I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
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… Let me, I gotta, I didn't even read the verse yet. chapter 2 verse 12 so then he says then I rose in the night I and a few men with me I've told no one what was in my what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem nor was there any animal with me except the one on which I rode that's chapter 2 verse 12 chapter 4 verse 6 so we built the wall and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height for the people had a mind to work. Now, let me close with this. In chapter 3, verse 5, can I read that to you and then I'll be finished. Next to them, the coites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to work, to the work of their Lord. And here's what that means. There was some people who should have been working, but they didn't work. Some of y'all got people who should be helping get the job done, but they ain't doing their part. But all I'm trying to tell you is God will raise up somebody. Amen. Somebody wasn't doing their work for that whole stack of permits to be passed. Somebody didn't do their work, but God raised up somebody. I wish I had the praying crowd with me today. …
… and what I knew in my head, I suddenly felt in my heart and it was a Nehemiah 2.12 kind of moment where suddenly my heart just got consumed with this realization of the lostness of the world and I remember having this image in my mind, I've told you about it, where I'm walking down some railroad tracks and I discover one of the railroad tracks is a young child who's hurt and unable to move, still alive, but here comes a train and I remember thinking, if that were the actual situation, I don't think I'd get down on my knees beside the railroad tracks and say, Lord, would you just show me what your will is in this moment? Lord, just give me a piece. Just give me a sign, Lord. Show me. I just beg you, God, just show me. And open my Bible randomly and point to some verse. No. I'd be like, no, you dummy. You know what God's will is in this moment. …
"And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me: neither told I any man what Godhadput into my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon." Nehemiah 2:12. NEHEMIAH, it seems, prepared himself for action by taking a survey of the necessities of the case. Although he lived before our Savior's day, he certainly acted upon one of our Savior's maxims about counting the cost, lest, after having begun to build, we should not be able to finish. I like to picture to myself that man of God going by moonlight round all the waste places of the city, compelled here and there to dismount by reason of rubbish, clambering over the fallen stones, leaping, sometimes, with agility from crag to crag of the city's walls—getting in his mind a clear idea of all the city's desolation—and feeling in his heart the pressing, heavy weight and burden of the responsibility which God had thrust upon him. If he had begun his work carelessly and thoughtlessly, he might have failed in it, but having begun months before with prayer, having been guided by Providence so far, yet even now the very first step he must take is a personal survey of the work and a thorough personal acquaintance with the necessities of the case. …