God prepared Nehemiah for the work through waiting. It is hard and frustrating, but necessary. Go more in depth with blogs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at www.findinglife.me. Subscribe for emails in your inbox at https://mailchi.mp/6657722e377e/fb-blog-email-landing-page.

God gave Nehemiah vision when he wasn't looking for it. How can we take what God gave him and put it into our life? Deeper blog posts will hit Monday, Wednesday & Friday of this week. Receive emails directly in your inbox here: https://mailchi.mp/6657722e377e/fb-blog-email-landing-page

Intro to Something Greater a devotional series through Nehemiah. God did something greater inside Nehemiah so he led the nation to do something greater by rebuilding the wall. Devotionals will hit Monday, Wednesday and Friday at www.findinglife.me.

Everyone has personality giftings so that they can build up each other into the fullness of Christ. It isn't just the staff's job to equip the saints. Every saint equips other saints. Ephesians 4:7-16

We gather to strengthen each other so that we have faith in the Living God. Strengthening each other happens through encouragement and challenging. Who do you have in your life that strengthens you?

Sin is like pouring the wrong gasoline into our soul and expecting the performance to be the same. How intense are we willing to get to flush out our system and get the gasonline of the Holy Spirit through our soul? Finding a Super Small Group to share in carrying the burden of our sin will help us break free of the cycle of sin.

Love means we use our freedom in Christ to serve others. If we have a list of "Have to's" we will use our freedom to attack and devour each other. Serving allows Eternal Life to flow. Attacking cuts off Eternal Life. Which one do you want to do?

Perfect love drives out fear. If we fear or if we lead by fear, it is all about being punished...or tormented. Perfect love drives out this fear becuase we focus on discipline...bringing others to share in God's holiness. Community causes friction and love is the oil to reduce friction and the impact of friction so that Eternal Life can flow through the souls of all the Community.

God sent angels to tell Daniel he was treasured by God. For you, he sent his Son to die to give you a backstage pass into his Throne Room, he gives you his Spirit (instead of an angel) to be with you continuously. He treasures you. Keep going in prayer. Let God work because you know he treasures you. Daniel 9:20-23; Daniel 10:10-11; Daniel 10:18-19

What happens when it seems like God is not answering your prayer? What happens when it seems like the opposite of your prayer is happening? Keep praying. Jesus experienced a delayed response from God. That delayed response led to Jesus being the source of Eternal Life because he resurrected from the grave. Hebrews 5:7-10

God invites us into his Throne Room. Now Jesus invites us to pray God's Throne Room down to earth. Matthew 6:9-15.

We're allowed to come before God in boldness to speak freely. What about when we are weak and don't know what to say? The Spirit always has our back in prayer. He interprets for us to God. In doing so, prayer transforms us into the image of the Son to glorify God in our life.

Prayer is us tapping into the Eternal Life moment-by-moment, but that doesn't mean we sit idly by hoping God will decide to come close to us. He invites us to come into his Throne Room and get Eternal Life directly from the Source. Even more than that, we get to deepen the relationship we have with him by speaking freely at his Throne.

Daniel read God's written word to point him to God's Eternal Life. When he read Jeremiah, he used it to drive him to his knees in prayer. He didn't use it as a way to gather & teach information. Use the Bible to drive you to your knees in prayer because what God wants to do in and through your life is way bigger than you could ever do.

The written word points us to the definitive Word who tabernacled among us so we can have relationship with him. This Word is the Zoe Life. Through Zoe Life flooding our soul, the Word Lightens the way for our biological life.

Another role of the Bible is to help us find rest because it cuts us a part. How is that rest? Just like cutting cancer out of our bodies or performing surgery on a clogged artery, God's Word removes what gets in the way of the Living Water that God wants to flood our soul.

God uses the Bible to build our biological bodies together. Then he uses the Spirit to breathe Zoe Life into our souls so that what God is building comes to Life. Then he uses us for a specific purpose in building his Kingdom here on earth.

The role of the Bible isn't to give us Eternal Life. The role is to point to Jesus who is the One who gives us Eternal Life. Jesus tells the religious leaders in John 5:39-40 what role the Bible plays.

God sent his Spirit to us so that we can find victories over the old person who won't stay dead. Romans 8 shows us the role the Spirit has in our life to bring victories over the old life so that God's Zoe Life will flow through our soul.

God is transforming us into a New Creation. Sure we know this theologically. What about practically? God is more patient with our transformation than we have with ourselves.