day 4

Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones

1. Repentance: Hearts of Stone becoming Hearts of Flesh

Ezekiel 11:19 – “Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.”

• The reason why we do not respond aright even in the face of God’s revelation of our state is hardness of heart. Begin to ask God to soften your heart and that of your generation (Ezekiel 36:26). Ask God to remove the stony parts of your heart and bring a tenderness to hear the Lord’s voice and a sensitivity to His leading.

2. Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath

Spiritual Eyes:

• Read Ezekiel 37:2 and Matthew 9:36

One of the most important inner qualities we ought to have is spiritual eyes, so that we can see opportunities presented by unbelievers to become Christians. If we do not renew our compassion daily toward them, we grow colder toward them. Whenever the opportunity existed, Jesus saw it and was moved by compassion to their aid.

• Ask God to give you eyes to see the opportunities He has laid before you to speak truth and love into the lives of others.

• Pray for compassion to well up within your heart that you would move to serve others and pray for them with the compassion of Christ.

Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?

1. Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized

Security

• Ask God to remind these message bearers that safety is not the goal, but that it’s making His name and His glory known among the nations. Sometimes this means embracing the sufferings of Christ.

• Pray for the courage to embrace the sufferings of Christ, so that they might also know the power of the resurrection in those moments.

2. Mobilizing the Army:
Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized

South Africa

1 Corinthians 7:5 – “But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk.”

• Pray that in unity masses of South Africans would be mobilized and that differences of doctrine and background would not suffocate the movement. Pray that God would turn differences for good, so that each one does their part in seeing multitudes of young people sent to the unreached.

• Pray for students to walk out with faithfulness the calling of God on their lives. Pray for grace as they walk out their salvation with fear and trembling, believing that going to the unreached is God’s mandate for them.

3. Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for Adopted People Groups

“And when He (Holy Spirit) has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” – John 16:8

-Pray for these people to be convicted of their sins. Ask the Holy Spirit to pierce their hearts with the light of truth and righteousness. Pray for no lies of the enemy or deception block the truth from being rooted and grounded in their hearts.