The prophet Ezekiel saw a vision, a valley full of dry bones.

Some situations in life seem like those bones, hopelessly dead.

But a phrase from Ezekiel helps us turn our eyes toward heaven.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Lord, you know, can my family be brought back to spiritual life and vitality?

Lord, you know.

Will our church ever come back to life?

Lord, you know.

You see, no amount of human effort or wisdom or power could reassemble those bones and bring them back to life.

Oh, my God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Considered Jesus for December 5, 2019.

Music 2019. Welcome to Revive Our Hearts. I'm Dana Gresh. Nancy, the name of this ministry,

Revive Our Hearts, is a big clue to something that's at the very core of the ministry. Yeah, it's that word

revive, and we're about believing God for revival. Can you explain what it means when we talk

about the word revival? Because I think there are a lot of misconceptions when people hear that

word. Yeah, I think for some people, that word carries a lot of baggage.

It may conjure up images of like this deeply emotional experience.

Everybody's crying or coming forward for an invitation or in some parts of the country.

We still talk about having revival meetings, which may be several days of meetings in the church. It may or may not be revival. But at the

heart of it, true revival is when God brings new life into something that used to be dead or

dormant. And that can happen in one individual's heart, or it can happen when the spirit of God

moves in an entire group of people, right?

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