🙌 Ezekiel 36:26 | God Brings Life to Dry Bones

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Here’s something convicting and encouraging: No heart is too hard for God to renew, and no situation is beyond His power, wisdom, or care. If you fully believed that, who or what would you bring before God in prayer?

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Ezekiel 36:26

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At the start of this week we met the priest and prophet Ezekiel as an exile in Babylon. Everything the Israelites cared about was destroyed and they had been taken away from the Promised Land as a result of their disobedience and unfaithfulness to God.

Then, God gave Ezekiel a message for the people.

Like many other prophets in the Bible, the message called the Israelites to look at their actions, repent, and return to God. And it also held a promise of renewal:

Tuesday took us to the questions: What exactly is a hard heart? and What had Israel done wrong?

In Ezekiel 36, Israel’s hard heart was shown by:

Their hearts were hard towards the Lord, leading them to disobey and dishonor Him.

On Wednesday, we looked at the Hebrew meaning of heart: lēb. In Scripture, it refers to your mind, your thoughts, your desires, your will…In other words, it refers to the entire inner person.

The Israelites needed their whole lives to be transformed through the giving of an entirely new heart. And we are the same - a “fix” or “upgrade” wouldn’t be enough to clean up our hearts. We need the old one to be removed and a brand new one to be put in its place.

And yesterday, we looked at Jesus: the One who fulfilled the promise.

Our memory verse was not merely a promise spoken to Israel through Ezekiel. It finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus and the New Covenant He established through His death and resurrection.

Ezekiel 36 gives a beautiful picture of God’s saving work:

A new heart + God’s Spirit within us = new life

Jesus taught that we need more than external behavior modification. We need the old self to die and to be born again.

And through faith in Christ, He gives us the Holy Spirit — the One who makes us alive to God and empowers us to obey Him.

Ezekiel was shown a vivid picture of this life-giving power in the very next chapter.

In Ezekiel 37, he stood in a valley filled with dry bones — a picture of Israel’s hopeless, death-like condition in exile.

But when God commanded Ezekiel to prophesy, He breathed life into what had been dead.

And that is what God does through Christ and by His Spirit.

He brings new life where there was once death.

💪 Challenge

What person, situation, or prayer have you begun to view as hopeless?

Bring it honestly before God and take one small, faithful step this weekend — not to control the outcome, but to trust God with it.

You could send a brief message to check in on someone, begin sorting one small part of a space connected with grief, or pray again for something you’ve stopped bringing before God.

No matter what you do, leave the outcome in God’s hands.

🙏 Pray

Father, nothing and no one is beyond your power, wisdom, or care. When I see only what is broken, help me remember that you are the God who gives life to the spiritually dead. Give me faith to obey you in this situation, wisdom for the next step, and peace to entrust the outcome to your hands. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

In case you missed them, here are a few resources to help you dig deeper into our memory verse and its themes:

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And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26