LIfe where its not possible

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Today we read about the valley of dry bones in chapter 37:1-15. This vision speaks of the restoration of Israel - it is a vision of hope. In the vision God creates life where there is none. He creates life where there is abosolutely no hope for life - from a pile of dried up old bones.

I love this vision, because it reminds me of how much power our God has. It reminds me that when God comes into a situation seems abolutely hopeless and impossible, the impossible becomes possible. We serve a God who breathes, and new life is created (Genesis 2:7). We serave a God who can take the dead and bring them back to life. My favorite story is that of Lazarus in John 11: 1-44. Lazarus wasn't dead, he was dead dead. So dead that when Jesus asked them to remove the stone from th entrance of the grave, the people where concerned because he had been dead long enough that as the King James Version says, "he stinketh".

Friends, perhaps you are facing a valley of dry bones in your life. Maybe your situation seems so dead and hopeless that it has started to 'stinketh'. I want you to know this day, my friends, that there is still hope. With God there is always hope, no matter how dead your situation is. He is the God of hope. He is the God who creates new life. He is the God who is the restorer of life. If your situation is so dead that it stinks, may I suggest that it is ripe for God's glory to be displayed in it.

You see God loves impossible circumstances because God loves to show off his glory. He loves to step into the impossible and make it possible. He loves to go beyond the beyond of all we asked are imagine so that we get to see his glory. If you read the story of Lazarus, when Jesus tells his disciples that Lazarus is now dead, he says, "and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe". When Mary protests about the odor of one who has been dead for four days, Jesus replied, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you would see the glory of God?"

Perhaps it is time to look at the circumstance, the dream, the desire of your life that seems dead in a new light. It is not dead, but rather dry bones that are waiting and ready to live in the instant God commands - in the minute he says breathe.

This story reminds me of a circumstance I've prayed over. It was something that from human eyes was completely dead. However, I have prayed since this circumstance became an impossible situation this prayer: 'Lord, this appears to be dead. But I know you are the God that can bring the dead back to life. And if not that, God, then I believe that you will create new life instead.' I don't know what made me pray that prayer - I would guess that it is Spirit-prompted because God wanted me to see that he could. And sure enough, like he did in the valley of dry bones, he has slowly started to restore life in a place where there was none. He has restored my hope - I have watched him begin to attach tendons, I am seeing evidence of flesh and I fully expect to see him cover the bones in skin.

Friends, I cannot wait for the day when I get to watch God breathe, and life is restored completely in this situation. And I believe with all my heart that it will be - and so wait I will, because God's word makes it is clear that the one who waits on the Lord will see his Glory. So be strong, take heart, and wait on the Lord (Psalm 27). He will create new life in your impossible circumstance in ways that you can't predict, in ways that might look very different from the old life, in ways that seem to take more time than you expected.

Hold on to his promise - hold on to hope:

"Oh my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. i will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord." - Ezekiel 37: 12-14