Thank you for listening to the weekend pulpit ministry of everyday truth.

What a joy it was to preach this series of messages at Faith Baptist Church on the book of

Nehemiah. I've entitled this series When God Interrupts Your Life, and I hope it's a great

encouragement to you and helps you to be a better servant of Jesus. God bless you,

my friends. The book of Nehemiah in chapter number four, what a great book the book of

Nehemiah is. It's a book about a man whose life God interrupted. Are you interruptible? Is the Lord allowed to interrupt your life

to say the things that you have been doing, the job that you currently own, the life that

you're currently living, is it interruptible? If God were to say to you, I want you to leave.

I've got another plan. I've got a greater thing. Would you be sensitive to the voice of God in

your life? Nehemiah was. Nehemiah had a cushy job. He had a cozy job. He was the

king's cup bearer. And yet God burdened him. It was a burden that God

placed upon his heart. Nehemiah was willing to pray about it.

Nehemiah was willing to be moved about it. Not just a flash

in the pan kind of movement in his heart, but over a period

of weeks and even months, Nehemiah was burdened and Nehemiah prayed.

And God fostered and fertilized that burden in his life. Insofar that God finally made it

clear to Nehemiah that Nehemiah, I don't want you just to be burdened about this. I don't

want you merely to pray about this, but Nehemiah,

I want you to do something about this. And so often in our lives, that's the way God works. He gives

us a burden, and there's something for which we pray. And then God says, okay, I want you to do

something about it. And Nehemiah did. We know the story. How that in Nehemiah, chapter 2, Nehemiah led a contingent of people back to Jerusalem

to rebuild that wall, to help the people of God.

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