Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the biblical story of the Hebrew prophet, Ezekiel’s imaginative and prescient of the Valley of Dry Bones gives “a blueprint for nationwide resurrection.”
“God, on this scripture, reveals us that he makes use of individuals – leaders, prophets, voices, the church – to name for restoration, reconstruction and revitalisation, and he’ll breathe life,” Dr. Holness acknowledged.
“‘The nation has to say, sovereign Lord, you alone understand how’,” he quoted Ezekiel, emphasising the necessity for humility and divine steering in difficult occasions.
Dr. Holness was talking throughout Sunday’s (April 13) Deliverance Evangelistic Affiliation Inc. forty ninth Camp Assembly.
The assembly was held at Religion Cathedral Deliverance Centre on Waltham Park Highway in Kingston, underneath the theme: ‘Come Alive in 2025’.
Dr. Holness highlighted the significance of non secular revitalisation in nationwide improvement, stating that whereas the Authorities can implement programmes and insurance policies, true transformation comes from a robust non secular basis.
“As a Authorities, allow us to run the financial system properly in order that we are able to generate the revenues to repair the pothole roads, to spend the cash on nationwide safety, so we are able to handle the gangs which can be extorting the members of the neighborhood, so we are able to carry down the homicide fee. Allow us to repair the financial system in order that it generates jobs. We at the moment are solely at 3.5 per cent unemployment, the bottom within the historical past of Jamaica.
“Sure, there are issues that we are able to do to rattle these bones and trigger the muscle tissue and sinews and flesh to develop. However we should additionally recognise that the true high quality of life comes after we give up to the Lord and permit true morality and spirituality to come back into our lives,” the Prime Minister underscored.
In the meantime, Dr. Holness urged Jamaicans to not be discouraged after they really feel like they’re within the valley of dry bones.
“Allow us to be within the valley. Allow us to do what we are able to. In case your goal is to get match, sure, go to the fitness center. Whether it is to avoid wasting for that home, hand over the playing or the flamboyant garments,” he stated.
Dr. Holness prayed for the spirit of God to breathe afresh on each dry place and for Jamaica to come back alive economically, socially and spiritually in 2025.
“Could the Deliverance Evangelistic Affiliation proceed to be the prophetic voice, the Ezekiel of the nation,” he stated.
