Dear Beloved, DRY BONES DO RISE AGAIN! "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant" (Job 14:7-9, NIV). I was happy as I was typing this message that evening. My first laptop broke down. I thought I had lost all my documents in it. However, it was repaired. The good news was that all my data were restored! It was incredible! So dry do rise again! As the news was broken to my wife, that was her response. This reminded me of Job 14:7-9 quoted above. When the computer broke down, I nearly lost hope on it especially when the computer engineer that tested it told me the financial implication of its repair. You can imagine how depressed I would be then, but "at the scent of water, [the computer has budded] and put forth shoots like a plant". I was not only able to use it again, but also all the data in it were intact. What is that hopeless situation in your life? What is that good thing in you that seems dead? What are those dry bones in your life? There is hope! The dry bones can still rise again! Like the Prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel 37, speak to the dry bones. They will indeed rise again. They need your hope of "scent of water" to make them "bud and put forth shoots like a plant". There is still hope, like that laptop, the dry bones do rise again! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). NB I first sent out this message on April 9, 2003. I just made some adaptation to the original message. _________________________ Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). +234 805 515 9591 http://www.afolabayo.org/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiritualdigest2003/ "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN" (Philippians 1:20-21, NIV). _________________________________________________ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http://www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com