The Gracious Hand

di Nicholas Dailey (Autore)

Nicholas Dailey, 2026

"I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. 'Let us start rebuilding,' they replied, and they set their hands to this good work." (Nehemiah 2:18) A city in ruins. A man far away who could not stop thinking about it. Nehemiah was a royal official in Persia when he heard that the walls of Jerusalem were still broken down. He wept, prayed for months, risked his position with one honest answer to the king, and went home to lead the rebuilding. The wall was finished in fifty-two days, through mockery, threats, exhausted volunteers, injustice among his own people, and rumors about himself. Then the harder work began. The Gracious Hand is a 30-day devotional through the whole book of Nehemiah for anyone who has been asked to lead the rebuilding of something broken: a church, a ministry, a business, a team, a family, or a town. Along the way you'll follow Clem, a retired contractor and former mayor who led his river town's rebuilding after a flood decades ago, and Leah, a middle school assistant principal who has just agreed to chair the volunteer recovery effort after the river came up again. Their conversations happen in Clem's woodshop, at the cafe, on Main Street at night, and on the phone, and they lead into each day's teaching and practice. What you'll read: • Broken Walls: hearing hard news, praying "we," waiting four months, arrow prayers, inspecting before announcing, inviting others to build • Everyone at the Wall: many hands, the nobles who refused and the daughters who helped, ridicule, too much rubble, building with one hand and guarding with the other • Trouble Inside the Walls: the outcry of the poor, plain confrontation, written promises, declining privileges, "I cannot come down," and answering rumors with truth • The Word in the Square: fifty-two days, handing off to faithful people, Scripture read and explained so people could understand, the joy of the LORD, recovering forgotten practices • Keeping What Was Rebuilt: honest confession, God's faithfulness in the wilderness, a written covenant, dedication with two choirs, coming back to find things neglected, and Sabbath rest Inside the book: • 30 days in five parts. Every day includes a short passage from the Berean Standard Bible, a Mentor and Student conversation, a reflection, a practice, a prayer, three journal questions with room to write, and a "For Your Team" question • Back matter: a thirty-question Nehemiah Leadership Inventory, a guided rebuilding plan, a five-session group guide (session questions may be photocopied for your group's meetings), and a Scripture index Who it's for: • Pastors, elders, deacons, church boards, and ministry staff • Business owners, managers, and nonprofit leaders • Volunteers and civic leaders working on recovery after a disaster • Small groups and leadership teams who want to read one book of the Bible together About 15-20 minutes a day. The book is about leadership, not politics, and takes no side on any political question. Clem, Leah, and the people of Hollis Ferry are invented characters. This is a devotional, not legal, financial, insurance, engineering, or disaster-recovery advice; the book includes crisis-line information (988 in the U.S.). Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under

• Autore: Nicholas Dailey
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Nicholas Dailey
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237907063