The most honest prayer in the Bible
Friend.
Can I ask you something before we get into today’s devotional?
Is there something you’ve quietly stopped praying for? A person, a situation, a part of your own life - something you’ve privately decided is beyond fixing? You haven’t said it out loud. But somewhere inside, you’ve made your peace with it.
If that’s you today, I want you to know - this one’s for you.
In today’s devotional, we’re standing in the strangest scene in Scripture. God sets the prophet Ezekiel down in a valley full of very dry bones and asks him: Can these bones live?
And Ezekiel’s answer stops me every time. He doesn’t say yes. He doesn’t say no. He doesn’t pretend to know. He just says: “You alone know, Lord.”
That’s not giving up. That’s not a lack of faith. That’s the wisest, most truthful thing you can say when you’re standing in front of something that looks completely finished.
God’s response? Immediate. He doesn’t wait for the situation to improve first. He doesn’t wait for Ezekiel to feel more hopeful. He just says - speak. And the Spirit moves into the deadest place imaginable.
That’s the pattern, again and again in Scripture: the Spirit poured out not into abundance - but into emptiness.
Your dry place is exactly the kind of place the Spirit loves to walk into.
Today’s full devotional - just five minutes - is on YouTube. I think it might be what you need.
👉 Watch here:
With you in the valley.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-dont-have-to-keep-feeling-stuck?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true