FAITH CAPSULE: None as God is power.
Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 11:1-44
Power belongs to God.
His power is command, His word, and none like God.
The command of God is in His word.
God must be known as the only one and true God.
He is an attention-seeking God who deserves all the attention from all.
God made His Spirit to set Ezekiel up in the valley of dry bones.
“The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry.” (Ezekiel 37:1-2)
The bones that Ezekiel saw were dry and lifeless.
God did not just expose Him to the valley of dry bones; He positioned Him to ask him if the dry bones, the lifeless bones, could have life again.
God asked Ezekiel, “And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” (Ezekiel 37:3)
Ezekiel responded to the question by God, “…So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” (Ezekiel 37:3)
Every given answer is the evidence to the level of one answering.
As a believer, do you know God? God knows how to bring back to life what the enemy has taken away.
God responded to the response of Ezekiel, giving them a command to speak life back into the dry bones.
Ezekiel did the word of God he prophesied, and the dry bones regained life.
Ezekiel 37:10, “So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.”
Just as Ezekiel received His command, Jesus has given His word of command to every believer today.
His command is the authority invested in the word.
Those who know themselves in the Lord (not those who know about Him) allow the Spirit to set them up to believe and receive God, doing exploits to the glory of God.
Daniel knows God.
Daniel 11:32 buttressed, “…but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.”
The command of God is in His word, the authority that is not deniable.
The same command that called forth Lazarus from the grave for four days. (John 11:43)
Ezekiel allowed the Spirit of God to set him up where God wanted.
One that will allow the Spirit of God to set such up where He wants and not where one wants, the same power will flow for all.
God is true and faithful by His word.
Ezekiel knew better by confessing that ‘God knows.
Making consistent confession that ‘only God knows’ will make the difference in the life of a believer today.
Prayer for today: Ask that obedience to the word of God shall be established in you.