This year,2024, I want my prayer life to go to the next level. No, I need it to. Lately my prayer life is just going through the motions. There is little power and there are few tears shed. When I read the following passage God stirred my heart to ask for his breath on my prayer life.

Ezekiel 37King James Version

37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

² And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

⁴ Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

⁸ And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

⁹ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

¹¹ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

¹² Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

¹³ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

¹⁴ And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel answer God’s question perfectly. He said, Oh Lord God, thou knowest. Ezekiel knows that God is capable of doing this thing and he declares that God does not need to ask Ezekiel.

Ezekiel has such an understanding of God’s power that he doesn’t hesitate to prophesy to the dry bones. But notice that even after God works a miracle of putting the flesh back on the bones that it is not enough to bring them back to life.

The four winds must blow and put breath into the bodies.

These dry bones remind me of my prayer life at times. Many times I even have the prayer “fleshed out” but it has no breath of God.

I am praying that Gods would breathe new life into my prayer life this year and allow me to see him do great things with it.

S.T. 
I Thessalonians 5:24
"Faithful is he..."