Sermon Tone Analysis

Our gracious God and loving Father, as we continue in Thy presence, we pray that You will bless us now and that You will set us before You.

That You will give help as we turn to the Word of God.

We pray for a great sense of Thy nearness.

We pray for that quickening influence of the Holy Spirit.

Come and breathe on us we pray, we ask for help now, we pray in Jesus name and for His sake!

Amen.

We pray for a great sense of Thy nearness.

We pray for that quickening influence of the Holy Spirit.

Come and breathe on us we pray, we ask for help now, we pray in Jesus name and for His sake!

Amen.

— 9 Then I went to the governors in the region beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters.

Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. 10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of it, they were deeply disturbed that a man had come to seek the well-being of the children of Israel.

11 So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

13 And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

15 So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.

17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire.

Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”