Bones Are Shaking!

The other night, while in prayer the presence of the Lord came so heavy I could feel the weight of his glory on my chest. I then heard bones. Bones were rattling. They were shaking and shaking and shaking non stop! The vision focused on thigh and hip bones. There is a great shaking of bones occurring. It was so loud in the spirit that I almost had to cover my hears.

I was lead to Ezekiel 37 about how Ezekiel prophesied to the dry bones to come together, then for skin to come over them, then for breath to enter so there would be full life in the body. Verse ten reads, "So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into the them and they lived, and stood upon their feet an exceedingly great army."

The bones I already saw were standing but they were without skin. I said, Lord how can this be? The Lord said, "You must be clothed with humility." Oh God our destruction lies in pride. We can have the bones and breath in us that Ezekiel prophesied but be so naked. Pride kills us and separates us from God. Because the bones were shaking I knew they would soon fall and lie again on the earth. We must be clothed with humility to be this exceedingly great army of the Lord.

I then asked the Lord about the significance of the leg and hip bones in the vision. I came across in Daniel 5 when King Belshazzar exalted himself above all in the nation and brought in the gold of his father Nebuchadnezzar and worshiped idols. Suddenly, a man's fingers wrote a message on the wall. "Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other." (vs6) Daniel came and spoke the interpretation and then said, "But you his son, Belshazzar have not humbled your heart although you knew all this. And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven." (22-23)

Because of the kings pride his hips and knees knocked and where shaking. When we are not clothed in humility our bones shake and will fall because of pride. Here's the beauty, "they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck... that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom." (29) Daniel was clothed with humility. That night Belshazzar was slain and his bones returned back to the dust of the earth.

Church, we must humble ourselves before the Lord. We are nothing without him. We are mere bones without life but God breathed His life giving breath into our bodies. We were made for God and every sounds that proceeds from our mouths must voice life as He first breathed life into us. For "death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit." (Prov 18:21). Let us be clothed with a cloak of humility and stay low. How low you stay will determine how high you will ascend into the third heaven. From those who are clothed will surely arise the"exceedingly great army of the Lord." Truly, like Belshazzar, "those who exalt themselves will be humbled," and like Daniel, "those who humble themselves will be exalted."