Have you ever had something so daunting that it takes you out? The bones of a nation’s past tell the tale. You may have lost that fight, but your comeback comes from your bounce back. You get your fight back through the Word and your obedience to God. You get your fight back through trusting that He will make everything come together. You get your fight back through humility by not forcing things to fit where they don’t. You want to be ready for the next step? Trust in God to give you the power to fight!

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we’re excited to have this opportunity

to share the word of the lord with you

i want you to get your hearts open your

mind ready maybe even your pen and

pencil out

i’m going to be teaching how to get your

fight back

how to get your fight back now i know

some of you have never lost your fight

but that’s because you what didn’t know

real battles

when you get in a real battle and it

lasts long enough and it gets hard

enough and it gets deep enough

you can have exhaustion you can have

fatigue

you can lose your fight your fight for

your kids you can give up your fight for

your marriage you can give up

your fight for your church you can give

up your fight for your business you can

give her your fight for yourself

but i want to talk to you this morning

about how to get your fight back

i’m going to teach a little bit because

i want to put the text in context

and then i’m going to bring it home and

apply it to you

i want you to get your hearts ready go

to the book of ezekiel chapter number 37

verse 1 through 12. i’ve got a word from

the lord for you and i’m reading quite a

few verses but they’re all important

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

and it was full of bones

he led me back and forth among them and

i saw a great

mini bones on the floor of the valley

bones

that were very dry

he asked me son of man

can these bones live i said

sovereign lord you alone know

that he said to me prophesy to these

bones and say to them

dry bones hear the word of the lord

this is what the sovereign lord says to

these bones

i will make breath enter into you and

you

will come and you will come

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 breathe

in you

and you will come to life then you will

know

that i am the lord

so i prophesied as i was commanded

and as i was prophesying there was a

noise a rattling sound

and the bones came together

bone to his bone

i looked in tendons and flesh appeared

on them and skin covered them

but there was no breath in them

then he said to me prophesy to the

breath prophesy son of man and say to it

this is what the sovereign lord god says

come breathe from the four winds and

breathe

into these slain that they may live

so i prophesied as he commanded me

and breath entered them they came to

life

and stood up on their feet

a vast

army somebody said get your fight back

then he said to me son of man these

bones are the people of israel

these bones are the people of israel you

need to hear that

these bones are the people of israel

they say our bones are dried up and our

hope

is gone we are cut

off therefore prophesy and say to them

this is what the sovereign lord says

my people i am going to open your graves

and bring you up from them

i will bring you back

to the land of israel

so say is the word of god i want to talk

to you about how to get your fight back

somebody shall get your fight back

in order for us to appreciate the

magnitude and the complexities of this

scripture there are some things we must

understand

let us be clear that that ezekiel though

he writes in a very poetic tone

is not a poet we are not to evaluate him

on the basis of his prose of poetic

content

he is at his core and in his essence a

prophet

he is a major prophet due to the

magnitude of the work and contribution

in scripture he is considered one of the

five major prophets of the old testament

he prophesies in this beautiful

picturesque

language a situation that is anything

but

beautiful he tells us that the lord

picked him up and carried him

in the spirit and brought him into a

place

of dryness if you don’t hear this

correctly

you will hear this through the ears of

your traditions

i grew up going to a camp called

camp running water and miss lewis and

then would take us to the camp and we

would get around the fire and sing them

bones and bones and

dry bones and bones and bones and

dry bones and bones and bones and dry

bones

hear ye the word of the lord

foot bone connected to the ankle bone

the ankle bone collected to the

leg bone and the leg bone connected

hear you the word son of the lord and it

was a cute song it’s cute song cute

cute good for kids good real life heard

about it in sunday school second

vacation bible school had a lot of fun

with it but what this text is about

is anything but fun

to take your religious glasses off and

your sunday school

memories away and your favorite

preacher’s sermon away

about the bones and understand the power

of the prophecy god

has taken ezekiel up in the spirit and

then

down into a valley

that looks like it’s been excavated

the valley is full of dry dry bones

and the bible says that the bones

were very dry

and when we read about the progression

of the story of the dry bones

i’m not sure that ezekiel himself fully

understood what he saw

except there were two things that stand

out putting the text in context

the bones represented an army that had

been defeated

and when they were revived they stood up

on their feet a great army

that was division but the last two

verses

explains this is bigger than an army

this is the house of israel

the scattering of the bones is how they

will be scattered around the earth

and at the end of the scattering that

god is promising

i will bring you back into your land in

verse 12.

i’m going to bring you back into your

land so this is not

this picturesque this is not just

storytelling

this is prophetic as to the destiny

of god’s people israel and what they

would endure

the text had its core is a prophetic

utterance over the nation of israel

the the dry parched barren destitution

that they would face scattered all over

the world

from 1933 to 1945

roughly 6 million jews

died making up those bones

those bones those dry bones

six million jews made up those dry

very dry bones what ezekiel distress

described as a valley of dry bones and

then said the bones

were dry and then comes back and says

they were very dry

he was looking to one of the most

horrific genocides

that we have seen in the history of the

world

six million jews in a few short

years a short period of time

most of it in a few months were

slaughtered

yanked from their families

some of them never to see their loved

ones again

some of them fleeing away scattering in

the night

escaping naked running any way they

could

deprived of food and dignity it didn’t

start out that bad

it started out with jokes and

stories being told and people

poking fun at at them and flyers being

placed up on the wall

degrading them and later it got deeper

and they started putting

yellow stars on their back to

differentiate them from others

because whenever people need to destroy

somebody

they must dehumanize them first so that

they don’t have to feel like they’re

they’re killing and equal they they

start gradually dehumanizing little

tiny things pulling away at your worth

and your dignity and little by little it

got worse and worse and worse

until their bodies were tossed into mass

graves

no names no memories numbers

burned into their skin

then bones and bones

them dry bones

can these bones live again

lord thou know us the people of israel

are scattered all over the world

they went throughout the whole despair

all over the world hiding wherever they

could

living wherever they could and still to

this day are scattered in many parts of

the world

from australia to new zealand

to europe to any place they could find a

place

america in south america they scattered

everywhere

to avoid the tyranny and the lunacy

of hitler and some of them did not get

away

we are sure six million or more did not

get away

baked in ovens burned alive

no wonder ezekiel said the bones were

dry

and very dry from 1933 to 1945

we have six million jews destroyed they

faced genocide

but they would reassemble and regain

national status

in 1948. the ezekiel 37

is fulfilled in 1948 when god

brings back those bones out of the

despoor and there’s a great noise and

there’s a great shaking

then the bones start coming together

again and in 1948

israel regained its national status and

became

a nation again against all odds

so let’s put the text in context let’s

understand that it deals with real pain

and real trauma and real atrocities

and some things that are not lawful to

even be uttered

that cannot be fathomed that i cannot do

justice to

that i cannot fully articulate the

magnitude of the atrocities that

occurred

amongst the jewish family and i

and my my heart goes out to you

and to your your children’s children’s

children the the atrocities were so

great

that some some scientific research has

proven that the descendants of the

holocaust

many of them have had their dna

completely rearranged even though they

weren’t there

they inherited the stress and the trauma

that rearranged their dna

structure their physiological dna

structure was affected

by the atrocity that they went through

and it’s important that we understand

that especially right now this judgment

while america’s talking about pain and

and we’re talking about

injustice and we’re talking about

prejudice this isn’t a little thing

this kind of thing can get out of hand

it can turn into genocide

beyond anything you can’t imagine and in

a few months

time six million people can be destroyed

because we listen at the wrong voice and

the wrong voice talks too loud

and too long and we feel justified we

feel enraged

and enraged people are dangerous people

and we have to hear this word we have to

understand this word

it’s good for african americans to hear

this word because we must recognize

that we are not the only people that

suffer

sometimes we are so preoccupied with our

own suffering that we delegitimize the

suffering of other people

but you must recognize that the reason

that native americans are still on

reservations

after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

and hundreds of years you must realize

that the jewish people

have gone through atrocities almost in

our lifetime

and resurrected and come back and we

must be

heartened by the fact that if they

survive we can too

but we must be warned by the realization

that dangerous voices at the helm

of any country can lead to

massive destruction and all of us have

to hear

that and we have to condemn all racist

rhetoric because it leads to them bones

and bones them dry bones

and don’t think that america is exempt

from her own dirty linen snatching

babies out of the hands of our mothers

and grandmothers and

great-great-grandmothers and pulling

them away

never to be seen again and don’t think

that we don’t have mass graves

in new york and mass graves in

washington

and mass graves don’t think that because

we kind of regulate that kind of hatred

and it’s convenient to hate somebody far

away from you

and never recognize the violence that

exists in your own heart the truth of

the matter

is the heart of man is continually

wicked

black men white men proud men any man

given too much power

too long can do hideous things to other

people

and justify it by calling them names

because you don’t think that they’re

real people

if you don’t think that they’re real

people you feel justified in killing

them

and destroying them and calling them

names so that you don’t have to lay down

at night

and wrestle with the guilt of the

atrocities of life the bones

then bones and drive god has warned

ezekiel what is going to happen

thousands of years before it occurred

and we’re reading it

and it wasn’t so that we would have

campfire songs or so that we would hoop

down or close at the end

but more importantly that we might

understand the word of the lord to us

that we might understand that there is a

fight that happens

not only in a nation not only in history

not only in terms of

of understanding prophetic relevance but

there is a fight that can

take you out the bible said that when

ezekiel got down to the valley of the

dry bone

they were so bad that when god asked him

can they live again he said lord thou

know us i’m your prophet and i’m not

even sure

that they can make a comeback and i want

to take it now

from its context and apply it to your

situation

a few of you not all of you have lived

long enough or gone through anything bad

enough

but a few of you know what it is to have

something to so scald you so

burn you so beat you so pulverize you

that your fight goes out of you

and you’re so scattered and so broken

and so fragmented

that you don’t even know whether you can

ever live again or whether you ever

smile again

or whether you will ever live to fight

another day or whether you’ll be able to

pull yourself together your mind

is over here and your heart is over

there and your body’s over here and your

finances are over there

and you’re all scattered all about and

trying to gather yourself together

just to fake a smile for a few minutes

in front of people

to say i’m doing okay knowing you’re

lying on the inside

because they’re bones and bones

them dry bones bones have been dry so

long that you can’t even remember

what happy felt like what joy felt like

what peace felt like

what contentment felt like your song is

gone your dance is gone

your joy is gone you’ve gone through so

much

i’m not talking about somebody told

stole your parking space i’m not talking

about having to clip coupons in order

i’m talking about going through so much

that something inside of you dies

and you wonder can i get back up again

i don’t mind falling down if i can get

back up again

i don’t want to fall down at all but if

i fall down and i know i can get up

i’ll be all right i might have a skit

knee i might need a band-aid but i’ll be

okay but i’m concerned

about the fall where i go down and i

can’t get up again

i’m concerned about being like that old

lady in the commercial

help i’ve fallen

and i can’t get up you don’t have to be

old to be like that you can be broke and

be like that

you can go to prison and be like that

you can go through a divorce and be like

that

you can be heartbroken and be like that

help i’ve fallen

i’ve fallen i’ve fallen and i

i can’t get myself back up

i can’t get myself together

i can’t get back in the fight again i

can’t get the strength to open up my

business again i can’t

i can’t open up my heart to the

possibility of being hurt

this bad again help

i’ve fallen and i can’t get back

they used to be an army they made a

living fighting

these were not wimps these were not weak

men

these were fighters these were wires

they had swords

and shields and now all they had was

bones

and smell

have you ever seen anybody lose their

fight

get where they didn’t care what they put

on whether they brush their teeth and

how to comb their hair

you can lose your fight so bad that you

despair of life itself the apostle paul

talks about one time now he’s writing

the bible and said i went through a time

that was so piercing and so deep he said

that i the spirit of life itself

i didn’t even want to be here anymore

he cries out one at another time oh

wretched man that i

am who should deliver me from the body

of this death i know you’re up right now

and everything’s going wonderful right

now you don’t think you need to hear

this

but just put this message back and save

it because there are some things that

can attack you

so severely and so consistently and one

thing

after another after another after

another until after a while you get

tanja k

fighting everybody all the time 24

7 and you finally give up the bones

and bones them dry bones

god took ezekiel on a field trip

to see a future conflict

that was so bad and so overwhelming that

even god’s prophet did not know

whether these bones could live again

he said lord i don’t know what i love

about the texas that ezekiel says

so i prophesied as i was commanded

this is this is a great thing preachers

teachers bible students scholars

sometimes you don’t have the faith for

the text but you got to have the

obedience for the text

he said i didn’t know whether it was

going to work or not but i just did what

i was told

obedience is better than sacrifice he

stands over something

that he is not sure that it will ever be

resurrected some of you

have been to cities that are so dry and

so very dry

you’re not sure that you could ever

build what you see in that city some of

you

are in marriages that are so dry and so

very dry

that you have given up all hope that the

marriage would ever get any better

because it is so hopelessly dry

but still he said i prophesied

as i was commanded the word of god

is the first step to the rejuvenation of

those who have lost their fight you

cannot rejuvenate based on your feelings

ezekiel did not have the feeling

everything with i

got a feeling everything’s gonna be oh

that’s nice

but if you go down low enough you won’t

have a feeling

if you grieve deeply enough if you lose

a loved one

that’s close enough to you you don’t

have a feeling that everything is going

to be all right

nothing in you says it’s going to be all

right if you get heartbroken bad enough

you lose your feeling that everything’s

going to be all right but you cannot get

your

fight back based on your feelings

you have to get your fight back based on

what god

said prophesy

to the bones that they may live

if there’s any hope for you to get your

fight back it’s going to come through

the word of god

it’s not going to come through cussing

and fussing and fighting and shooting

and slamming and banging

and laying people out that will not get

your fight back that will get you killed

that will get you locked up in jail that

will get you put into a mental

institution that

will not work the word of god coming

into your heart and coming into your

spirit

on a daily basis starts to rejuvenate

your spirit again

you have to fight back you have to fight

fire with fire

the enemy is trying to slay you with

words and you have to be

revived with words by applying god’s

word in your spirit every day

i prophesied as i was commanded

i did what he told me to do

that’s what i hope to be be said about

me when everything is said and done

i did what he told me to do i preached

what he told me to preach

i said what he told me to say i gave

what he told me to give

i served where he told me to serve i was

faithful to my calling i did what he

told me to do

in season and out of season pac-stadiums

and coliseums

filled up auditoriums filled up parks

millions of people preaching the word of

god but i preached no

less when the house was empty because i

prophesied

as i was commanded it wasn’t my job to

fill the house

it was my job to preach the word it

wasn’t my

job to take care of the crowd it was my

job to preach the word

it’s not my job to heal the sick it’s my

job to pray for the sick

i prophesied as i was coming i did

what you told me to do you want me

anointed with all i’ve known it was all

you want me to pray the prayer of faith

i pray the prayer of faith i already

know i’m not the healer you’re the

healer

but i did what you told me

to do

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this is not about your confidence in

yourself

or thinking that you could heal somebody

or you can fix somebody you can

straighten out something the problem

with us right now we have tried to

straighten each other out till we have

messed each other up

stop practicing on people just do what

he told you to do

i prophesied in a valley full of

dry human bones

remains remains of what used to be

i stood in the midst of what was and is

no more and i stood

there and i prophesied i prophesied to

something

that i didn’t even think could hear

the reason i can preach to pews and

chairs

and rocks and heels is that it’s not

about your hearing

it’s about me prophesying as i was

commanded it’s not my business whether

you hear me or not it’s not my business

whether you like me or not

it’s not my business whether you agree

with me or not i’m not here

to convince you to like me it doesn’t

make any difference i prophesied as i

was commanded

i did what he told me to do so when i

get back home

he’s not going to ask me did they like

you

he’s not going to ask me did they agree

with you did

did they approve it no he’s going did

you do

what i told you to do ezekiel said i

prophesied as i was commanded

i speak to you we need a spirit of

obedience we’ve lost

it we’ve lost it in our nation we’ve

lost it in our churches

we’ve lost it in our family we’ve even

lost it in our children

everybody does whatever they want to do

say whatever they want to say

but god gets married for obedience

obedience is better than sacrifice

so ezekiel said in order for them to get

their fight back i prophesied as i was

commanded

and suddenly there was a noise and there

was a shaking

and it started coming together

there is a move of god that brings

things together that have fallen apart

and i want to take a moment and talk to

some people today who are dealing with

things that have fallen apart

and gone dry and seem hopeless and in

despair

there is a move of god that will cause

things to come together and when god

starts

bringing things together he will bring

things together that fit together

when you get in it you’ll put bones

together that don’t go together

but when god starts doing it he will put

the right bone in the right place to

connect

with the right bone stop manipulating

people because you’re going to create

a distorted body god brought together

bone to his

bone everything moved toward what

it was supposed to be connected to you

can’t tell

other people who to work with who to

serve with who to grow with

bones come together based on fitting

based on function

based on service and i don’t know who

i’m talking to but god is going to cause

a drawing

to happen and bones are going to come

together bones to his bone

i feel a coming together i want to stop

here and thank god for

coming together a coming together a

coming together or coming together

after a long time of being in a valley

of distraction and disruption

a long time of being fragmented and

disoriented god is bringing about a

coming together

i need about 30 seconds of praise for

coming together

a coming together coming together and

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coming

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i know it’s not back yet but it’s coming

i know it’s not fixed yet but it’s

coming i know you’re not all way out of

the woods yet but it’s coming

it may be your finances coming together

it may be your family coming together

it may be your siblings coming together

it may be your children coming together

but god has a way of knowing how to

shake things back together

that you couldn’t get back together that

you couldn’t fuss back together

that you couldn’t worry back together

that the counselor couldn’t get back

together but the lord said it’s coming

together

and you got to have enough faith to

praise him for the coming together

you’ve got to believe that god is

bringing it together

and start thanking him you can’t wait

till it’s over to give him the praise

you gotta praise him in the middle of

the process that things are coming

together

i want you to make a righteous

declaration

my life is coming together say it out

loud

my life is coming together everything

that’s been scattered

is coming together everything that’s

been lost is coming together

everything that’s been broken is coming

together everything that’s been wounded

is coming again yes i’m talking to you i

want you to still declare it

i want you to stand up and say it out

loud

it is coming together you might look

silly but declare it

i decree and declare that my life

is coming back together now give him

praise

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and he began to bring it together and

god began to bring it together

god began to bring it together see the

problem with us is we’re not grateful

sometime until we see everything we

don’t thank god for anything

but at the sign of it coming together

you got to start thinking god

as if it were already done you got to

praise him like it’s already there

you got to praise him like it’s already

fixed it’s coming together

and no enemy and no alien and no hitler

and no principality and no power can

outrun god for bringing your life back

together

when god gets ready to bring it back

together no devil in hell

can stop it from coming together

the flames and the gas of oswitch could

not stop israel

from becoming a nation again and the

fire that you’re in right now

cannot stop you from coming together

again hallelujah to god

and i want you to see quite clearly and

understand that it’s not too late

for you to get your fight back i want

you to tweet somebody i want you to tell

somebody

i want you to declare it right now i’m

getting my fight back

i’m getting my fight back i’m getting my

fight back i’m getting it in my closet

i’m getting it in my wardrobe i’m

getting it in my plans i’m getting in my

attitude

i cannot fix my pass i cannot change

yesterday i cannot re-fight the battles

i lost

i lost that battle that battle is

offered

that battle is over that battle was

awful that battle is ended

but i am not here to fight the battles

that i lost

i am standing up to fight the battles

that are in front of me

so i’m forgetting those things which are

behind and reaching to those things

before me

i’m getting set up to fight again

hallelujah look at your neighbor say i

will fight again

i will fight again i know you counted me

out i know you walked past me

i know you thought i was finished i know

you thought i was prehistoric

i know you thought i was just history i

know you thought i wouldn’t be back

i know you thought i was yesterday’s

news i know you thought i

felt so bad i couldn’t get up i know you

thought i was finished

i know you thought i was over i know you

thought i’d never get up on my feet

i know you thought i’d never get my

business back i know you thought i’d

never open up a church

i know you thought i’d never survive but

i’m here to tell you that i feel a

shaking

down in my valley and i’ve got a

feeling that something is starting to

come together

and i’m not gonna wait till i see it i’m

gonna praise him right now

i’m gonna thank him right now i’m gonna

glorify

god god i’m gonna praise you

god i’m gonna praise you god i’m gonna

praise you

god i’m gonna praise you god i’m gonna

god i’m gonna god i’m gonna god i’m good

it’s coming together it’s coming

together it’s coming together

it’s coming together that’s what ought

to be in your mouth is coming together

it’s coming together it’s coming

together

how you doing it’s coming together how

you feeling it’s coming together

how’s things with you it’s coming

together it’s coming together it’s

coming together it’s coming together

it’s coming together it’s coming

together it’s coming together and up

under the first

advent of the anointing god brought

things back together

bone to his bone he didn’t bring the hip

bone and connected to the neck bone

stop trying to connect with people you

don’t fit

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y’all don’t hear what i’m saying to you

if it don’t fit

don’t force it stop trying to connect

and it doesn’t mean that the fact that

it doesn’t fit with you

doesn’t mean that they’re not in the

body it just means that you all aren’t a

good fit

that’s what it is so stop trying to take

the hip bone

and attach it to the neck bone because

that’s not where it goes

when you find the bone that fits you

don’t have to work so hard at it

if you got to put in all kind of work

you are

joining something together that’s not

supposed to be together

you’re going to have a hard time

attaching my knee to my head

because they’re not designed to fit

together but if you put my knee to my

leg bone

it is designed to fit right stop

trying to force what doesn’t fit

it’s coming together it’s coming

together

coming together means that you have to

be willing to see some bones shake past

you

was a shaking in the valley and the

bones came together bone to his bone

but that meant that some bones had to

shake past other bones

to get to the right bones that fit

together so that they could be connected

and you cannot count at failure because

you’re seeing bones

go past you if it went past me it wasn’t

for me

if it would pass me it wasn’t my bone if

it went past me it didn’t fit me

good luck i hope you find the bone you

fit with

good luck to you may the lord be with

you ain’t no hate over here god bless

you find your bone

because i don’t want anything clinging

to me that don’t fit me

i don’t want anything clinging to me

that i have to maintain

and wrestle with and struggle with all

the time i don’t want anything clinging

to me that i have to beg

to cling to me i want to find what fits

me

so that when i get my fight back i can

stand up on you

and you can hold up to the weight

until you hear what i’m saying i don’t

want anybody up under me that can’t hold

up

to the weight of what it takes to be who

i am

i am who i am it costs what it costs and

it takes what it takes

and if you can’t take it let me know

cause somebody out here in this field

has the power to undergird what god gave

me

god almighty somebody out here

will stand up to the weight of me

standing up to my calling

will stand up to the weight of me

standing up to my life will stand up to

the weight to me standing up

to the challenge that is before me

because i know

that this is not my last battle i got to

have the right bones in the right place

at the right time because i got devils

to fight

i got devils to fight i say i got devils

to fight

i say i got devils to fight i got devils

to fight i’m not here for no beauty

contest

i got devils to fight i’m not here for

no beauty pageant i got devils to fight

i’m not here for a fashion show i got

devils to fight

i’m not here to impress people i got

devils to fight i’m not here for a

popularity contest

i got devils to fight i gotta have the

right stuff around me

the bible said little by little god

brought the bones together

god is bringing the bones yes lord who

thank you god is bringing the bones

together

he’s bringing the bones together the

skeletal formation

of your new business move is coming

together the right people are coming

in at the right time god said he’s been

the here

god said he’s bringing the bones

together he said i’m bringing the bones

together i’m bringing the bones together

i’m bringing the bones together i know

you don’t see flesh yet i know you don’t

see skin yet

but i’m bringing the bones together i’m

bringing the skeletal part together

i’m bringing the infrastructure together

i’m putting you in the right place at

the right time

because i’m getting ready to do some

crazy things in your life and god said

he’s bringing the bones together

there is a skeleton coming together

there is a there’s a skeleton coming

together

a framework whereby you’re going to face

the future without

living in the fear of the past i want

you to get rid of your valley mentality

i want you to get rid of the defeat that

happened in the valley i want you to

shake off the shame

of what you went through in the valley

because god is getting ready to take you

to the mountain

and you can’t go to the mountain looking

back at the valley the bones are coming

together the bones the bones the bones

them bones and bones and then bones

and bones and bones and bones then bones

are coming together the bones are coming

together

then bones are coming together somebody

call you who hadn’t called you in years

and bones are coming together the bones

the bones the bones simone’s the bones

are coming together the bones

the bones are difficult the bones are

coming together the bones are coming

together the bones are coming together

the right connections the right place

the right time even in the middle of the

pandemic the bones are coming together

he’s getting ready to lift you up and

he’s working on something

he’s working on something in the noise

he’s working on something in the noise

i know it’s a lot of noise going on

right now but god is working on

something in the noise

he’s working on something in the shaking

he’s working on something in the chaos

he’s working on something in the chaos

he’s working on something in the wind

he’s working on something in the

confusion i know it’s kind of loud but

he’s working on something

i know it’s disruptive but he’s working

on something i know it’s restless but

he’s working on some

bones or coming together bone to his

bone i don’t know who i’m preaching to

but i feel like i’m preaching to

somebody

i don’t know who it is but i feel like

i’m prophesying to somebody i don’t know

who it is but god is getting you ready

you’re gonna get your fight back you’re

gonna get your fight back

you’re gonna get your stamina back you

don’t get your fire by

the bounds

the bones are coming together god

is a god of structure so he gets the

structure ready

before he brings life to the army

he brings the structure together god

builds

infrastructure before he blows life

oh y’all don’t hear what i’m saying god

builds infrastructure before he blows

life

don’t be worried that it’s not moving

right now it’s not supposed to move

right now

god is building infrastructure the

reason we get defeated

is often we start moving without

infrastructure

if you start trying to move and you

don’t have structure

you won’t be able to stand that’s how

you got defeated last time

so the reason god is taking time and

putting infrastructure up under you

is so that when you move this next time

you’ll have the skeletal fortitude

to be able to stand up under the

pressure because you underestimated what

it cost

last time this time you got to get this

right

do you hear what i’m talking to you so

the bible says that after everything

began to come together

he he talked to ezekiel again he talks

to him twice

first time for him to prophesy to the

bones the second time

is to prophesy to the breath or to the

wind he says now

at one time you are speaking to the

object

the second time you are speaking to that

which empowers the object

okay the first time you’re speaking to

the condition

the next time you’re speaking to the

wind that’s going to empower the

condition

so first time i speak to the dry bones

that are laying in the valley

i speak to what’s left of your life i

speak to the remains of your finances

i speak to the remains of your marriage

i speak to the remains of your

relationship

i speak to the remains of your ministry

the dry

bones the fragments the memories the

moments

that that seems impossible i speak to

that and god says i’m gonna

shake it together press down and shake

shaken together

have you ever noticed when the bible

says press down it don’t just say shaken

but

shaken together whenever god shakes he

shakes it together

he doesn’t shake it apart he shakes it

together he doesn’t shake it apart he

shakes it together

he’s shaking it together he’s shaking it

together he’s shaking it together and

then he says now

i want you to prophesy to the wind

and he said i want the wind to blow on

these that were slain so god

is blowing on those that were slain

listening this closely

i’m going in real deep now god wants to

blow on your pain

he doesn’t say blow on these that are

being formed

he says blow on these that were slain

god wants to blow on the area of where

you failed

the area of your deepest pain

says let my wind at it

let me blow on it let me breathe on it

i know how you feel about it you told me

how you feel about it enough of your

feelings

set up with your feelings let my wind

hit it

and as the wind began to blow

all of a sudden sinews and flesh

came up on those bones

and they stood up on their feet a great

army

do you have any idea how the world was

shocked

in 1948 when israel

after being burned six million people

dead

and the rest of them on the run one

third of their population

annihilated in the holocaust and the

rest of them on the run all over the

world

learning different language blending

into different cultures

learning how to do business in different

environments learning how to adapt to

different cultures

and after all of that time here they

come back

into israel as a nation

sidewalks and street lights skyscrapers

tel aviv looks much like new york city

or more

and these people who were once being

burned in the fire

are moving in a power that was

unimaginable

to their ancestors who were in the gas

chambers

there is a comeback if there’s a

comeback for a country there’s a

comeback for a family

if there’s a comeback for a family

there’s a comeback for a person

you might be in a rehab center right now

you might be watching me in jail

you might be watching me in a mental

institution there’s a comeback for you

there’s a comeback for you there’s a

comeback do you hear me

i’m talking to you there’s a comeback

for you

you might be stuck in the valley of

bitterness you are so angry and so

hateful

nobody could get to you if god sent them

you would listen

but listen at me there’s a comeback for

you

there’s a comeback for you there’s a

wind that’s coming through

this system to reach you right now to

blow on the area where you’ve been slain

i want you to stop acting like you so

tough and open up and let god blow on

the area where you’ve been slain

expose it to god

expose your disappointment expose the

area that you want the holy spirit to

begin to blow on right now

because the breath of the almighty

hashtag

the breath of the almighty has given us

life

the breath of the almighty has given us

life from the book of genesis to the

book of revelations the breath of the

almighty has given us light

it is not money that gives us life it is

not careers that gives us life

it is not being famous it gives us light

the breath of the almighty

has given us life

and god wants to breathe on you right

now

so that you can get your fight back

the bible doesn’t just say that they

stood up on their feet

but it says that they stood up on their

feet as a great

army oh my god

so if i stand on my feet as a great army

you have to recognize that i’m not just

standing there

as a man it would be enough to be

resurrected and get my life back

not only did it give me my life back and

i’m standing there

naked like adam no he said i’m gonna

give you your shield back

i’m gonna give you your sword back i’m

gonna gird up your loins

i’m gonna give you the helmet of

salvation i’m going to let your feet be

shot with the preparation of the gospel

i’m going to give you every equipment

you need

to win where you lost

so they stood back on their feet it was

not just that

he put sinews and tissues and skin on

their bodies

he put swords back in their hands

he put shields on their arms

he put sandals on their feet shot them

ready to march again

he covered their loins he put a helmet

on their head

he gave them their horses back i

prophesied to you you’re gonna get your

horse back

you’ve been knocked off your horse but

you’re gonna get your horse back

you’re gonna get your horse back it’s

been a long time without it but you’re

going to get your horse back

you’ve lost a lot of stuff been knocked

down real low

but it’s not just that you’re going to

come out of it alive you’re going to get

your horse back

your shield your sword

your helmet your breastplate

i mean a complete total restoration

coming in your life

so there are two things that happen one

the word did knowledge is power

so you need to let the word speak to you

not not only the word of god but the

word on whatever it is

that you’re losing you got to start

reading you got to start studying

you got to get word it’s going to be

constructed by word your structure is

going to come

through the knowledge that’s taught to

you by word

okay the word the word of god

but also the word about the thing that

you’re trying to have resurrected

you’re not just going to get it done by

praying alone you’re going to have to

educate yourself about it

words bring structure

wind brings life

the wind of the holy spirit then blows

on that that you have structure

stop asking god to blow on what you

haven’t organized

stop asking god to blow on what you

haven’t organized

once you get everything laid out the way

god says it needs to be laid out

then the wind is coming and when the

wind comes

it’s going to restore everything that

you can’t restore the skin

the sinus the muscles the tissues the

corpuscles the cells

it’s going to bring your color back it’s

going to bring fluid into your eyes it’s

going to get you back up on your feet

but it’s not going to

stop there when you as you get ready to

stand up

your weapons are coming back your

weapons your tools your army

your equipment your sword your shield

your helmet

your horse why do i need my horse back

because i’m a ride up out of this valley

i’m a ride up out of this valley i’m not

going to crawl up out of this valley

i’ma ride up out of this valley

gus says i’m going to give you your

dignity back and you’re going to ride

out of your valley

i don’t know who i’m talking to glory to

god i don’t know who i’m talking to but

you’re going to ride up

out of your valley some of you are going

to mount up on the eagle’s wings but

you’re coming

out of your valley

god sent this word to you to tell you

how to get your fight back and it starts

this sunday morning

yes exit on your calendar

put it on your date book it starts this

sunday morning

things are going to start pulling

together and i’m going to be thankful

and i’m going to start murmuring and i’m

going to stop being dry

and i’m going to stop being bitter and

i’m going to start being hateful because

i am self-sabotaging my success

my god

if my ancestors could survive slavery

never saw a washing machine never saw a

telephone

never saw an electric oven never saw a

microwave

and yet they took care of other people’s

houses and theirs too

worked in the fields all day beating

like dogs

extremities cut off their bodies and

still they stood

then whatever it is you’re trying to put

on me i’ll be all right

if they can withstand hundreds and

hundreds and hundreds of years

of being raped and abused and castrated

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i’m here

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if they could have their babies snatched

out of their arms and soul in new

orleans

as bad as this heartbreak i’m facing

right now is

i’ll be all right

if the jewish people could survive the

holocaust

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and march back into israel

and set up a government and build

highways and open up businesses and

start doing international trade

surrounded by

nations that hate them

and still stand in autonomy

and survive i’ll be all right

if christ

could be betrayed by his own disciples

sold out by those that he had washed

feet and fed

if christ could endure the shame of

being stripped naked and nailed to a

rugged tree

and hang in the hot sun and the

palestinian air

and die in front of his disciples

if christ could go through all of that

and then early sunday morning get up out

of the grave

and rise up with all power in his hand

and go

show himself to his disciples and say

this is how you get your fight back

when they knock you down this is how you

get your fight back when they rule you

out this is how you get your fight back

when they think they got rid of you this

is how you get to get your fight back

when they

roll a stone in front of you

and pay you to stay where you belong

this

is how you get your fight back

then what about you i want to pray for

everybody

that’s listening at me right now that

has an area that you need to get your

fight back

i want to pray for you right now that

the power of the holy spirit would touch

you in a supernatural way

and i want to challenge you in just a

moment i’m going to challenge you to sow

a seed

into a resurrection that’s about to

occur in your life but right now i want

to pray for you

not just he don’t want to pray for you

because until you get it in your spirit

you can’t receive it into your life

you got to get it in your street you got

to stop planning to die

you got to stop picking out territory in

dry

valleys and saying i’ll just lay here no

i’m not

going to stay i’m going to get my fight

back i’m going to find my horse

i’m getting back up i’m getting back

into the fight i’m going to make my way

back

i’m going to build my country i’m going

to build my vision i’m going to build my

dream i want to pray for those of you

that have been hit so hard i’m not

saying you’re a whip i’ve had the wind

knocked out of me too

i want to pray for those of you that

have lost your fight

can i just pray for you

lord we lose our fight because we lose

our faith and we lose our faith because

we fail to believe

that things will ever be better than

they are

and so getting our fight back is really

getting our faith back

to believe that what we see is not the

end of our story

if those bones would have accepted that

valley they would have never gotten out

of that valley but god

there are some valleys that we must

reject right now

there are some valleys that we must

divorce right now there are some valleys

that we must leave right now

there are some valleys we must come up

from there are some gas

chambers we must escape from there are

some pains

we must move on from there is a burning

hole down inside of us

that there’s something better in front

of us than what was behind us

and i pray lord that the power and the

anointing that you gave israel would

rest on us right now

that we would not accept the gas

chambers as the end

of our destiny that we would rise hope

against hope

and dare to believe again if you did it

for the old testament saints

you can do it for the new testament says

if you did it for israel you can do it

for the church

if you did it for the ancestors you can

do it for me

i pray resurrection to fall on us i pray

renewal i pray the birthing of vision

i pray the planning of concepts and

creative ideas

to come upon us now even in the middle

of this pandemic

while we’re in the pandemic let’s take

advantage of this opportunity

to plan our strategy for the future what

are you going to be when you get out of

here what are you going to do when you

get to the next level

what steps do you need to make to get to

where god is getting ready to take you

god i commit myself to a strategy of

resurrection

i commit myself to living and not dying

i commit myself to overcoming

and all of those who hear this word let

that same

spirit fall on them now

in the name of jesus we pray i want you

to take

60 seconds right where you are you might

look like an idiot you might be at the

gas station

you might be in the parking lot you

might be sit on the side of the road

somewhere but i want you to take 60

seconds and praise him

with everything you got i mean every

every everything you got

praise him like you a warrior praise him

like you’re a fighter praise him like

you’re coming back

praise him like you give your tools by

praising him like you did your stuff by

praising like you mean business praise

him like you’re after it

praise him like you’re after it praise

him like you’re going to kill it

praise him like you’re going to knock it

down praise him like you’re going go for

it

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yeah like that

yeah like that like that like that like

that like that

like that like that

yeah like that like that open your mouth

up

okay now about no tears open your mouth

up

yeah let the spirit of god breathe on

you

let it breathe on you let it breathe on

you

let it breathe on you god is breathing

on you he’s breathing on your plans

he’s breathing on your ideas he’s

breathing on your concept

let it blow let it blow

let it blow

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god is i as i come to this moment

i thank you because i

know i know that somebody that heard

this word got their fight back

i know it i know it in my spirit i know

i’m going to hear from them i know

i know i’m going to hear from them that

they got their fight back i know i’m

going to hear

about how you resurrected them and they

began to go forward

riding on a horse into another realm of

victory i know it

i know this is going to be the word that

breaks the yoke i know it

as we come to the close of this service

i want to pray over every person that

feels the unction

in their spirit to sow into the power of

this word

i’m gonna get my fight back

i’m gonna get back up on my horse and

get my sword and shield

and i refuse to be connected to people

i’m not connected to

i’m going to be connected to people that

make it easy for me to stand up

and i’m going to finish what i started

because

god ain’t through with me yet

god is not through with me yet

don’t let the valley fool you god is not

through with me yet

and that’s your plan and as you sow i’m

gonna ask god to send the wind

to blow on every dream in your life i’m

gonna ask god to send the wind

to blow on your strategies to make the

adjustments that’s necessary

to move the bones that are out of place

so the bones that were meant to be there

will find a place

every vacancy is not bad news sometimes

the vacancy is just an opportunity

for the right bone to find this place

stop crying over who left

and get ready for who’s coming oh my god

i’m talking to somebody today

i’m praying over you father blow on us

as we sow as we plan

as we believe as we trust you as we

strategize

as we reorganize restructure

re-galvanize re-fortify ourselves

let your wind blow

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let your wind blow

let it blow in resources and grants

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conveyances of properties and deeds

opportunities opening up pulpits

releasing buildings let your wind blow

you are restructuring the world

don’t restructure the world and not

restructure me

and i bless every seed

and i bless every child that’s moving in

faith right now

and i believe you i believe you

not for the seed i believe it for the

harvest

in jesus name

amen and that’s

how you get your fight back

you