Believers Power 2 Corinthians 4:5-65 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. Last Week we learnt that our Tears have value and it is power to the believer Psalm 126:5-6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. 6 Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves. This week we will be learning about Believers one more Power.  Need to recognise the need Many believers pray for their own needs and think about their own problems.* Believer looks or recognises what is the need of the hour* Believer recognises what is the need of the society  Luke 12:22-2322 Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.  There was a man who was happily living in the city of Susa in the palace of the king of Persians.He had a very high profile job – Cupbearer to the king. Nehemiah 1:1-3During the month of Chislev in the twentieth year,[b] when I was in the fortress city of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah, and I questioned them about Jerusalem and the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile. 3 They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.” What is the need today?In the time of Nehemiah – the wall has been broken down and the gates have been burned down. Today the world is burning with addiction, hatred and no love. Love for money is more  2 Timothy 3:1-5But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people! If you know the need that’s not enough but we should also have the heart to do something. Once Nehemiah had that sense of a great need, he didn’t just lament and feel bad. He started to develop a heart to do something about it. His sadness was evident in his face.  Nehemiah 2:4-54 Then the king asked me, “What is your request?”So I prayed to the God of heaven 5 and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild it.” Nehemiah 2:11-1311 After I arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days, 12 I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took was the one I was riding. 13 I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Serpent’s Well and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 

2 Corinthians 4:5-6 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. Psalm 126:5-6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.6 Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves. God promises to use our present tears as the seeds of our future joys—meaning, in your suffering, you actually aren’t buried—you’re planted. The Word of God clearly says, those who sow in tears Every time We shed tears it is not shedding but it is sowing.The principle of sowing is very clear – what we sow that’s what we reap. Your tears have value Psalm 56:8You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.Put my tears in Your bottle Are they not in Your records? Ecclesiastes 11:6Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, / who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. James 5:7-8Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. / You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near. Romans 8:18I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain. 2 Corinthians 9:6Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.