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Every time we surrender, God responds with his best. Surrender is an act that allows God to bless us in the manner that he chooses. We can learn about surrender from the story of Abraham following God’s call to surrender his son in Genesis 22.

In John 4, we learn the story of the Samaritan woman who encounters Jesus at Jacob’s well (John 4:13-14, TPT). When she meets Jesus, everything changes.

Relational pain comes to derail us from our destiny. Our offenses from painful or broken relationships will pollute our other relationships and destroy our relationship with God. In order to get out of the place of relational pain, we have to do three things:

1. Reveal the hurt.

2. Release the offense.

3. Remember God's redemptive power.

In 2 Corinthians 12:9 and 2 Peter 3:18 (NIV) we are encouraged to grow in grace in order to demonstrate God’s love. Because God has so freely given us grace, we should freely give grace to others.

Jesus demonstrates what it means to sow grace. Receiving grace and sowing grace sets the space for Jesus to be glorified and have his way.

In the final installment in the series on Brick by Brick, we learn that God wants us to choose to be joyful in the work that he is doing. The joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8:9-10).

When we walk through life, we want to finish strong. We've all been designed to do something that's world changing, and we will, as long as we don't quit. In Nehemiah 6:15-19, we can learn from the Israelites about how to finish strong.

In Nehemiah 3 God mobilized people and money to rebuild the wall and re-establish his people. In chapters 5-6 we see Nehemiah facing opposition as he is doing God’s work. Whenever we begin to build the life that God has for us, we are going to face opposition.

Opposition does not always represent that we are heading in the wrong direction; in fact it is often an indicator that we are headed in the right direction. The Bible says we have to be aware of the enemy’s devices. However, we can't respond the same way to every opposition.

From Nehemiah we can learn how to respond to two different types of opposition that will come at us when we are doing God’s work.

Nehemiah lived his life with the light of love and in a way that inspired others to follow (Nehemiah 2:17-20). A God-sized vision always includes space for other people.

A love that builds is one that considers others.

A love that builds is one that does not keep score.

A love that builds is one that commits to seeing the vision fulfilled.

A love that builds is a love that keeps its light on.

Pure love doesn’t look to what they can get, but what they can give. Jesus gave himself in order to become the light for our lives so that we can light the way for others.

Join us for this amazing message by guest pastor Robert Madu.

As we kick off the New Year we launch right into a new series, Brick by Brick. These next couple of week's we will focus on the life of Nehemiah. You won't want to miss it.