Nehemiah 9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. God’s people are to stand up and bless […]
Celebration party
Nehemiah 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. When the people heard the Scriptures read they were sad at first. They didn’t understand that God had given them the […]
Team teaching
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. In Nehemiah 8:7 we see a list of names. There are thirteen specific names and then the Levites. They, as a group, “caused the people to understand the law: and […]
Worship
Nehemiah 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. Ezra led in worship. He blessed the Lord. That means Ezra praised and thanked God. He recognized God […]
Respect for the Word of God
Nehemiah 8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: Ezra opened the book. The people saw him open the book. They knew that they were about to hear the very Word of God. […]
Misunderstood pulpit
Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. […]
Pay attention
Nehemiah 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. As they brought out the Book of God, the […]
They want the Book
Nehemiah 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. This is one of my favorite chapters ever. The people gathered […]
Till she had given birth
Matthew 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. The story of the virgin birth of Jesus is real. I believe it with all of my heart. God loved us so much that He gave us His only begotten Son. Mary is not the […]
Stabbing you in the back
Isaiah 36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. God’s people seek help from God’s enemies. God’s people should have been seeking Him. They […]
Trust Him in your everyday life
Isaiah 33:2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: Be thou their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble. God’s people called on Him to be gracious. They wanted to express to God their trust in Him. They were waiting on Him. He was their strength. He […]
Listen
Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. God softly and gently speaks to us. He guides us and directs us but not with a loud, boisterous voice. The […]
Waiting brings blessings
Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: For the Lord is a God of judgment: Blessed are all they that wait for him. God wants to show mercy to His people. He waits on […]
Anyone but God
Isaiah 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, That take counsel, but not of me; And that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, That they may add sin to sin: God’s people loved themselves and not God. They were His but not living out who they were. They refused to […]
Finally understanding
Isaiah 29.24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, And they that murmured shall learn doctrine. They made mistakes and got off track, but there is still hope. They will come to an understanding. They had bad attitudes but will finally learn and grow. These verses speak of what God will do […]
Emptiness
Isaiah 29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; But he awaketh, and his soul is empty: Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; But he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: So shall the multitude of all the […]
Outlandish
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. When God’s people marry those that do not love God, […]
Acknowledge His goodness
Nehemiah 9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. God gave them their own kingdom. They enjoyed all His generosity. They were living their dream. […]
Recognizing our need
Nehemiah 9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. The hardest part of life is admitting our weakness or need. Most want to be right with God but do not want to think of themselves as failing God in any way. […]
He is full of grace and mercy
Nehemiah 9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. God is good. God has always been good. He has always been quick to forgive. God never abandoned His people. He is too kind. This is the Old Testament. This […]
Enjoying His Goodness
Nehemiah 9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. God’s people were delighting themselves in the great goodness of […]
God is so good
Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. God is so good. I was […]
The kind of God He is!
Nehemiah 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. […]
Biblical Preaching
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. This text is my favorite description of Biblical preaching. They opened the Word of God. They read it clearly, distinctly. They gave the sense, made people understand what was being […]
Above many
Nehemiah 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. Nehemiah started his story by telling how his brother had been to Jerusalem. His brother had shared the destruction of Jerusalem with him. Now they have […]
Trying to put you in fear
Nehemiah 6:19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. Tobiah wants to stop the work of God. He writes letters to Nehemiah. Tobiah even writes open letters. He looks for things that might scare Nehemiah. He states the obvious […]
Remember the Lord
Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. Things are […]
Unprepared
Nehemiah 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. The enemies of Nehemiah and God’s people were confident that they could sneak in and kill them unawares. The people would be unprepared for their attack. […]
Need to be shocked to wake up
Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, And with their lips do honour me, But have removed their heart far from me, And their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among […]
Drunkenness
Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, So that there is no place clean. Isaiah said even the priest and prophet were staggering from drink. They had become falling down drunks. They could no longer think straight because of the effect of their brews. All the tables were covered in the […]
Victory from the Lord
Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God. God did the work. The work had been from difficult […]
Fake preachers
Nehemiah 6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. A “man of God” had come to condemn Nehemiah and his work. Nehemiah wanted to respect true men of God. He had to try the spirits to see […]
Reject the fear
Nehemiah 6:10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in […]
You dreamed that one up
Nehemiah 6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. They attacked Nehemiah and the work of God. When they did, they were bringing false accusations. Nehemiah answered them by merely saying, nothing like what you are saying has […]
Wounding their own
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. Nehemiah got really angry. He is fighting an enemy on the outside. He is building a wall around the city […]
Super busy
Nehemiah 4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. Have you ever been super busy in the work of the Lord? They were so busy that they literally […]
Building and battling
Nehemiah 4:17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. Most of us do not like conflict. We want to avoid it at all costs. We love the idea […]
Conspiracy theory
Nehemiah 4:7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight […]
Determined to get the job done
Nehemiah 4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. God’s people got the job done. The reason was that they were determined to work. They were involved from the heart. They wanted to see the job through. When […]
Ridiculing the work of God
Nehemiah 4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. The enemies of God always seem to want to make fun of the work of God and His workers. When Nehemiah began to build the wall the enemy […]
Watch and pray
Nehemiah 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. It is always a Biblical truth that we are to watch and pray. We do not merely pray and expect God to take care of us. Nor do we only watch and think […]
Next unto
Nehemiah 3:2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. I love this truth that is found all through Nehemiah 3. They were working next to each other. Shoulder to shoulder they built the wall. This phrase is found 13 times in 9 verses […]
Marrying the enemy of God
Nehemiah 13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. This Eliashib has become so wicked that his best friends are the enemies of God. He is the high priest. He should stand for God. […]
Getting rid of the evil
Nehemiah 13:7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed […]
The evils of compromise
Nehemiah 13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah: 5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, […]
Trying to make you afraid
Nehemiah 6:14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear. Tobiah is a wicked man. He is doing all he can to hinder the work of Nehemiah as he rebuilds the wall […]
Extremely sad
Nehemiah 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. Nehemiah is rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. Two people are agitated that Nehemiah is working for the good of the children […]
The first and last gate
Nehemiah 3:32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. In Nehemiah 3 we see them start working on the wall around Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate. Here the chapter ends, and they are back around to the Sheep Gate. It began with the Sheep […]
Put on your armor
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers […]
Nothing can separate us
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. […]
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