WHO WILL BE THAT MAN TODAY (3)
Scripture: Nehemiah 2:9-10
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Who Will Be That Man Today (3)
Series: Nehemiah - Rebuild, Restore, and Revive
Donald Cantrell
Nehemiah 2: 9 - 10
I - The Trip That Was Granted (9)
II - The Two That Were Grieving (10a)
III - The Testimony That Was Glorious (10a)
Neh 2:9 KJV - Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Neh 2:10 KJV - When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Theme: ''Israel was in need of a person to seek out for their welfare'
I Will Be Your Man
Sometimes you hear a presentation, a sermon-maybe even just a single sentence formed in a casual conversation-and the idea connects with you with force. You leave rolling the statement over in your mind, feeling as if someone hung a ten pound weight engraved with some new idea on your soul.
That happened to Moody.
He was at a meeting with a guy named Henry Varley, who was a preacher.
And Henry said something incredibly important.
He said ''The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him.''
And that became the statement Moody couldn't let go.
It haunted him until he wasn't just thinking about it, he was writing about it.
He eventually wrestled the statement to conclusion.
''I will be that man.'' He determined.
This was the inciting incident that happened just before Moody's life developed what appeared to be some sort of unexplainable electric charge.
People began responding to his messages about faith by the roomful, so much so that even when he left London, church leaders there called him back and put him to work speaking to newer and increasingly larger groups every day for two weeks straight.
I hear about his smashing success right out of the preaching gates...and there's part of me that calculates, I'm ...
Series: Nehemiah - Rebuild, Restore, and Revive
Donald Cantrell
Nehemiah 2: 9 - 10
I - The Trip That Was Granted (9)
II - The Two That Were Grieving (10a)
III - The Testimony That Was Glorious (10a)
Neh 2:9 KJV - Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Neh 2:10 KJV - When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Theme: ''Israel was in need of a person to seek out for their welfare'
I Will Be Your Man
Sometimes you hear a presentation, a sermon-maybe even just a single sentence formed in a casual conversation-and the idea connects with you with force. You leave rolling the statement over in your mind, feeling as if someone hung a ten pound weight engraved with some new idea on your soul.
That happened to Moody.
He was at a meeting with a guy named Henry Varley, who was a preacher.
And Henry said something incredibly important.
He said ''The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him.''
And that became the statement Moody couldn't let go.
It haunted him until he wasn't just thinking about it, he was writing about it.
He eventually wrestled the statement to conclusion.
''I will be that man.'' He determined.
This was the inciting incident that happened just before Moody's life developed what appeared to be some sort of unexplainable electric charge.
People began responding to his messages about faith by the roomful, so much so that even when he left London, church leaders there called him back and put him to work speaking to newer and increasingly larger groups every day for two weeks straight.
I hear about his smashing success right out of the preaching gates...and there's part of me that calculates, I'm ...
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