9-5-10: Lesson 5: Trust your God

Sermon Theme: Trust your God

Bible Verse: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” –Romans 8:31

Bible Story: Nehemiah 2

God promises if you trust Him in every situation He will help you. Let me tell you about a man in the Bible who trusted God and God helped him. His name was Nehemiah. Nehemiah’s country Israel and another country Babylon were in a war. Nehemiah’s country lost and the King of Babylon took Nehemiah and all the people of Israel and made them slaves in Babylon. They destroyed and burned parts of Israel including the city of Jerusalem. The king had died and there was a new king in Babylon. The new king was willing to let Nehemiah and his people to go back to their country. He was setting them free. When Nehemiah went back, he saw that his country had been destroyed; including the wall that protects Jerusalem. God told Nehemiah to rebuild the wall. So he met with some of the other men who return to Jerusalem. So he told the men to let’s rebuild the wall. So they began to rebuild the walls but then some people came against them and began to make fun of Nehemiah and the men.

They said: What are they trying to do? They can’t make their city wall like new again. The stones are badly burned. If a fox walks on the wall it will fall! ::they laugh::

But Nehemiah and the men kept working on the wall. Everyday these men came against them

They said: What don’t you understand, you can’t rebuild the walls, they’ve been destroyed

The Israelites heard them but they did not stop, they kept on working and people came against them again.

They said: IT CANNOT BE DONE!

Right there Nehemiah is faced with a decision. Will he trust what those people are saying that it cannot be done and say, “Forget it, we cannot rebuild this wall”–or will he trust His God? Every day you face situations where you have to make a decision. Will you trust what people say or will you trust your God? Maybe when you’re at school one of your friends says, “I don’t understand why you pray, do you really think God will answer your prayers?” Right there you have to make a decision: Will you listen to what that person is saying or will you trust your God? God says His eyes are on you and He listens to your prayers.

Maybe someone has told you that you can’t be a Christian where you live. You’ll never make it, you can’t live for Jesus in your neighborhood. Will you trust what they say or will you trust your God who says, “You can do all
things through Christ who strengthens you”? It’s a decision you have to make every single day to trust God and when you trust God, He helps you in every situation. He will help you when people come against you. He will help you when people crush you with their words. He will help you when people say hurtful things to you. Nehemiah was faced with a decision: would he trust what those people were saying or would he trust his God?
After praying to the Lord, Nehemiah looked at his men and said this:

Nehemiah: “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great, he will fight for us! He will help us!”