Last month people were commenting on how early people are switching into the next holiday. It used to be we would actually celebrate a holiday in the month it was slated for. An example is we celebrate Christmas in December, Thanksgiving in November, Halloween in October, Easter in April, but it seems as though these holidays have crossed their boundaries and are bleeding into other months. Now if it is Christmas, for some it is okay, but when people spread the October holiday into September some were not happy about it. Comments were made about the decorations they were seeing in stores so early and in people’s yards.
I love how the Lord has an answer for every one of our issues. Many times I wished I would have been mature enough to hear His voice like I do now at a much younger age, but maturity has its benefits and one of those benefits is not only hearing the voice of God but knowing His nature. The nature of God declares everyone is redeemable, so when He looks at something He always finds a redemptive way to deal with it. I wonder if this is why He says He works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose? Nonetheless, He has done it again, He has redeemed October for us.
I asked my son to drive by 202 Church Street in Franklin, TN last night, because when I saw this the other day the Lord spoke to me and said, “Prophesy to the dry bones and tell them to live!” I knew this was God’s answer to many of us who do not celebrate this October holiday. Now everytime I drive or walk past dry bones, I prophesy to them and the people who have them near their house, I say what Yahweh told Ezekiel to say, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’ Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.’” So I prophesied as I was commanded” (Ezekiel 37:4-7). Next time you see dry bones, prophesy!
Lisa Great 