Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Have you ever noticed that when you take a big step of faith, maybe it's addressing an

addiction, or maybe it's starting a ministry, or maybe

it's saying I'm going to start reading the Bible on a regular basis. Everything falls apart at the

seams. It seems like when we really get committed and we take that step toward exactly what God

wants us to do, it often gets worse instead of better if you want to understand

why and learn how to endure that's today stay with me we all know faith

requires sacrifice but Chippingram says that sacrifice painful as it may be

could save your spiritual life today on Living on Living on the Edge, in his series

You Were Made for More, Chip opens Nehemiah chapter 4 and makes a case from scripture, from history,

and from his own story. When you take a genuine step of faith, expect a fight. Moses faced it,

Elijah faced it. Jesus faced 40 days of it in the desert.

Nehemiah faced it too, in the form of ridicule and sarcasm aimed straight at his worth.

Chip describes the enemy's first punch and Nehemiah's remarkable response. Here's Chip Ingram.

God wants to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

It's not about being smarter than you are. It's not about knowing more than you probably know,

but it's about having a dislocated heart, right? A broken spirit. It's about having a time

where you take a radical step of faith. It's developing a strategic plan.

You need to discover where on the wall of God's kingdom you make a personal commitment,

not an intellectual commitment, not an emotional commitment, not a when it's nice and not

reigning commitment, but a commitment that says, God, I will do what you show me to do,

and I know it might get hard, but when it gets

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