the security to start small. last sunday we learned to have the courage to think big; i.e., to dream...

The SECURITY To START

SMALL

Last Sunday we learned to have the courage to think big; i.e., to dream God’s dream for our lives.

The Security To Start Small

Our God specializes on doing the impossible. Yet we hesitate to ask Him for great things and settle on requesting for the mundane.

Now while we should think big in God, we must be willing to start small.


This guiding principle of leadership calls us to have an inner security to start small. It takes a quiet disposition and humility to begin on a small scale.

Some great companies or organizations have an inconspicuous genesis.


Mariano Que perhaps is one of the good models to building a huge business empire by starting small.

He founded the Mercury Drug Corporation by first selling pills from a pushcart in the 1940s.


Mariano Que started his career working in a Manila drugstore in prewar Philippines. After the war, he used his drugstore experience to launch his own business.

Mercury Drug Corporation is the Philippines' dominant pharmacy group today. It operates a national chain of more than 450 drugstores. MDC is estimated to sell as much as 60% of all medicines sold each year in the Philippines (the country's hospitals sell about 12 %).


Continuing on the memoirs of Nehemiah and how he led Israel to rebuild its walls and its city, we find key principles in realizing God’s dream for our lives by having the security to start small.


Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall

of Jerusalem DISCREETLY.

(2:11-16)


“I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days I set out during the

night with a few men. I had not told anyone what my

God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem.”

(Nehemiah 2:11-12a)

1. Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem discreetly. (2:11-16)



• He was not impulsive or hasty.



• He began acting on his vision three days after arriving in Jerusalem.


“So we arrived in Jerusalem, where we rested three

days.” (Ezra 8:32).

“By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of

Jerusalem...”(Nehemiah 2:13)


• He implemented his plans cautiously, carefully, and calculatingly.



of Jerusalem PERSUASIVELY.

(2:17-20)


2. Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)

• He identified the problem.



Challenges Nehemiah faced


• Most of the wall of Jerusalem were in ruins.

• The Jewish people were discouraged.

• The neighboring enemies were constantly threatening.


• He identified himself as one of them.



“You see the trouble we are in...Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” (2:17)



• He identified the source of his victories.



“I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me and what the king had said to me...The God of heaven will give us success.” (2:18, 20a)



of Jerusalem SKILLFULLY.

(3:1-32)


3. Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem skillfully. (3:1-32)

• He delegated manageable sections of the wall to the people.



• He ensured good supervision, close co-operation, and proper coordination.The Security To Start Small


• He organized and managed the project complete with records of workers and their assignments.


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