The situation is intense with the Johnsons. The marriage is extremely troubled. There have been accusations and counter-accusations. Wrong words have been said. Strife and bitterness have become the order of the day. The marriage seems headed for a resounding crash.
Sally’s relationship with her fiancee is troubled too. She changed her status to “it’s complicated” because that is what could describe the scenarios.
Both situations above can be described as deep valley experiences.
In our study in Ezekiel 37 yesterday, we saw that the beginning instruction that God gave to the prophet is to prophesy, and say something!
The next verse says:
Eze 37:5 (KJV) Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
God is revealing His plan of action! Your Relationship or Marriage Will Live
He is going to cause His breath to enter into that relationship or marriage and it will Iive.
It doesn’t matter if the marriage seems dead.
God has a plan of action. Something will “enter”
I pray for you this morning, God will breathe into your relationship, and cause it to live in Jesus’ name!
His breath is the power of the Holy Spirit.
How much of the Holy Spirit are you giving space for in your relationship or marriage?
Oh Pastor, don’t spiritualize this!
Well, no matter how disconnected you are from the Holy Spirit, no matter how far away from developing a relationship with the Holy Spirit, the truth remains that the Holy Spirit is the one that will do most of the work within you.
You are the one that will enter yourself. The breath God will cause to enter is not some air, it is the person of the Holy Spirit. Your Relationship or Marriage Will Live
If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, that is the coolest thing that can happen to you and your spouse or fiance.
The next thing is to bring alive your relationship with the Holy Spirit so that you may live and your relationship or marriage may live.
You do this by communicating with Him and listening to Him for instructions on what to do and how to do it.
You should no longer live by reactions, feelings, and sentiments! All these don’t bring life.
What will bring life is a conscious and deliberate relationship with the Holy Spirit
Open Your Mouth Sound is powerful. When a baby is born, the first sign of life is that the baby makes a sound. Once the baby cries out, everybody is happy! Why is this so? It is because sound announces life!
We started looking at Ezekiel 37 yesterday!
The situation was hopeless. It was a valley of not just dry bones, but very dry bones!
Where do we even start? If it’s somebody who just died, maybe there will be a window of hope for resurrection. But very dry bones?
Is your relationship or marriage like a valley of dry bones? Well, the first instruction God gave to Ezekiel is to open his mouth!
Eze 37:4 (KJV) Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
You will need to do the same in your situation. Notice, God did not argue or deny the dryness of the bones!
But open your mouth and say “Hear the word of the Lord…” Open Your Mouth
This is what we are doing with REVIVE! Hear me, nothing withstands the word of God!
The teaching and prayers for REVIVE Day 2 is on Youtube and You can access it here!
So open your mouth and begin to declare life into that relationship or marriage! Begin to say the right things!
Ignore all the attitudes or uncooperative attitudes of your spouse. Focus on the instruction!
As singles, it’s the same thing. Speak life into that relationship and say what you want to experience rather than what you are experiencing!
The dry bones were in a valley…
When either of the spouse is in a valley, things are unclear, sight is obscured, and the mountaintop advantage is absent.
So ignore attitudes and pull yourselves out of that pit of depression, confusion, and irritation toward your loved one! Open Your Mouth
Where do you think all the irritation and hatred are coming from? Where do you think all the assumptions are coming from?
Sure you know they are not from the Holy Spirit. They are coming straight from hell. Demonic entities assigned to ruin things for you. But you reject their antics by opening your mouth!
Do you know you are a repairer, a renovator and restorer?
Isa 58:12b (KJV)…and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
You are a repairer of the breach!
Take a look at the Message Translation
Isa 58:12b (MSG) …You’ll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again.
Your relationship or marriage can be livable again!
How? By the word!
You build by the word.
God himself framed the world with His word. We are created in His image, so we can build our world with the Word too!
Open your mouth and let God fill it with choice words that will navigate you out of that depression and confusion!
I speak life to your relationship or marriage now! I command the power of hell to be broken over your life in Jesus’ name! If there is any sickness of pain you have, I command them to leave now in Jesus name! Be healed now!
I want to be sincere with the question I want to ask right now.
With the way your marriage is, is there still any hope yet?
Have you given up on your marriage or relationship and you are just going through the motions?
What is your response?
I want to show you something powerful this morning, which was what we taught on REVIVE Day 1. If you missed it on Mixlr earlier this morning at 5.00am, there will be a repeat broadcast on YouTube soon.
I was writing a story yesterday! Permit me to pause the story and I will be back to continue the story later!
Can These Bones Live?
Eze 37:1 (KJV) The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
These valleys were full of bones and Ezekiel must have been asking, what is God up to here? I mean these are dry bones and nothing much can come out of them.
Have you come to a place like that in your marriage where you believe it can’t be good again?
Have you been in a cycle of strife and bitterness that you believe marriage is not for you?
Have you had so many broken relationships as singles that you believe you should just remain single?
This is where Ezekiel found himself. Can These Bones Live?
Verse 2 makes it worse!
Eze 37:2 (KJV) And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
Lo, they were very dry! It’s not a little dry and but very dry!
Things have gone really bad!
Eze 37:3 (KJV) And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
If Ezekiel were a Nigerian, he would be like “God, are you whinning me? How can they live?
He said, God, it’s you that knows!
Are you in that place already? Can your marriage be good again?
Uhmm, It’s God that knows!
When will you get married?
It’s God that knows!
This is what we addressed and prayed about this morning! Can These Bones Live?
God is asking you that question not to point you to the impossibility but to ignite your hope that He will intervene in your situation!
God will come through for you!
He will intervene!
The first step is to let all aches and bitterness go! Let God! Forgive and let God bring something new in your life!
God was trying to work on the heart of Ezekiel with that question!
God wants to heal your heart first!
Psa 12:5 (MSG) Into the hovels of the poor, Into the dark streets where the homeless groan, God speaks: “I’ve had enough; I’m on my way TO HEAL THE ACHE IN THE HEART OF the wretched.”
Decide to forgive one more time. Decide to let go of bitterness!
Watch the video below the page anytime from around 8am and use the prayers!
In The Hole – The Assault. In one deft kick, I sent him sprawling on the ground. He couldn’t believe it. In a melange of consternation and agony, he came for me. I was ready for him and I expected that. His consternation arose from the reality of a lady humiliating him like that, a rather slim lady. His agony from the lethal pain I carefully meted out to him.
I knew something like that might happen at such an ungodly hour. It was a risk I had to take as I was feeling feverish and I couldn’t stay throughout the party. I had to risk it and walk home. My bestie that would have walked me home was as drunk as a fish.
In The Hole – The Assault
This unwanted ally had approached me thinking he had easy meat to fry. He was going to sexually assault me, and I was in no mood for such. Little did he know I was a black belter.
His consternation and agony morphed into a fearful fury as he saw that I did not run from his charge. He came with his right hand raised and clenched. The mistake of his life.
He swung his right hand with all his might with the intention to knock me out, and he could have, but I dodged in a very cute way, by bending a little, and that was all the opportunity I needed. My clenched knuckles landed on the region between his thighs. His eyes popped out as he grabbed his balls, then a scream, and then he yelled in vernacular, “Ye mo gbe o, Aje lomo yi o.“
I chuckled. It’s not only a witch you will see, you will soon see a wizard. The pernicious knuckles I gave him had him in the hole, writhing in pain. I walked away.
That pain meant nothing to me. All my life had been one of pain.
In The Hole – The Assault
How did I get here? My early years were all loving and cute until the enemy interrupted me. I used to be a church girl. I still remember my first memory verse. Will never forget it.
Pro 1:10 (KJV) My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
I was just five years old then. Looking back, I had not only consented, but I am now the sinner enticing others. I was holed up in the hole.
It’s not even funny. Mu mum would convulse in her grave to have an inkling of how my life is.
My dad? He is alive but does not exist in my life. I care less. I hate him too.
When The Flags Go Red. Sally knew within her something is not right. But she ignored them because she felt nobody is perfect. She decided to overlook all the red signs. She should have met the couple next door, the Johnsons, the husband saw all the red flags and decided to “skip the part” Now a major issue is pulling them apart in their marriage!
What are these red flags, as singles or married? Let’s take a look at one today!
When The Flags Go Red
Red Flags Before Wedding
Lies and Deception
Your lover tells lies and you know! Really a red flag. If it has become habitual, the storyline would likely continue after the wedding. Habits don’t die easily unless one is willing to really confront them head-on. But the challenge with a habitual lair is that he or she is already courting with the spirit of deception. That same spirit responsible for always cooking up lies and telling others would also lie to the lar. This is what you call self-deception!
The habitual lair sees lying as sport or fun! This even becomes intense because God warned about this sternly!
Joh 8:44 (KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The devil himself is a liar and the father of all liars.
This is really fearful, to say the least.
Again, the Bible says without mincing words here that lairs have a damnable destination!
Rev 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, AND ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Like Bishop Oyedepo would say, Caution! Caution! Caution!
A lying spirit should not be accommodated in one’s life! When The Flags Go Red
You can even take it further and discover that all adulterous lifestyles, all cheating, unfaithfulness, or infidelity are predicated on lies! An adulterer would be a good liar!
The one flesh principle of marriage, however, stipulates that when you are telling a lie to your spouse, you are lying to yourself because you are one!
Can you now see how chaotic things can get with this undesirable habit?
A lover who lies is raising a red flag for you to see!
A spouse who lies is toying with the marriage because telling lies hobnobbing directly with the devil himself. The door will be left open and the devil will explore that loophole!
Now, people tell lies for a lot of reasons, but that won’t stop the consequences! Some were even taught to lie by parents and guardians especially if you are from a polygamous setting or a broken home!
The reality is that you have to take charge of your life! You have to be responsible. Decide to confront the habit and come open before God like Jacob had to do! When The Flags Go Red
Your openness, sincerity, and integrity will save not only save you and your family and prevent unnecessary tears and agony but would also save your regeneration unborn! Put your feet down and let the devil know you will not be a gateway to his antics and deception in your lineage!
Be sincere with your spouse knowing that you will have to face God one day and give account! Why don’t you talk to God now?
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