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During the time of the prophet Nehemiah, he had a heart to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. In the process of doing so, he and the people of Israel were met with a lot different oppositions that came their way.

Read the the account of the rebuilding of the wall here: Nehemiah 1-7

Like Nehemiah and the people of Israel at that time, trials/criticisms/oppositions will come our way. But we have to act like them when we are faced with these things in our daily lives. Believe that God will be the one fighting for us!

… ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.
– Zechariah 4:6

We have to continue to pray and ask God to give us the encouragement to continue. We have to have faith and trust in His words. As Jesus said of faith:

He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”
– Luke 17:6 (NIV)

“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ He said to them, ‘Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
– Matthew 17:19-20 (NIV)

Besides, Nehemiah and the people of Israel managed to re-build the walls, didn’t they? But the most important aspect here is also written in the scriptures.

When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.
– Nehemiah 6:16

Have faith my friends, God is in control!

Its amazing how God works in ways we could not fully understand!

Last week, I started to read the book of Romans while riding the subway to work. Eventually, I completed reading the whole book a few days after. But somehow there was something missing. I had the longing to know about the book more. I told myself that I have to find ways to try to learn the lessons in this book. But somehow I didn’t do a thing about it.

Today, I attended the “Men In The Word” fellowship at Bayview Glen for the first time. Lo and behold! They, or should I say we, will be starting a deeper study of the book of Romans starting next week. Wow, I was delightfully surprised! This really is an answer to a prayer that I did not pray! Thank you, Lord!

Title: We Believe
September 1, 2008

Verse 1
We come before you Lord today
With broken hearts and in despair
On bended knees and heads bowed down
We sing

Verse 2
Lord let your Spirit flow in us
Your mighty hands to work within
With lifted hands we sing your praise
We declare

Chorus:
We believe, we believe in you, oh Father
We believe, we believe in your Son Jesus
We believe, we believe in you, Holy Spirit
Make us worthy to receive

Bridge:
Your healing power, Your living water
Quench our thirst and fill our hunger
For you, oh God