Sometimes God gives you a sermon to deliver where you know the Holy Spirit is talking to you…the preacher. This sermon, “Revival Calls for Forgiveness”, was that type of sermon for me.
I used Ezekiel 37:9-10 as my scriptural base. In this passage, God is speaking to the prophet Ezekiel instructing him to prophesy to the dead bones in the valley, to tell the bones that God will breathe on them to restore them back to life. God tells Ezekiel to say to these dry bones, “Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”
We all have a valley of dry bones in our lives. That’s where we keep all of our disappointments, our heartaches, our resentments and our pain. God wants to revive us, and restore us, but God can’t do that if we refuse to forgive ourselves and others.
I am so grateful for this word. I am so grateful that the Holy Spirit stood up within me to share it with the congregation at Gethsemane African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In this moment, I prophesy over us saying, “Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe” into the dead parts of us so we may live!
Sermon: Forgiveness Comes Through Revival
