3. RENOVATE
BUILDING A LIFE
WITH GOD!

4. WHAT TO KNOW
BEFORE
YOU BUILD!

5. NEHEMIAH 2:

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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:

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

13. 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

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

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

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

18. 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!

19. SO
WHAT?

20. —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!

21. Every person
is a
“COGPOW”!

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