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5 – I prophesy to the dry bones… LIVE.

Christian men are the dry bones. Unfulfilled in their calling since the garden of Eden. The men of the church need to awaken & return to our first love. Study to show ourselves approved. Submit. Obey. And be about our Father’s business.

About a year ago when the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said “I didn’t make covenants with women.” It was a very perplexing statement. So I asked the Lord for clarity. He revealed to me: I did not make woman first, I made man first and I breathed life into him; I made covenants with patriarchs and not with women; priests in my Tabernacle and Temples were all men; I didn’t have a daughter, I had a Son; His first chosen disciples were all men. I have established a role for men since the beginning. When I created man, I also created a garden and put him in the middle of it. I gave him instructions that he was to obey. I told him to tend the garden. To oversee it, take care of it, protect it, cultivate it, develop it, and to nurture it. But I told him he was not to eat from the tree in the center of the garden. Then, I fashioned woman from his rib. A helpmate…an equal partner but with a different role.

Though they would come together and be as one, the head of the woman was the man. He was the priest. He was the one charged with tending the garden. So, although Eve was the first one to eat of the fruit of the tree, it was Adam who should have said no, but he did not. He did not obey God. He did not fulfill his priestly responsibilities. We men, have been struggling to fulfill God’s purposes and role ever since. And I believe that many of the problems that exist in the world today come from the failure of men to fully embrace our call, our destiny, and our role as men.

(For greater clarity on this “word from the Lord”, please see my posting on 5/14/2023.)

I am not alone in these stirrings. About 12 years ago Tony Evans wrote a book entitled Kingdom man. Subtitled Every Man’s Destiny, Every Woman’s Dream; Also around this time, the Kendrick Brothers released the movie ‘Courageous’ and the book ‘The Resolution for Men’, describing the roles of men and fathers; AW Tozer wrote a book entitled ‘Discipleship’. A very strong and compelling message for all Christians. These books are excellent and I heartily recommend them. My promptings by the Holy Spirit simply have a different origin and slightly different perspective… and a strong stirring for the current hour.

I would suggest to you that the similarity between these movies, books, and messages, are confirmation from the Lord about the validity of the concept and our spiritual need as men to arise, for such a time as this. To submit. To obey. To the Lordship of Jesus Christ. (And to be about our Father’s business.)

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7 responses to “5 – I prophesy to the dry bones… LIVE.”

  1. Nathan Dean Avatar
    Nathan Dean

    It has been a source of bewilderment over many years as to the reason the man did nothing when the serpent was speaking to the woman, and based on the text he was close enough for her to hand him the fruit because it states they ate it together. I wonder how long they were together, how much time had passed before the serpent did his deed. It probably does matter…

    Another issue, the serpent spoke to the woman, not the man. Why? If the serpent spoke to the man would he have been able to resist the temptation to eat what he was commanded not to eat? However the man never stepped into the dialogue, so can we assume that even at this time before the fall the man was passive?

    So in this can a basic formate of sin be developed? Thus is man basically passive and taking authority over life matters a difficult matter and the women is basically stepping outside her position to take the man’s role in tending and keeping what God assigned to the man.

    Therefore the conclusion might be that man needs the Holy Spirit to take his assigned place of authority and the women conversely to submit to that order within the man, her husband.

    Then we can really ask the potent question! Does church life and function reflect the first example, women taking the man’s position or the second where the women is appropriately under her husband’s leadership?

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    1. wesknadle Avatar
      wesknadle

      A mystery that has been hidden through the ages. But I think we should take the word at its face value and not try to presume other things that God might have intended us to know. His word is sufficient. We only need to rightly divide the word as presented. To reprove, rebuke, exhort, and with all patience & doctrine preach it.

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      1. Nathan Dean Avatar
        Nathan Dean

        But it directly applies the man’s, gender specific, laziness when it come to him fully taking the role the the Creator God designed for him, the right armor, if you prefer. Yeah man either under plays that role or overplays his role. The former pulls the women into a role she was not designed to carry, though she covets it, and the later pushes her out our her role that she was designed to fulfill in the marriage.

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      2. wesknadle Avatar
        wesknadle

        The issues are, or can be, complex. But I believe the Lord wants us to approach our responses in the simplest ways. With the simplest definition of the truth that we can clearly see in the Bible…an approach that will appeal to and be received by the broadest audience. As things stand right now, there is so much confusion about Christianity that it’s easy for the enemy to come in and kill, steal and destroy.

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  2. William E. Males Avatar
    William E. Males

    No, you are not alone with this stirring of the heart for men to quick sipping on the milk of God’s word and to grow up into what God intended, to “the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ.”

    Eph 4:12 – …for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
    13 And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
    14 so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
    15 But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;
    16 from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

    We need to be, must be, fitly joined together, every joint (member effectually working” in the measure of the gift given them, each unique, yet needing one another, and therefore are compacted (or forced to by that we each has been given for the benefit of the whole thru that) which every joint supplies (by the grace of Christ in us, our hope of glory.)

    Just like “Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together,” (Psm 122:3), just like Jericho, where all the houses built together like condos sharing common walls actually made up the perimeter of defense for the city.

    Where is the bond of perfection, the bond of holiness, the bond of fervency of love… only in the bond of the Spirit living freely in us and working through us.

    Note Psalm 133, the 14th of 15 psalms called “Step of Ascension” or “Song of degrees.” These were song by the Hebrews as they made their journey to Jerusalem 3 times a year, telling the story of repentance and learning to walk with God, reaching maturity, and finally, receiving our inheritance of dwelling in the house of the Lord forever… (Psm 134)

    Ps 133:1 – Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!
    2 It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron’s beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;
    3 like the dew of Hermon that came down on the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

    Ps 134:1 – Behold, bless the LORD, all servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD.
    2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
    3 May the LORD, who made the heavens and earth, bless you out of Zion.

    Live for the Resurrected King of Glory!!!

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    1. wesknadle Avatar
      wesknadle

      Bill, thank you so much for your input, observations, and encouragement. I just pray that men will be stirred. Though there are many good churches with good direction and teaching, there are many more where men are passive participants. They are not about their Father’s business. It is my hope and prayer that these simple stirrings and solutions the Lord has shown me will ignite a fire and that we will all come into the unity of the faith. It will have to be a sovereign work of God and prompting of the Holy Spirit. One of the comments that you made today was to speak with boldness. I think I have done some of that in my postings. Though it will offend some, I believe that it will stir many others. In this hour. At this time.
      So many men feel defeated. They feel emasculated. They don’t have plans. They don’t have hope. And obviously many of our young men are even uncertain of their gender. So I see an army rising up. An army of heretofore pew warmers. Men who have been brought up in the nurture of the Lord but have not been applying it. Guided by men who have already been stirred by God. And growing together to minister together to bring new life to the Body of Christ. Dry Bones coming alive.
      Many blessings. We will connect again soon.

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  3. Gregg. Wene Avatar
    Gregg. Wene

    Wes, where are you? This is no time to go on vacation. Your words are right and true. But some of us have strong beliefs and little ability, or lack the necessary guidance for which to express our selves as I. We need (I need) your words.
    Gregg Wene

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