Christian Meditative Poetry to Encourage and Challenge
Posted in Nehemiah, POEMS, Poems Old Testament on Oct 4th, 2009
Nehemiah again demonstrates the importance of being prepared, of being proactive when faced with threats from his enemies. We may not have a physical threat like Nehemiah and the people of Jerusalem had, but as I read the New Testament and chapters Like Romans 8 Talking about Powers and Principalities and 1 Peter 5 warning […]
Posted in Nehemiah, POEMS, Poems Old Testament on Aug 30th, 2009
Nehemiah is a book filled with practical and spiritual lessons. The people were becoming tired from the physical work of rebuilding the wall, this coupled with threats from their enemies to kill them and stop their work. Nehemiah manages to reassure the people of God’s might and power to overcome their enemies through a rousing […]
Posted in Nehemiah, POEMS, Poems Old Testament on Jul 26th, 2009
We can learn a lot from Nehemiah. We can’t be so spiritual to be of no earthly good, nor so earthly that we are no spiritual good. The People of Jerusalem prayed to God for protection from their enemies, but they also did something practical they posted guards day and night. We need to be […]
Posted in Nehemiah, Poems Old Testament on Jun 21st, 2009
After 140 years the wall was being re-built Sanballat and Tobiah had a vested interest is not seeing this happen, a weak defenceless Jerusalem ensured they could continue to rob and plunder it. To someone looking from the outside in re-building the walls from essentially burnt rubble was a monumental task that didn’t look acheiveable. […]
Posted in Nehemiah, Poems Old Testament on Jun 7th, 2009
The rebuilding of the wall was truly a community effort, from different echelons of society, from different occupations, and different skill sets, every person had a part to play. 1 Cor 12 talks about how the church should function as a body, we often discuss in our churches the concept of every-member ministries. Nehemiah models many […]
Posted in Nehemiah, Poems Old Testament on Apr 14th, 2009
Hi All Nehemiah teaches us many lessons about how communities can function when they work together shoulder to shoulder, side by side, for the common good, putting aside agendas and seeing a bigger picture. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, we won’t know the final completion of the good work began in us until the […]
One of the essential truths shown in Nehemiah is that if a people put aside their fears, give of who they are despite their weaknesses God will honour it and give the increase. As we see Paul write in 1 Corinthian the church is like a body, it has many parts and for that Body […]
Sometimes we can look at a task and say it is too big. For a hundred and fifty years the remnant who had returned from exile in Babylon had lived in Jerusalem. Under Ezra they had managed to rebuild the temple, but they were vulnerable and weak because they had no defences, the walls were […]
Leadership to me encompasses the ability to be able to understand the needs of an organisation or people, to see how those needs can be met, understand the resources and requirements that are needed to met those needs, and then to be able to sell a vision of how they can be achieved. Nehemiah Chapters 1 […]
Nehemiah needed to do things by stealth as he inspected the walls of Jerusalem. He needed to assess what was going to be easy to fix, slightly harder to fix, and the hardest to fix. Sometimes we need to look at what has broken down in our lives and assess what we need to […]