8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’ (Nehemiah 1:8-9)

(Note: If you’re just joining us, for this week’s Connect Devotional I’m recapping the daily exercises that I ended the message with this past Sunday. If you missed the message, you can watch and/or listen to it here.)

I once heard a speaker say that his faith went from ‘going through the motions’ to an authentic faith after he learned how to ‘hook his life into the promises of the gospel.’ 

Nehemiah closes out his prayer quoting promises that God had given to Moses hundreds of years earlier.  He is going to hook his life into God’s promises in ways that are risky and the results are extraordinary.

As we close out our rebuilding steps and head into the weekend I want to encourage you to pray God’s promises back to him as they relate to the brokenness that God’s laid on your heart. 

If you don’t have a fleet of promises at the ready, no worries. Spend a few minutes reading through one of the gospels, start to catch a few of the promises that Jesus makes, and pray those back to him.

Click on the links to spend five to ten minutes reading through Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John and start to write down those promises!

God’s promises precede our repentance and obedience. All of our rebuilding projects run on the fuel of God’s promises, so pray those promises over and over again today as you consider the brokenness you’re seeing. 

Hooking your life into God’s promises is one of the critical pre-rebuilding steps that fuels us to take radical steps, and it just might move you from a ‘going through the motions’ faith to a faith that’s integrated in real-life, real-time.

 Make a list of the promises of God. Pray those over and about the brokenness that you’ve spent time lamenting, owning, and disowning this week.