Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Do you have a desire or dream in your heart that you sense God wants to do something

in your life?

And maybe it's a job, maybe it's an area

in your marriage, maybe it's a change that needs to happen with your kids, maybe it's a whole

new direction in your singleness, you got the desire, but you don't know how to get there.

How do you develop a plan? How do you move from point A where you are to point B where you know

God wants you to arrive. That's today.

Welcome to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. A God-directed strategic plan doesn't begin in a

boardroom or a brainstorming session. It begins in private, in silence, in honest assessment,

and in unhurried time with God.

Today, Chip shows us the three principles Nehemiah followed before he ever held a public

meeting or asked a single person to pick up a stone for the massive rebuild God had put on

his heart. Whether the dream in your own heart is for your marriage, your family, or a ministry

God has been calling

you toward, today's message gives you the framework to move forward well. Here's Chip Ingram.

A strategic plan. Don't let that word scarier. You don't have to be in graduate school or go to

Stanford or get an MBA from Harvard. We're going to find that some of the best strategic planning

and thinking in any literature anywhere is in Nehemiah chapter 2. And you're going to find that some of the best strategic planning and thinking in any literature

anywhere is in Nehemiah chapter 2 and you're going to find a man with leadership gift

that has an impossible situation with a rag tag group with zero resources when he starts out

is used by God through this strategic plan after his heart is dislocated, his broken spirit,

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