revive 2010: day 22

The Valley of Dry Bones

¹ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ² He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. ³ He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know."

⁴ Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! ⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. ⁶ I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' "

⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ⁸ I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

⁹ Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' " ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

ezekiel 37:1-10

LORD God we thank you for the word you spoke to Ezekiel. we thank you for highlighting this passage to intervarsity a year ago, and we come into agreement with it once again. God i'm asking that you will raise up Ezekiels in the intervarsity community this year to prophesy to dry bones. would your Word be in our mouths, and as we speak, would it bring life into dry and dead souls.

Father i'm asking for the intervarsity community to be obedient to your command to prophesy. i'm asking that your people will not take your command lightly, rather, we would be obedient to proclaim your Word--the gospel, to proclaim truth and life into a campus, a generation that is in need of it.

God i'm asking that this year will be marked by one where a spiritually dead campus was revived because your people, by faith, prophesied life into it. i'm asking that our words, actions, and prayers according to your Word will breathe life into dead souls, and reap the greatest harvest to come to UCSD.

let your people breathe life, God. where there is depression, brokenness, suicide, hopelessness, let there be life. let your people walk in the confidence that you have given us, that as we prophesy, through your Word, and your Spirit, we can breathe life the way you breathed life into Adam. thank you for the authority given to us through your Spirit. help us to walk with confidence in the power of the declaration of our word. give us the Spirit of prophecy in Jesus' name.