This Week's Devo

Rise, Dry Bones, Rise!

This week NMFAM celebrated a year of tremendous impact. We gathered with friends, families, pastors, legislators, and cherished partners in our mission. It was an evening of legacy —an altar of remembrance—as we reflected on all that God has done through our ministry. 

Throughout the night, several speakers shared incredible moments of life-changing impact, but one analogy stayed with me long after the evening ended: the valley of dry bones.

In Scripture, Ezekiel stands in a valley littered with dry, disconnected bones s—remnants of what once was. Bones that had no strength, no potential, no power to change their condition. Death had spoken its final word… or so it seemed. 

Today, when we look at the condition of our culture, it feels eerily familiar. A valley of dry bones. Detached from truth. Disoriented by confusion. Lost in the fray of political correctness and deceptive ideology. It’s easy to become discouraged by the lifelessness at our feet. It’s tempting to collapse into the pile ourselves.
 

But just as Ezekiel stood in that valley, God wanted to reveal His power over death —to give us a glimpse of what resurrection life can do to dry bones. To our dry bones, powerless to change apart from Him.

So God spoke.

Something shifted.

A noise.

A rattling.

“And the bones came together, bone to bone, And there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin covered them…” - Ezekiel 37

A miracle in motion… yet still no breath.
So God spoke again.
He commanded the breath from the four winds to come into the slain so they. may. live!

And breath came.

And life entered.

And what once lay dead stood up —a vast army.
 

Let’s be clear: the miracle had nothing to do with the bones. Bones cannot resurrect themselves. Everything depended on the power of God.

When Jesus died on the cross, He paid the debt none of us could pay —a debt requiring death. But when He rose again three days later, He didn’t just cover the cost… He defeated death itself. Now He calls to our dry bones and breathes into us the life His victory secured.
 

Dry bones were never God’s plan for us.

And as we reflected this week on the work God has done, I was reminded again: God is still in the business of bringing dry bones to life.   

So we must not sit back uninspired, unmoved, and lifeless, staring at the valley as if nothing can change. Instead, we watch with expectation —because when God speaks, things move.

When God instructed Ezekiel to prophesy to the bones, it required Ezekiel’s obedience. God could have done it alone, but He invited Ezekiel into the miracle —into a partnership that emboldened him for the road ahead.

God wants no less for us. 

He wants to use you to call life into the dry bones around you.

He wants to breath through your obedience.

So let me ask you:

Are you willing to call to the bones? 

Are you ready to witness God bring dead things to life? 

I know I am! 

And I hope you’ll join me.