Wide Awake – Week 2

August 8, 2021

 

 8.8.21  –  Brandon Shanks (Senior Pastor)

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21 Days of Prayer 

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Fall Small Group Leader Orientation

This Saturday at 10am – Immediately following prayer

 

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(Hosea 2:15) I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope.

 

Message Title: “Answer the Question”

 

√ I wish I could tell you that if you serve God you won’t go through the .

 

√ God does his best in the valley

 

Ezekiel 37:1-3 God grabbed me. God’s Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun. 3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

 

√ Know that God is in the valley

 

√ The is for the valley

 

√ In the valley God invites us to in the process.

 

#1 See The

 

Ezekiel 37:3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

 

(2 Kings 4:16) “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!” “No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”

 

(2 Corinthians 4:16-17) Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

 

#2 Check Your

 

I said, “Master God, only you know that.”

 

4 He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones: ‘Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!’”

 

Matthew 9:20-21
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

 

#3 Get

 

5-6 God, the Master, told the dry bones, “Watch this: I’m bringing the breath of life to you and you’ll come to life. I’ll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You’ll come alive and you’ll realize that I am God!”

 

#4 Don’t Too Early

 

7-8 I prophesied just as I’d been commanded. As I prophesied, there was a sound and, oh, rustling! The bones moved and came together, bone to bone. I kept watching. Sinews formed, then muscles on the bones, then skin stretched over them. But they had no breath in them.

9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, ‘God, the Master, says, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breathe life!’”

10 So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army.

 

 

11 Then God said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they’re saying: ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there’s nothing left of us.’

12-14 “Therefore, prophesy. Tell them, ‘God, the Master, says: I’ll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I’ll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you’ll realize that I am God. I’ll breathe my life into you and you’ll live.

 

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