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Dry Bones Come ALIVE!
Below is the text used for each station in the presentation.
Unforgiveness
Since the very beginning, unforgiveness entered the world.
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, shame filled their hearts. Instead of coming to God, they hid. Instead of admitting their choices, they blamed. Unforgiveness always works this way—it closes our hearts, isolates us, silences our hearing, and denies our healing.
In Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 37:1–14), the valley of dry bones represents the lifeless places inside us caused by our rebellion against God’s loving plan for our lives. God explains how the dry bones represent the people of Israel who had become dependent on themselves and utterly hopeless.
Did you know that anger, rejection, betrayal, abandonment, addiction, immorality, and unforgiveness can become “dry bones” in your life? These buried wounds don’t just disappear on their own. Instead, they’ll drain life from you.
But Jesus took every wicked action of your life and relational wound you’ve experienced upon Himself. He was betrayed, so you could be restored. He was abandoned, so you’d never be alone. He was shamed, so you could walk unashamed. Where unforgiveness has hardened your heart, Jesus breathes life into it again.
Jesus invites you to release what’s chained you, so you can experience freedom.
“Why are you so angry?”
the LORD asked Cain.
“Why is your face downcast?”
Genesis 4:6
“But I say to you,
love your enemies,
bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.”
Matthew 5:44 (NKJV)
Depression & Anxiety
The valley of dry bones symbolizes hopelessness
—the belief that nothing can change.
God tells Ezekiel His people felt utterly hopeless, convinced their situation was beyond repair. Jesus reveals that fear, trauma, depression, guilt, and anxiety can leave us feeling the same way.
Jesus Himself experienced deep anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane: He felt dread,
He felt the weight of suffering, and He groaned under the pressure of what was coming.
Jesus understands emotional and mental pain—and He carried it all for you. The crown of thorns was placed on His head as payment for your mental and emotional suffering. He carried every fear, every anxious thought, and every overwhelming burden so you wouldn’t have to walk through them alone.
When life feels heavy or numb, Jesus speaks the same words He spoke to Ezekiel regarding the valley of dry bones: “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! . . . Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live” (Ezekiel 37:4–5 NKJV).
Your hopelessness isn’t the end of the story, because He brings life where you think nothing can live again.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.”
Isaiah 49:15 (NKJV)
“Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her.
“Who are you looking for?”
John 20:15 (NLT)
Idols
An idol is anything we elevate above God
—anything we trust, fear, or follow more than Him.
In Eden, the enemy convinced Eve that God was withholding something good. She reached for the fruit believing she could take control and be her own god. That same deception still reaches for our hearts today.
God told His people, “I have set before you life and death . . . choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19 NIV). But when the people of Israel turned away to worship other gods, they chose destruction instead of life. Idols can’t make or keep promises. They leave us empty, distant, and spiritually dry.
But Jesus modeled the better choice when He fully surrendered to the Father’s will so we could walk in true freedom. When we lay down our idols—our self-reliance, our control, our fears, our need for approval—the breath of God restores what disobedience has broken.
Every idol falls when we choose Him.
“Are you afraid of these idols? Do they terrify you? Is that why you have lied to me and forgotten me and my words?
Is it because of my long silence that you no longer fear me?”
Isaiah 57:11 (NLT)
Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to struggle with the two choices?
If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him so much as a word.
1 Kings 18:21 (NASB)