Nehemiah 4:1-2

was Pastor Cheek's opening text- still in Nehemiah, still studying about the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, but this beautiful story of restoration has so many lessons, so many valuable truths, that it would be a disservice to it to attempt to uncover it all in just one message.  There's an old saying- one man's trash is another man's treasure. Some people even make a living out of digging through dumpsters and curbside trash piles, to rescue things that were bound for the dump because the previous owner did not understand the value, or have the vision to see it restored. God is like that. When others see brokenness, and ruin, and hopelessness, GOD sees past all that, just as Nehemiah did when he surveyed the former walls of the city, lying in a massive pile of burned stones and debris -

Vision could be seen to new beginnings.

God is not through. He sees what others can't...He even sees what YOU can't. The enemy has NO LEGAL RIGHT to even think about interrupting what God is doing, what He is rebuilding, with burned stones

Nehemiah 2:20

So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial

in Jerusalem.”