After much prayer over the last few weeks I know that when I get there we will spend some time going through the book of Nehemiah.

Why?

Nehemiah is about a lot of things:

• re-inventing your life
• becoming a leader
• getting out of captivity
• escaping a poverty mentality
• moving out of a survivor mentality
• becoming a marine
• engaging God's promises boldly
• living outward the dreams of God
• practical faith
• mental, emotional, and soul toughness
• re-starting when things stagnate

We will go verse by verse. Trust me it won't be boring.

A good book on Nehemiah is by a guy named Gene Getz.

If you start reading now, God will start to speak to you I promise. Then when I come along it will reinforce what the Spirit is leading out in you.

Some suggestions:

1. Read the whole book once in a single setting to get the big picture
2. Go back and try to fully feel what Nehemiah must have felt
3. Look for bridges to your context: your job; marriage; finances...
4. Then see how Nehemiah actually moved into action and find parallel action steps for your life
5. Ask for help from Christian friends

Tentative titles:

• Nehemiah: "visioneering and re-engineering your life"
• Extreme make-over: Ja-style

any suggestions?