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Intro
Have you ever received news that just broke your heart or moved you to stop and pray, and in praying you were asking God for direction, for how to help, for what to do?
How did you feel in the middle of that?
I find it amazing how God moves in our hearts, burdens us for people around us, drives us to our knees on their behalf, and then responds to our prayers.
It is a great privilege, you know to pray for one another.
especially when we are interceding for person in great need no matter the problem at hand.
Bu that kind of praying begins with a burden, something that God has given us...
My case in point in Nehemiah, in Nehemiah chapter 1...
Here is some Bible trivia, Who is Nehemiah??
Now lets move to the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, and lets find chapter 1.
Lets look at Nehemiah chapter 1, verses 1-4
Lets look at Nehemiah chapter 1, verses 1-4
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Now why are people returning to Jerusalem?
It is sometime after 522 bc, for it was then that Cyrus, Persian king issues the decree that the Jews can return to the city.
So the 70 years of punishment and captivity are over...
More Bible trivia, why where they there for 70 years?
Didn’t allow the land to rest...
Now Nehemiah has heard of what remains of the city… it is in ruins, even after people have returned.
Nehemiah showed that kind of burden when he learned that the city of Jerusalem lay in ruins.
Side note, Nehemiah is born in the captivity, why is something he has never seen is so important to him?
Because he loves the Lord and he loves God’s place and people.
This was the holy city, it was defaced and tore down, it was no longer a testimony to the goodness of God.
Nehemiah tells us what he did then: “I sat down and wept.
I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of the heavens” ().
This response is always something we need to remember, in the face of a great burden, don’t look to self, look to God!.
He grieved over the sin of his people and its consequences.
Listen at his prayer,
I love the tone of his voice and heart in verses 6-7...
And verse 11, he is praying for what?
Success in front of the King....
He wanted to go before the King and seek permission,
He grieved over the sin of his people and its consequences, and thus sought permission from the king to return to Jerusalem to check its status.
Before he spoke to the king, though, he prayed, “Give your servant success today, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man” ().
and thus sought permission from the king to return to Jerusalem to check its status.
Before he spoke to the king, though, he prayed, “Give your servant success today, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man” ().
But it was risky, why?
To show a sad face in front of a king could result in a death penalty… it was a proven fact..
But we know this, God was with him...
Nehemiah had never shown sadness before King Artaxerxes, and the king recognized that something was wrong.
He asked, “Why are you sad, when you aren’t sick?
This is nothing but sadness of heart”().
Look at
Nehemiah apparently couldn’t hide the depth of his burden over God’s people.
Nehemiah apparently couldn’t hide the depth of his burden over God’s people.
Was Nehemiah only burdened over the city?
It’s walls and gates.. no, He was heart broken at the spiritual condition of the people as well.
That’s what God does in our lives, too.
He gives us love toward others that includes a burden over their spiritual condition.
Sometimes, in fact, we grieve the sin of others more than they do.
Just the other day I was asking prayer for a person I knew wasn’t living for the Lord, my heart breaks because of the ministry this one man had.. sin ruined it all.
Look at what Nehemiah said to the king...
Sin ruined the city and its people long ago and sin still had an effect on these people
We long for them to turn to God, and hiding that burden is difficult when it’s real.
It’s through those burdens and our corresponding intercessory prayer, however, that God changes others.
Now one last verse, chaoter 2… verse 4
and lets continue to verse 5
Man, as he speask to the King, he is bold in his heart and this is proven for the Lord is with him...
Last section, look at verses 6-8
God had indeed showed him favor...
Do you believe the Lord is with you?
Those burdens in your heart, take them to the Father and ask God to given you victory as we serve to help others..
We long for them to turn to God, and hiding that burden is difficult when it’s real.
It’s through those burdens and our corresponding intercessory prayer, however, that God changes others.
PRAYER: “Father, please increase my burden for non-believers and straying Christians.”
Think about how important the word of God is to our lives...
Tell me why you think and believe the Bible is important?
Lets run over to Nehemiah in the Old Testament and lets find what the Lord is saying to us there.
The people told Ezra to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, as they wanted to hear the Word.
Can you imagine with me that you have been without the nation you have been in captivity, and you have never heard the word of the law at the temple, much less the Holy City of God,.
You have have known people who memorized portions of the word, they have heard it, but never in this context.
And upon coming back to the nation, it is a special time.
Not only did Ezra read it, but he “read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand” ().
According to the Scriptures, all the people “were attentive to the Book of the Law” ().
Indeed, they “bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground” ().
I read today’s Old Testament reading, and I’m reminded of the importance of simply opening the Word of God, prayerfully explaining it to others, and challenging people—beginning with me—to obey it.
That Word both convicts us and gives us reason to rejoice.
It breaks us and heals us.
It reduces us and shows us our worth to God.
It calls us to die and directs us to life.
It’s God’s Word.
How I wish we would long for it like the people in !
May that passion begin in my heart today.
PRAYER: “Thank You, God, for Your Word.
Increase my thirst for it.”
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