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Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Breaking free from the past
• Wounds and failures
• That defined us
• To rebuild relationships
• From the ground up
• Better than before

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Rebuilding

I am… dusty.

My city had been built
From cut and found stones
Now scattered as rubble

Jesus polished a stone
Showed me its and my beauty
Then crushed it to dust

I cry out to Jesus.

“Why have you destroyed
All I had left?”

Jesus looks to me.

He holds out His hands
I see jagged holes
Dripping blood
From breaking the rock

He says:

“Unless you break My body
And pour out My blood
This city
Will never be rebuilt”

I look to Jesus.

I nod
I walk with Him
Collecting stones
Which He polishes and crushes
Until we have
A mountainous pile of glittering dust
Mixed with His sweat and blood
And my tears

Jesus looks to His Father.

He says:

“Father
I thank You that You hear Me
That You always heard Me
Even when I asked You
To destroy this city
In order to redeem it”

He raises His hands
And cries out:

“Now
Glorify Your name”

Immediately…

Fire falls from heaven.

And consumes everything!

To be concluded

Reflection

I feel…

• Pulverized
• Reduced
• Honored
• Partnered
• Glorified

Scripture

I will make your towers of sparkling rubies, your gates of shining gems, and your walls of precious stones.

Isaiah 54:12