Our Fire-starter comes from Nehemiah 2. Our Fire-starter thought is the Fear and reassurance of doing something. 

Nehemiah has been given a great task, and that is to build the walls of Jerusalem. His burden starts when he gets a report of how the Children of the captivity are doing and when his brethren tell him about the city they mention that the wall was broken down and the gates were burned with fire ( Nehemiah 1). Here in Nehemiah chapter two you find the king sees the burden of Nehemiah and it is weighing heavy on his heart. Oftentimes, we may not even realize this but the burdens we carry are often shown in our body language, our actions, and our speech. The king, as we read, sends Nehemiah to go do the work. Nehemiah has others with him helping him and those that were helping him I am sure were a little worried and afraid to go into it. What do I mean by this? They needed some assurance everything was going to be ok. 

There have been times in my life and I am sure in your life that we were afraid and fearful to go into something. We had the fear of #1 Not doing something right and hurting our Savior but #2 Fear of what man would say. It wasn't until Nehemiah told them how he had the God of Heaven on his side and also the king had his back that they got the courage to say let us rise up and build. 

Remember this morning, When the Savior has given you a command he will also give you the knowledge on how to do it and then he will give you boldness and wisdom to do it. 

This morning, do you need encouragement concerning something? Remember when God commands you to do something or gives peace for you to do something, go in that peace knowing that you are doing the will of the Father and do not allow what men and others are going to say to you. 

Let us rise and build!!!

Hope you have a "Building" type of Day!!!

Nehemiah 2:1-20 KJV
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. [2] Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, [3] And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? [4] Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. [5] And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. [6] And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. [7] Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; [8] And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. [9] Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. [10] When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. [11] So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. [12] And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. [13] And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. [14] Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. [15] Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. [16] And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work. [17] Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. [18] Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work. [19] But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king? [20] Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.