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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, what is up? Welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is Bro. And yesterday we started looking at the life

of a guy named Nehemiah, who takes on this enormous task of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.

The people are finally coming home after decades of captivity and exile,

but the wall that would protect their city from more invaders who wanted to keep them in bondage,

they were just a stone-upon upon stone mess of rubble. So

Nehemiah feels moved to oversee the project and he goes back home. Now we're just kind of cherry

picking from his life some qualities that mark great leaders. And we talked yesterday about how

great leaders have the courage to stare reality in the face. They don't sugarcoat things.

There's no denial.

There's no pretending, no image management, no rationalization, no excuses.

They just say, you know what, this is our current reality.

And they also carry a burden to change that reality.

They ask for help.

They cast vision.

They rally and inspire other people.

And we left off yesterday with Nehemiah doing exactly that. He rides around the city to get a clear

picture of reality. And then he tells the other leaders, this is reality. And enough of this mess.

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