How To Step into Your Purpose

From Nehemiah 2

Three Big Ideas on Purpose:

A. is often birthed out of .
B. is better than .
C. is about helping .

1. Wait in .

📖 Nehemiah 2:1 ESV In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes…

2. in Prayer.

📖 Nehemiah 2:1b ESV … when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

📖 Esther 4:2 ESV no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

📖 Nehemiah 2:2 ESV And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

📖 Nehemiah 2:3 ESV I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

📖 Nehemiah 2:4–5 ESV Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”

📖 Nehemiah 2:6–7 ESV And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time. 7 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,

What am I on while I for God?

3. in .

📖 Nehemiah 2:12–13 ESV Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 13 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

📖 Nehemiah 2:16 ESV And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.

📖 Mark 1:35 ESV And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

📖 Luke 14:28 ESV For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

4. with in their .

📖 Nehemiah 2:17 ESV Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

📖 Nehemiah 2:18 ESV And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

5. some .

📖 Nehemiah 2:19 ESV But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are
you rebelling against the king?”

📖 Nehemiah 2:20 ESV Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”

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