In the Valley

Notice that God didn’t take Ezekiel to a mountaintop, He didn’t take him to an ocean or a meadow, He took him to a place of despair; a valley, a low place full of death, and completely devastated by mortality. And there He says,

Prophesy.

So often we get into this mentality in which, if we are not at a mountaintop moment in our walk, we shut up and back down. We walk away from a fight, especially such a seemingly impossible task as raising up dead people to stand as the army of God. But when we are at the lowest, when we are in the valley of the shadow of death, God demands that we prophesy, that we see that even in the hopeless place, the Word of God prevails. And as we begin to speak it, every circumstance, no matter how dead it seems, will bend to meet the dream of God and stand to serve Him.”

– Mattie Montgomery (via all-i-need-is-you)