Preparing for the work (part three)

Let’s take a look at the other four parts of Nehemiah’s plan.

2. A simple confidence that God was involved from the start.

This may be the hardest truth for many of us. We don’t know whether God is talking to us. We aren’t sure whether an idea is from God or from our own imagination or from somewhere else. We don’t understand how God gives ideas.

So, let’s look at the story from the first two chapters of Nehemiah’s memoir:

Nehemiah’s brother brings him news.Nehemiah spends t...