Hello Everyone,

It is so exciting to watch what we accomplish once we all get on board and do it together. Not half of us, or the 20% who do it all. I mean all of us. We are sitting on a spiritual powder keg and I'm just waiting for God to light all the fuses!

The people said, "Let us rise up and build!"

Henry Ford said, "Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, thinking together is unity, and working together is success."

Leaders know how to share their vision. Know how to determine if you are a leader? Turn around and see if anyone's following! If not, you're not leading; you're just taking a walk.

Leaders know how to strengthen their followers.

They are encouragers by nature. They focus on why it CAN be done. They help people believe in themselves and in what God wants to do thru them.

Neh. 2:18a I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me and what the king had said to me.

Nehemiah understood that the people were discouraged at an all time low. He knew they had failed at this project before. He gave them a powerful, positive message.

In v. 18 he says, God is in this! And once God's people are convinced that God is in something, they always rise to the occasion and meet the challenge He has put before them.

I guess the question is do you believe God is in it?

18b He tells them about what the king said. Why? To encourage them! To show that progress is already been made. People don't want to be a part of something that is destined to fail.

GREATER THINGS ARE STILL TO COME!

Pastor Phil