Back in October 2019 BC (before coronavirus), when we’d only been back home for around 7 months, we published a blog entitled Dry Bones. If you didn’t read it then, or want to familiarise yourself with it again, you can click here.
We still believe that what we wrote at the time is still true and relevant to our journey, in fact, we can testify that we’re walking in those truths. We’re not saying that gloss over the facts, the struggles and the heartaches that we’ve faced over the last 5 years, or that we’re facing today!
Re-reading Ezekiel 37 again, we believe that God has spoken again through the passage. God speaks to Ezekiel in the valley! We often imagine that we receive revelation in our “mountain top” experiences with God, but He often chooses the valley to speak. He doesn’t always lead us to places that we want to go to, He will often call us to what is uncomfortable. If we knew that our destiny was on the other side of discomfort, would we be willing to start the journey? Would we have started the Time2 journey approximately 7 years ago, if we’d known how long and difficult a journey it would be?
Have you noticed, that God often asks questions? He doesn’t do it to get an answer, it’s to enable the other person to get a fresh revelation. In the case of the dry bones - He’s the only one who can bring life into the bones. Ezekiel doesn’t say, No, but more importantly he doesn’t say Yes. He states that only Sovereign Lord can! It’s a statement that says ‘I don’t know how you’re going to do it, but I know that you’re Sovereign’. He’s showing honesty and openness, two qualities that God can work with.
We continue to declare out Time2, because we believe that He has given us the vision of a home of rest and relaxation for church leaders. We continue to speak to the vision, even though it looks like a valley of dry bones, even though to many people we are ridiculous. In the story of Ezekiel, the valley didn’t just contain nicely laid out skeletons, it was piles and piles of bones, that would have been scattered and disturbed by animals and weather. When he heard the rattle, it would have been as bones began to move, to find other right bones to be connected to. We believe that God is putting things in place, but not all the right bones have been found yet. But the other thing we noticed was that Ezekiel had to prophesy to the bones and then to the breath to bring life to the skeletons.
Ezekiel would have missed the miracle in the valley, if he hadn’t spoken the words that God gave him. God is with us in the valley! We speak breath and life over Time2.
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