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.
Four times, God raised him up. He could not stand on his own, and neither can you.
The Spirit is your only strength. Don’t fight the weight of His presence.
Humble yourself underneath it. Only the will He raise you up.
Four times, God raised him up. He could not stand on his own, and neither can you.
The Spirit is your only strength. Don’t fight the weight of His presence.
Humble yourself underneath it. Only the will He raise you up.
3. Eat before you speak.
His scroll, not your script. His Word, not your words. Devour the Bible like bread, chew it,
swallow it until it gets deep inside you. Let it cut you open and heal you and the same time.
Only then dare to speak.
swallow it until it gets deep inside you. Let it cut you open and heal you and the same time.
Only then dare to speak.
4. Know When To Be silent.
Don’t be so quick to fill the air. Sit still. Let silence shape you. Too many voices have
blood on their hands, prophets who spoke without trembling. Don’t be one of them.
Speak only the truth, no matter how costly, no matter how unwelcome.
blood on their hands, prophets who spoke without trembling. Don’t be one of them.
Speak only the truth, no matter how costly, no matter how unwelcome.
5. When He speaks, you speak.
Not before. Not after. And when His voice is released through yours, it will not fade...
It will thunder into eternity.
It will thunder into eternity.