Read:
Nehemiah 4:10
10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.
There is a large percentage of the body of Christ today that is needing restoration in there personal life. I'm talking about true born again Christians that have repented of there sins and have been washed in the blood of Christ. We have been living in rubble city for far too long. If we don't know what to do in the middle of restoration, then we will be overtaken by discouragement, a lack of hunger for God's word, and loss of hope to let God help us rebuild whatever is wrong in our life. It could be things that have come into our life by the Lord to produce more fruit, or it could be some unnecessary pain that we caused ourselves by wrong choices. We see this in the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is a great leader and minister to follow today in the reconstruction of the walls that need to be built in our life. I can remember going through some very tough times financially. I lost all of the overtime at my job, and other things hit us from every angle, but I focused on God through my worship to Him. I'm not saying that I didn't get discouraged and throw in the towel at times. I did, but I found that entering God's presence will change our situation. It's not fixing all of our problems and then we say, "Lord! I can enter you presence now." I've done this, and that, and now I can enter on in. We don't wait until something in the natural is completed before we have devotion and prayer with the Lord. It's the devotion and the prayer that is going bring forth a completion in the natural. I'm not saying that we don't stay in true repentance during restoration. Our lifestyle should be a lifestyle of true healthy repentance, but there are some things that may take some time. We don't have to live in rubble city any longer. If you look at the whole chapter in chapter four of Nehemiah, you will see three things that can help us as we build. First, Nehemiah had every vulnerable space covered with family and there weapons. This can be true unity in the body of Christ. Second, there was a trumpet player next to them as they built. This can be the worship we have for God corporately and individually. Third, Nehemiah kept the moral up by praying to God that He would protect them as they built. We need to protect our mind from the enemy. He will shoot darts of discouragement our way, and when those darts come, we need to pray to God as we worship Him, and as we worship Him God will give us hope to carry on the great journey of building. I want to encourage you today to pick up a stone of worship and start building. I know it doesn't make sense to worship the Lord first before all of the things in our life here on earth is completed, but it's the first priority that all Christians should understand. We see the Jews coming to Jerusalem to rebuild. The bible says that everything was in ruins, but they started out with a heart of worship as they built their first altar. They kept on building as they worshiped the Lord. Lets have the heart of Nehemiah today and get out of rubble city, and move on in to the new city that God has called us to as the body of Christ.
Prayer:
Lord we come to you and ask that you help us focus through the restoration in our lives. Lord if we have any sin in our lives, we ask that you will forgive us and wash us anew in your blood. We ask that you will be that wall of fire around us as we build the wall as the body of Christ. We ask that you will be that wall of fire around us as we worship you and seek you first as you begin to bring forth a shift in the natural, and help us to remain steady in the things of you as you move us into a new season, Amen.
by Keith Edwards
No comments:
Post a Comment