Exercise Personal Commitment, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
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Chip shares three keys that will help you keep your commitments, even when the going gets tough.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.2 | Rarely in my life have I experienced such pain as when I make a commitment I know God wants me to make, and then I blow it. |
| 0:22.8 | I don't follow through. Today, three keys to keeping your commitments that matter most. Stay with us. |
| 0:31.8 | Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram continues a series called You Were Made for More, |
| 0:37.1 | How to Discover God's Purpose for Your Life. |
| 0:39.7 | He's laying out three principles drawn straight from Nehemiah Chapter 3 that answer the one question all of us quietly wrestle with. |
| 0:47.3 | How do you make the kind of commitment that actually holds? |
| 0:50.6 | Whether it's a commitment to God, to your marriage, to your kids, or to the purpose he's |
| 0:55.2 | placed in your heart, today's message has real practical answers. Now here's Chip Ingram with |
| 1:00.8 | his message titled, Exercise Personal Commitment. How do you make and sustain personal commitments? |
| 1:08.5 | That's what we want to talk about. And the answer is going to be in Nehemiah |
| 1:12.5 | chapter 3. We're going to see that he modeled it convincingly. So open your notes, if you will. |
| 1:19.3 | Let me walk through with you a couple observations. You know, when I look at this and just hold the notes |
| 1:25.7 | open, couldn't we all agree the gates are the central focus of this chapter? I mean, the paragraphs break and just, there's a line under them, they're real bold. Whatever this chapter is about, the central focus is the gates. Second, there's a variety of people involved in this work. I mean, there's personal names, they're, sometimes it's their father, their grandfather, or where they come from, but I just listed |
| 1:47.7 | some. |
| 1:48.0 | There's merchants, there's priests, perfumers, goldsmith, rulers, servants, temple servants, |
| 1:52.0 | daughters, nobles, and officials. |
| 1:54.3 | Next observation is notice that the approach was very systematic and organized. |
| 1:59.0 | They began on the sheep gate and go ahead and let your mind scan all the way to the end, |
| 2:03.6 | and they went counterclockwise, they end on the sheep gate. |
| 2:06.6 | Each group had a specific responsibility. |
| 2:09.6 | As you scan and read this a bit on your own, |
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