Today's Coach is Jere Johnson from FCA Chicago. Today's Offensive Coordinator is Nehemiah. From the Book of Nehemiah.
Sometimes in the Seasons of Life it is time to Rebuild. It is time to Re-establish our Goals and Purpose for our Team.
Nehemiah was a Great Leader but wasn't in the Position to Lead until now. He was the Cup Bearer. He was a Servant. He tasted the Kings Cup first before the King drank to make sure the drink wasn't poisoned.
How would you like to have that Job?
But think about it at some point in our life we have all "tasted the cup" for someone else to make sure it wasn't poisoned.
Maybe you Stepped up and Protected someone from false accusations or from being wiped out by a Blitzing Linebacker.
When I played Running Back my job when we passed was to check if their was a blitzing linebacker first then swing for an outlet. My first job was to protect the Quarterback from getting Sacked. In another words I was the Cup Bearer for the QB.
The point is someone has to be willing to drink the cup and check for Poison.
Nehemiah stepped up and was the Cup Bearer to protect the King and now is going to Lead the Rebuilding of a Nation.
Jesus is the Cup Bearer that dealt with the Poison of Sin and Rebuilds our Broken Lives.
When Jesus was in the garden the night before he got Murdered he said:
"Abba, Father," He cried out, "everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine." Mark 14:36
Jesus became our Cup Bearer so we could Win!
When you are the Cup Bearer and take the Poison for others so the Team Wins.
What if we humbled ourselves and were the Cup Bearer's for our broken teams, families and relationships?
Israel Won because a Servant Nehemiah stepped out and Led the Nation right from where he was.
He didn't wait till he was elected or promoted. He Led right then and there because it needed to be done.
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care!"
Zig Zigler
The Team knew how much Nehemiah cared by his willingness to be the Cup Bearer.
The Team responded to this Leadership and Re-Built the Walls of the Nation in the off season in just 52 days.
Here is the Attitude another Cup Bearer named Bear Bryant said:
"If anything goes Bad, I did it. If anything goes Semi-Good, We did it. If anything goes Real Good, You did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games."
Bear Bryant Head Coach University of Alabama
6 National Championships (1961, 1964–1965, 1973, 1978–1979)
When the Team knows their Leader cares by example and service and is willing to take all the blame for anything that goes wrong they will Run through a Wall for the Leader.
This was Nehemiah, Jesus, Bear Bryant and Now You.
In other words when you are the Cup Bearer and take the Heat for your team as a coach or a player the team will respond and give everything they have for the Cause.
Bear Bryant knew this valuable secret and look at the results.
6 National Championships (1961, 1964–1965, 1973, 1978–1979)
Now Just Go! Win the Day!
Rick
Phil 4:13
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Passion "May they yearn, even faint, for the courts of the Lord; crying out for the living God..."
-- Psalm 84:2
Time to Rebuild Friday, March 11th, 2011 READY: "They said to me, 'The survivors in the province, who returned from the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem's wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.'" -Nehemiah 1:3 SET: Every once in a while you read a positive story about coaching. I particularly like examples of the coach who goes back home to his or her alma mater to rebuild a struggling program. These coaches not only have a passion for their home schools, but also a plan to put the schools back on the map. It may take time to rebuild, but for the Christian coach, it will also take something else: prayer, and a lot of it. Nehemiah was a man of similar focus. What do we know about him? If you read his story in the Old Testament, you'll find that he was not a contractor, but a cupbearer. He worked for the king who put out a decree that no one would rebuild Jerusalem's walls. Nehemiah had much at stake, but he knew he had to act. The town of his family was in ruins, and he knew he had to do something about it!
Nehemiah had a passion (his people in Jerusalem), a plan (to rebuild the wall) and a prayer, many of which are recorded in the Bible. Nehemiah understood one thing well: rebuilding anything in life required prayer and a plan to get the job done. We know by reading his book that it took only 52 days to rebuild the wall, but it was not an easy task.
Maybe you have a wall (sin/struggle) in your life that needs to be rebuilt or restored. Do you have a passion to see it changed? Do you have a plan to make it happen? Are you committed to prayer--even if you have to pray every day for 52 or more days? Today, I want to challenge you to do just that: get on your knees and pray that God would move and rebuild the "walls" in your life that seem so big. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it. GO: 1. Are you passionate about anything enough to carry out the ac
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