“Do you hope to gain influence, leadership, prosperity, and favor due to your own efforts, or are you trusting and acknowledging that they come from the Lord God of our fathers?”
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Ezra 6 – Prayers and Perspective
“…real change, real credit, and the real glory belongs not to them or to their leaders, but to the One who directs all our steps.”
Ezra 5 – Making a Decision
“Is that how you form opinions? Do you search the written records, do you do some research, do you form your own opinion?”
Ezra 4 – Accusations and Delays
“…even if these slanderous untruths delay something for you, they are powerless to defeat anything in you.”
Ezra 3 – Look Back and Move Forward
“It is ok to look to the past, honour the past, use the past as a guide, but not to let the past paralyse current and future progress.”