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No Failure in God Failure Is Impossible. Nehemiah 6 :16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah chapter 6, is all about threats and deception coming…

If today is your first day listening or watching, my apologies, because the sermon title doesn’t apply to you. - It’s awesome to worship the Lord and encounter the Holy Spirit - God spoke to me during worship on Friday - When God speaks we need to act on it - God can speak to us in the middle of worship,…

We laid down our burdens, we gave Jesus the hard stuff but what does it look like to really do this life with Jesus. You don’t need to pick up your burdens that you gave to Jesus but your crisis still needs to be lived in. If you wrote down how you parent your child, when you walk out of this time of…

Rise and Build!!

39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed…

Faith = (wisdom + trust in God +Obedience )/ Fear Falsehood = Foolishness x Impatience ^ Fear + Trust in God + Obedience Idolatry = Wisdom ^ Fear + Trust in Self + Obedience to Self Emptiness = Wisdom + Trust in God - (Obedience x Fear) Reflecting that this time is the last week we got to meet together…

What is Biblical Leadership? Nehemiah 1-2 Introduction: Good morning once again. It’s great to be back with you this morning. Go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament. What are the characteristics of a godly leader? What does a godly leader do? What are they like? How…

Introduction When you look around at the brokenness and it breaks you. Hurricane damage in Florida. Recent school shooting in Uvalde. The continuing atrocity by the Russian military on the Ukrainian people. Driving around OKC and seeing the number of homeless. Hate and division that are running rampant…

I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me. When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to pursue the prosperity of the Israelites, they…

INTRO George Mueller is just one of many faithful kingdom servants throughout church history. He was a German born follower of Jesus who ended up in Bristol England, pastoring a church for over 60 years and ministering among the likes of Charles Spurgeon and DL Moody in the 19th century. Mueller is not…

1 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before, 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.”…

I have to start today by telling you a story about my wife, Sonia. She doesn’t know I’m doing this, but trust me, it’s a good story. This study in Nehemiah began as a heart longing in Sonia. It was at the beginning of the pandemic and she sensed that God might be wanting us to do a sermon series or some…

Do you remember the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob? He was the first son of Jacob’s favorite wife, Rachel. Jacob treated him the way a first son was expected to be treated. He gave him a robe that was made specifically to signify his importance and he intended to give him a double portion of the inheritance…

When I was a kid, I was certain I would either grow up to be a doctor or a lawyer. Other adults in my life often suggested these two options to me. My grandmother always told me I would make a great doctor, adding that it would allow her to get free plastic surgery. I’m not sure how genuine her motivations…

Leaders, at time must be bold. But this boldness does need to be tempered in righteousness. Boldness, without righteousness, can lead to the people’s rights being violated and trampled on. Righteousness alone can be worthless without boldness that leads to initiative and courage to follow through on…

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, 2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning…

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, 2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning…

Nehemiah Chapter 1 Let's orient ourselves to the text, Nehemiah Chapter 1. In our text the Jewish people are God's people, God's chosen people. God allowed another nation, the Babylonians, to take God's people captive from the region of Judah. Particularly, Jerusalem located in Judah was physically the…

Book Introduction: Overview:Remember parallels with Ezra: Nehemiah is sent as Governor with a mandate to rebuild the walls. The book is the account of this achievement and the problems overcome in the process. Many of the themes are the same as in Ezra: Physical and spiritual restoration for a remnant.…

Introduction Last week began a new series on the book of Nehemiah and his task of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Our goal over the next several weeks is to discover the principles that Nehemiah used to rebuild the walls that we can apply to our church as we move forward during and after the pandemic.…

Intro Continuing our series on Nehemiah week 3/6 First week we looked at Nehemiah’s call Responds in prayer , fasting Last week we looked at Nehemiah’s interaction with King Artaxerxes. Again, prayer, But also preparation: ready to do things right . This week we move on in the story to what happens after…

Introduction: Fear of losing position Neh. 2:2 There was a good reason for Nehemiah to be very afraid, Breaks Persian king etiquette for sadness 2 And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. He was also…

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au·thor·i·ty noun 1. the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In Luke's writings today we will see that Jesus has BOTH the Power and Right to do these things... Our scriptures today will cover the final week of Jesus life prior to the cross… PASSION WEEK! I want us to…

PRAY WITH ME PLEASE TO THE HOLY AND JUST GOD OF GRACE AND GOODNESS Monday morning news broke of a chaotic scene occuring the day before. As darkness had fallen over what is called sin city, evil begin to reign down, literally upon thousands of people. At the end of the week the count of those no longer…