God Wants to Use You to Make an Incredible Difference in Others Lives! Nehemiah 1 and 2

Everyone in Christ Wants to Make A Difference in the Kingdom!

1st Notice the Awful Report of the Plight of God’s People! 1:1-3

Great Distress, Reproach. The Wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are consumed with Fire.

2nd Notice A Godly Response

Psalm 4:3 But Know that the Lord has set a part the godly man for Himself. The Lord Hears When I Call.

1. Be Burdened Never Critical!

Compassion Reflects God! Because that is who He is: Show Mercy! Ask God to Have Mercy!
Compassion Breeds a Burden, and a burden will always breed some sort of Godly action:

Luke 10:30-37 –The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:36 Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands? 37 And he said, “The One who showed Mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to Him “Go and do the same.”

2. Be Prayerful Never Prayer-less!

• A Godward Request! 4-5
• A Humble Request! 6-7
• An Appealing Request! 8-9
• A Specific Request! 10-11
• A Persevering Request! 2:1-4

3. Have Expectant Vision – Never Be Visionless! 5-

Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my mind to do for Jerusalem…

God is Putting on my mind to do this: __________________ for ____________________ to make an incredible difference in their lives.

4. Declare the Vision! 2:17-20

Nehemiah 2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned with fire. Come, Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem sot that we will not longer be a reproach”