Distractions don't just steal our ______________, they steal our ______________.
Great work begins with great __________.
"O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me. Put it into his heart to be kind to me." Nehemiah 1:11 NLT
Distractions pull apart what God wants __________.
I was very much afraid, but I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fires?" The king said to me, "What is it you want?" Nehemiah 2:2b-4a
Great work requires great __________.
When word came to Sanballot, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—Sanballot and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." Nehemiah 6:1-2a
But they were scheming to harm me; so I sent messengers to them with this reply: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?" Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer. Nehemiah 6:2b-4
So I sent messengers to them with this reply: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?" Nehemiah 6:3 (Memory Verse)