'...If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight...' Nehemiah 2:5 NIV
Thanks to everyone who wished Amy a Happy Birthday...she had a great day and was blessed by everyone's generosity. Thank you so much!
It's been a couple days but I want to continue to ask the question: How can we together Accomplish Great things for God?
Sunday I shared a message on the abundance of God; How we miss the boat by not asking God to Super-Size everything we ask for. When Jesus blessed the 2 fish and 5 loaves, the blessing only happened when the disciples believed and began to do the work of the blessing. Faith and action working together brings about great results.
When you study the lives of successful people, you’ll find they had vision, patience, determination, character and talent. And you’ll also find one more thing at work—favor. We need the favor of God on our lives. There are some closed doors that will open when you approach them in faith, and there are other doors that’ll open only with help from the right people. That’s when you need favor!
Alex Haley, the author of Roots, had a picture in his office. It was of a turtle sitting on top of a tall fencepost, and the caption read, ‘You can be sure he didn’t get up there by himself’! Nehemiah needed an army to protect him, and resources to enable him to build. So he prayed, then went to the one man who could provide what he needed: the king. He said, ‘If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favour in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my fathers are buried so that I can rebuild it.’ (Nehemiah 2:5 NIV) And the king did.
There’s an important lesson here: when your heart is set on promoting God’s kingdom, He will give you ‘kingdom connections’. But be careful; your help may not always come via the people you expect, agree with, or even like. God used a heathen king to help Nehemiah, and He used a penniless widow to feed the prophet Elijah. Don’t dictate to God who He can and cannot use. Just pray for favor, expect it, and accept it with thanks in whatever form He sends it.
You are Loved!
Thanks to everyone who wished Amy a Happy Birthday...she had a great day and was blessed by everyone's generosity. Thank you so much!
It's been a couple days but I want to continue to ask the question: How can we together Accomplish Great things for God?
Sunday I shared a message on the abundance of God; How we miss the boat by not asking God to Super-Size everything we ask for. When Jesus blessed the 2 fish and 5 loaves, the blessing only happened when the disciples believed and began to do the work of the blessing. Faith and action working together brings about great results.
When you study the lives of successful people, you’ll find they had vision, patience, determination, character and talent. And you’ll also find one more thing at work—favor. We need the favor of God on our lives. There are some closed doors that will open when you approach them in faith, and there are other doors that’ll open only with help from the right people. That’s when you need favor!
Alex Haley, the author of Roots, had a picture in his office. It was of a turtle sitting on top of a tall fencepost, and the caption read, ‘You can be sure he didn’t get up there by himself’! Nehemiah needed an army to protect him, and resources to enable him to build. So he prayed, then went to the one man who could provide what he needed: the king. He said, ‘If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favour in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my fathers are buried so that I can rebuild it.’ (Nehemiah 2:5 NIV) And the king did.
There’s an important lesson here: when your heart is set on promoting God’s kingdom, He will give you ‘kingdom connections’. But be careful; your help may not always come via the people you expect, agree with, or even like. God used a heathen king to help Nehemiah, and He used a penniless widow to feed the prophet Elijah. Don’t dictate to God who He can and cannot use. Just pray for favor, expect it, and accept it with thanks in whatever form He sends it.
You are Loved!
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