When we think of God speaking, when we think of divine moments and spiritual encounters, we often imagine mountaintops, those high, glorious places where the air is clear, and the view is breathtaking. But let’s look at Ezekiel 37. God didn’t take Ezekiel to a mountaintop. He didn’t take him to the beach or some serene countryside. He didn’t lead him to a place of comfort or clarity. No, He took him to a valley. And not just any valley, a valley full of dry bones.
A low place.
A dark place.
A place of death and desolation.
A place where hope had dried up.
A place where nothing looked like it could live again.
And it was there that God said, “Prophesy.”
That right there wrecks me.
Because so often, we wait for the highs of life to open our mouths. We wait for everything to be aligned before we declare God’s promises. We wait until we feel strong, confident, and full of joy to speak life over ourselves or others. But the valley shows us something different. The valley teaches us that God doesn’t only move on the mountaintops, He moves in the low, hidden, broken places too.
God commanded Ezekiel to speak to what looked hopeless. To call life into what was clearly dead. To believe for resurrection before there was any sign of it.
So, don’t let your valley silence you.
Don’t let the darkness around you mute your voice.
Don’t wait until the breakthrough to speak the Word, speak it in the battle.
Speak it in the waiting.
Speak it in the weeping.
Prophesy when the bones are still bones.
Because God works in the valley.
He breathes in the darkness.
He revives the dead places.
And your obedience to speak, even when everything around you says “it’s over,” is the very thing that invites His breath to come.
So if you’re in a valley right now, hear this:
You are not disqualified from declaring His promises.
You are not disqualified from carrying His word.
Your environment doesn’t determine your authority, your God does.
The same power that raises the dead to life still moves through your words.
So speak.
Prophesy.
Even here.
Even now.
Even in the valley.
Because what looks like a graveyard to you might be the very place where God wants to show His glory.
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