Title [1.3] Let's start 2010 like this
What is the content? (Nehemiah 3:1)
Since there is no impossible God who hears our prayers, if we pray, the person who prays will change, and even if the problem is not solved at all, the strength to bear the problem and overcome it will be given to us. The fact that the world has become difficult is not an environmental problem, but a problem of our heart and of faith.
1. Those who are prepared are used by God.
In order to rise from a psychological sense of defeat and overcome a sense of hopelessness, we must change our minds and change our beliefs. To do that, we must have a prepared image, but God prepared Nehemiah beautifully before He used it. There is no such thing as having a dream, and you have to be prepared as a person who can make that dream come true. God made Nehemiah so prepared as a worker and used it.
2. When you have a problem, don't try to run away from it.
Nehemiah prayed for 4 months and went to King Artaxerxes with a worried face. At that time, even a queen would be put to death if she went out with a worried face to the king.
But the king says, ‘What do you want?’ The lesson for us here is that the heart of man can also be moved when God is with him. Nehemiah says that his homeland is falling apart and asks for help to rebuild the city, and discusses the necessary situations in detail.
When the world is difficult, do not try to avoid it and break through it head-on. The Lord will help you. Looking at the wretched Jerusalem and everyone says there is no hope, Nehemiah declares hope that if God is with us, we have hope. The person who says, 'We can get up,' when everyone says that they are now clean and perishable, that person is the person of Christ.
3. God says, ‘Build the sheep gates first’.
The sheep gate is a gate for slaughtering sheep, and it is a gate for offerings and worship. Politics, economy, society, culture and education There are many places where families have fallen apart, but if there is one that is most urgently needed, it is to restore worship before God. Restoring the broken relationship with God, that is, rebuilding from worship, all problems in life will be resolved from there. We also need to improve our worship. Those who attended only the Sunday day worship service must pray by Sunday afternoon, and those who participated in the Sunday afternoon worship service go out to worship at the Friday prayer meeting and at least once or twice a week at dawn.
I hope you will decide to live by faith in a better way. And look forward to how God works in my life. I pray in the name of the Lord that this year will be a blessed year with testimony.