Welcome again to Week 2 within the Guide of Nehemiah! We’re nearing the tip of our research and you’re doing an incredible job! Proceed!!!
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Nehemiah 6
Nehemiah's enemies did all the pieces they might to stop God's folks from rebuilding the partitions, and nothing labored. So that they resorted to even higher methods of intimidation and manipulation. They despatched a letter to Nehemiah asking for a gathering, to which he replied that he was busy and couldn’t meet with them. After 3 extra makes an attempt on the identical letter and receiving the identical response, they lastly despatched a letter accusing him of a deliberate mutiny in an try and intimidate him into stopping the undertaking. However Nehemiah refused to be intimidated. When the letters didn’t work, they despatched an informant as a false prophet to create worry and lure Nehemiah to hunt shelter within the Temple. However God gave Nehemiah discernment. He acknowledged this new distraction and refused to cease the work to which God had referred to as him.
Lastly the partitions are accomplished and it took solely 52 days regardless of the assaults, discouragement and distraction of their enemies. They’re compelled to acknowledge that God has executed this work. O associates! We serve an incredible God! What ways is the enemy utilizing in opposition to you proper now to make you afraid? Do you want discernment to acknowledge the enemy's plan to strike worry into your coronary heart? Ask God for knowledge and power. He’ll give it to you in order that, like Nehemiah, you possibly can stand robust and brave and fulfill the work that God has entrusted to you.
Nehemiah 7
The partitions are rebuilt, the gates are hung, and an incredible victory has been received, however that doesn’t imply God's folks can sit again and relaxation. Nehemiah palms over the management of Jerusalem to Hanan, his brother, and Hananiah. When he describes Hananiah, he doesn’t point out his training, accomplishments, or skills. Nehemiah says that Hananiah was trustworthy and feared the Lord greater than many. This was extra essential than anything Hananiah might do.
Nehemiah additionally stationed guards on the gates, at varied posts across the wall, and in entrance of his home. Simply because a victory was received didn’t imply they have been free of the specter of their enemies. To keep up the victory can be to be guided by the worry of the Lord and to set sensible guards on the partitions to guard them from intruders.
It’s the identical in our Christian stroll. Victory doesn’t imply the tip of enemy threats. We should defend our hearts from the sudden assault of the enemy. In what methods do you have to defend your coronary heart from the enemy right now? How are you going to defend your self from falling into temptation?
Nehemiah 8
The kids of Israel are gathered within the open sq. for the united objective of listening to Ezra learn to them the Regulation of the Lord. Particular males have been appointed to assist the folks perceive what was being learn as a result of most people had been in exile for 70 years and had by no means heard the Regulation. As he reads, the folks start to weep with conviction, and Nehemiah encourages them to permit the enjoyment of the Lord to fill their hearts.
Realizing the error of their methods, they wept and mourned in repentance, and now it was time to rejoice. It was a day of renewal and renewal for the kids of Israel. While you learn God's Phrase, do you’re feeling conviction in your coronary heart? This is likely one of the the explanation why God gave us his phrase: for rebuke. However as soon as we now have felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit and repented of our sin, then comes occasions of pleasure. God doesn’t convict us or anticipate us to stay unhappy for our sin. He convicts us to revive us—to revive his pleasure in our hearts. That’s the reason Paul mentioned in Romans 8:1 that there’s now no condemnation for individuals who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t stroll in keeping with the flesh however in keeping with the Spirit. When God takes away our sin, He takes away the sorrow of our sin and replaces it with His pleasure that provides us power.
Have you ever been dwelling beneath the load of condemnation for previous sins that God has already forgiven? Don’t agonize anymore, for the enjoyment of the Lord is your power. Might he fill you along with his pleasure right now!
Nehemiah 9
The wall has been constructed, the gates are hung, the Regulation has been learn, and the folks have pledged themselves to stroll in obedience to it. They put aside time for fasting and prayer, in repentance for his or her sin and the sins of their fathers. 1 / 4 of the day they listened once more to the Guide of the Regulation, and 1 / 4 of the day they confessed and worshiped God. Then a few of the Levites stood up and started to wish, rehearsing God's faithfulness to His individuals who had repeatedly been untrue to Him.
Regardless of Israel's unfaithfulness to God, God was trustworthy to them. Due to God's faithfulness, they even stood there that day renewing their covenant with God with their promise sealed by the clergymen, Levites, and leaders.
It’s God's kindness that leads us to repentance; his faithfulness that also attracts us to him even after we are untrue to him. Have you ever wavered in your faithfulness to God currently? How does it encourage you to do not forget that God is trustworthy, able to forgive, gracious and merciful, sluggish to anger, and overflowing with love for you?
Nehemiah 10
The kids of Israel renewed their covenant with God, and now the leaders of the land, together with the clergymen and Levites, seal that covenant. This contract was not imprecise in any respect. They particularly listed all of the methods by which they’d obey God's instructions and look after the temple. They might be trustworthy of their relationships with the alternative intercourse, they’d be trustworthy in honoring the Sabbath, and they might be trustworthy in supporting and caring for God's home. After we renew our covenant with God, we quickly discover that God requires particular commitments from us in obedience to his Phrase. His instructions vary from our dedication to biblical morality and the way truthful we’re in our enterprise practices to how nicely we respect his home. What particular commitments have you ever made to God currently? Is there an space of your life the place God is in search of a higher stage of dedication from you?
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