Come Alive

Posted on June 11, 2017 Updated on June 17, 2017

I love watching as a new team of short-term workers comes together. The first team we get to work with this year is made up of people from Georgia, Missouri, and Wisconsin. Some of them we’ve partnered with before and some we are getting to know, but God never fails to bring together a unique mixture of gifts and personalities to fulfill His mission.

This morning we worshiped together at the Christian Church in Ostróda, divided up tasks for tomorrow’s work day, spent some time resting and relaxing, celebrated birthdays and then met for a time of prayer and worship to prepare our hearts for the week ahead.

George Bajenski was able to join us and he gave a nice devotion for us including some history of the camp, the Jewish people, and Poland. Before leading us in singing Come Alive (Lauren Daigle), Deb read a writing from Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and current president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. He relates the Jewish people following the Holocaust to Ezekiel standing before the valley of dry bones. I thought it was worth sharing, as are the lyrics of the song – one I love but sang from a different perspective tonight. This will be my prayer as we spend this next week with the Holocaust Survivors.

“Come Alive (Dry Bones)”
Lauren Daigle

Through the eyes of men it seems
There’s so much we have lost
As we look down the road
Where all the prodigals have walked
One by one
The enemy has whispered lies
And led them off as slavesBut we know that you are God
Yours is the victory
We know there is more to come
That we may not yet see
So with the faith you’ve given us
We’ll step into the valley unafraid, yeah

As we call out to dry bones
Come alive, come alive
We call out to dead hearts
Come alive, come alive
Up out of the ashes
Let us see an army rise
We call out to dry bones, come alive

God of endless mercy
God of unrelenting love
Rescue every daughter
Bring us back the wayward son
And By your spirit breathe upon them
Show the world that you alone can save
You alone can save

As we call out to dry bones
Come alive, come alive
We call out to dead hearts
Come alive, come alive
Up out of the ashes
Let us see an army rise
We call out to dry bones come alive

So breathe, oh breath of God
Now breathe, oh breath of God
Breathe, oh breath of God
Now breathe

Breathe, oh breath of God
Now breathe, oh breath of God
Breathe, oh breath of God, now breathe

As we call out to dry bones
Come alive, come alive
We call out to dead hearts
Come alive, come alive
Up out of the ashes
Let us see an army rise
We call out to dry bones come alive, yeah
We call out to dry bones, come alive

Oh come alive