REBUILD THE WALL
Walls are significant in that they establish boundaries that protect a culture of life and keep death and destruction out. Proverbs 4:23 says “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” The word “issues” here can mean borders, boundaries, or even the source where something comes from.
Building up or edification is referred to as encouragement and is a function of prophecy. 1 Corinthians 14:3 “But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.”
Gates or doors are significant because they determine the way something enters or exits one’s life. The heart's beliefs determine what that gate or door opens or closes to with beliefs and experiences. Gates or doors represent where righteousness is established in a man’s heart. John 10:7-10 says “Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Jesus is the only door to true righteousness. Faith in Him opens the door to God’s best identity and gifts to function as they were intended by God in our lives. Jesus is the door of righteousness!
The book of Nehemiah has tremendous insight into rebuilding and restoring people to God’s Word and Spirit. These lessons from the book of Nehemiah are important prophetically right now for believers. Please read the book of Nehemiah!
Do not go back to the world’s systems of beliefs that bring people back into captivity and promote lawlessness, no matter how good it sounds. It’s deceptive, appeals to desires and senses, is rooted in secular humanism, and in the end, always ends in death of some form.
Let a reverence for God’s Word shape the boundaries of your heart to build your value, dignity, and worth, in Jesus and protect you from division and bondage. Truth shapes the heart and boundaries that produce life within and keep death outside. Those external distractions are nothing more than the world competing for your heart’s beliefs and allegiance.
You belong to God who loves you. Use your freedom in Him to pray and minister with that Love of God you have found to others. Your freedom is best spent on helping others find and experience Jesus! Pray for those in distress or frustration, trusting God for His restoration in their lives and situations.
You will overcome by keeping His Word in your heart and continuing to work with your hands to build. No matter the frustration or adversity, God is faithful to see you through to completion. His blood and your testimony of His experience in your life overcomes the world!!!
You have God’s favor to help you build, and that will destroy the self-confidence of beliefs contrary to the Truth. Opposition, slander, and enemies of the truth will be silenced and even won over by God’s evidence.
(Churches in communities) The Church is being rebuilt (governments and methods) and will save cities. Godly men and women will be put into roles that promote Godliness back into communities. Influence will be supernaturally natural with a wisdom that can only be from God. Resources will shift to supporting truth and no longer corruption.
Churches and cities will return to relational strength that builds and not knowledge containing forms of godliness without the power.
Worship, pray, read, and encourage, with the purity of the Word and not empty opinions or vain winds of doctrine.
God gave us the Holy Spirit, who is THE COMFORTER. Nehemiah means “God Comforts”. The job of the Holy Spirit is to BUILD you up in Jesus. Built-up people build the church.
We live in the age of the church and the day of the Holy Spirit.
BE BUILT UP!
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