Sermon 6/8/2025 – Built to Lead – Week 2 | Once God confirms the call, bold steps become the faithful next step.

POINT ONE – What we’ve carried as a burden is revealed as a calling when opportunity meets God’s favor.

Nehemiah 2:4–5 ESV

4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”

POINT TWO – Being certain of our calling eliminates our fear of incompetency

Nehemiah 2:17–18 ESV

17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Nehemiah 2:18 ESV

18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.”

He knew what he was stepping into—and he stepped in anyway. Not because he felt strong, but because he trusted the One who called him.

POINT THREE – Being certain of our calling eliminates our fear of opposition

Nehemiah 2:19–20 ESV

19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” 20 Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”