing [Music] life thank you for your presence Jesus thank you for strength to Hope again we're in the valley but we have not lost our hope cuz we haven't lost you you are Our

Hope Jesus and you're with us in the valley you'll never leave us never forsake us we stand on your word I want to do one more thing just with heads bowed and eyes closed today we say something that we said for a long time at Social and that's you can always come home never want to have a service where we don't give somebody an opportunity to respond to Jesus maybe you've been trying to bring order and structure to your life outside of Jesus and you wonder why it keeps falling and keeps failing cuz there is

a God who loves you who sent his only son to die on a cross for you and to come under his word is to see your life go from the chaos to the cosmos to structure and order doesn't mean everything will be perfect we live in a fallen world but it does mean that your soul has been saved and redeemed so with heads bowed and eyes closed today if you're here today I don't care if it's just one person and you'd be worth it you say hey I've never surrendered my life to this savior but

today today I need to give all that I am to him if that's you I just want to give you that opportunity would you lift up your hand high enough and long enough to where I could see it just to say hey that's for me I'm coming home today I'm giving Jesus my life yeah I see hands all over this place thank you man thank you for resp responding when you hear him calling hear me that's something that doesn't stop when this service ends so whenever he calls you whenever he speaks he just wants you

to respond to obey doesn't matter what it looks like what if Ezekiel would have said it's ridiculous to speak to these Drop Bones doesn't make sense he would have miss seeing the miracle in the valley anybody else just respond to this savior who loves you so much and say today's the day I need to give him my life let me see your hand thank you Lord can we pray this prayer as one big family we're all going to say it but especially those of you who responded would you say this from your heart say Jesus

Jesus I need you I need you I cannot do life without you you are my life you are my so today today I'm responding responding to your word to your word and your word says word that if anyone will call on the name of Jesus they will be saved so Jesus I believe that you lived the life that I was supposed to live and you died to death that I was supposed to die you took my place so my response resp is to give you everything forgive me of my sin Make Me brayo From This

Moment forward I'm walking with you from Bones to breath to an Army in Jesus name come on somebody say amen and would you give Jesus the best praise that you got oh come on praise him like there's an Army in this place today