Patrick L. Davis

You want your life and voice to echo for God, to shake the world for good? 
Ezekiel shows the pathway in his opening chapters 1-3:
1. Be undone by God.
Encounter Him until your knees buckle, until the mystery swallows you whole. 
Let His presence make remind you you are but dust and to dust you shall return. Get low. 
Listen for as long as it takes. Let wonder hollow you out until only awe remains.
2. Let the Spirit lift you.
  Ezekiel fell again and again, overwhelmed by glory too heavy to carry.
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 The holiest place in any church building is not a stage, but the altar. 
God's power and fire isn't just looking for just microphones or lights, but surrendered lives. 

The altar is heaven's graveyard for the living. 

And in this beautiful exchange our death and denial of self is where we truly find life. 
We need more than inspiration, we need immolation. 

Here ambition is laid on the chopping block. 
Vanity and pride bleed out under the weight of surrender. 

Dead to our flesh.
Dead to our own will.
Dead to dreams…

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“But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.” – Acts 28:5
 You can be walking in the very direction God has called you, and still feel the sting of life’s fangs. 
Being bitten does not always mean God has left you. Sometimes it is the very proof that He is near.
 
When Paul was struck by the snake, the crowd rushed to judge him. 
They whispered, “He must be guilty. There must be some hidden sin. 
Surely he won’t survive this.” 

They spoke curses, they spread gossip, they predicted only…

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Acts 27:21 says, “After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said…”
 
Hunger has a way of sharpening the senses. Desperation forces you to stop, to notice, to listen. 
Paul didn’t rise to speak when the first winds began to howl, nor when the hurricane slammed 
against the ship, nor even when they wrapped ropes around the hull to hold it together.

Not when the cargo was tossed overboard, not even when the tackle, their very means 
of eating was lost to the sea.

He waited.

He…

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In Acts 23 Paul takes a fist to the face and in the very same chapter, he takes a word straight 
from the mouth of Jesus. The crowd turned on him. His own people wanted him silenced.

And yet, the following night.. the Lord stood close, so close you could almost hear His 
breath, and whispered: “Take courage. You spoke for Me in Jerusalem. 

You will speak for Me in Rome.”

You crave a platform? You long to be a witness?

Then understand this:

Sometimes the price of proclamation is a cracked jaw. Sometimes blows…

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