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Whenever God's people move forward in obedience, opposition follows, but it never gets the final word. Nehemiah's wall shows how to stand firm: see the threat clearly, pray first, guard the weak places, confront fear, and keep building until the work is done. SCRIPTURENehemiah 4 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

When a threat feels too big to face, the answer isn't a better strategy but redirected fear: prayer, fasting, and praise that puts the size of the problem next to the size of God. When His people lead with worship instead of worry, He fights battles they were never meant to fight alone. SCRIPTURE2 Chronicles 20:1-32 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

God is still working inside His people, through them, and beyond anything they could ask or imagine. SCRIPTUREEphesians 3:14-21 RESOURCESWatch MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

In a moment of real change and unanswered questions, Jesus gives His followers a mission that never changes and shows them where the movement that follows actually begins: united, persistent prayer. SCRIPTUREActs 1:1-14 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Every new season eventually leads to a moment nobody has faced before, and it comes with the same question every time: what now? Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 answers it with a pattern anyone can follow at the edge of the unknown: look back at what is true, look around at where God is leading, and look forward to what He has already promised. SCRIPTUREActs 20:17-38 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Time only moves in one direction, and Ecclesiastes 3 refuses to hand out a formula for controlling it. Instead, it offers three postures for living inside a life that was never meant to be gripped too tightly: receive what is given, release what cannot be seen, and revere the One who holds the whole story together. SCRIPTUREEcclesiastes 3:1-15 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Psalm 139 confronts the old, quiet story that nobody really knows you by showing that God already does, completely, and has from before you were born, and that this knowledge is the reason to stop hiding rather than start. SCRIPTUREPsalm 139 RESOURCESWatch MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

A single four letter word, "when," quietly shapes the stories people tell about their lives. Psalm 37 gives three concrete answers for what to do when the wicked seem to be winning, when the future is uncertain, and when the future brings fear. SCRIPTUREPsalm 37:1-11 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Where do you run when your world shakes? When the ground gives way, some part of us goes looking for something solid, and the honest answer is usually control, money, politics, or noise, none of which hold. The real refuge is a God who does not move when everything else does: present in the trouble rather than only before or after it, and reigning over the chaos even when nothing has changed. SCRIPTUREPsalm 43 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

What a person truly values is revealed by what they will pay, and almost all of us treat life itself as priceless. God's love is the one thing worth even more, and the wilderness, where comfort and self-sufficiency get stripped away, is often where a thirsting soul finally discovers it and learns to trust Him there. SCRIPTUREPsalm 63:1-11 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Psalm 23 answers a question every believer eventually asks: why trust the Lord when the valley is real? Through the ancient image of shepherd and sheep, three reasons emerge for why His people can rest secure, even when circumstances haven't changed. SCRIPTUREPsalm 23 RESOURCESWatch MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

David's raw prayer in Psalm 13 moves from feeling forgotten by God to genuine trust and joy. Honest lament and sustained prayer change how we see our circumstances, even when the circumstances themselves haven't changed. SCRIPTUREPsalm 13 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

True spiritual maturity is not becoming self-sufficient. It is learning to depend on God, both by receiving the care He offers through the local church and by giving Him the burdens we were never meant to carry alone. SCRIPTURE1 Peter 5 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

Suffering is not a sign that God has abandoned us; it is often the place where His presence rests most clearly on us. Peter calls believers to decide in advance to entrust themselves fully to their faithful Creator before the fire ever comes. SCRIPTURE1 Peter 4:12-19 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613

True freedom is never found in answering to no one. It is found when Jesus becomes Lord of everything, and a life surrendered to His authority becomes a life of gospel freedom, gracious endurance, and lasting impact. SCRIPTURE1 Peter 2:13-25 RESOURCESWatchStudy Guide MORE ABOUT SOUTHBRIDGEsfchurch.com WEEKLY SERVICES9a + 11a ADDRESS12621 Strickland Rd.Raleigh, NC 27613