Do you know what follows Ezekiel 36?  Well, yes, it is chapter 37.  In chapter 36 yesterday I learned that God wants to give me a new heart–one of flesh and he wants me to believe–He will achieve through me once I am able to fully believe.  So, today as I began to read chapter 37 I find my next step–a mighty, powerful one.  In chapter 37 Ezekiel is asked if he thought the dry bones God’s Spirit was showing him could live?  As this continues God tells Ezekiel to tell those dry bones to hear the word of the Lord.  At this point of hearing the word of the Lord, God places sinew, flesh, life and spirit on and in those dry bones.

I write all of this today because God had a big lesson He was wanting me to get connected to yesterday’s. It is like day 2 of His lesson plan.  I was very pleased yesterday to know that God gave me a new heart and with it I was to believe and He would do the achieving.  I won’t go into all the details of the day but as the day continued I couldn’t make this promise concrete for me.  Temptations were hitting me right and left and I couldn’t make the promise work.  So early this morning as I had my devotions I was starting my Bible reading with chapter 37.  It was here I got my next step.  I heard God asking me if I believed my dry bones could live in the promise of yesterday?  Yes, I’d had a “dry bones” afternoon/evening, but would I take the step of telling the tormenting spirit “to hear the Word of the Lord?”  That tormenting spirit has owned my belief system for a long time.  God wants me to know His Holy Spirit will replace it if I only believe.  Somehow, today–I believe.  I can actually see in my mind’s eye that The Holy Spirit resides in my belief system–that I am on purpose and with purpose.

I know that God uses all things to His honor and glory.  The events of the greenhouse lessons, the torment of yesterday afternoon have all been used by God to bring me to this place of finally seeing His Holy Spirit within me rather than hoping it is as I’ve always done in past.

The thing I want to encourage any reader of this is, don’t quit on your journey of freedom until this is true for you.  If it is already true–I praise God with you.  If it isn’t true yet, don’t believe the lies of that tormenting spirit.  In Christ Jesus’ powerful Name, tell that tormenting spirit to hear the word of the Lord just as Ezekiel was told to do and I too did.  Our victory is found in God’s Word.  Lets proclaim it!