Passion to Persevere [Part 2]

Alan White, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless worry about it so much.

Stay focused on the harvest field gets sorted out in the in a huge trick of the devil to get you all were on the people that are trying to drag you down fully in the conversations you have no place being so concerned about why that person so bad what time I try to do with that having God saying they focus on the heart that's pastor at no hold excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series 2nd wind is presented with an old church in North Carolina do not able to throughout the entire to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. A copy of Pastor Alan's book lover of my soul. This can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright Ministries as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org that's pastor and.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan.

It's really acknowledged the holy desires of your heart to follow this narrative. This on the 20th, Artaxerxes, when the wind was before I took of the wine is a call, remember, and I gave it to King. Now I not been sad in his presence. What that means is that kings games like other people when they're paying in sermons that they anticipate being of service to them.

They there is not customarily become an area problems and grievances and sadness is much the way that now there may be times in which there is there someplace there somebody serving you and your called upon to become their their pastor for that moment. But most of the time. That's not the appropriate thing right. You also may come over and there there serving the table of rear dinner and and they come over and they're just all sad and and an end just once I got to sort it out and that that's not the place for that I sound satellite that furthers their stories in antiquity of kings that executed servants who were sat in their present so this is a risky thing the first place. He sees he is he is overwhelmed under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and he cannot hide it that his heart has become so burdened becomes of the king's present and the king said to watch her face as senior not sick sadness of heart and I was very much afraid.

Nehemiah brings real truth to the adage is doing.

Afraid of your call to a might be afraid. So what he was afraid but he goes on, and he says let the king live forever. Why should my face be sad when the city, the place my father's graves lies in ruins and the king said to me, what are you requesting what do you want so I prayed to the God of heaven. What do you want, I struggled new for me to about four. I struggled with that and I think that I'm not alone and that I think that we get a false sense of humility and sometimes it shame or what it might be that this is there something wrong about wanting something deeply. Are we glad that Nehemiah wanted deeply to see these walls rebuilt are we glad that he he he believed that it was a great work, not just messed up. In this I was in seminary and my senior year I preached and where is interning at First Christian Church Atlanta and afterwards a man came up to me and you know now looking back on it I recognize what was happening. I recognize there was the was being moved by the Holy Spirit, but he came to Mason. I wanted don't think you want to talk to and I said okay and we talked. He said that he had helped another young man many years earlier get lost in ministry and he really wanted to help me that he felt like God has some special things to do with my MLI and he actually he actually helped a man up as a pastor in Tennessee named Ben Hayden who you can still get bends in heaven now, but you can still hear him on the weekends on their own. American family radio network and the loss of TV ministry in a radio ministry and the pastor for many years and had a big influence Ben Hayden.

He is used to be a lawyer need step out around that open Catholic men's fingers talk like this make a real case for Jesus and his fears really want and and I did notice & to me is that when I want to help you and I just had this like more false humility level I and I but also I dislike editing. I know what to ask. I know I do it him asking for. You know he's has it what you aspire to, because I really like how you like that want to ministry and I will all be pastor and an NSS engine as I pushed him away and my wife would like. That is why you present what you doing and was really hoping needs of a lease let me connect AO I made my closing look to get sick.

I lease and usually sent me to like the nicest men's clothing store Atlanta want to get me some so close and to get a whole wardrobe. I got a sport coat. Nehemiah didn't do that when the king said what are you requesting the MIs big dream came out and told the king and he asked them for resources for is a great work and now I'm much more in touch with what I want much more.

Many years ago I was at a conference be led by Rick Warren famous author of the purpose driven life, and he just said offhandedly at one moment talking about why he believed so much of what he was doing in the way that they believe ministry should be structured to reach the loss and he said tonight there will be thousands and thousands of people that will go to their death, and a Christ list eternity because they have never been told about Jesus and he said the thought of that is unbearable to me. He said that's what I do what I do remember when I was writing the book on all the healing ashamed him off. You and I was talking to the president of that publishing company and he was like why do you want to write in us as well. When I think about people trying to bear their own shame and thinking that somehow it's up to them to make themselves acceptable and to live with that sort of anxiety. The thought of people living like that when they could discover the grace of Jesus, the thought of them living in their own shame is unbearable to me right will have more teaching moment from today's important series. Glad you've heard about it with your use of the leading mind experience in high with the left book lover of myself as a love story from beginning to and spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells my mom to the links to walk with her anymore and it's gonna member the woman tasted the sweet love for you is pretty woman who asserts for 254 can only be found fully and after the five love languages size incredible reality that God pursues us in life comes to lover of myself.

Ancient biblical accounts explode in the extent this proposal and showing his embrace of gravel in his live after the match made lover of my soul right. The gospel is shared when you get Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are in our final days of offering the special product, six 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and got a whack today's teaching you once again is I saw mother and a three-year-old in a public place the other day a few days ago and the three-year-old was being a three-year-old like giggling and swirling around and like I want to go over and scoop up the three-year-old and kiss her little face and bless her life and actually I wish I could go swirl around with her a little bit and by so depressed when such of malaise and ran a pandemic in here some eyes got some joy and instead the mother went over and said some demeaning words and and spanked her and my wife's like to me. She said children just get what they get no you get cursor blessing and thought of children being raised with no sound. The blessing of their life that feels unbearable to unacceptable.

Some somewhere in life you start realizing that you see some walls that are broken down and is too important to just leave them broken and whatever God gives you to do is tell you did me is going be easy Nehemiah. Despite opposition all along the way and somehow God if he puts enough of the sense of the greatness of that work inside of you will give you a capacity to ignore the distractions and stay on task really hard to do is in it, especially when it just seems like so many many different ways that life is tugging at us. Great work and I can't, why should I stop him.

I said what Leavitt why should I get distracted from what I'm supposed to be doing and come down talk to you James Dobson years ago. Write a book called straight talk to men and their wives got was ever in there. He told about pediatrician friend of his aunt Williams moniker, who had a patient, a 10-year-old terror name Robert who would just come in. Every time he came to the doctor's office and just run around, grab files and from his telephones just it just was a terror and enduring an exam one time realize that Robert's teeth had some problems, and so he needed referring to a dentist's locker said which dentist should he give the privilege of Robert Robert said he settled on a dentist that had a real reputation for being good with kids. The scene that is timeless. Robert comes to the dentist's mother brings in getting the chair young man said the dentist no chance replied the boy in the book. Now you climb in that chair and that's when Jim free to do said the dentist. Robert stared at his opponent for a moment and replied, if you make me get in that chair I will take off all my clothes did this, he said okay son take them off. Boy took off his shirt, his undershirt, his shoes and socks and looked up in defiance. All right, son Dennis and I get the chair you didn't hear me splutter, Robert.

I said if you mainly get in that chair. I'll take all my clothes that is that okay son take them off. Robert proceeded to remove his pants and shorts, finally standing totally make it more than Dennis and the assistant within is it okay now in the chair so Robert did exist all sat there cooperatively totally negative throughout the entire procedure jammies were drilled and filled and the Denison okay you can step down and was okay doing my clothes and the Denison. I'm sorry, is she come out tomorrow and pick them up so bad shot that Robert's mother received when the door the way I bears, voters side.

The baby was born room for locations. Robert is mom cast him into the hall public elevator and into the parking lot ignoring the stickers of theirs in the next day, Robert mother retrieve the closed. She asked to see the Dennis. However, she did not come to protest. These were her sentiment you don't know how much I appreciate what happened here.

Yes, you usually Robert had them blackmail me about his close for years when everywhere public place, such as a broker story makes unreasonable demands on me and if I don't immediately bind what he wants. He threatened to take off all his clothes. You're the first person who has called his bluff and the impact has been incredible field is here to see you want to do it. Why oh why sit in his chair. Let me do my job safely with you logout and report can't come down now they're talking about someone important know all along.

It was really just a trap that would take too much attention to the distractions Jesus told essentially parable in Matthew 13 became heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came in so among the wheat, and went away when the plants came up, and bore grain in the weeds appear also the service of the master of the house came and said to master. Did you not sow good seed in your field. How then does it have weeds they send them an enemy has done this so the service at seven then do you want to go and gather them as I do want to pull weeds, but he said no less than gathering the weeds you root of the week along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest and harvest, I'll tell the reapers, gather the weeds first combine them in bundles to be burned but gather the wheat into my barn.

Agrarian experts tell us, especially in the kind of week that Jesus is referring to. There is a weed that grows in the initial stages looks very much like the week almost pull up the wrong thing and also they be growing so closely together that if you focus on pulling up all his weeds.

You inadvertently pull up the wheat along with it.

So don't worry about it so much.

Stay focused on the harvest stay focused on the wheat ill get sorted out in the end be a huge trick of the devil to get you all were on the people that are trying to drag you down, pull you in the conversations yet no place being so concerned about why that person so bad what time I try to do with that. And then God saying, stay focused on the harvest. The spiritual battle was with Tom look all through the Abydos theater just so many so many points along the way but is its noted here. Nehemiah 416. From that day on half my service work on construction and half held the spears shields, bows and coats of mail and the leader stood on the whole house of Judah, who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that he's labored on work with one hand and held his weapon with the other got a got a trowel in one hand the work on the mortar and got a sword in the other hand, to defend is a battle ground there were in, and often the tactic of the enemy is more subtle to just draw us away but Nehemiah said I'm doing great work. I just can't come so is a process. This passion the deepest feeling of what's important your life is the secret to perseverance and here's here's what I've been saying we do what we want. That means we prioritize whether we do it consciously or not we are and we want what we deem to be important.

That's what we want. So whatever we're deeming important that this is define what we want, we tend to do what we want. What's important is God's call so being attuned to call the Holy Spirit is ultimately the key perseverance and when you get connected with that and you appreciate the greatness of what it is a God's given you to do that fuels great perseverance. Nehemiah is a tremendous resource to look at both understand and learn about leadership and to learn about principles of perseverance and to watch all of that is a fantastic fantastic study for vision for facing all the tests of ministry in all its is fantastic. But it would be missing the larger point to say that's primarily what Nehemiah stories about Nehemiah story is about a passion that call against Boren in his heart to see a work of restoration for people who had been in exile to see amended what's been broken to be restored.

What has been lost for people in that sense is the rebuilding of the kingdom and all of the old is pointing us in one way or another to Jesus and as we come to the Lord's table. Today I remind you that Jesus is the better Nehemiah he came to restore what has been broken and lost.

He came with a ruling the passion in his heart for the mission for which he was sent to lay down his life for you and for me it was tempted every step of the way starting at the inauguration of his ministry. Where is directly tempted by the devil for 40 days in the wilderness he was tempted all along the way and there were moments where he sweat blood and wish that he didn't have to carry out his mission, but he did even when he was on the cross, they said, look at if you really the son of God, come down here.

Save yourself a mind as well as sad.

I'm doing a great work.

I can come I can't stop because there is something to important is happening here.

You are part of the great work, not be great in the world's eyes might not. It might not.

It might not make a lot of money.

It might not get you any notoriety. It might what God gives you to do it is just loving and helping one person but that's what is given you to do great work and the more that you allow your soul to be in touch with how important network is the less likely all the distractions will overtake you as an invitation to keep your eyes not on Nehemiah but on Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith, who said the kingdom of God is at hand and will. You're doing great work, keep going and asked the gospel Allen right. Today's good news message passion to persevere in our series.

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We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanked him. Allen right ministries. We are in our final days of offering the special product, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and got a whack back. Now this is your Pascarella and sporting good news thought for the day social passion to persevere. Is it okay to pray for passion and he said yes he is Lord help me care about what you care about help me to love what you love. I like to start the day really Daniel, not by saying, Lord, I'm a do some important things that I would you please bless it. It's better to say Lord you're doing some important things today and I want to be a part keep my heart very near that and be aware listeners that there is a spiritual battles as surely as Nehemiah will face it, we're going to face it to whatever it is that you're facing today and may be that you got a hammer in one hand and a sword in the other. I mean that I have the mission of God in your heart. You're also going to have the word of God that is mighty mighty power in the spiritual battle against all the accusations of the enemy.

So don't be discouraged if you're facing a spiritual battle. It probably means that you're right smack dab in the middle of the will of God. Today's good news message is a listener supported production of Allen right ministries