YOU HAVE SEALED THEM WITH YOUR SIGNET RING

​During this morning’s Prayer and Worship meeting, I kept hearing in my spirit – ‘the Church.’ At some point, I felt compelled to read Ezekiel chapter 37. After reading the first three verses or so, I got up and went to the back table in the Bob Jones Vision Center and sat to hear what the LORD had to say. Then I began to write the following to the Church of GOD – HIS Body.
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the words lit up

​As I read certain words, phrases, footnotes, and verses, certain verses jumped out at me as if the words lifted off the pages and hoover before me as if it was speaking directly to me. As I was captivated by what I was reading and seeing, again, I kept hearing that phrase – ‘the Church, O, MY Church.’

My notes

My GOD, what is my LORD speaking to me today? What is HE saying? What is HE trying to show me?

Well, let’s not get into that part this morning. But I want to share with you what the LORD showed me this morning in my reading in hopes HE will speak to you as well.
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So, what I will do now is piece together only the parts of the verses the LORD highlighted to me and share anything else HE may give me so speak along the way.
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you will live again
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Starting with verse 5 of Ezekiel chapter 37, the LORD thy GOD said to Ezekiel, “… “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.”

My god! It is HIM that will cause any and everything to happen in HIS timing – according to HIS will. For the nations will rise and they will fall according to the will of the FATHER, for HE is the KING of kings and LORD of lords (Job 12:23; Revelation 17:14). Therefore, HE will cause and is the cause for the things that are occurring, for HE has prophesied it long ago. For it is the time, it is the season, and HE is in control (Romans 8:28; Proverbs 19:21).
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Notice, in verse 5 of Ezekiel chapter 37, the LORD uses the word, ‘surely’ when HE speaks of causing things to occur. The point the LORD is saying is that we can be certain, reassured that things will occur as HE has said. In fact, this phrase, ‘Then you shall, know that I am the LORD’ is said about 70 times throughout the book of Ezekiel. We must ‘surely’ know who our GOD is, HE who is the KING of glory, and therefore, what HE speaks must surely come to pass (Isaiah 55:11). 
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prophesy ​
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Verse 7 of Ezekiel chapter 37 says, “So I prophesied as I was commanded….” We must understand our role in GOD’s plan. We are to prophesy what thus says the LORD, NOT what thus says man.

When Jesus Christ, our Savior was on the earth, He left us with the following instructions. We will do work as He has done. In fact, we (Christians) will do greater things than the things He has done while He was here with us in the flesh (John 14:12).

We are looking to the LORD to bring about solutions to mankind’s problems on the earth, when the LORD our GOD has given us the earth (Psalm 115:16). HE has given us dominion – controlling power and influence, over the earth and every living thing in it (Genesis 1:26, 28). We personally are the solution, the problem solver, to all the problems of mankind on the earth, NOT GOD. [HE has placed the solutions in us (Jeremiah 1:5)].

GOD has put in each one of us the solution to every problem on the earth. And yet, we are waiting on GOD when the LORD is waiting on us to arise to our glory, which HE has placed in each one of us (1 Corinthians 12:11).
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Arise! Arise! Arise and prophesy ​whatever the LORD has commanded you to prophesy. 
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the four winds
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Verse 10 of Ezekiel chapter 37 speaks that commanding phrase again, but from Ezekiel’s perspective – “So I prophesied as He commanded me….”

Man must speak not from his own will, but the will of the FATHER. This is what Jesus taught us to do when He was here on the earth. Jesus said to the FATHER, ‘… Father, if it is your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but yours, be done’ (Luke 22:42). Jesus did not come to elevate, promote, nor execute his own agenda – what He thought was right to do in His own eyes. No, He came to do the FATHER’s will, as the FATHER spoke to Him to do. Jesus said to His disciples, ‘… you will realize (know, understand) that I am He (for whom you look) and I do nothing of myself (of my own accord or on my own authority), but I say (exactly) what My Father has taught Me (John 8:28 AMPC).

We as the church and leaders of the congregation of GOD must understand and come to accept that we are to mimic our Lord and Savior in all things. Therefore, we are not allowed to speak or promote our own agenda or the agenda of man (those who mentor us or whose leadership we are under). WE MUST prophesy what the LORD commands of us. We must speak what thus say the LORD or else we are out of alignment with the will of the FATHER and therefore, we are attempting to usurp the plans and will of the FATHER.

MY GOD – what a tragedy that the sons of man cannot see their own folly – their destruction.

CHURCH – wake up. Wake up to the calling of the LORD and not to the whimpering and misguided direction of man (Proverbs 3:5 AMPC).

This leads us back to verse 9 of Ezekiel chapter 37, when the LORD said to Ezekiel, “… come from the four winds, o breath, and breathe….”
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MY god! The four winds here represent the four corners of the earth (the south, north, east, and west) that carry GOD’s omnipresence (HIM being all places simultaneously – every place at the same time). It is a symbol of HIS completeness (HIS ability to carry out to the full any and everything HE speaks simultaneously. For HE is the Alpha and the Omega – the beginning and the end (Revelation 1:8). Therefore, it is HE that created our beginning and it is HE that is able to bring things to an end (completion). (See Genesis 1:1 and Revelation 22:20-21). So prophesy what thus says the LORD from all corners of the earth as the LORD commands, as the LORD commands (Ezekiel 37:9, 10). 
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god is opening the graves
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Then in verse 12 of Ezekiel chapter 37, GOD transcends to this statement. “Behold, O My people, I will open the graves and cause you to come up from your graves….”

Oh my GOD, open up our graves – the hole that is in our hearts. For we don’t truly know YOU and therefore we don’t know or understand YOUR will – the plans YOU have for us. Therefore, we trample over the desires of YOUR heart and insist on our own will – what we think is right and just.
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LORD thy GOD forgives us for implementing our own sinister plans – the will and agenda of man. Forgive us. Extend mercy and grace upon us due to our sinful ways – thinking we know better than YOU. For YOUR ways, YOUR ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9).

David Guzik, a commentary writer, puts it this way, “Cynics in Ezekiel’s audience might have assumed a sinister motive, perhaps to rob the tombs or to desecrate the remains, both common practices in the ancient Near East. But now Yahweh poses as a tomb robber like no others the treasure he is after in the bodies of his people, whom he will raise from the grave.”

Oh my GOD, my GOD would YOU raise us up once again? Pull us from the graves that we have dug for ourselves because we refuse to wake up, to be the solution to mankind’s problems which YOU have given us the authority to execute in each one of us. LORD, as I see the day is drawing near, I am looking to YOU LORD to cause us to come up, to come out of our graves, and to arise to a higher glory – YOUR glory which can fill the entire earth and bring all things to its end.

For it is when this occurs (the end of such things) that they will know, we all will know, all will know that YOU ARE GOD! The LORD over all (Ephesians 4:6; Ezekiel 37:13).

Oh my GOD, it is YOU that will put YOUR Spirit in all those whom YOU have marked YOURS. You have sealed them with YOUR signet ring. For they all will know that YOU are GOD and what you have spoken, YOU will do it, it will occur for YOU are GOD – the KING of kings and the LORD of lords that all men must bow down to (Romans 14:11 AMPC).
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Thank You, Jesus!