Vision Sunday Orange County

 A TIME FOR HEROES
what God can do through ordinary people 

 NEHEMIAH 2:20 

‘The God of Heaven will give us success. We, his servants, will arise and build!’ 

God sized vision

When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. Nehemiah 1:4

God sized vision

Then I said: “Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments Nehemiah 1:5

God sized vision
I was very much afraid, but I said to the king Nehemiah 2:2-3

A God sized vision When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble…Tobiah the Ammonite, was at his side. Nehemiah 4:1-3

A God sized vision

A God sized vision “After I looked things over I stood up and I said to the nobles and the officials the rest of the people, `Don’t be afraid! Remember the Lord is great and awesome. Fight for your brothers and your daughters and your homes.’” Nehemiah 4: 14

Write down the names of 3 people you’ll pray for

“So the wall was completed…in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.” Nehemiah 6:16

“Let us not become weary in doing good. For at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9