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Pastor Jushia Li

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Four Breakthroughs: When God’s Breath Revives What Has Become Dry

In our spiritual journey, God often invites us into new vision. Many of us encounter Him in worship and are renewed in prayer, yet when we return to our daily realities—pressure, challenges, and uncertainty—our hearts are easily pulled back to what we see. The spirit of death does not always arrive dramatically; it often slips quietly into our thoughts, draining our joy, hope, and strength.

Yesterday’s message brought us to Ezekiel 37:1–10. When the Spirit of the Lord came upon Ezekiel, He led the prophet into a valley filled with bones—“very dry” bones. These bones represented Israel’s despair in Babylonian exile. All they could see was death, failure, and an impossible future. In truth, we often resemble these bones. Under the weight of life’s pressures, we lose joy and forget that God is still sovereign.

Yet God did not allow Ezekiel to remain focused on the bones. He asked, “Son of man, can these bones live?” God knew their condition—He knew they were dry, dead, and impossible—but He still asked. Today, He asks us the same questions: Can your marriage live again? Can your prayer life live again? Can your calling, your faith, your ministry, your heart live again?

Ezekiel answered, “Sovereign Lord, You alone know.” His words held both faith and honest uncertainty. We often respond the same way. But God did not stop there. He declared, “I will put breath in you, and you will live.” What revives dry bones is not human effort—it is the breath of God.

This leads us into the theme of breakthrough. Spiritual breakthroughs begin within us before they appear in our circumstances. The first breakthrough appears in the story of the Red Sea. When Israel left Egypt, they expected to enter the promised land, but the first thing they encountered was the sea. Ahead was water, behind was Pharaoh’s army, and there was no escape. Many believers today stand in the same place. Some face a Red Sea in their family, others in finances, emotions, identity, or unanswered prayer. We analyze, strategize, and try harder, yet become more exhausted. Breakthrough does not come by strength or ability but by the Spirit of the Lord.

Exodus 14:21 tells us that although Moses stretched out his staff, it was the Lord who sent a strong east wind to part the sea. The true miracle was not Moses’ power but God’s breath—symbolic of the Holy Spirit. And the sea did not part instantly. Scripture says the waters “receded all night.” God was working even when Israel could not see it. Many believers today are in this “all night” season—the wind is blowing, the waters are moving, but the path has not yet appeared.

Dry bones cannot revive themselves. Flesh cannot grow by itself. Breath cannot enter by human effort. Only God can breathe life again. True breakthrough does not come from human skill, strategy, or passion. It comes from the movement of the Holy Spirit. We live in a generation that loves analysis and technique, but God reminds us: you were not designed to live by your own strength. You were created to live by His Spirit.

When the Red Sea is before you and the enemy behind you, God says, “My wind has begun to blow.” When you face a valley of dry bones, God says, “I will put breath in you, and you will live.”

If the Red Sea represents “no way forward,” Jericho represents “a wall blocking the way.” It is another form of impossibility. Jericho’s breakthrough did not come through force but through obedience and God’s strategy.

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