DAY THIRTY-THREE
March 26, 2017
Watch Out For the
Dream-Stealers
“….so I sent messengers to them with this reply: ‘I am carrying on a great project and cannot
go down. Why should the work stop while
I leave it and go down to you?’” Nehemiah
6:3
Dr. Haller Nutt of Natchez, Mississippi, had a
dream. He wanted to build one of the
greatest plantation houses in the South.
Being a doctor and cotton farmer gave him the wealth needed to
accomplish this dream home. He made his
sketches and searched the nation for the best architect to make his dream a
reality. He found Samuel Sloan in
Philadelphia to design it. It was going
to be an octagon-shaped mansion with eight rooms on each of the six
floors. All of that was going to be
grouped around a middle piece, a six story rotunda that would be capped with a
16-sided Byzantine onion-shaped dome. It
was going to be beautiful with nothing else like it in all the South. Dr. Nutt went all over the world to purchase
the very best furnishings for this masterpiece.
As soon as construction had begun, tragedy
struck. The Civil War erupted. All the workers left to fight. Dr. Haller Nutt lost everything during the
course of the war.
During that time, he moved his family into the
basement of this grand mansion so that they might be safe and have
shelter. Dr. Nutt died in 1865 before
the war was over. The family continued
to live in the basement. In fact, they
lived there for over a century, 111 years!
Finally, some relatives donated it to the local historical society. To this day, it stands as a monument to an
unfinished dream.
In chapter 6 of Nehemiah, enemies tried to stop him
from completing the dream that God had laid on his heart – that of rebuilding
Jerusalem’s walls. But Nehemiah stayed
focused. He completed his God-given
dream in record time to the praise of His glory. He is a role model for us today.
Prayer Focus: Pray that God
will enable us to complete the dream that He has given us in such a way as to
bring Him glory and expand His kingdom.
Pray that He will thwart any enemies who try to steal our dream and
prevent it from happening. Ask the Lord
how you can take ownership of this vision using the time, talents, and
treasures that He has given you.
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