2008-08-28T14:12:16-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/nehemiah http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Your-Best-Weapon-is-Your-Teeth-4427 2008-08-28T14:12:16-05:00 Our word for today from the Word of God comes from {bible}Nehemiah 2:1{bible}. Now, Nehemiah works for the king (he's the king's cup bearer), and he's pretty down because of news he's gotten about conditions back home. The Bible says, "I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before. So the king asked me, 'Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.'" http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Seeing-what-isn-t-Working-4202 2008-08-25T13:04:36-05:00 Our grandson basically ignored the lights that were working - all he could see were the ones that weren't working. Sadly, there are grownup people who live most of their lives that way - they look right past the things that are working and choose to focus on the things that aren't working. So they're often frustrated, discontent, unhappy, critical. And when we're like that, I guess we become "negatologists" - people who major on the negative. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Everybody-s-Victory-4127 2008-08-18T16:01:52-05:00 Rescues are usually like that. Oh, one person or a few people may actually bring the person out, but that's because of a much larger group of people who are behind them in many ways. And nowhere is that more true than in the spiritual rescue of people who are trapped and dying in the pit that the Bible calls sin. But all too often, the people who are supporting the rescuers have little or no sense of how vital they are; how many would be lost without what they do, how much each rescue is their victory, too. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/In-Touch-With-The-Tower-4130 2008-08-18T15:58:17-05:00 A pilot needs to stay in constant contact with the person who guides him through his entire flight. And as we try to pilot the life God has given us through all the "dangers, toils, and snares," we really need to stay in touch with our Flight Controller in heaven - the God who can see what we could never see, who can guide us on a path that we could never figure out on our own. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Putting-On-Your-Glasses-Getting-On-Your-Knees-4947 2008-08-12T14:41:05-05:00 Faithful praying over a situation will give you a clear vision of who those folks around you are, too. "They are your servants and your people whom you redeemed." Nehemiah prayed. The believers around you are not your competitors or your problems. They're God's people purchased with the blood of God's Son. You'll treat them differently if you get God's glasses and remember who they are. That happens while you pray. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Bumper-Car-Families-4959 2008-08-12T12:30:53-05:00 That's what every family needs - someone who blows the trumpet to get that group of separated people together regularly. You have to set a time and place and make it happen. If it doesn't, people leave home with dangerous unmet needs that were supposed to be met at home; the need for closeness, for attention, for encouragement, for affection. And you have to be together for those needs to be met! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Flying-High-Falling-Flat-4969 2008-08-12T10:57:46-05:00 Every time God does something good in your life, the devil is there with some cheap shot he wants to use to rob you of the joy of what God has done. Don't fall for it. It's like you've just won the Super Bowl, you're walking off the field, and your defeated opponent says, "I'll make you pay for this." And he gives you a bloody nose. Yeah, he hurt you a little, but he can't change the outcome. You still won, and nothing he can do can change the victory. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/When-You-Feel-Like-Giving-Up-5063 2008-08-06T15:39:22-05:00 Fix the leaks that could sink you, focus on the Lord who brought you this far, and fight for the lives that need for you to finish what you've started. Jesus didn't bring you this far so you could quit. He's counting on you, not just to start this race, but to finish your race as He did for you. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Right-Answers-Under-Pressure-5094 2008-08-06T11:34:04-05:00 Talk to the God of heaven before you talk to that person on earth. Connect yourself to the throne room of God. Get prayed up, and even if you're scared, go ahead to the opportunity that God is opening up. We're all playing Jeopardy and coming up with right answers under pressure, but we have a direct pipeline to the One who has all the right answers. Let Him come up with your answer. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Eeyore-Complex-5099 2008-08-06T10:41:09-05:00 This joy of the Lord has nothing to do with your environment. It does have to do with your in-vironment. See, this joy gives the ability to look for God in any situation and to ask the question, "Now, how could God use this?" I may not particularly like what's going on right now, but God has okayed it. It had to get through my Father's hands before it could get to me, so God must be able to work through this. Where is He at work here?