“Then
he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones and say to them, Dry bones, hear the
word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will
make breath enter you, and you will come to life’” (Ezekiel 37:4-5, NIV).
The Lord knows the reason you are in your valley. He
has lessons that you can only learn in the place where you find yourself at
this moment. He may have allowed this valley, but He does not want you to
remain there forever. That valley is not your promise. In the valley you may
tell yourself that this valley is what God wants for you, but He wants you,
like David learned in his own despair, to speak life to your place of dryness. When
you regard the valley as your due, you will never climb out of its dryness. When
you speak life, your valley is filled with encouragement and hope. You can rise
from the ashes and the ruins and come to life in Him!
You have been called to see with the eyes of His
Spirit. You have not been called to see things as they are, but to see things
that are not as if they were. If you keep professing what you see with your
physical eyes, you will never climb out of your valley. If you settle in your
valley and wrap yourself in misery, you will continue to walk in fear. God does
not want you to have a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Prophesy
to your spiritually dead bones to come to life! Speak life to that place of
dryness where you have settled. Speak life to your dry hope, and life to your painful
past. David’s life was forged for greater glory in his valley because he
learned to encourage himself. He walked out in God’s perfect timing fired for
His purpose. Allow God to forge you for His greater purpose. Speaking life in
your valley brings the greatest victory. Rise in the lesson you have learned,
and walk out of the dryness of defeat to know the sweet joy of victory.
©2017 Lynn Lacher
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