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Risky Business – Nehemiah 1 – [Against the Odds] – Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston
Many times we go to bible study, church or we will even read a book and we are looking for something that we don’t know. When the power of the Christian life is what we already do know. Its living for Jesus, its giving it all for Jesus, its prayer, and being transformed by His Word. Our walk with the Lord isn’t about doing something brand new, but doing what has already been said.
A hero can be defined as somebody who is willing to risk his or her own life in order to save someone else’s.
There is a big disconnect between where our heart longs to be and where our heart actually are. We long to be a hero but our culture has taught us that we need to play it safe, that we shouldn’t take risk. A smart person is a safe person.
But, What if in order to truly experience life we had to take some risk? The bible is filled with a bunch of people who were risk takers such as Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1:1-3 "In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign, I was at the fortress of Susa. Hanani, one of my brothers, came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem. They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
Nehemiah was concerned with the conditions of Jerusalem and asked how things were going. And in Nehemiah 4 we see his response to the how things were.
Nehemiah 1:4 "When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven."
Nehemiah’s response is much different than how we tend to respond to questions we ask today. When situations are critical and in desperate need of someone’s help our response should be the same response as Nehemiah’s was. But instead we stay comfortable and assume others will handle the situation.
The video to this Podcast @ http://www.neverjustexist.org/risky-business-nehemiah-1/
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Risky Business – Nehemiah 1 – [Against the Odds] – Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston
Many times we go to bible study, church or we will even read a book and we are looking for something that we don’t know. When the power of the Christian life is what we already do know. Its living for Jesus, its giving it all for Jesus, its prayer, and being transformed by His Word. Our walk with the Lord isn’t about doing something brand new, but doing what has already been said.
A hero can be defined as somebody who is willing to risk his or her own life in order to save someone else’s.
There is a big disconnect between where our heart longs to be and where our heart actually are. We long to be a hero but our culture has taught us that we need to play it safe, that we shouldn’t take risk. A smart person is a safe person.
But, What if in order to truly experience life we had to take some risk? The bible is filled with a bunch of people who were risk takers such as Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1:1-3 "In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign, I was at the fortress of Susa. Hanani, one of my brothers, came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem. They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
Nehemiah was concerned with the conditions of Jerusalem and asked how things were going. And in Nehemiah 4 we see his response to the how things were.
Nehemiah 1:4 "When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven."
Nehemiah’s response is much different than how we tend to respond to questions we ask today. When situations are critical and in desperate need of someone’s help our response should be the same response as Nehemiah’s was. But instead we stay comfortable and assume others will handle the situation.
The video to this Podcast @ http://www.neverjustexist.org/risky-business-nehemiah-1/