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The Angers Bridge was completed in 1839 and had been used successfully for eleven years to cross the Maine River in Angers, France.
No one, particularly the engineers, would have believed that it would become the site of a terrible tragedy.
It happened on April 16, 1850.
In the midst of a violent thunderstorm, 486 French soldiers were walking in cadence across the bridge.
The combination of the swaying of the bridge in the storm and the powerful resonance created by the lock-step of the soldiers caused the suspension cables to snap, plunging 226 men to their death.
To this day, military ranks around the world break cadence when crossing a bridge so as not to repeat this disaster.
Why did this happen?
There is amazing power in unity!
They were united in PURPOSE
The people were united:
All the people had a mind to work (2:18; 4:6).
All the people took the section of wall in front of their house (chapter 3).
All the people defended against the enemy (4:12-23).
The wall was built in 52 days (6:15).
(There are many discussions about the size of this wall, but most estimate it was 15 feet wide by 2.5 to 3 miles long!) It’s amazing what can happen—for good or bad—when people are unified.
God has designed things to work that way.
Why can so much get accomplished when people are unified?
Because God designed His universe to be so!
He has great, eternal purposes for His creation that are to be accomplished through unity.
In fact, there are some things that will only be accomplished through unity.
But what does God want to do spiritually with our unity, and what does that have to do with us and the need for revival and awakening in our day?
Their Unity Produced SPIRITUAL POWER
Because of their unity in purpose that unity produced something amazing.
The people joined together in prayer and the Spirit unleashed amazing power.
They All GATHERED (v.
8:1)
They All LISTENED (v.
2-3)
They All AGREED (v.
5-8)
They all MOURNED (v. 9)
They All RESPONDED WITH OBEDIENCE (v.
13-15)
They all REPENTED (9:1-3, 4, 38)
The People
The Leaders
They Committed themselves to God
So, what will we do with this?
We can point and blame all different groups and issues in our society for our problems, but God is waiting for us to unite in one cry.
And that begins with one person at a time, one church at a time.
It’s hard to imagine a more important or needy time in our nation than right now!
What is God asking for ... from you? from our church?
from the churches in this city?
from the churches across our nation?
A. T. Pierson said, “There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.”
Right in the middle of the people’s prayer of confession in Nehemiah 9 is tucked an insightful statement (v.
27) that tells us what the Israelites had done in the past.
It reminds us what we must do . . .
and do now:
We may sit around waiting on God for revival and awakening, but maybe God is waiting on us!
His compassion is the same.
His desire is the same.
His power is the same.
Perhaps He is waiting for us to unite in one repentance and one cry to Him!
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