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