Nehemiah

Rebuilding the walls… everyone worked, shifts of half working / half fighting.

Unity is God’s heart for his people… the body of Christ must fight and build together

I don’t know if I just butchered the timeless truth I was trying to illustrate but what I was trying to show was that God’s heart for his people is that they would stand together in unity. I want this to be my heart and God is doing this in my life. I have been praying a lot lately for my brothers and sisters… standing in intercession for my fellow students on this school and I see so much how important this truth is. I cannot do things on my own, I need my brothers and sisters… desperately. I need them to build me up… & I need to build them up if I desire to see God’s kingdom truly come mightily here on earth. Every ounce of energy I pour into myself in following Christ is good for my brethren. Every ounce of energy that I pour out building my brothers and sisters reciprocally blesses myself as well as the rest of the body of Christ. We must work together if we are to live in the blessings of God… for I see that I cannot just walk on my own… I need others to help me. When I stop living in fellowship I am not only hurting myself but I am also destroying the body of Christ by weakening my link in the body… and in so doing I deprive the body of Christ of my gifts and talents. God’s heart is for me to pour myself out for him… to build up his body… which blesses everyone, myself included, in the process.

One of my heart’s cries for this quarter is to really spend my energy in fellowship and prayer with my brothers and sisters here on the base. I am excited to just speak truth into their life… I am praying that my brothers and sisters will pour into me their words of life that I need them to speak over me. Yeah, I want them to be encouraged by the truth of God’s love for them… that they belong to him as children. Perhaps an easy way to do this would be to simply, well, now that I think about it, I think I will just practically try to pray with somebody different every day. I can do that… just ask someone to pray for them and then do it… that’s easy enough… that’s a good place to start… so that’s what I’ll do. Yep, okay, well, from this point out I will be getting into one person’s life a day… nothing big, nothing fancy… just praying together. I can initiate that… wow, I’m excited.