God Forgive Us, was Nehemiah's Prayer
I have read back over this devotion, and ask myself, where did this come from? Then God spoke to me and said, "from my Heart to
yours."
Tonight, as I sit at the computer, I am thinking about our world, and the United States of America. A Nation
supposedly built on Christian Values.
I think of the Declaration of Independence which I am adding portions of the first and last parts here:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Three words I highlighted, God, Creator and Honor, are slowly disappearing from our Nation. Yes, a Nation that was
built on Godly Values.
A nation that now stands in great distress and reproach. Our walls are broken down, and we are letting the fires of
hell burn at our gates.
Now, what does this sound like? It sounds like just exactly what happen to Jerusalem.
And yes, it makes me want to sit down and wept.
Why? Because, we as Christians has warm the pew to long, and closed ourselves up in the walls of the church building.
So, I asked each of you today, do we need to pray a Nehemiah Prayer?
My answer is YES!
It is time as Christians that we stop letting satan and the demons of hell take over our country. It is time we take
our county back.
It is time we as Nehemiah, wept, fast and pray, and ask God to forgive us for our corrupt ways, and not keeping His
Commandments.
Then we can have the promise that God gave to Moses, 'but
if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from
there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’
People, God keeps His promises to us. We are His children. So, lets get off pew and out of
the walls of the church and speak up, and let the corrupt of this Nation know we will not stand for it anymore.
We will be a Christian Nation, and we will stop letting God down.
Nehemiah Prays for His People
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel,
2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I
asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3 And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the
captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
4 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept,
and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
5 And I said: “I pray,
Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who
love You and observe Your commandments,
6 please let Your ear 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, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which
we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
7 We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept
the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant
Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations;
9 but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and
do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a
dwelling for My name.’
10 Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You
have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.
11 O Lord, I pray, 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; 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 cupbearer.
Blessings, Love and Prayers,
Pastor Pat Aman
Also, please know that:
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with Joy.
Philippians 1: 3-4
I end each message with "My Blessings, Love & Prayers," I truly mean that, and I pray for each of you
every morning and evening.
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(Nehemiah
8:10)
"The Joy Of The Lord, Is Your Strength."
(Proverbs
17:22)
"A Merry Heart Does Good, Like Medicine, But A Broken Spirit Dries The
Bones."
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