Sunday
05-10-2026
By: Brenda @
God Says:
“Speak Life – Not Death”
I came across this on Facebook today, and it stirred something deep in me.
I added to it because the message is too important to rush past, especially for anyone who has been staring at something in their life that feels long gone, dried up, or beyond repair.
Ezekiel was not standing in a valley of fresh loss. He was not looking at a recent battle. He was surrounded by bones that had been dead a long time.
Dry. Scattered. Hopeless.
Ezekiel 37:1-2
“The hand of the LORD came upon meand brought me out in the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was fuller 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.”
That detail matters.Very dry means-
No pulse. No sign of life.
No logical reason to hope.
And right there in the middle of what looked completely finished God asks Ezekiel, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
That is the moment of confrontation.
Because most of us answer that question with our eyes, not our faith.
We see what is dead.
We see what has been broken too long.
We see what we already buried in our hearts.
Dead dreams. Dead relationships.
Dead passion. Dead faith.
Dead places inside us we stopped praying over because disappointment felt safer than hope.
But God was not asking Ezekiel to agree with the valley.
He was asking him to agree with Heaven.
Ezekiel did not analyze the bones.
He did not rehearse the loss.
And he did not explain how long they had been dead.
He simply opened his mouth and he prophesied what God told him to speak.
And then the impossible started moving.
Bones came together. Breath entered bodies. And what looked hopeless stood back up again.
Some of us have spent too long staring at what died.
We replay the damage.
We rehearse the disappointment.
We talk more about the valley than the God who stands above it.
But God never told Ezekiel to build a camp in the valley and mourn forever.
He told him to speak.
To speak life.
To speak truth.
To speak what God says, not what the situation looks like.
If God can raise a valley full of dry bones, He can breathe life into anything you thought was over.
Your story. Your calling. Your family.
Your faith. Your future.
Whatever it is…
Nothing is too dry or dead for the breath of God.
Oh, how God loves us ❤️
Dear Father in heaven,
Thank You that You are the God who restores what looks beyond restoring.
You see every valley we walk through.
You see every dry place, every silent season, every part of us that feels too far gone.
Today may we choose to agree with Your Word instead of our circumstances.
Teach us to speak life where we have been speaking defeat.
Teach us to prophesy hope where we have been rehearsing pain.
Breathe on the places in us that have grown dry, weary, or discouraged.
Raise up what we thought was finished.
Revive what we thought was lost.
Restore what only Your hands can restore.
May we trust You, Father.
May we remember You can make dead things live again.
And may we thank You in advance for the testimony that will rise from our valleys.
In Your Son’s precious name, Amen.
Have a blessed day
God loves you ❤️
and so do I ❤️
Excellent, edifying, and a strong message of encouragement mixed with a challengeto persevere. Let us keep our eyes on the things above, not on the things of this broken world. In Christ, our Father has blessed us with real, tangible hope.