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Let’s just begin with prayer this morning.
Father in Heaven, You are holy,
loving, awesome, and kind.
We come before you today asking You to speak.
We
want to listen to what You have to say to us, obey Your voice, and walk in deeper
relationship and love with You.
Help us to move forward in Your ways, Your
statutes, Your precepts, and Your lovingkindness.
Thank You for your mercy, grace,
and provision.
I ask that You make Your truth plain to us today and that You would
empower us to humble ourselves and simply believe what You say to us in faith.
Meet every need in this place today and touch every heart.
In Jesus’ mighty,
powerful, matchless Name, amen.
We’ll be back in Nehemiah chapter 2 today.
If you missed some of our past
messages, let me give some quick context.
Nehemiah is going to Jerusalem to
rebuild the city walls, and he represents how the Holy Spirit comes to us.
The Holy
Spirit wants to rebuild our personalities and make us whole and holy people who
can keep the bad stuff out and allow God’s good things in.
And in the context of
chapter 2, Nehemiah asks the king to give him a little time off to go work on the
wall.
He asks for 12 years off of work to rebuild the city.
If that wasn’t a big enough ask, Nehemiah will ask for a little more from the
king.
There’s a principle here about asking for what we need.
James says, “You
don’t have what you want, because you don’t ask God.” James 4:2 NIRV.
How
often do we wish or hope for things to get better, for God to provide, move, or
circumstances to change, but we just never seem to get around to praying about it?
We don’t ever actually ask God to do something in that area of need or that desire.
Nehemiah shows us the value of even making quick prayers as soon as
things pop up or we have a need.
Short prayers in the moment are good; whenever
you see a need, just say a quick prayer right where you are.
Nehemiah 2:4 NKJV Then the king said to me, “What do you request?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah prays quickly at the exact moment
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that the king asks him what’s going on.
And God answers Nehemiah’s prayer; He
gives him favor as he asks to help his people.
Nehemiah asks for 12 years off work, then asks for something else.
He asks
for letters of authority.
Nehemiah 2:7-10 NKJV Furthermore I said to the king,
“If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region
beyond the River, that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah,
8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me
timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple,
for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.”
And the king granted
them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.
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.
God moved on the heart of the king, and he gave Nehemiah the letters of
authority that he asked for so he could go where he needed to go and have all the
materials he needed to complete the rebuilding of the walls.
In the same way, Jesus has given you the authority you need, in His Name,
to go where you need to go and do what you need to do to advance His kingdom.
God never asks us to do anything without giving us the authority and the ability to
do it.
In this analogy, we can see two truths.
One is about the Holy Spirit.
The Holy
Spirit has all authority to move in God’s will and way.
He is God.
The Holy Spirit
is a part of the Trinity, so that makes sense.
He has the power to take us where we need to go relationally, emotionally,
and physically to see God’s kingdom advanced.
His work can look very different
depending on our needs and starting point.
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One example of the Holy Spirit moving a person into His will in His timing
and putting them where they need to be is Phillip in Acts 8.
The Holy Spirit told
him where to go, and he obeyed.
He went.
Acts 8:26-29 NKJV Now an angel of
the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road
which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
This is desert.
27 So he arose and
went.
And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under
Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and
had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was returning.
And sitting in his chariot, he
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