…the people who know their God will display strength and take action. – Daniel 11:32 (NASB95)
The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, – Proverbs 16:4 (NASB95)
A Vision is a
As the Vision becomes
The Options become
And Decisions become
Where there is no vision, the people perish – Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, – Proverbs 29:18 (NASB95)
Background to Nehemiah’s Story
586 BC – Jerusalem destroyed God’s People deported to Babylon (Modern day )
539 BC – Babylonians get taken over by Persians ()
537 BC – First group of Jews allowed to return to Israel
516 BC – The Temple was rebuilt
458 BC – Ezra leads a group back to Jerusalem
445 BC – Nehemiah asks permission to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city walls
Nehemiah is the to the king (v.11)
The cupbearer was a personal bodyguard to the king (Guzik’s)
The Book of Nehemiah is a …and they said to me (v.3) (NASB)
Life Lesson: A life worth is a life worth
Problem: of are (vv.1-3)
Nehemiah will become “The ” to an entire
Nehemiah: Nacham – comfort, Yah: God (OTESD)
How God Gives a Personal Life Vision:
When I heard these things, I sat down and wept…I mourned (v.4) (NIV)
Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. – Psalms 37:4 (NASB)
For Ezra (help) had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. – Ezra 7:10 (NASB95)
It will begin with an situation:
Jerusalem is over away
That’s by camel
Nehemiah has (v.11)
Notice who Nehemiah’s Boss is (Chapter 2:1)
…(v.8) wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows… (v.23) Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ document was read…They went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms. – Ezra 4:6-23 (NASB95)
Understood in his (vv. 6-9)
This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, – Jeremiah 25:11-12 (NASB95)
(Jesus) Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13 (KJV)
Concern for the things about (v.4)
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost. – Luke 19:10 (CSB)
In the wrestling through with what was and what could be a is born (v.4)
From the month of Chislev (1:1) to Nisan (2:1) is
Nehemiah says I’m and prays for (v.11)
…give your servant success today… (v.11) (NIV)
Notice: The vision from God is always than anything that we could ever accomplish
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