Promise Keeper
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What if the most overlooked chapter in Nehemiah is actually the loudest proof that God keeps His promises? Nehemiah 7 isn’t just a list of names—it’s a receipt of God’s faithfulness and a record that He finishes what He starts. In a world full of broken promises, this chapter invites us to trust the One who never forgets, never fails, and never leaves His people behind.
I. God Finishes What He Starts
II. God Remembers Every Name
III. God Moves Hearts to Respond
Talk with God: Meditate on Philippians 1:6 this week as you praise the God who will complete the work He’s doing in you.
Talk with others: Encourage a fellow believer to rest in the knowledge that the Lord “will sustain [them] to the end” (1 Corinthians 1:8).
Talk with kids: Why is complaining a sin?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers, |
| 0:07.5 | we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls. |
| 0:16.4 | It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and |
| 0:25.9 | obedience rather than fear or despair. |
| 0:28.7 | This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into |
| 0:34.7 | a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action. |
| 0:44.0 | What a beautiful Sunday morning it is. Turning your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 7, |
| 0:53.1 | continuing in our study, city of shambles. Nehemiah chapter 7 continuing in our study city of shambles. Nehemiah chapter 7. And as you turn, |
| 0:59.8 | I want to ask you a question. Have you ever had a moment in your life? Something so incredible, |
| 1:07.1 | something so wonderful happened that you look back at those circumstances and you say wow i cannot |
| 1:15.1 | believe god did that anyone ever had one of those kind of moments where where you look at the scenario |
| 1:20.4 | that you were in and you look at how god brought you out of it and you look at where you are now |
| 1:25.0 | and the only reasonable response is to say, I can't believe |
| 1:29.6 | how good God is. Maybe it was a prayer that you prayed months ago that finally God answered. Maybe it was a |
| 1:38.5 | door that he opened. Perhaps it was the thing that you almost gave up on that you didn't think |
| 1:44.0 | it was possible. And finally, |
| 1:46.4 | God does it. And now you're living in the middle of the answer and favor of God. Isn't that |
| 1:52.2 | such a great place to be in those seasons where you realize God's real. He's there. He cares for me. |
| 1:59.4 | He loves me. He has a plan for me. I can feel his presence. Those are such |
| 2:05.2 | incredible seasons. Now, let me ask you adversely, have you ever had someone, a human, make you a promise, and then bail? |
| 2:14.2 | Anyone never had that happen? Where they're like, yeah, I'll be there. I'm going to do it. |
| 2:18.0 | I'll do what I say. I'm going to do it. And then they just don't do it. You know, maybe you're moving and you invite a few friends over to come to your house. And they say, yeah, we'll be there. 9 o'clock in the morning. We're going to help you load up that truck and move to your new house. and 915 rolls by, 9.30, 10 o'clock, |
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