The most difficult of all situations for most people to endure are the ones that come from their own hand.

Personal failures, destructive choices, a tragic action, a hateful fit of words that spew out poison

and ruin relationships.

What do you do when you've blown it? When you've made the mistake?

How do you get restored to God and others?

Stay with me.

Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippingram.

Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry motivating

Christians to live like Christians. Well in just a minute we'll wrap up our series keep pressing ahead.

We pray, Chip, study in the Book of Nehemiah has encouraged you and reminded you that with God we can get through anything. To help others hold on to that same hope take a minute after this message

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living on the edge.org and thanks for spreading the word about how this teaching

impacts you. Well here's Chip with part two of his talk facing personal failure.

He begins in Nehemiah chapter 8 walking us through the conditions for spiritual

restoration.

The second condition isn't just returning to the word. They didn't just

listen, they didn't just hear it, they didn't just pray a prayer. Notice the

second condition is we must respond to the truth.

Look what they do in verses 9 through 12.

When Nehemiah the governor,

Ezra the priests and the scribe and the Levite

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