May 27, 2025 • 19 mins
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In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All of us are surrounded by some stuff that's not
working right. All of us are surrounded by some stuff
that won't seem to come together and function according to
God's word. I love what the Welsh preacher Martin Lloyd Jones,
Doctor Martin Lloyd Jones said. He said, most of our
problems in life happen because we spend too much time
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listening to ourselves and not enough time talking to ourselves.
God said, Ezekiel, you see these bones. They look dry,
don't they, Yes, Lord, they're dry. They look they look dead,
don't they? Yes, Lord, they look dead. They're decomposing, aren't they? Yes, Lord,
they are. And the Lord ask a question, can they
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live again? Now? I see the question here is not
can God make dry bones live again? But the question
is can these dead bones live again?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Most of us have a.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Belief that God can do big things, just don't know
if He can do big things through somebody as small
as us. It's not God, we doubt most of the time.
It's these bones. It is this. This is my problem,
not that, but this, this, this. And the Lord said
can they live again? And Ezekiel said, only you know, Lord,
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And the Lord said, I want to use you to
speak life into something that seems to be dead. And
so God brought me here today to challenge you to
stop describing your problems and start declaring his promises over
your problems. I'm gonna say it again until the whole
church explodes like.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You ought to. He said.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As long as you're describing your problems, nothing's going to change.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But if you'll start.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Declaring my promises to your problems, and stop telling me
all the stuff that's wrong that I already know, and
start speaking what I said into the surroundings you see,
tell somebody next.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
To you talk to it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Stop talking about it and start talking to it. Stop
listening to every dysfunctional thought that comes into your mind,
and start telling your mind to align with the Word
of God, with the perfect, flawless word of God, with
the invincible, incorruptible.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Word of God. Try bones, hear the word, Oh the Lord.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Come on, I'm done describing problems.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I've spent my whole life. Let my problems define me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm about to declare some promises till something changes. And
and he said, he said, he said, dry bones, hear
the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign
Lord says, to these bones, I will make breath enter you,
and you will come to life. I will listen how
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specific doctor Ezekiel is about what he believes that God
is going to do. In great detail. He describes the
miracle before he can see the evidence. He said, he said,
he said, see, I gotta stop.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You're using your imagination the wrong way. You're doing an
autopsy of all of the things that are wrong in
your life. You can describe in great detail everything that's
wrong with you with great detail. All the mistakes you've
made with great detail. All the stuff that's working against
you with great detail. All the disadvantages with great detail,
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all the people that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Hurt you with great detail.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But what if what if you made the shift, the
graveyard shift, and started speaking about what you saw in
the garden while you stand in the graveyard.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a shift. I'm done talking about this. It's time
to talk to it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I'm done. I'm done thinking about this. I want I
want to think my way through this. I want to
think some higher thoughts. So he says, he said, here's
what God's gonna do. I will attach tendons to you,
and I'll make flesh come upon you, and I will
cover you with skin, and I'll put breadth.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
In you and see see the detail.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'll make your patella work right again, your patella. That's
how Abby said, your patella, your patella. Come a point
to your patello right now. I don't know why. I
don't know why. I just went with it and want
to see if.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But see, sometimes you gotta you gotta point the stuff
in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, that's that's it. That's what that's that's the word.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Sometimes you gotta point to something in your life and
specifically start.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Giving instructions to the parts.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of your life that don't align with God's work. And
start Watch what happened when he did. Watch what happened
when he did. He starts speaking about what God was
gonna do before he could see it. Verse seven, Verse seven.
Take me to seven. Take me to seven. So I
prophesied as I was commanded. He didn't see the picture yet,
but he had the power. And see, if you release
the power, it's just a matter of time before you
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see the picture. But stop trying to wait until you
see the picture to pronounce the power. You gotta release
it before God will reveal it, he says, So I prophesy.
I feel this so strong. I don't like I'm not
I'm not. I'm not gonna be able to hold back.
I'm not gonna be able.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
To dial it down.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm not gonna be able to pace myself. I just
gotta go. I gotta go with what I feel. I
feel this, I feel this, he said. When I said
what God told me to say, I heard a noise.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I didn't see a sight yet, but I heard a noise.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Because faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the
word of God. So if you wait for what you see,
you'll always walk by sight.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Not by faith. But if you'll go by what you hear,
you'll hear a soul.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Elija said, I hear the sound of the abundance of rain.
I don't see a clown in the sky yet, but
I hear something starting to shift, starting to shake, something
to rattle.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
There was a noise.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well make that be three rattle, he said.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I heard a noise, I heard a show. I heard
a sound. I heard a sound. I heard a sound,
a rattling sound. God said, the stuff that's been rattling you,
you're about to rattle it. When you make a show
and release a praise, something's gonna happen. And the bones
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came together, and the bones came together.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Crab.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Somebody on either side of the us say, it's all
coming together. It's all coming together. It's all coming together.
You know, I don't have my act together yet. I
don't have my life together yet. I don't have my
business playing together yet. I'll have my relationships together yet.
I'll have my mind together yet. But it's coming together.
I said it's coming together. I said us coming together.
I see it coming together. I see stuff coming together.
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I see bones starting to hook up that were dead
for a while. And Ezekiel'll preach so good that the
bones came together, bone to bone, bone to bone.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Somebody said this sermon was bad to the.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I came out here this weekend to try to preach
so hard that stuff would start coming together in your
life and in your mind, and stuff would start coming
together that looked like it fell apart, and stuff would
start coming I wanted to preach so good today. I
asked God to give me a word so strong that
you would hear it like it was just for you,
and you'd look at what's surrounding you, and you'd start
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to change what you say about your surroundings until your
surroundings start to reflect.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh my god, come on, I want to preach. Show
the bones. Stand up, strang. I want to preach.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Till everything in your life alive with what God has said.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We're bo Stand up straight. That's what Ezekiel said. Stand
up straight. You've been lying there long enough. Stand up straight.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm about shake thirteen people, tell us stand up straight,
stand up straight, stand up, stand up straighten up, stand.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Out straighten up.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So now that we have now that we have established
the introduction, let me preciate my message.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He said.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He said the bones came together, but something was said wrong.
He said the bones came together and started coming together,
and there were skin on it, and there's flush on it,
and looked better than it did when he got there. Well,
just because it looks better doesn't mean it is yet.
(09:03):
Just because you look successful doesn't mean you really are.
Just because you look happy, just because you tucked it,
painted it, botoxed it, hannd it white people, just because you.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh, you put some lotion on it too.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'll speak to everybody in the church.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But he said, he said, look, and they had all
the they had all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They had all the stuff, but there was no breath
in them. So what came next? What came next? What
came next?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This is the part that all week long, I mean,
reading this verse now, the way that a sermon typically
comes to me. Is it an idea or thought, particularly
a passage of scripture, or maybe just a phrase. Well,
seem to jump off the page, do a cartwheel and
throw confetti and screaming yell hey over here, preach about
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me until I finally engage with it. And what got
me to the point that every time I would read
this phrase this week, I would become emotional and get
teary eyed reading what God said to Ezekiel next, Because
I believe it's.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The thing that many of you have been missing.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That is why your life looks religious, or why your
life looks together, But something is.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Missing, And it's what God said to Ezekiel next. He said,
Then he said to me, prophesy to the breath. Maybe
I just breathe real good.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I need I need to breathe myself, you know, preaching
like this as a physical endeavor. I gotta get on
the rowing machine if I'm a preach like this, because
you got to have a lung capacity to to get
after it and yell at people like I yell at you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And he said, he said, there's a problem with my people.
They're out of breath. He said, my people are out
of breath. He said, my church is short of breath.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He said, my church can't do what I wanted to
do because my church is out of breath. He said,
my church has assembled, and they look like a church,
and they got skin, but they.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Don't have enough breath.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And I want you to prophesy, just declare the.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Word of the Lord to the breath. I believe this
is a picture of worship.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I believe that because the Hebrew word for breath
is rua, and that word rua is translated in English
both as breath and spirit.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's the same word.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
There's no distinction breath and spirit. So when God breathed
into Adam and Genesis chapter two, verse seven, the breath
of life, the rua of life, he was breathing his breath,
which became the spirit of the man. So he formed
the man from the ground, and then he filled the
man with his breath. God said, some of you are
formed but not filled your form.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know, you.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Got designer stuff, but you're still just a skeleton until
you are filled with My spirit. And so he said, prophesy.
I go back to Ezekiel, prophesy to the breath, prophesy
so not a man, and say to it, this is
what the sovereign Lord says. Come breath from the four
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winds and breathe into the slain. Breathe into whatever's dead.
Breathe into dead dreams, Breathe into dead hopes, Breathe into
dying aspirations. Breathe, breathe, breathe, and from the four winds.
As the breath of God enters the body of these previously.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Dead bones, they may live.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I felt like the Lord said, when you go
out there this week, don't preach. I mean, do a sermon,
but instead of just preaching, prophesy to the breath.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And then I said, well, Lord, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Because if I just get up there and tell the
people to prophesy to the breath, they're going to look
at me like you're looking at me right now.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is what I predicted.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I studied it, and I kept studying it looking for
a technical definition, and I found none. But toward the
end of this week, as I was trying to figure
out exactly what God wanted you to hear from this passage,
I was walking past my bookshelf in my office, which
is full of many big books that I have never read,
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books that they taught me how to purchase in seminary
and if you ever see them.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It will look impressive to you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But I was walking on that bookshelf looking for a
book that may give me some further direction. It's funny
because I don't really believe in that much coin. I mean,
some things are coincidental, but did you know and Hebrew
there is no word for our English word that we
call coincidence.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Becau to them, it didn't exist.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And so I mean, I know that some things are
just coincidental, but this seemed kind of weird to me.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So I'm walking.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm studying about Prophesy to the Breath and one of
the worship songs that is by a friend of mine.
I call him a friend, he's really more like an acquaintance.
But I'm sure we would be friends if we have
more time together. But I haven't been around in that much.
His name is Martin Smith, and we've been at a
few events together. And he led the Christian rock band
called Delirious in the nineties. They were the biggest Christian
rock band. They were bigger than Bono.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And the Edge in the nineties, and.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
They actually took a lot of Christian music mainstream. And
he wrote a lot of the worship songs that we
would have sung through the last few decades. And I
was walking through my office by the bookshelf and one
of his songs came on on the speakers in my office,
just randomly, one of his songs. But while the song
came on, I walked by his book that he had
given me in Bogata, Columbia, the last time we were together.
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The book is called Delirious and it's about his band
and it's a memoir of his life. And I thought, well,
this is kind of kind of quirky coincidental.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Maybe it's not coincidence.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
He's a worship leader and I'm kind of talking about
worship and we're released. Maybe I should take this book
and read a little bit of it and see what's
in it. And so I pulled it off the shelf
and Martin, if you ever watched this, I'm sorry it
took me a year to pick up your book because.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Most of the books I just put on my shelf.
If you ever sent me one, I probably won't read.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It, because you know, I got a lot of books.
But I pulled this one out. I said, I'm gonna
read the first chapter and.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
See what's in it. And when I read it.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
When I read it, it didn't take me long because
I saw why God had me pick up this book,
and I understood why God told Ezekiel to prophesy to
the breath. And I realized why God had me preach
this message to you today. So he's telling a little
bit about his life before he became a rock star.
Tell somebody next to you, don't hold your breath. And
he tells his story. He says he's telling about when
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he was a little child. He says, my mom and
dad still talk about the day at two months old,
I developed bronchitis, which gradually worsened at six months old,
when my parents wrote, rush me back to the hospital.
See I didn't know this part of his story. He said,
I was six months old. My parents rushed me back
to the hospital and I was diagnosed with bronchial pneumonia.
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't breathe. I was crying. I
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wasn't even making a sound. So the medics took me
and placed me inside an iron lung, a covered and
sealed caught designed to get little bodies like mine breathing again. Now,
my parents had no idea whether I would make it
out alive. They watched me laying silent, my life in
the hands of this strange looking piece of equipment. All
they could do was pray. Their prayer was simple, thank
you for giving Martin to us. Lord, we are willing
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to give him back to you, But could you please
breathe into his lungs.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And let him make a noise.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Then he says, I guess God heard them. I guess
he took them up on his off, on their offer,
because he went on to travel the globe singing songs
of worship.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But watch this, watch this, watch this.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
He went on to make a noise that would shake
the world for the glory of God. He went on
to make a noise. But see what the devil did
to Martin Smith. The devil will try to do to
you because He knows that your life is meant to
make a noise, to make a sound, to declare the
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praises of Him who brought you out of darkness into
his marvelous life.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So what the devil will try to do. He'll try
to take your breath away. See, he'll try to hit
you so hard. He'll try to let life confuse you
so much.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That it'll knock the wind out of you, that it'll
knock the breath out of you, that you'll spend your
life gasping for breath. That you'll spends your life trying
to trying to breathe and wondering why is this not working?
But God said, I brought you to church this weekend
so you.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Could breathe again.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I didn't just bring you here so you could hear
a servant.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Seen some songs. I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Breathe my life in two your lungs till you make
a sound.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If you got what I was just.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Friting, you'd open your mouth and praise God a little bit.
Because the devil knows that if you ever make the
sound that your life was intended to make, if you
ever line up straight with the word of God, if
you ever catch this breath that God is breathing. He
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knows you'll be unstoppable. See, he knows that there's something
that God wants to release through your life. And that's
why he's fighting you.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Like he's fighting you. Don't you see it.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's why he's fighting your kids like he's fighting your kids.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's why he's attacking your mind like he's attacking your mind.
He's trying to take your breath away.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
Thanks again for watching.
All of us are surrounded by some stuff that's not
working right. All of us are surrounded by some stuff
that won't seem to come together and function according to
God's word. I love what the Welsh preacher Martin Lloyd Jones,
Doctor Martin Lloyd Jones said. He said, most of our
problems in life happen because we spend too much time
(00:21):
listening to ourselves and not enough time talking to ourselves.
God said, Ezekiel, you see these bones. They look dry,
don't they, Yes, Lord, they're dry. They look they look dead,
don't they? Yes, Lord, they look dead. They're decomposing, aren't they? Yes, Lord,
they are. And the Lord ask a question, can they
(00:45):
live again? Now? I see the question here is not
can God make dry bones live again? But the question
is can these dead bones live again?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Most of us have a.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Belief that God can do big things, just don't know
if He can do big things through somebody as small
as us. It's not God, we doubt most of the time.
It's these bones. It is this. This is my problem,
not that, but this, this, this. And the Lord said
can they live again? And Ezekiel said, only you know, Lord,
(01:19):
And the Lord said, I want to use you to
speak life into something that seems to be dead. And
so God brought me here today to challenge you to
stop describing your problems and start declaring his promises over
your problems. I'm gonna say it again until the whole
church explodes like.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You ought to. He said.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As long as you're describing your problems, nothing's going to change.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But if you'll start.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Declaring my promises to your problems, and stop telling me
all the stuff that's wrong that I already know, and
start speaking what I said into the surroundings you see,
tell somebody next.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
To you talk to it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Stop talking about it and start talking to it. Stop
listening to every dysfunctional thought that comes into your mind,
and start telling your mind to align with the Word
of God, with the perfect, flawless word of God, with
the invincible, incorruptible.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Word of God. Try bones, hear the word, Oh the Lord.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Come on, I'm done describing problems.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I've spent my whole life. Let my problems define me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm about to declare some promises till something changes. And
and he said, he said, he said, dry bones, hear
the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign
Lord says, to these bones, I will make breath enter you,
and you will come to life. I will listen how
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specific doctor Ezekiel is about what he believes that God
is going to do. In great detail. He describes the
miracle before he can see the evidence. He said, he said,
he said, see, I gotta stop.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You're using your imagination the wrong way. You're doing an
autopsy of all of the things that are wrong in
your life. You can describe in great detail everything that's
wrong with you with great detail. All the mistakes you've
made with great detail. All the stuff that's working against
you with great detail. All the disadvantages with great detail,
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all the people that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Hurt you with great detail.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But what if what if you made the shift, the
graveyard shift, and started speaking about what you saw in
the garden while you stand in the graveyard.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a shift. I'm done talking about this. It's time
to talk to it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I'm done. I'm done thinking about this. I want I
want to think my way through this. I want to
think some higher thoughts. So he says, he said, here's
what God's gonna do. I will attach tendons to you,
and I'll make flesh come upon you, and I will
cover you with skin, and I'll put breadth.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
In you and see see the detail.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'll make your patella work right again, your patella. That's
how Abby said, your patella, your patella. Come a point
to your patello right now. I don't know why. I
don't know why. I just went with it and want
to see if.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But see, sometimes you gotta you gotta point the stuff
in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, that's that's it. That's what that's that's the word.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Sometimes you gotta point to something in your life and
specifically start.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Giving instructions to the parts.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of your life that don't align with God's work. And
start Watch what happened when he did. Watch what happened
when he did. He starts speaking about what God was
gonna do before he could see it. Verse seven, Verse seven.
Take me to seven. Take me to seven. So I
prophesied as I was commanded. He didn't see the picture yet,
but he had the power. And see, if you release
the power, it's just a matter of time before you
(05:08):
see the picture. But stop trying to wait until you
see the picture to pronounce the power. You gotta release
it before God will reveal it, he says, So I prophesy.
I feel this so strong. I don't like I'm not
I'm not. I'm not gonna be able to hold back.
I'm not gonna be able.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
To dial it down.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm not gonna be able to pace myself. I just
gotta go. I gotta go with what I feel. I
feel this, I feel this, he said. When I said
what God told me to say, I heard a noise.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I didn't see a sight yet, but I heard a noise.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Because faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the
word of God. So if you wait for what you see,
you'll always walk by sight.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Not by faith. But if you'll go by what you hear,
you'll hear a soul.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Elija said, I hear the sound of the abundance of rain.
I don't see a clown in the sky yet, but
I hear something starting to shift, starting to shake, something
to rattle.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
There was a noise.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well make that be three rattle, he said.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I heard a noise, I heard a show. I heard
a sound. I heard a sound. I heard a sound,
a rattling sound. God said, the stuff that's been rattling you,
you're about to rattle it. When you make a show
and release a praise, something's gonna happen. And the bones
(06:28):
came together, and the bones came together.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Crab.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Somebody on either side of the us say, it's all
coming together. It's all coming together. It's all coming together.
You know, I don't have my act together yet. I
don't have my life together yet. I don't have my
business playing together yet. I'll have my relationships together yet.
I'll have my mind together yet. But it's coming together.
I said it's coming together. I said us coming together.
I see it coming together. I see stuff coming together.
(06:56):
I see bones starting to hook up that were dead
for a while. And Ezekiel'll preach so good that the
bones came together, bone to bone, bone to bone.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Somebody said this sermon was bad to the.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I came out here this weekend to try to preach
so hard that stuff would start coming together in your
life and in your mind, and stuff would start coming
together that looked like it fell apart, and stuff would
start coming I wanted to preach so good today. I
asked God to give me a word so strong that
you would hear it like it was just for you,
and you'd look at what's surrounding you, and you'd start
(07:41):
to change what you say about your surroundings until your
surroundings start to reflect.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh my god, come on, I want to preach. Show
the bones. Stand up, strang. I want to preach.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Till everything in your life alive with what God has said.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We're bo Stand up straight. That's what Ezekiel said. Stand
up straight. You've been lying there long enough. Stand up straight.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm about shake thirteen people, tell us stand up straight,
stand up straight, stand up, stand up straighten up, stand.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Out straighten up.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So now that we have now that we have established
the introduction, let me preciate my message.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He said.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He said the bones came together, but something was said wrong.
He said the bones came together and started coming together,
and there were skin on it, and there's flush on it,
and looked better than it did when he got there. Well,
just because it looks better doesn't mean it is yet.
(09:03):
Just because you look successful doesn't mean you really are.
Just because you look happy, just because you tucked it,
painted it, botoxed it, hannd it white people, just because you.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh, you put some lotion on it too.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'll speak to everybody in the church.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But he said, he said, look, and they had all
the they had all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They had all the stuff, but there was no breath
in them. So what came next? What came next? What
came next?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This is the part that all week long, I mean,
reading this verse now, the way that a sermon typically
comes to me. Is it an idea or thought, particularly
a passage of scripture, or maybe just a phrase. Well,
seem to jump off the page, do a cartwheel and
throw confetti and screaming yell hey over here, preach about
(10:13):
me until I finally engage with it. And what got
me to the point that every time I would read
this phrase this week, I would become emotional and get
teary eyed reading what God said to Ezekiel next, Because
I believe it's.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The thing that many of you have been missing.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That is why your life looks religious, or why your
life looks together, But something is.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Missing, And it's what God said to Ezekiel next. He said,
Then he said to me, prophesy to the breath. Maybe
I just breathe real good.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I need I need to breathe myself, you know, preaching
like this as a physical endeavor. I gotta get on
the rowing machine if I'm a preach like this, because
you got to have a lung capacity to to get
after it and yell at people like I yell at you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And he said, he said, there's a problem with my people.
They're out of breath. He said, my people are out
of breath. He said, my church is short of breath.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He said, my church can't do what I wanted to
do because my church is out of breath. He said,
my church has assembled, and they look like a church,
and they got skin, but they.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Don't have enough breath.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And I want you to prophesy, just declare the.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Word of the Lord to the breath. I believe this
is a picture of worship.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I believe that because the Hebrew word for breath
is rua, and that word rua is translated in English
both as breath and spirit.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's the same word.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
There's no distinction breath and spirit. So when God breathed
into Adam and Genesis chapter two, verse seven, the breath
of life, the rua of life, he was breathing his breath,
which became the spirit of the man. So he formed
the man from the ground, and then he filled the
man with his breath. God said, some of you are
formed but not filled your form.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know, you.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Got designer stuff, but you're still just a skeleton until
you are filled with My spirit. And so he said, prophesy.
I go back to Ezekiel, prophesy to the breath, prophesy
so not a man, and say to it, this is
what the sovereign Lord says. Come breath from the four
(12:34):
winds and breathe into the slain. Breathe into whatever's dead.
Breathe into dead dreams, Breathe into dead hopes, Breathe into
dying aspirations. Breathe, breathe, breathe, and from the four winds.
As the breath of God enters the body of these previously.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Dead bones, they may live.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I felt like the Lord said, when you go
out there this week, don't preach. I mean, do a sermon,
but instead of just preaching, prophesy to the breath.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And then I said, well, Lord, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Because if I just get up there and tell the
people to prophesy to the breath, they're going to look
at me like you're looking at me right now.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This is what I predicted.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I studied it, and I kept studying it looking for
a technical definition, and I found none. But toward the
end of this week, as I was trying to figure
out exactly what God wanted you to hear from this passage,
I was walking past my bookshelf in my office, which
is full of many big books that I have never read,
(13:43):
books that they taught me how to purchase in seminary
and if you ever see them.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It will look impressive to you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But I was walking on that bookshelf looking for a
book that may give me some further direction. It's funny
because I don't really believe in that much coin. I mean,
some things are coincidental, but did you know and Hebrew
there is no word for our English word that we
call coincidence.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Becau to them, it didn't exist.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And so I mean, I know that some things are
just coincidental, but this seemed kind of weird to me.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So I'm walking.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm studying about Prophesy to the Breath and one of
the worship songs that is by a friend of mine.
I call him a friend, he's really more like an acquaintance.
But I'm sure we would be friends if we have
more time together. But I haven't been around in that much.
His name is Martin Smith, and we've been at a
few events together. And he led the Christian rock band
called Delirious in the nineties. They were the biggest Christian
rock band. They were bigger than Bono.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And the Edge in the nineties, and.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
They actually took a lot of Christian music mainstream. And
he wrote a lot of the worship songs that we
would have sung through the last few decades. And I
was walking through my office by the bookshelf and one
of his songs came on on the speakers in my office,
just randomly, one of his songs. But while the song
came on, I walked by his book that he had
given me in Bogata, Columbia, the last time we were together.
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The book is called Delirious and it's about his band
and it's a memoir of his life. And I thought, well,
this is kind of kind of quirky coincidental.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Maybe it's not coincidence.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
He's a worship leader and I'm kind of talking about
worship and we're released. Maybe I should take this book
and read a little bit of it and see what's
in it. And so I pulled it off the shelf
and Martin, if you ever watched this, I'm sorry it
took me a year to pick up your book because.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Most of the books I just put on my shelf.
If you ever sent me one, I probably won't read.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It, because you know, I got a lot of books.
But I pulled this one out. I said, I'm gonna
read the first chapter and.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
See what's in it. And when I read it.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
When I read it, it didn't take me long because
I saw why God had me pick up this book,
and I understood why God told Ezekiel to prophesy to
the breath. And I realized why God had me preach
this message to you today. So he's telling a little
bit about his life before he became a rock star.
Tell somebody next to you, don't hold your breath. And
he tells his story. He says he's telling about when
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he was a little child. He says, my mom and
dad still talk about the day at two months old,
I developed bronchitis, which gradually worsened at six months old,
when my parents wrote, rush me back to the hospital.
See I didn't know this part of his story. He said,
I was six months old. My parents rushed me back
to the hospital and I was diagnosed with bronchial pneumonia.
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't breathe. I was crying. I
(16:14):
wasn't even making a sound. So the medics took me
and placed me inside an iron lung, a covered and
sealed caught designed to get little bodies like mine breathing again. Now,
my parents had no idea whether I would make it
out alive. They watched me laying silent, my life in
the hands of this strange looking piece of equipment. All
they could do was pray. Their prayer was simple, thank
you for giving Martin to us. Lord, we are willing
(16:37):
to give him back to you, But could you please
breathe into his lungs.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And let him make a noise.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Then he says, I guess God heard them. I guess
he took them up on his off, on their offer,
because he went on to travel the globe singing songs
of worship.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But watch this, watch this, watch this.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
He went on to make a noise that would shake
the world for the glory of God. He went on
to make a noise. But see what the devil did
to Martin Smith. The devil will try to do to
you because He knows that your life is meant to
make a noise, to make a sound, to declare the
(17:27):
praises of Him who brought you out of darkness into
his marvelous life.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So what the devil will try to do. He'll try
to take your breath away. See, he'll try to hit
you so hard. He'll try to let life confuse you
so much.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That it'll knock the wind out of you, that it'll
knock the breath out of you, that you'll spend your
life gasping for breath. That you'll spends your life trying
to trying to breathe and wondering why is this not working?
But God said, I brought you to church this weekend
so you.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Could breathe again.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I didn't just bring you here so you could hear
a servant.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Seen some songs. I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Breathe my life in two your lungs till you make
a sound.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If you got what I was just.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Friting, you'd open your mouth and praise God a little bit.
Because the devil knows that if you ever make the
sound that your life was intended to make, if you
ever line up straight with the word of God, if
you ever catch this breath that God is breathing. He
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knows you'll be unstoppable. See, he knows that there's something
that God wants to release through your life. And that's
why he's fighting you.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Like he's fighting you. Don't you see it.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's why he's fighting your kids like he's fighting your kids.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's why he's attacking your mind like he's attacking your mind.
He's trying to take your breath away.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
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