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You remember the story of Nehemiah?
“Oh me oh my oh Nehemiah, what’re we gonna do?”
The good hand of God was upon me.
Remember the prayer of Jabez? .
Bless me, enlarge my territory, that YOUR HAND WOULD BE WITH ME.
When Joshua had led Israel across the Jordan, they set up a monument: that all the people of the earth might know THE HAND OF THE LORD, that it is MIGHTY
Even the proverbs tell us the hand of God controls the heart of man.
Then under the New Covenant, Peter encourages us to
The protection, provision and blessing of God is realized as the Hand of God on His people.
And Nehemiah went to Jerusalem full of the confidence that ‘the good hand of my God was upon me’.
And said as much when he shared his plan with those in Jerusalem.
Now when he got there, he found opposition from without, disunity from within.
The odds were stacked against.
But the rebuilding and return had been prophesied by Zechariah and Daniel, so was inevitable, unstoppable, bound to happen.
That brings us to a very exciting question: what about the church in Elkhart is inevitable, unstoppable, bound to happen?
That question is intimidating.
Maybe even hard to answer.
Why?
Is it because God is the only source of the answer?
And to get at it we have to get in front of Him! Humbled, surrendered, obedient.
I’d like to clue you in on part of the answer to that question.
I find it in the affirming scripture God gave me when He made it clear we were coming to Elkhart.
It is found in
Obviously, this was fulfilled by Jesus.
He said so in Luke when He was teaching on the Sabbath.
These are the things, when we are full of the spirit of God and obedient to the will of God, are inevitable.
Unstoppable.
Bound to happen.
Bring good news
Bind up brokenhearted
Proclaim liberty
Open the prison
Comfort the mourners
They will be oaks of righteousness.
They will build up, raise up, repair the devastations of many generations.
When the body of Christ in this community becomes willing to be humbled, surrendered and obedient in front of the Lord WILL SEE Him make that happen.
Nehemiah had them build from their dwellings out toward each other, one stone at a time.
Sometimes with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other.
And the people of Jerusalem saw the will of God, in the form of a wall of protection, come up around them.
IN 52 DAYS!
And then they gave thanks.
They planned Thanksgiving.
Nehemiah 12:27-31
Go ahead and start thanking Him for what He has started doing.
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