Earthly agreement with heavens priorities

Out of all the guys in the bible, Ezekiel takes the cake for being a radical prophet. I even feel sorry for the guy. He was minding his own business, sitting by the river Chebar when God showed up in the form of a supernatural tornado and took him for the ride of his life. After a Pecos Bill tour by the hair of his head, he found himself standing in the mother of all killing fields.

Like a bad dream, or a scene from the Terminator, the whirl wind landed him in the center of an endless valley of skeletons — he was not in Kansas anymore.

Then God spoke in the form of a question, which usually means you are in trouble.

“Can these dry bones live?” God asked Ezekiel.

Now this is just the Brewer talking, but if I had been standing there, I would be thinking that all of those skeletons were the bodies of prophets who failed to answer correctly. This was something you wanted to get right.

So, unwilling to take a chance on the wrong answer, Ezekiel throws the ball back into God’s court and said — as King James put it, “Thou knowest.” In other words, “I’ll just let you tell me the answer and I will agree to whatever you say.”

Turns out, that is exactly what God wanted Ezekiel to say because it was just what He needed to invade that scene of death with His goodness. God wanted Ezekiel to know His heart and begin to proclaim the impossible.

What looked like the biggest train wreck in the world to everybody else, looked like a mighty army to God. He wanted there to be life over death, and power over hopelessness. The rest of the story is that as Ezekiel cooperated and agreed with what God said, God supernaturally turned those defeated people into mighty warriors.

One of the greatest honors of life is that we get to partner with God. Can you imagine having the ability to partner with a person who does not need any help from anybody? How can your life fall into agreement with the kindest and most wonderful person in the universe?

I don’t think we need to pray for God to open a window in Heaven, I suspect we need to position ourselves under what is already open. Earthly agreement with heaven’s priorities can make the difference between history and destiny.

”Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10

Troy Brewer pastors Open Door near Joshua and can be reached at www.opendoorministries.org.