PROGRESS:  Living for today, planning for tomorrow

Day 24 of 28 (start at day 1 by clicking HERE)

PROGRESS:  Living for today, planning for tomorrow

Day 19 of 28 (start at day 1 by clicking HERE)

The Nehemiah Effect:  Day 5

Today is day 5 of the Nehemiah Effect, and my prayer is that your dreams are starting to take shape, that your faith is being strengthened and that your will is becoming more resolute as you trust God to see what only He can do in and through your life.  So far we’ve learned that trusting Him means abiding (John 15) and letting God move our hearts.  With hearts moved, we must pray for Him to kindle the fire and provide the resources, and through it all we pray, pray and pray some more.  A big part of our prayer is making sure that our dreams are BIG — so big that they must rest in God’s hands to complete.  Too many Christians live in the do-able, and God calls us to the impossible; dream BIG!  At this point we must take inventory of our lives and the circumstances to which God calls us and as we prepare for the task at hand we surround ourselves with Godly wall builders who will labor along side us.  These are the first five principles of the Nehemiah Effect that have played out in chapters 1-3, and I hope that you are starting to see them developed in your own life and dreams.

Sometimes our lives get crazy and hectic. What do you have to rely on when your world is not as easy-going as it was yesterday? –God’s promises.

Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

- Joshua 21:45

Instead of trying to clear your head today, ask God to fill your mind with His promises. I will share some promises in the Scriptures with you, but if you have your Bible, you can also look up promises that you know you need to rely on today.

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

- Matthew 7:11 

Your heavenly Father KNOWS your exact needs AND He will GIVE you EVERYTHING you need TODAY

BUT now we must make a DECISION to LIVE for HIM and to make the Kingdom of God our primary concern.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.            

~Anso Coetzer