Watch Focus July 24th ‘Restoration: Can These Bones Live?’

“The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full 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. And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

The foundation of a body is the skeletal structure. The bones require sinew, the sinew requires flesh, the flesh requires blood, organs, breath, and skin.

Ezekiel saw the nation as a graveyard of disconnected, very dry, bones. The Lord asked, “Can these bones live?” As the servant of God waited for the answer, he discovered he had a major role to play.

“Say to these bones…Hear the word of the Lord!”

“Say to the breath…Thus says the Lord God!”

As it turned out, the vision was what people were saying about the nation. But God had a different word: “I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves… I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’”

Prophesy to these Bones!

This week we receive the Spirit of the Lord to prophesy to vision of God again into this nation.

We pray for restoration of the skeletal structure, the connecting tissue, the organs, life blood, and skin, of our nation. These elements of our body politick stem from the Pilgrims, through the Founder’s, and continuing in the work of successive generations of faithful sons and daughters who know and prize our national heritage.

We pray for an inbreathing of the Holy Spirit of resurrection to regather and restore the original structure. We pray for godly men and women to lay hold of our inheritance and pass it in truth, sincerity, and purity to our children. We call for reordering of spiritual truth, civil ethics, community cleansing and cohesion, with the revelation of the gospel at the center. 

We pray restoration for the Church back to solid biblical foundations as a channel for the Gospel and making disciples of all the nations as it’s priority.

We pray for America that the Lord would restore the years of godless decisions according to Joel 2:25, “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

We pray for a restoration and blessing of the God ordained family unit according to Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

We pray for economic restoration and recovery from unsustainable debt, inflation, and unwise policy. We pray housing is affordable. We pray covering and blessing on our financial system. We pray the wisdom of the Lord permeates every area of our economy to bless the nation and so we can be a blessing to Israel and the nations.

We pray for a restoration of righteousness and morality for our good according to Deuteronomy 10:12-13, “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good?”

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.    Psalm 33:10-12