What Keeps Us Stuck

Trying to rebuild life:

Trying to rebuild life:

• Recovery: 1000

Trying to rebuild life:

• Recovery: 1000
• Church work: 300

What gets in the way? What keeps people stuck, and sabotages their efforts to rebuild?

They never start

Nehemiah talks to the King

What gets in the way? What keeps people stuck, and sabotages their efforts to rebuild?

They DON'T ASK FOR HELP

Keep These in Mind:

• He HAD to ask.

Keep These in Mind:

• He HAD to ask
• No way he could have been successful ...

Keep These in Mind:

• He HAD to ask
• No way he could have been successful ...
• He asked the right person

Keep These in Mind:

• He HAD to ask
• No way he could have been successful ...
• He asked the right person
• He got important help he didn't even know to ask for

Commit to avoid the common Christian FAIL:

Trying to get God's help while being isolated from the means God uses to provide it

"The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ...All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it."
(I Corinthians 12:12,27)

IDEA: Every one of us at some point needs to rebuild something broken in our lives

Reflection questions:

• Am I stuck because I've never fully committed, and taken action?

Reflection questions:

• Am I stuck because I've not asked for help? Or asked the wrong people?