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Happy Mother’s day!
In honor of moms, I thought I’d also tell few bad
jokes.
Why did the hawk sit on top of the church?
Because it was a bird of prey.
What do they call pastors in Germany?
German Shepherds.
Who is the most
intelligent person in the Bible?
It’s Abraham; he knew a Lot.
Adam was the fastest,
because he was first in the human race, and Samson was the funniest, because he
brought the house down.
Job used the most bad language; he cursed the day he
was born.
What kind of lights did Noah put on the ark?
Floodlights.1 Bad, I know.
So we’re back in Nehemiah today.
We’ve been talking about Nehemiah’s
prayer and how we can use the principles in it for our own prayer lives.
And as we
learn and implement those principles, we’ll be able to move into powerful prayers
the same way Nehemiah did.
We’ll be able to see lives changed, people move from
bondange into freedom, and people be rebuilt into who God created them to be.
And we’ll grow into who God wants us to be, too.
Two weeks ago, we talked about the power of confession in prayer, and how
continuing to talk to Jesus about the things you’re going through, even when you
get frustrated that you aren’t growing as quickly as you might want to be, is one of
the keys to breakthrough.
And today I want to talk about simply praying the word.
Nehemiah prayed according to the word.
Praying according to the word can probably mean a few different things.
What I don’t mean is that our prayers need to be confined word-for-word to what is
written in the Bible.
That may sound ridiculous, but there are some people who
believe that.
They feel like they have to pray the Lord’s prayer or Psalm 23 or a
pre-made liturgical prayer or else it won’t have any effect.
And that kind of
thinking is more like magic words or formulas than it is a relationship.
Now, you
can pray prayers straight from the Bible word for word - i’m not saying that’s
always a bad thing necessarily.
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“33 Funny Bible Jokes - Bible Puns And Laughs!” LaffGaff, https://laffgaff.com/bible-jokes-funny-bible-humor/.
Accessed 4 May 2022.
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Those can be very helpful as long as we don’t forget that we are actually in a
relationship with God.
And we don’t forget who we’re praying to.
We also need to
know what we’re saying and asking for when we pray that way.
Again, it’s not
necessarily bad, but that’s not what I’m talking about when I say to pray the Word.
I’m talking about how our prayers need to be grounded in the Word so we
know Who God is and what His character is; because when we know that, we can
know that our prayers will be answered.
But let’s pray before we get started.
Father in Heaven, hallowed be your Name.
You are holy and we give you all the
praise and glory today.
Please forgive us for the ways we’ve failed you this week,
and forgive us a church for not always walking in Your ways or according to the
Spirit.
I ask You today to fill us again with Your Spirit and give us new grace, new
power, new life, and new insight into who You are and what You’re doing so that
we might see Jesus glorified.
Thank You for this time and for Your word, and for
dying on the cross for us.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Let’s take a look at how Nehemiah prays the word.
Nehemiah 1:8-9 NKJV
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If
you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; 9 but if you return to
Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast
out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and
bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’
Nehemiah literally starts by saying ‘I ask you to remember Your word.’
He’s not
saying that because he thinks that God forgot what He said and did for the
Israelites throughout history.
God knows everything, He’s omniscient, so He
remembers what He said and the promises He made.
In other words, when we pray
the Word, or pray with the Bible and based on Bible verses, we’re not reminding
God about his own promises as if He forgot.
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No, Nehemiah’s prayer is grounded on and based on the Word of the Lord.
In other words he’s praying based on who He knows God to be, and He knows who
God is because of the word and because of God’s track record, His history.
In other
words, he’s basing his prayer on who the Bible says God is, not who society tells
him God is or who he might want God to be.
Nehemiah was still serving a foreign
king and living in a foreign land as a servant.
Don’t forget that part.
As a side note, God is bigger and better than any god we could make up.
So
Nehemiah’s prayer is grounded in his understanding of the word of God, the person
of God, and the character of God, as well as God’s track record.
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