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Nehemiah – More than a Wall …a Project of Prayer – 4:1-9
When life bumps you, what spills out? March 9, 2008
Spurgeon – “God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.”
Chapters 4 to 6…nine different tactics used by the enemy… - first, attack on Jewish people …resulting in difficulties within the Jewish ranks: 3 - discouragement (4:10) / 4 - fear (4:11–23) / 5 - selfishness (5:1–19) - second, when attacks on the people failed to stop the work, attack on their leader, Nehemiah 6 - compromise (6:1–4) / 7 - slander (5–9) / 8 - threats (10–14) / 9 - intrigue (17–19)
- Ridicule -
2 – Sanballat – “feeble” –
2 – Sanballat – questions…
3 – Tobiah – ridicules…
4-5 - Response –
How do we understand this type of prayer?? (Gene Getz)
- pray…and then get back to work!!
Psalm 2:1-4… especially 4!
- Plots of War -
7-8 – To the north… Sanballat and the Samaritans
To the south… Geshem and the Arabs
To the west… the Ashdodites (Philistines)
To the east… Tobiah and the Ammonites
…a call to reconciliation… …a call to unity…
9 - Response –
- WE prayed… WE set a guard… and WE worked |