THE KIND OF PERSON GOD USES - PART 2 (2 OF 11)
Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-11
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The Kind of Person God Uses - Part 2 (2 of 11)
Series: Nehemiah
Robert Dawson
Nehemiah 1:1-11
On some level, everyone wants to be useful. They want to feel useful. They want to do something that matters. They want to be somebody. It's a longing in all of us. Over the last 25 years of ministry, it's hard to believe it has been 25 years since my first ministry position, I have seen the frustration people feel as they get older or their health starts to fail them and they begin to feel as if they are not useful anymore. They cannot physically do the things they did before and they get discouraged, I can understand.
I don't know that we ever get to the place God cannot use us. If He can use a donkey to speak to Balaam, ravens to feed Elijah and a rock to pour out water for His people then I am fairly certain He can and will use us, no matter what stage of life we are in. He can even transcend our physical limitations. (Joni Erickson Tada, David Miller).
I do believe however, there are common characteristics shared by those people that He does use. Last week we looked at, or at least started to look at, a person God used greatly in the OT, a man named Nehemiah.
Let's take a moment and refresh ourselves about what has taken place.
- A group of Jews had made the 11,000-mile journey from. Babylon to Jerusalem and back. One of the men who made that journey was Hanan i, Nehemiah's brother.
- The news he brought back to Nehemiah, who was a cupbearer to the king, was not good.
- The walls were still down. The gates were burned with fire and the people were in great
distress and reproach.
- They were far from being the people God wanted them to be and that they wanted to be.
This broke Nehemiah's heart and he sat down and wept. He mourned. For days, he cried out to God.
As we looked at Nehemiah and his response we started seeing characteristics that are common in
people that God uses. We said, a person God uses is...
- Passionate about Go ...
Series: Nehemiah
Robert Dawson
Nehemiah 1:1-11
On some level, everyone wants to be useful. They want to feel useful. They want to do something that matters. They want to be somebody. It's a longing in all of us. Over the last 25 years of ministry, it's hard to believe it has been 25 years since my first ministry position, I have seen the frustration people feel as they get older or their health starts to fail them and they begin to feel as if they are not useful anymore. They cannot physically do the things they did before and they get discouraged, I can understand.
I don't know that we ever get to the place God cannot use us. If He can use a donkey to speak to Balaam, ravens to feed Elijah and a rock to pour out water for His people then I am fairly certain He can and will use us, no matter what stage of life we are in. He can even transcend our physical limitations. (Joni Erickson Tada, David Miller).
I do believe however, there are common characteristics shared by those people that He does use. Last week we looked at, or at least started to look at, a person God used greatly in the OT, a man named Nehemiah.
Let's take a moment and refresh ourselves about what has taken place.
- A group of Jews had made the 11,000-mile journey from. Babylon to Jerusalem and back. One of the men who made that journey was Hanan i, Nehemiah's brother.
- The news he brought back to Nehemiah, who was a cupbearer to the king, was not good.
- The walls were still down. The gates were burned with fire and the people were in great
distress and reproach.
- They were far from being the people God wanted them to be and that they wanted to be.
This broke Nehemiah's heart and he sat down and wept. He mourned. For days, he cried out to God.
As we looked at Nehemiah and his response we started seeing characteristics that are common in
people that God uses. We said, a person God uses is...
- Passionate about Go ...
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