Can God Wake the Dead?

“The hand of the LORD was upon 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.  He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.  He asked me, Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel 37:1-3

The churches of America are full of dry bones—people that are spiritually dead.  The bones are very dry—they have been dead for a long time.  But God is able to make them live again.  Verse 5 says, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones:  I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.  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.”   

It’s easy to look at others and think that they need to be revived.  The first question we must ask is “Am I dead or alive in Christ?  Am I just going through the motions or is Jesus actively living His life through me?  It all goes back to Psalm 139:23-24, “Search me, O God…”  Any revival in our country, our community, or our church must start with personal revival in me.  We cannot pray for revival in others if we do not have it ourselves.