- The main thing I have gotten from Nehemiah is the importance of committing everything to prayer and the fact that if God calls me to do something and it succeeds, it has nothing to do with my ability to communicate, my speech skills, or my intellect, but everything to do with God’s hand upon me.
- Vision begins to develop when I know whose I am (God’s), when what concerns God begins to concern me, and when I face the truth about what is happening around me. And it is this vision that will drive me to petition God and will be my motivation to press on.
- How big I perceive God to be will determine how big I determine my problems to be. Realizing how awesome God is will put everything into perspective!
- Just like Nehemiah, I need to realize that my ministry is not my ministry and that I cannot do it on my own strength and therefore need to continuously come to the Lord in prayer.
- Just like Nehemiah, I need to fully trust God but also be fully dedicated to the task He has called me to.
- I need to be faithful where God has placed me by starting by doing what is there to be done.
- Like Nehemiah, I want God to teach me to always bring everything to Him in prayer.
- When I am doing what God has called me to do, opposition will come, so I need to have a deep conviction of where God has called me and then I need to defend myself by always remembering to turn to God, by allowing God to strengthen my ‘exposed places’ and by being vigilant.
- No vision can be accomplished by an individual, which is why God calls us to work as a team as part of the body of Christ.
- The more I try to deal with my fleshly/sinful appetites, the more they will have a hold of me. I therefore need to live by the spirit and stop working in the strength of the flesh.
- What I have gained spiritually this year must be maintained: I need to guard myself against attacks by the enemy by focussing on God and living in the spirit, by worshiping God, and by making sure I have strong spiritual leaders in my life.
- The three indispensable qualities required of a Christian leader are integrity, fear of God, and a submissive spirit.
- I am not responsible for the outcome of the spiritual harvest (I cannot make seeds grow), but I am responsible for planting seeds.
- “The joy of the Lord is my strength” can also be translated “Delight in Jehovah is a strong refuge.” Way cool!!!
- In my walk with Christ, it is important to keep the joy alive (mourning brings repentance, but continued mourning is only self-centered), to remember what God has done in my life, and to maintain fellowship with other believers.
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- My priorities shouldn’t be 1. God, 2. Family, 3. Church, 4. Me... but
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