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Week of August 24, 2025

Calvary Church

HOW TO GAIN A GOD-GIVEN PERSONAL LIFE VISION

Archived – August 24, 2025

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Main Scripture Reference(s)
Nehemiah 1:1-11

HOW TO GAIN A GOD-GIVEN PERSONAL LIFE VISION

August 24, 2025 / Pastor Dan Plourde / Nehemiah 1:1-11

…the people who know their God will display strength and take action. – Daniel 11:32-33 (NASB95)

The LORD has made everything for its own purpose… – Proverbs 16:4 (NASB)

A God-given vision is a picture of 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 (NASB)

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 … they said to me (v.3 [NASB])

Life Lesson: A life worth is a life worth

A God-given vision will meet a (vv.1-3)

“…the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and…gates…burned with fire.” – Nehemiah 1:3 (NASB)

Nehemiah will become “The ” to an entire

Nehemiah: Nacham – comfort, Yah-God (OTESD)

How God Gives a Personal Life Vision:

God used the in Nehemiah’s life

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)

To accomplish our God-given vision we have to and

Accomplishing the vision doesn’t

Notice who Nehemiah’s boss is (Chapter 2:1)

(v.6) …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

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 is 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 f (v.11)

…give your servant success today… (v.11 [NIV])

Notice: The vision from God is always than anything that we could ever accomplish apart

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