“TO BUILD UP A CITY!” When your walk in the Lord is ineffective to your life. Matthew 5:14; Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. v15; Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 2 Corinthians 4:3; But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” Nehemiah 1:1-3; v3; And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. A church goer but your being in life is the same. Psalm 127:1; Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” Nehemiah 2:1-3; v2; Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid. v3; And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever; why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? You have to get to a point where you stop fearing leaving yourself and being doubleminded. Romans 7:24; O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Galatians 2:18; For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” 1 Kings 19:20; And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee. You have to recommit, cause it is obvious that you have went back to being yourself again. Luke 9:62; And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. You have to stay away from yourself. Galatians 1:16; To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” You have to be willing to stay and take on another name. Matthew 16:18; And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 2 Timothy 2:19; Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” Hebrews 13:13; Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. v14; For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. “TO BUILD UP A CITY!” Teaching! Overseer/Apostle