Moving from Distress to Determination

Moving from Distress to Determination

Series: The Nehemiah Perspective
Date: August 3, 2014 By: Pastoral Staff Campus: Gary
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Summary

If we are going to help change people from a state of distress, we must know where we are going: the proclamation of the gospel. This message was given by Ray Dix at the Gary campus as part of The Nehemiah Perspective teaching series.

Passage

1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, 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. 2 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. 3 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?" 4 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." 6 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. Nehemiah 2:1 — Nehemiah 2:6 ESV