Nehemiah 13:15-18

I have to confess...I have been waiting for God to once again convict me of my depression.. this time of the year, when I'm missing love ones that have passed away and my spiritual walls start to be invaded. So God gave me Nehemiah 13:15-18. Nehemiah, was move to see Jerusalem's walls rebuilt, and God made a way for it to happen. 
During those days, while back in Judah, I also noticed that people traded wine presses, brought in sacks of grain, and loaded up their donkeys on the Sabbath. They brought wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of stuff to sell on the Sabbath. So I spoke up and warned them about selling food on that day. Tyrians living there brought in fish and whatever else, selling it to Judeans—in Jerusalem, mind you!—on the Sabbath.
I confronted the leaders of Judah: “What’s going on here? This evil! Profaning the Sabbath! Isn’t this exactly what your ancestors did? And because of it didn’t God bring down on us and this city all this misery? And here you are adding to it—accumulating more wrath on Jerusalem by profaning the Sabbath.”-Nehemiah 13:15-18The Message (MSG)

Those merchants who did business on the Sabbath didn't leave Jerusalem altogether...they camped outside the walls, waiting for the chance to get inside again. What about you? Is your battle with loneliness? Depression? A past hurt? It stirs in you an urge to escape..so strongly that you finally give into it. We turn back to our previous bondage...the thing that robbed us of our freedom in the first place...and soon all sense of victory is gone. We wonder..“Isn't there some way to be free of this..and to stay free? 

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The Good News said…
Nehemiah in the Bible spoke to my spirit, while I was in a hospital bed. In Nehemiah 4:16-23, I learnt we must watch always against spiritual enemies.The Lord will fight for us,if we are both a labourer and a soldier, working with one hand, and fighting with the other. I was lying there, defeated, with no will of my own, in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines. I started praying...and just as the trumpet blew,Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”- Nehemiah 4:20. The Holy Spirit surge me with courage that the Lord is fighting right at this moment.
March 22, 2019 at 4:02 PM
The Good News said…
The Lord called Nehemiah to bring restoration to Jerusalem after its walls had lain in ruin for 150 years (Nehemiah 2:3–5, 12). As he led the people in the labor, they experienced mockery, attacks, distraction, and temptation to sin (4:3, 8; 6:10–12). Yet God equipped them to stand firm—resolute in their efforts—completing a daunting task in just fifty-two days. It amazes me that Nehemiah's crew was doing a good thing, and yet people were trying to stop them...not only that they had tools to work in one hand, but that they might be ready to help in case of an attack, in the other hand from sun up till sun down, Neh. 4:22. They knew that God would fight their battles at the sound of the trumpet -Nehemiah 4:20.
Overcoming such challenges requires much more than a personal desire or goal; Nehemiah was driven by an understanding that God appointed him to the task. His sense of purpose invigorated the people to follow his leadership despite incredible opposition. When God charges us with a task—whether to repair a relationship or share what He’s done in our lives—He gives us whatever skills and strength are necessary to continue in our effort to do what He’s asked, no matter what challenges come our way.
July 29, 2019 at 2:11 PM
The Good News said…
I found it so profound how Nehemiah's crew was always on guard..building the wall during daylight and at night they would put their spares up on guard for attacks. Thus ought we to be always upon our guard against our spiritual enemies, not only while it is light, but when it is dark, for they are the rulers of the darkness of this world....
July 29, 2019 at 2:12 PM
The Good News said…
I guess if I would give a synopsis of Nehemiah's burden to rebuild the wall..I would have to ask you---if the front door of your home were damaged and had to be replaced and the person replacing it said “I can take care of it but I need four days to do it and just one problem; during that four days you won’t have a front door-at all. Just an opening there. That will be okay, right?” Could you sleep at night?
July 29, 2019 at 2:14 PM
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