Strengthen My Hands
“They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, ‘Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.’ But I prayed, ‘Now strengthen my hands.’” Nehemiah 6:9 (NIV) Nehemiah did not pray against the enemy.…
Rodney Garcia
Are You Someone’s Sanballat?
“They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, ‘Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.’ But I prayed, ‘Now strengthen my hands.’” Nehemiah 6:9 (NIV) Someone is trying to finish something and…
Distractions Can Come from within Your Circle
“I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin.” Nehemiah 6:12-13 (NIV) Shemaiah…
Build Your Life Around It
“So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.” Nehemiah 6:15 (NIV) Fifty-two days did not happen by accident. The wall did not get finished because Nehemiah wanted it badly enough. It got finished because…
Know Your One Thing
“I sent him this reply: ‘I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?’” Nehemiah 6:3 (NIV) Nehemiah did not hesitate. The letter came…
The Section Only You Can Fill
“And next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.” Nehemiah 3:12 (NIV) The wall is not finished. And you are the reason. Not the only reason. But a…
God Sees What Nobody Else Notices
“Malkijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.” Nehemiah 3:14 (NIV) Nobody was lining up to build the Dung Gate. It…
The Wall Your Kids Are Watching You Build
“And next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.” Nehemiah 3:12 (NIV) Your kids are not watching what you say about faith. They are watching what you do…
The Wall Remembers Who Didn’t Come
“And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.” Nehemiah 3:5 (NIV) Some absences leave a mark that presence cannot erase. The Tekoite nobles had every advantage. They had influence, resources, and…
God Doesn’t Assign by Accident
“Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the…