‘When God’s house on earth is a house of prayer, then God’s house in heaven is busy and powerful in its plans and movements.’ 

E. M. Bounds

“For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.” 

ISAIAH 56:7

     The LORD Himself, God the Son, opened up His account with God the Father, with prayer. It all begins, and ends, with prayer. Prayer is the chief thing. Prayer, itself, is an invitation for the spiritual to visit upon the natural its most profound impartations.

     Prayer infuses, inoculates and insulates the physical with the life force and vitality of the life that created it. Prayer infuses the very DNA of God into every portion and part of the praying man as well as the beneficiaries of our prayers. Ultimately, it fuses that which is seen (the created) with that which isn’t (the Creator). And in so doing, just like in Romans 4:17, it calls into existence that which doesn’t exist.

The Valley of Dry Bones

37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

EZEKIEL 37:1-11