Ezekiel 3 Devotional – Speak Boldly, Carried by the Spirit | Quiet Time for Young Adults

God’s Hand Is Strong on You ✋

7-Step QT

  1. 🙏 Quiet Time

  2. 📅 July 18, 2025

  3. ✝️ Ezekiel 3:1-15

  4. 📖 The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me (v. 14).

  5. 📝 Sharing God’s Word is challenging and often met with resistance. But we’re not called to rely on ourselves. God’s strong hand sustains us, and His Spirit empowers us to speak boldly. It’s not our mission—it’s His. Our role is to follow, trust, and proclaim with courage, even when it’s hard.

  6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.
Take a deep breath.
Ask God to strengthen you—not just to hear His Word, but to carry it with courage and grace.

2. 📅 July 21, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us that sharing God’s truth isn’t always easy—but it’s always worth it.
God doesn’t send us alone. He strengthens us with His Spirit.

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 3:1–15

God tells Ezekiel to eat the scroll—His Word—and then go speak to a stubborn people.
Ezekiel obeys, but he feels bitter and burdened.
Still, the hand of the Lord is strong upon him.
God doesn’t just call us—He carries us.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.” (v. 14)

5. 📝 Reflection

Sharing God’s Word can be hard.
People may resist. You may feel discouraged.
Even Ezekiel felt bitter and overwhelmed.
But here’s the hope:
God’s hand was strong upon him.

This passage reminds us that we’re not called to speak from our own strength.
We speak because God empowers us.
We go because His Spirit leads us.

💡 Application Point:

When you feel weak, discouraged, or afraid to speak truth—remember:
You’re not alone.
God’s hand is on you.
Let His Spirit carry you forward.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • Have you ever felt discouraged while trying to share your faith?
  • How can you rely more on God’s strength and less on your own?

7. 🙏 Prayer

God, strengthen me when I feel weak.
Give me courage to speak Your truth, even when it’s hard.
Let Your hand be strong upon me, and let Your Spirit lead me every step of the way. Amen.

Scriptures

📖 1 And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
4 And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. 8 Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” 10 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 11 And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!” 13 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake. 14 The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me. 15 And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days (Ezek 3:1-15, ESV).

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