This morning’s Upper Room Devotional (January 20, 2010) captures key parts of my last two messages. The devotional was based on the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem under Nehemiah. The scripture was from Nehemiah four. As the wall was going up, some opposition developed. Nehemiah told the people to pray and establish some guards.
Tori Tremaine Walker, who wrote the devotional, closed this way: “What desire or situation pulls at your heart today? Besides praying, what action does God want you to take in this matter? As Nehemiah 4 tells us, God’s people discovered that prayer plus action yields results.”
Prayer and Action are keys to living the change that God wants to establish in our lives. Many of us made New Years Resolutions. Others in our Church Family made a commitment to change something in their life. These are represented by the sticky notes on the crosses in the sanctuary and gym. But how do we keep the change? That’s what we are looking at in the present message series, “Keep the Change: Resolutions that Stick.”
In the first message we saw that Thinking is a key component to change. Paul tells us,“Let the Spirit change your way of thinking.” (Ephesians 4:23; Contemporary English Version) This most often takes place was we pray and mediate on God’s Word and the change that God wants to bring about in our lives.
This past Sunday we saw that Action is also vital if we are to Keep the Change. We must become doers of God’s Word. This Sunday we will see that we must take Responsibility for Change in our lives. But Tori was right, real change involves Prayer and Action. The Application Sheet this week can help you in both of these areas.
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