Do you Trust me?

Why Has Everyone Received Their Miracles Except Me? 

Why has everyone received what they wrote in their prayer expectations for the year other than me? 

Tomorrow will be Friday, and I knew that no matter how late I stayed up, Saturday would come soon. So, I asked the Holy Spirit to wake me up in the night. When I woke up, I prayed and then went back to sleep. This morning, when I stepped out of my house, I wanted to pray and emphasize the prayers I had made. But as I began to pray, the Holy Spirit asked me a question: "Do you trust me?" This question came quietly in my spirit.

As I pondered this question this morning, I was reminded of the Lord's conversation with Ezekiel in The Valley of Bones. Ezekiel 37:1-6 (NIV):

1. The hand of the Lord was on me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
2. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, very dry bones.
3. He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "Sovereign Lord, You alone know."
4. Then He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!'
5. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: 'I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.'
6. 'I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

Whenever God wants to perform a wonder or a miracle, He looks for a willing partner. He searches for someone ready to cooperate with Him to bring His will to pass. When God wanted to restore life to the dry bones, He asked Ezekiel, "Son of man, can these bones live?" This question was meant to see Ezekiel’s stand and faith. God knew that these bones could come to life by His power alone— it was not within man’s power to do this, but with God, all things are possible. Ezekiel’s answer was perfect: "Sovereign Lord, You alone know."

The Lord wanted to see if Ezekiel trusted His ability to perform the miracle. Whenever God asks a question in the Bible, He already knows the answer. For example, when God asked Adam, "Where are you?" (Genesis 3:9) and "Where is your brother Abel?" (Genesis 4:9), He wasn’t asking for information. He wanted to see the response of the person being asked.

When God gives us instructions, He doesn't have to look at our strength. He wants us to believe and rely on Him to bring it to pass. When the Lord saw Ezekiel's response, He was eager to make it happen. God gave Ezekiel the exact words to speak to the bones, and when Ezekiel prophesied, the bones came together and were revived.

God is deeply interested in our daily lives, in every detail. 

Are there things in your life that have dried up? 

Are there miracles you're waiting for, and it seems like they’re not coming? These situations are no different from the dry bones Ezekiel encountered in the valley. God is waiting for you to speak. If you don’t speak, He will leave it, but He wants you to speak up and call life into those areas that seem dead, to receive God's light.

When I think about how bones came together and flesh appeared on them, it sends shivers down my spine. 

If God can bring dry bones to life, then what is it that He cannot do? It's not too late to speak life into those situations.

 Son of man, speak up! 

Prophesy to that situation and that sickness. Let it receive the life of God.

Stay revived!