 During the 2016 presidential campaign one of the phrases we heard often from one of the candidates Who is now our president Donald Trump was this we're going to build the wall and Come on. We're going to build the wall and Mexico's gonna pay for it, right? Now this phrase received a lot of good publicity and a lot of bad publicity Good publicity from those who see illegal immigrants as a huge problem for our country bad publicity From those who are here illegally and they don't want to be deported back to their country Bad publicity from some who think it's in humane To not allow those who are suffering in other countries to come into our borders across our borders Even if it's illegal to do so And I thought it very odd last year when talking to believers during the 2016 presidential campaign That many believers were ignorant of the fact that walls were actually biblical and That there was met one man in scripture that even wept prayed and fasted Because the walls of Jerusalem had been broken down and they no longer had the borders to keep their enemies out of their land Ladies this name his this man's name is Nehemiah and we're going to look at his prayers in this lesson And we're gonna draw some numerous principled rules that you can take home So let's read chapter one actually because of time And we will be looking at all these verses individually. Well, never mind. I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it fast The words of Nehemiah the son of Haki Hashi la and it came to pass in the month kiss love in the 20th Years I was in Shushan the palace that hand and I one of my brother and came in certain men of Judah And I asked him concerning the Jews who had escaped to her left of the captivity and concerning Jerusalem And they said unto me the rendment who are left of the captivity there in the providence are in great Affliction and reproach and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire So it was when I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for many days and I was fasting and praying before the god of heaven And I said I pray lord of heaven Oh great and awesome god you who keep your covenant and mercy and those who love you and observe your commandments Please Let your servant be attentive and your eyes open that you may hear the prayer of your servant Which I pray before you now day and night For the children of Israel your servants confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against you Both my father's house and I have sinned We've acted very corruptly against you. We've not kept the commandments the statues or the ordinance which you commanded your servant Moses Remember I pray to you the word that you commanded your servant moses saying if you're faithful I will scatter you among the nations if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them Though some of you are cast out to the farthest parts of heavens yet I will gather them from there and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for my name Now these are your servants and your people whom you've redeemed by your great power your strong hand. Oh lord I pray please Let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant to the prayer of your servants who desire to fear your name And let your servant prosper this day. I pray And grant him mercy in the sight of this man for I was the king's cup bearer now If you have an outline there, which I hope you do you're gonna see we're gonna see the scene the situation the seeking of god And the statement now before we look at the scene. What's going on? A few facts about the book of Nehemiah Nehemiah wrote the book of Nehemiah is evidenced by the first few words the words of Nehemiah. It's written After the exile the nation of visual book very similar to Ezra if you've never read Ezra and Nehemiah If you ever read them together they depict both of them the faithfulness of god and restoring the people back to their land And Nehemiah had risen to a prominent position the king's cup bearer Which we'll talk about in just a minute and that was pretty amazing because he lived in a very pagan culture And what Nehemiah accomplishes in this little book is absolutely amazing Of course, we know without god's help. He would not be able to accomplish anything just like you and I without god's help We can't accomplish anything Um, I wish we had time to study the whole book. We don't I've often wanted to teach Nehemiah And my husband told me the day that he's going to teach it as soon as he gets done with the gospel of mark He's going to teach Nehemiah. So I'm very eager to Hear it taught verse by verse But we can say this Nehemiah was a man of great faith great courage And he was a man of prayer And I trust as I said that as we end our time with this prayer that you will catch a glimpse of that And take some home home some principles that will help you So let's look at the scene The scene is in verse one the words of Nehemiah the son of hasheela came to pass in the month of kiss love In the 20th years. I was in Shushan the citadel now As mentioned Nehemiah wrote Nehemiah and his word mean his name means the lord has comforted And indeed the lord did comfort him by answering his prayer. His father's name was hasheela We really don't know anything about him the scene depicted here is the month of kiss love This is the month, uh, which begins in november our november and ends in december The 20th year would be the year 444 bc And the time this prayer takes place and the place was shushan the citadel You might say what is that? Well, this is the winter residence of the persian kings and so we can conclude the scene the month is April no, is that right? Yeah, no our november december and the weather is pretty cold And the place is the palace now after writing where he was and when it was nehemiah Then writes of what prompted him to pray this prayer in verses two and three So we now have the situation going on which prompted him to pray notice what he says Hannah and I are one of my brother and came with men from juda and I asked him concerning the jews who had escaped Who had survived the captivity? Concerning jerusalem now Hannah and I was evidently a literal brother Of nehemiah if you look over chapter 7 verse 2 it talks about him again Chapter 7 verse 2 it says then I gave my brother Hannah and I the ruler of the palace charged over jerusalem He was a faithful man and he feared god more than many so Hannah Hannah was Excuse me nehemiah's literal brother The purpose that he came why he came to visit his brother. We don't know I mean, maybe he just wanted to see his brother see how he was doing Maybe he came to visit nehemiah to tell him of what was going on that the wall of jerusalem had been broken down The gates had been burned with fire And so anyway, he comes to visit his brother and nehemiah being the man of god He was he was a compassionate man and so he asked how are my people? How are the jews? Have they survived? What's going on with them? And he's not only concerned about the people he's concerned about the city in jerusalem And so the men answer in verse 3 and notice what they say They said to me the survivors who are left from the captivity in the province They're there in great distress and reproach the wall of jerusalem is broken down Its gates are burned with fire Those who survived and and i says they're distressed they're they're in reproach because the wall of jerusalem is broken down And the gates have been burned with fire Now the wall he's talking about would have been the one that was built after the people returned From captivity and without a wall around the city of jerusalem The people would be subject to their enemies and they wouldn't be able to defend themselves That's why they built walls in the biblical world. That's why our president wants to build a wall To keep enemies out of our land And ladies, I think it's worth noting before we go on Nehemiah was just going about doing his daily duties when he learned of this news And isn't that the way it is with most devastating news? I mean you're just going about doing the laundry or putting dishes in the dishwasher You know running errands And you receive what some devastating news. That's what neham what happened in my just going about his business And that happens to us often as well So the situation if you're taking notes, it's pretty bleak Broken down wall and burned gates So how did nehemiah respond to this tragic news? Well, he responded by seeking god in prayer notice what he prays in verse four So it was when I heard these words I sat down and I wept And I mourned for many days and I was fasting and praying Before the god of heaven Now ladies nehemiah was very upset about this news and he did the same three things hannah did Wept Fasted Prayed same thing. She did Nehemiah had compassion for his brethren And it caused him to pray it drove him to pray and fast and notice he sat down You might say well, why did he sit down? Well in the biblical world when someone would mourn They would usually sit down And you know, I was thinking about this even in the 21st century. How many times you get a phone call? Are you sitting down? I have some bad news Why? Because when we receive bad news Difficult news what you kind of get weak in your knees and so you need to sit down And so they did it in the biblical world. We do it in our world And the text also says he mourned for many days, which actually do you know how long nehemiah mourned? Four months four months. You might say, well, how do you know that? Well, look at chapter two verse one It came to pass in the month of nissan in the 20th year of aderserks He's the king that wine was a form I took up the wine. He gave it to the king and he had been sad I in his presence and the the month nissan there is our april now We don't believe he fasted for four months, but he was mourning for this long Now ladies all this grief led him to pray in fact one man says this All this time he probably spent in supplication to god waiting for a favorable opening in the divine providence Every good work is not to be undertaken hastily Prayer and watchfulness are necessary to its completion and listen to this last statement Many good works have been ruined by making haste nehemiah Thought about this for four months before he approached the king You know, I used to have a rule in my marriage That I would not approach my husband about something I wanted to talk to him that I knew was going to be difficult Until I prayed about it for six weeks. Now. I've learned I hopefully have grown in my marriage and wisdom So now I just you know, I think that doesn't even these things don't even matter a lot of eternities I'm not even gonna bring it up But I had to do that to myself to keep myself from making haste Doing things that were unwise many things have been ruined by making haste Nehemiah thought about this he mourned he prayed for four months Before he went and made an appeal to the king Or yeah to the king Well, notice who nehemiah addresses his prayer to the god of heaven The god of heaven was a common title for those living in persia at this time And nehemiah was brought up in persia. So it makes sense that he would use this title We also know that uh, jesus tells us in the sermon on the mount that we pray to who our father who's where In heaven he's heaven. That's where he is So we now look at the actual prayer he prayed during this distressing time I pray lord god of heaven. Oh great and awesome god you who keep your covenant and mercy with those who love you And observe your commandments now ladies nehemiah begins the same way josephat began what? Acknowledging who god is again, we would be wise to follow these examples instead of just Flippantly and hurriedly coming to the throne of grace and saying if you pop corn calls to heaven and you know, that's it amen He's the lord god of heaven. He rules. He also acknowledges god is great the same thing josephat did he's awesome He's powerful. He's majestic And he also acknowledges that god keeps his covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments Now, why did he do this? Why did hannah do that? Why did josephat do that? Ladies when we rehearse who god is it encourages us God will keep his promises. He is mighty. He is strong And he's strong enough to help nehemiah and their and his people in their weakness And my friend this is one short verse but rich About the character of god if Psalm 145 was just a little bit too long for you. Why not just look at this verse right here That's pretty rich in the character of god Well, nehemiah goes on to pray in verse six Please let your ear be attentive in your eyes open that you may hear the prayer of your servant Which I pray before you now day and night for the children of israel your servants and confess the sins of the children of israel Which we have sinned against you Both my father's house and I have sinned Interesting nehemiah begins with please please please He's begging god You're my father. I'm your child. Please be attentive. Please see please hear my prayer In fact, the hearing here means to hear intelligently Please hear my prayer listen to it You know the apostle peter encouraged readers who are suffering under wicked leadership He says the eyes of the lord are over the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers Isn't that great to know that god is listening. He listens intelligently He listens attentively to our prayers And it's interesting nehemiah mentioned here. He's praying night and day night and day for the children of israel This is a situation nehemiah goes to bed and prays about and he wakes up and it's first thing on his mind Ladies we've probably all had situations like that Have you ever been so overcome with the situation that you lay down at night to go to sleep? And that's all you can think about and pray about And when the alarm goes off the next morning, that's the first thing on your mind And you lay there and you what you pray about it. You just can't shake it Nehemiah couldn't shake it day and night. He prayed about it day and night Well, nehemiah next prays something that we all should consider when facing trouble and that is our trouble might be because of sin Neah says we've sinned me and my fathers we've sinned Even though nehemiah is concerned for what's happened to his people He's wise to realize that this might be because of sin they have committed And so he confesses not only their sins But his own sins You know, I appreciate this because nehemiah doesn't think he's above sin You know, sometimes we like to confess the sins of others, but we fail to acknowledge our own, right? In fact, nehemiah is not the only one that did this when a nation was facing calamity. Ezra did daniel did Many Old Testament prophets did In in the epistle of James James even mentions a man that is sick and he might be sick because of his sin He says if is anybody sick let him call for the elders of the church and let him pray Over him anointing him with oil and the prayer of faith will save the sick and if he has committed sins They'll be forgiven him That guy was in trouble because possibly of sin even Paul mentions those who take the Lord's supper unworthily He says many are sick and many have died They've died because of sin Ladies we would all do well to look at our heart when facing trouble And ask Lord is this because of sin in my life? I mean you know, I think of often when somebody gets sick I used to go to a Doctor who was also an elder in our church and my husband's first church Many years ago, you know one of the first things that that doctor would ask me before he examined me How's your spiritual life Susan? I thought you know looking back. I thought that's a weird question to ask your patient But looking back Dr. Nunley was a very wise man He knew what many of us should know that many times our troubles are because of what of our own sin And so we all would do well to look at our heart when facing troubling times and say Lord is there a sin? I need to confess and repent of And so Nehemiah goes on to mention the sins they've committed we've acted very corruptly against you We've not kept your commandments. We've not kept your statues or the ordinances which you have commanded your servant moda Moses now ladies notice Nehemiah doesn't call sin a mistake like my friend did It's not it's not a psychological problem It's not my husband's fault He calls it corrupt corrupt Ladies again, we would do well when we come to the throne of grace don't minimize your sin Lord, I made a mistake. I'm really sorry You know I got irritated with my husband. No, you didn't you got angry That's what god calls it anger Don't minimize your sin. I had an affair. No, you didn't you committed adultery Use biblical terms Look at your sin in light of god's holiness and notice he says the sin is against god It's just like David after he was confronted by nathan the prophet and he cries out to god in psalm 51 He says against you and you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight I've sinned Now Nehemiah doesn't tell us specifically what they've done But he mentions three Parts of their sinning doesn't name the specific sins But he mentions first of all the commandments he puts them in three categories The commandments and that would be not just the 10 commandments But all the commandments of god that were given through moses. They had obviously broken some of these Secondly, he mentioned statues. These would be rules and regulations For example, one of those would be keep the Passover And so that might have been something they had broken. Those are statues and then the third one he mentions is ordinances These are legal decisions or judgments or procedures to implement For example, not just keep the Passover But keep the Passover on the 14th day of the month. And so it gets more specific And so Nehemiah says they have broken your commandments your statues your ordinances and doesn't name the specific ones But he just names general ones Well after acknowledging who god is after acknowledging their sins He then asked the lord to remember a promise he made in verse 8 and 9 he says remember I pray I pray the word that you commanded your servant moses saying If you're unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them though some of you were cast out to the farthest parts of the heavens I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen as a dwelling for my name Ladies Nehemiah knew the word of god so well that he could remind god of what was written That's another good reason to memorize scripture You know we saw that what with jahosaphat? He knew the word of god so well that he could also remind himself and god of what was written Do you Ladies during troubling times he would do well to remind ourselves in our praying as to what god has promised We just saw that in jahosaphat's prayer And here in this prayer nehemiah reminds god of what was written in a few passages And i'll just read a few of these for the lack of time, but in leviticus 26 Uh, well in fact, I don't think I will read them, but leviticus 26 through 27 through 33 Deuteronomy 28 is full of the promises that god made if you will obey me. I will bless you if you disobey me I will bring all these curses on you. And so basically that's what he's referring to leviticus 26 deuteronomy chapter 28 Ladies the principle is the same in both of these passages that nehemiah is rehearsing Disobedience brings cursing obedience brings blessing If the nation of israel disobeyed they were not only going to be scattered, but they're going to receive all these punishments Read if you want to sober read before you go to bed tonight read deuteronomy 28 That thing is sobering For disobedience cursings in the city cursings in you know all these plagues and All this stuff going to happen to you and your children ladies The principle is the same now as it was then However, if they obeyed god, he would not only bring them back to the land, but he would shower them with blessings Ladies when we're in distress, we must often realize it might be because of our sin It might be because of the sin of someone else We need to confess we need to repent and then watch the lord work And i'm not talking about just you know coming to the lord and saying you know, i'm really sorry I did that I'm talking about repenting. You know, I I know I've shared this example. I've been here so many times I know I've shared this example, but I'm going to share it again about the time I kept going back to my husband asking forgiveness for something I was doing And I can still remember in the bathroom the house we were living in at the time And I did my daily duty of going in and asking for forgiveness And he said i'm not going to forgive you and I was like what? He gives you're not serious. You're not repenting And you know what? He was exactly right I wasn't repenting. I was confessing to him But I had no intention of turning away and you know what god used that Those words of wisdom to get me to repent and I stopped doing what I was doing. I stopped it completely That's what we need to do not just mouth words, but really repent put off the sin Or the sins that have gotten you in the mess you're in Well, Nehemiah continues on in his seeking god in prayer and he prays in verse 10 Now these are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand Now lord do as you promise for these your servants and your people that you have redeemed by your power and your strong hand These are your chosen ones. These are the ones you've set your love on Lord you're powerful. You're strong In fact, he's already mentioned these attributes in the beginning of his prayer and he ends His seeking of god in verse 11 notice what he says. Oh lord. I pray please please Let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who desire to fear your name Please lord Please lord. I beg you hear my prayer It's interesting. He doesn't ask god that his eyes be open as he did in verse six But he does beg him to hear His prayer and not only hear his prayer but he says hear the prayers of others. You might say, well, who are the others? Well, you know what? I bet those people living in Jerusalem with their wall broken down And their gates burned with fire. Do you not think they were praying too? I'm sure they were praying and isn't and they were 800 miles away from Nehemiah at this time That's a long way Isn't it wonderful to know that geographical distances don't keep us from praying with other brothers and sisters in christ A couple weeks ago. I got a letter from where i've been in india several times the the seminary there that i've gone to teach at and and They were asking for urgent prayer because 20 drunk men had come into the seminary beat up a bunch of seminary students and just I don't know if it's complete destruction, but destroyed a lot of the seminary there in puna india And you know I brought that to the throne of grace and took it the next day to our We had we pray on sunday morning before church at 8 30 and Shared with my brothers and sisters so we could be praying for our brothers and sisters in india Isn't that great to know that miles don't keep us from praying? And so nehemiah. Yeah, he's praying. He's praying about this situation But he says also the prayers others prayers the prayer of your servant the prayers of your servants The ones who are in jerusalem. I'm sure they were praying they were crying out to god for help Well, he has one last petition and that is let your servant prosper this day by granting him mercy In the sight of this man now. Who is he talking about? Well, he's referring to the king Who would have to be the one to grant him permission to go to jerusalem to see what was happening? Now you might say well, why? well Because of the statement that he mentions in 11b So we move from his seeking of god to his statement. He closes with I was the king's cup bearer Do you know humanly speaking not divinely speaking? But humanly speaking only one person could make it possible for nehemiah To go to jerusalem travel 800 miles to check on his people See if this was true that the wall was broken down the gates were burned with fire and that one person was the king The king that's why he says give your servant success. Give me favor I need to go to this man and ask him if I can leave Why you say well a cup bearer cup bearer was a trusted position by the king. You know what the cup bearer would do They followed the king around wherever he went. It's kind of like our president today You know, he has bodyguards that will take a bullet for him and in fact They say there's one guy if you ever see donald trump you see him right next to him because he's watching He's going to take the bullet in case I hope he'll take the bullet in case someone tries to assassinate our president Which I'm surprised hasn't happened yet, but Anyway, the cup bearer would drink The cup first he would drink the wine or eat the food or whatever it was and then he'd give it to the king So many people hated the king like many people hate our president And so they would try to poison the drink the wine or the food And kill him and so the cup bearer was the one that got to do the tasting first And then if he didn't die, well, it was okay for the king To do it and so can you imagine having a man like that like me am I that you could trust so explicitly someone that would be willing to die for you And this guy's gonna come and ask you can I go to Jerusalem? I need to check on my people and so he had a very trusted position And so for the king to have to let him go that was a big deal And so Nehemiah would have to be given permission to leave his position of trust and honor to go to Jerusalem So we have the scene in verse one the scene is winter. It's a palace with Nehemiah working for king out of Xerxes as his cup bearer What are the particulars surrounding your difficult situation today? What is the situation Nehemiah hears through his brother and some other men that the children of israel are in despair and danger As the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and the gates have been burned What bad news have you received lately? The seeking of god Nehemiah responds by weeping fasting praying and his prayer consists of adoration of god confession of his sin The sins of others and supplication How have you responded to your current difficulty? Have you wept have you prayed have you fasted? Have you cried out to god in prayer? Have you adored him? Have you confessed your sin? Have you made supplication regarding your difficulty? The statement was he was the king's cup bear What's your occupation? Are your mother wife homeschooler employee employer You know whatever your current calling is it doesn't matter because we can learn from Nehemiah. He just Didn't sit and do nothing. He prayed he acted in fact. I wish we had time to go on to chapter two We can see he talked to the king. He went to Jerusalem. He helped out with the wall What are you going what are you doing to work out your difficult situation? Well, did god answer his prayer? He did God answered his prayer, but it was not without difficulty It was not without a lot of hard work and a lot of opposition if you've ever read it In fact, they build the wall with one hand and hold the sword fighting off the enemies with the other hand I mean it was difficult Nehemiah had to do his part Ladies sometimes we think we can just pray and watch for god to answer and then do nothing But that is not the case nehemiah continues to pray. In fact, he prays 11 times in this little book 11 times He was a man of prayer and he never stopped praying In fact, the prayer we looked at is just one out of 11 Now we don't have time to go over all the rest of them But I want to give you some numerous principles from nehemiah's prayers And they are in the acrostic nehemiah So you can remember as you take them home Now I know that you might not be needing to rebuild the wall But many of you today are facing trials that are overwhelming and so it feels like you're trying to build the wall What numerous principles can we glean from nehemiah? The first one is the end on your acrostic never give up praying Never Never give up praying Nehemiah prayed 11 times The prayer we just covered He prayed when he heard about the persecution He sought God for wisdom three times. He asked God to take vengeance on his enemies four times He asked God to remember him for his good. He prays for strength for his people. He prays that he would judge those who are in sin What is your difficulty today? How much time have you prayed about it? Ladies never give up E Expect opposition but continue to pray Expect opposition But continue to pray Now the opposition that nehemiah received was pretty significant ridicule mocking Trying to discourage him from building the wall if you've ever read nehemiah if you haven't you need to What opposition have you received during your insurmountable trial? Did it drive you to further discouragement or did it drive you to your knees? Ladies expect opposition but continue to pray H Help in the process as needed help in the process as needed You know after discovering this bad news that the wall was broken down the gates were burned with fire After he got permission from the king to go. Do you know he went? I love that park. He went He traveled at night. He went and checked it out. He went to see if it was really true Was the wall really broken down where the gates really burned with fire and then after he found out it is true You know what he did? He helped He went and helped James says in an epistle in his epistle when going through trials were to let patients have its perfect work In other words, we just don't go let go and let god we do something We're active while we're waiting for god to answer our prayer for this insurmountable trial or that thorn in our flesh We're active Are you being active doing what you can do in your present trial to get it resolved? Are you just sitting around hoping for a miracle? Nehemiah went and did something about it II Exort those in the process who are in sin Exort those in the process who are in sin You know in faced with opposition nehemiah rebuked those you know He rebuked those who were guilty of opposing the project of building the wall In fact, if you read the whole book of nehemiah You will notice there are many times that others were in sin and nehemiah rebuked them He did something about it man. This guy told some of my husband that this man is a man. I love prayer but courage He had no problem confronting others. He did something about other people's sin Are there any people involved in your trial that are sinning? Have you lovingly gone to admonish them in the lord? M Make sure you pray first when bad news comes Make sure you pray When bad news comes that should be the first thing you do When nehemiah heard the news what do you do? Wept prayed fasted first thing he did He didn't of course he didn't have a cell phone then but he didn't get on his phone posted on facebook He wept he fasted he prayed ladies. This is a far cry from texting tweeting and posting on facebook, which is what most of us do Now thinking over the past few trials that you have encountered. Can you honestly say you prayed first? If not, why not Make sure you pray first when bad news comes I It's not wrong to ask god to remember the good that you've done It's not wrong To ask god to remember you for the good that you've done. You know nehemiah did Four times he says lord remember me for my good lord remember me for my good What good and noble things have you done during your difficulty? Have you asked god to remember you for the right things you've done? Nehemiah did a Ask god for strength for all involved in the situation or in this solution. Sorry Ask god for strength for all involved in the solution Nehemiah did Who are the persons involved in your current problem? Have you asked god to help them with his almighty power? and then lastly h Honestly evaluate if the situation is as serious as you have been told Honestly evaluate If the situation Is as serious As you have been told What was the most recent difficulty you encountered? Did you check it out to see if all the facts were true? You know what nehemiah did He went he checked it out make sure it was true You know nehemiah knew the wisdom of Proverbs 18 13 who answers a matter before he hears it. It's a folly to him. It's foolishness You know what the Proverbs is saying you check out both sides of the story And ladies i have learned the hard way as a biblical counselor You know because i used to in my earlier years everything a woman would tell me i believed it like the gospel truth And you know i thought man her husband must be the biggest monster that ever walked the face of the earth and wait till i get my hands on him And then you know we would call the husband in My husband will come in for that part And uh you know after hearing his side of the story. He's not a monster. She's a monstrous And uh i'm like seriously you didn't tell me that part when you told me Remember there's two sides to every story but nehemiah went and he checked out the facts Make sure that it's true Now the end of the story is that the wall was completed in 52 days This does not mean that your difficulty is going to be solved in 52 days. I wish it were That is not a principle that you can take home from this prayer It might be two days. It might be two years. It may not be till glory But ladies we have the same awesome god nehemiah had and we have the same access That he had to bow the knee and cry out to god for help and then do what we could can do to solve the problem As we continue our journey through this life I can hope and pray that we will follow nehemiah Hannah paul jahosaphat And the sweet singer of israel david They followed their master on their knees Will you