RENOVATE BUILDING A LIFE WITH GOD!

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUILD!

NEHEMIAH 2: 1 - 18

Playing the Most Classic, Do You Remember Playing the Most Classic, Oldest, Child’s Game?

Know this important fact: God does not Play Hide-n-Seek from You!

Indeed there May be Times When God is Quiet, But HE will Never Leave You Alone to Rebuild! Let’s hear Nehemiah’s Renovation Story

Mourned, Fasted, & Prayed Remember Nehemiah Mourned, Fasted, & Prayed for DAYS! FAST FORWARD…

Nehemiah’s Simple Request: And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” Then the king said to me (the queen also sitting beside him), “How long will your journey be? And when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me Nehemiah 2: 5 - 6

Nehemiah Leaps into Action! “So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days. Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem” Nehemiah 2: 11 - 12

1. He conducted a night time recon mission! Two Important Things Stand Out: 1. He conducted a night time recon mission!

What God put on His Heart Two Important Things Stand Out: 2. He has not Told Anyone YET about What God put on His Heart

Nehemiah powerful moment… anxious, messy, and scary, Seeing Everything Can You imagine how anxious, messy, and scary, Nehemiah may have been?

Nehemiah, like us at times, “Can this actually happen?” may have wondered… “Can this actually happen?” “Is God Hiding?”

Hear What Nehemiah did next: However Hear What Nehemiah did next: “Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies [k]waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.” Nehemiah 2: 17 - 18

He Shares the Crazy Renovation Project with Others! Nehemiah takes a BOLD STEP OF FAITH!! He Shares the Crazy Renovation Project with Others!

Nehemiah reminds us of what You Need to Know: Renovation Maybe Difficult It Requires FAITH It Requires Telling Someone God’s Power Makes it Happen!

SO WHAT?

—God is Alive & at Work in You —HE is NOT Playing Games KNOW: —God is Alive & at Work in You —HE is NOT Playing Games —His Renovation Call is Real —Renovation is Holy Change —It Requires Perseverance, Vulnerability and Faith —Renovation is Worth IT!

Every person is a “COGPOW”!

Come Join His Work in Us… NEVER TO LATE for a RENOVATION IT IS NEVER TO LATE for a RENOVATION of Our Lives!