Introduction to new sermon series ‘Trusting God’ in the story of Nehemiah.  Setting the context from Ezra and Jeremiah.  Reading from Ezra 1:1-8 and suggesting that reading or listening to both books Ezra and Nehemiah would be helpful to seeing the whole picture from which we seek to learn what God would say to us today about our prayer and action as his church.
Lessons to learn for our commission as disciples of Jesus.

“The heart is the heart of the matter.”  God brings out of us what we invest in our lives