Pentecost: Prophetic Power to Change Your World

Rev. Roderick Belin
Ezekiel 37:1-14

Hopelessness is an illusion. There is no hopeless situation. Yet, unwillingness and feelings of unworthiness make hopelessness seem real powerful.
Unwillingness to accept responsibility
Unwillingness to get out of the box, to step out of oneself
Unwillingness to own the power within you
Unwillingness makes hopeless situations seem real powerful.
Feelings of unworthiness strengthen the idea that hopelessness is real power.
Not worthy to have a better life
Not worthy to be used by God
Not worthy to have this great power within
Feelings of unworthiness make hopelessness seem real powerful.
Remember, there is no hopeless situation.
There is nothing you see that cannot be changed.
There is no circumstance that cannot be turned around.
There is no problem that cannot be solved.
There is no sickness that cannot be healed.
There is no broken relationship that cannot be mended.
There is no place or space of devastation that cannot be restored.

But, you must open your mouth and really speak to the situation. Your silence is your death.
Prophesy to the Wind!
Command the elements!
Call on the Power of the Universe to breathe life into the dead situation that you face.
God has so determined that the articulation of His vision will have power to change your world. You need to use your mouth. You cannot think a prophecy. You have to use your mouth and form the words and utter the prophecy of God. Speak it! Proverbs says, “Life and death are in the power of your own tongue.” God has equipped you with the power to change your world!
This change comes when you stand up and stretch your hand out over what’s wrong and speak what’s right
This change comes when you climb out of the box and onto the mountain top to holler into the valley what thus saith the Lord.
This change comes when you trade the shadows of unworthiness for the glory of God
This change comes when you stop denying and start owning the great power of God within you
This change comes when you stop focusing on limitations and start seeing possibilities
This change comes when you exchange I can’t for I can
This change comes when you give up self-interest for God’s interest
This change comes when you abide in Him and His Word abides in you
This change comes when devastation meets the Word of God
This change comes when you trade mumbling, grumbling and complaining for praising, blessing and prophesying.
This change comes when you step out of the flesh and into the spirit
You inhibit the Holy Spirit in you when you try to suffocate the vision, when you sit down, when you shut up your praise, when you won’t lift your hands, when you close the prophecy of God up in your mouth.
Hopelessness is an illusion. There is no hopeless situation.
But, you must open your mouth and really speak to the situation. Your silence is your death.
Read the text and make the connections…
Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday, Let’s celebrate!

Roderick Dwayne Belin
Kairos Community AME Church
Nashville, Tennessee
www.iBelin.me