DIVINE DIRECTION 4 - FAITH TO START - PTR ALAN ESPORAS - 10AM MORNING SERVICE

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FAITH TO STARTDIVINE DIRECTION - 4

42 SAYING, “FATHER, IF YOU ARE WILLING, REMOVE THIS CUP FROM ME. NEVERTHELESS, NOT MY WILL, BUT YOURS, BE DONE.”

LUKE 22:42

1 NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.

HEBREW 11:1

12 WHO IS THE MAN WHO FEARS THE LORD? HIM WILL HE INSTRUCT IN THE WAY THAT HE SHOULD CHOOSE.13 HIS SOUL SHALL ABIDE IN WELL-BEING, AND HIS OFFSPRING SHALL INHERIT THE LAND.

PSALM 25:12-14

14 THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE LORD IS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, AND HE MAKES KNOWN TO THEM HIS COVENANT.

PSALM 25:12-14

3 AND THEY SAID TO ME, “THE REMNANT THERE IN THE PROVINCE WHO HAD SURVIVED THE EXILE IS IN GREAT TROUBLE AND SHAME. THE WALL OF JERUSALEM IS BROKEN DOWN, AND ITS GATES ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE.”

NEHEMIAH 1:3

7 WE HAVE ACTED VERY CORRUPTLY AGAINST YOU AND HAVE NOT KEPT THE COMMANDMENTS, THE STATUTES, AND THE RULES THAT YOU COMMANDED YOUR SERVANT MOSES.

NEHEMIAH 1:7-8

8 REMEMBER THE WORD THAT YOU COMMANDED YOUR SERVANT MOSES, SAYING, ‘IF YOU ARE UNFAITHFUL, I WILL SCATTER YOU AMONG THE PEOPLES,

NEHEMIAH 1:7-8

9 BUT IF YOU RETURN TO ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND DO THEM, THOUGH YOUR OUTCASTS ARE IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF HEAVEN, FROM THERE I WILL GATHER THEM AND BRING THEM TO THE PLACE THAT I HAVE CHOSEN, TO MAKE MY NAME DWELL THERE.’

NEHEMIAH 1:9

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10 DO NOT DESPISE THESE SMALL BEGINNINGS, FOR THE LORD REJOICES TO SEE THE WORK

ZECHARIAH 4:10 NLT

20 HE SAID TO THEM, “BECAUSE OF YOUR LITTLE FAITH. FOR TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, IF YOU HAVE FAITH LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, YOU WILL SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN, ‘MOVE FROM HERE TO THERE,’ AND IT WILL MOVE, AND NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.”

MATTHEW 17:20

24 TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS A GRAIN OF WHEAT FALLS INTO THE GROUND AND DIES, IT ABIDES ALONE; BUT IF IT DIES, IT BRINGS FORTH MUCH FRUIT.

JOHN 12:24

17 THEN I SAID TO THEM, “YOU SEE THE TROUBLE WE ARE IN, HOW JERUSALEM LIES IN RUINS WITH ITS GATES BURNED. COME, LET US BUILD THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, THAT WE MAY NO LONGER SUFFER DERISION.”

NEHEMIAH 2:17

18 AND I TOLD THEM OF THE HAND OF MY GOD THAT HAD BEEN UPON ME FOR GOOD, AND ALSO OF THE WORDS THAT THE KING HAD SPOKEN TO ME. AND THEY SAID, “LET US RISE UP AND BUILD.” SO THEY STRENGTHENED THEIR HANDS FOR THE GOOD WORK.

NEHEMIAH 2:18

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19 BUT WHEN SANBALLAT THE HORONITE, TOBIAH THE AMMONITE OFFICIAL AND GESHEM THE ARAB HEARD ABOUT IT, THEY MOCKED AND RIDICULED US. “WHAT IS THIS YOU ARE DOING?” THEY ASKED. “ARE YOU REBELLING AGAINST THE KING?”

NEHEMIAH 2:19-20

20 I ANSWERED THEM BY SAYING, “THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL GIVE US SUCCESS. WE HIS SERVANTS WILL START REBUILDING…”

NEHEMIAH 2:19-20

9 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