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Me
Dad hit by car (Story)
Open Heart surgery (Where is my Dad Story)
How do you typically respond, initially, when you receive a bad report or something difficult happens to you?
Positive
Rally
Work Harder
Persevere
Faithful
Negative
Anger
Fear
Bitterness
Quit
Isolate
Nehemiah (Walk through Book)
A man who had an attitude of Prayerfullness
An attitude by which a constant relationship between God and believers is developed.
The story of Israel’s rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem
Protection and Security
God’s promises are true
Through pain and hardship
God invites all of us to participate in the building of His Kingdom.
Nehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah is overcome with grief.
Receives a bad report
Seeks God
When I heard this, I sat down and wept.
In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.
5 Then I said,
“O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands, 6 listen to my prayer!
Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel.
I confess that we have sinned against you.
Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!
7 We have sinned terribly by not obeying the commands, decrees, and regulations that you gave us through your servant Moses.
8 “Please remember what you told your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations.
9 But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.’
10 “The people you rescued by your great power and strong hand are your servants.
11 O Lord, please hear my prayer!
Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you.
Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.
Put it into his heart to be kind to me.”
In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.
Ezra and Nehemiah (One time same book)
Mourning over the same people
Two forms of confession
Who God is (Remember)
Not just a God who longs for personal relationship
He is the One True God
A God who’s words can be trusted.
He is Faithful
Dedication is needed to our God (Lacking) and keeps his commands.
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His people have not been faithful in there relatoinship
Confession of “Sins” on behalf of his people
Background word for sin is “Failings”
Used three times in other translations
Nehemiah next needs his kings blessing to return back to Jerusalem
He needs to his king to feel compassion and care about something that Nehemiah cares about.
More on this next week
Psalm 137
“By the Rivers of Babylon”
One of the best-selling singles of all time in Britain.
Israel taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.
Being far away from God in the exile of our sins.
Captors mocking the Israelites for the destruction of Jerusalem
Stop accepting Babylonian cultural values
A determination to not simply give in to self pity and hopelessness
Israelites did the most dangerous thing when in captivity
They prayed
They told God what they longed to see
They left it up to God to bring it about
They hung onto His promises
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Obadiah
All contain promises that God will punish Edom
Promises that God would destroy Babylon
Isaiah 13
Mindfulness is key in Psalm 137
Psalm 137
1 Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept
as we thought of Jerusalem.
2 We put away our harps,
hanging them on the branches of poplar trees.
3 For our captors demanded a song from us.
Our tormentors insisted on a joyful hymn:
“Sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem!”
4 But how can we sing the songs of the LORD
while in a pagan land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget how to play the harp.
6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I fail to remember you,
if I don’t make Jerusalem my greatest joy.
7 O LORD, remember what the Edomites did
on the day the armies of Babylon captured Jerusalem.
“Destroy it!”
they yelled.
“Level it to the ground!”
8 O Babylon, you will be destroyed.
Happy is the one who pays you back
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