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"Spirit of God" by Joel Lane: Surrendering Hearts of Stone to the Holy Spirit


What dead places in your life need breath?

“Spirit of God” by Joel Lane is written as a plea for the Holy Spirit to move among us, and shows us that our best response to spiritual dryness is surrender. It is the first release from his debut EP “Have Your Way,” recorded with Zac Carpenter of the worship collective Coming Kingdom.

Joel Lane - Spirit of GodThe song opens with a bold claim: “You make dry bones come alive.” Maybe you’re familiar with that kind of spiritual dryness. A marriage gone quiet. A prayer life that is running on habit, with routine words that sometimes make you wonder if they go up any higher than your ceiling. A heart that stopped feeling much of anything.

Joel doesn’t ask God to just patch things up. He asks God for more: “Take our hearts of stone, breathe on us.” That’s a pretty brave prayer. Will you pray it?

Ezekiel stood in more or less the same place (read Ezekiel 37:1–11). God sent him into a valley of scattered, bleached bones and asked a question that sounds impossible: “Can these bones live?” Ezekiel didn’t argue. He spoke what God told him to speak: “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’” (Ezekiel 37:9) 

Then came the promise: “Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones — all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’ Therefore, prophesy to them and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel.” (vs 11–12)

Nothing in that valley changed until God’s breath arrived. No amount of human effort could have ever done it.

So stop trying to resuscitate yourself. Name your dry place today and hand it over to God. Pray the words in the bridge out loud: “Come have your way.” Then listen, and do the next small thing He shows you. Surrender isn’t weakness. It’s the door strength walks through.

The song carries a promise that also applies to your fears: “Every fear trembles in Your light.” Whatever you face this week, you face it covered by perfect love. Give “Spirit of God” a listen and let the pre-chorus of the song become your prayer. “Move in our hearts again, lead us in Your way,” and close with the tag of the song: “Holy Spirit, breathe on us.”

(Related scripture: Ezekiel 37:5; Ezekiel 36:26; Acts 2:2)

Background:

Spirit of God is a Christian contemporary worship song of hope and surrender to God. It is a collaboration featuring myself, Joel Lane, and Zac Carpenter, of the worship collective Coming Kingdom. It is the first release from my debut five-track Worship EP ‘Have Your Way’ and is a cry for the Holy Spirit to move amongst us and our response of surrender.

Release date: October 2, 2026

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