Fight for Your Family Commitment

Fight for Your Family

Commitment

Nehemiah with all the attacks and hopelessness

Stayed committed to rebuilding the wall

Nehemiah did not give up

He dealt with the rubble of the old wall and rebuilt the new wall  

God had frustrated the plan to stop the work

When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his own work. Nehemiah 4:15

Nehemiah 6:15 gives us some encouraging words to those who want

To rebuild the wall of protection around the family

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah 6:15-16

It may not be 52 days for you to rebuild the wall around your family

But one thing is for sure God is there to help you rebuild

Stay committed, fear not, the family, your family is worth it! 

Commitment

If you are a grandparent you have

seen a lot of changes in your life time.

Fifty years ago, in 1960, 73 percent of children lived in a household

with two parents who were both in their first marriage.

 

Today, however, families come in many forms. Just 46 percent of children today live in the type of family household that was typical in the 1970s.  The rest live in single-parent households, or with parents who are living together but not married. Some live with two parents who have previously been married and bring with them children from those prior relationships.

Changes over the last 50 years shows us the

world around us has changed the definition of family.

The core of family 60 years ago was

commitment and keeping that commitment.

Commitment is based on values

and the greatest value is love.

It was not just the young

people who have changed.

Grandparents have changed…

 Co-habituating together, verses

commitment to marriage, is very high.

Commitment is foundation to family.

Over the last 50 years, quitting because it

seems easier or because it gives freedom

to explore personal desire, has increased.

You can’t have a healthy

family without commitment.

Nehemiah remembered the

wall that protected the city.

It was a proud fortress and a principle

line of defense from enemy attack.

Seeing the changes over the years,

seeing the walls lay in ruin made everyone

in the city vulnerable, no one was safe…

Not the children the parents or grandparents.

Not the singles, the women,

the men, no one was safe.

Nehemiah did not accept the

decayed condition of the wall.

The rebuilding of the temple, the glory of the city,

 would not last without the wall of protection.

It seemed helpless as the world

around them made threats to stop them.

Rebuilding the wall was claimed impossible.

Nehemiah 4:1-3…

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, "What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble — burned as they are?"

Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, "What they are building — if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall of stones!"

We see as we continue to read…

  

Meanwhile, the people in Judah said,

"The strength of the laborers is giving out,

and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall."

Nehemiah 4:10

Discouragement is one of the

biggest threats to commitment.

If you are a grandparent who

remembers growing up in a good family…

If you remember how much better life

was 50 to 60 years ago for family life…

If you are going through

a struggle in your family….

If you feel like your family walls are in ruin…

You are feeling hopeless to ever see

your family back together or a protective

wall for family as God designed it…

Than remember this…

Nehemiah with all the attacks and hopelessness

stayed committed to rebuilding the wall.

Nehemiah did not give up.

He dealt with the rubble of the

old wall and rebuilt the new wall.

  

God had frustrated the plan to stop the work.

When our enemies heard that we were

aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it,

we all returned to the wall, each to his own work.

Nehemiah 4:15

Nehemiah 6:15 gives us some encouraging

words to those who want to rebuild the

wall of protection around the family.

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

When all our enemies heard about this,

all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence,

because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.

Nehemiah 6:15-16

It may not be 52 days for you to

rebuild the wall around your family.

But one thing is for sure…

God is there to help you rebuild.

 Stay committed, fear not,

the family, your family is worth it!

Scripture Reading

Nehemiah 4:12-15

12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, 

"Wherever you turn, they will attack us."

13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes."

15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his own work.