Prayers that Get Heard and Change the World.

From Nehemiah 1

📖 Nehemiah 1:4 ESV As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah’s story when he started for God.

Three areas God wants us to build:

1. My
2. His
3. Other

Building with God begins with .

📖 Nehemiah 1:11 ESV O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.

Prayers that get heard & change the world:

1. Begin with .

📖 Nehemiah 1:5 ESV And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments…

📖 Matthew 6:9 ESV Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”

Worship opens the of .

📖 Lamentations 3:19–20 ESV Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.

📖 Lamentations 3:21–23 ESV But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Prayers that get heard & change the world:

2. Continue with .

📖 Nehemiah 1:6–7 ESV …we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.

📖 Matthew 6:12 ESV “…and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”

📖 Psalm 66:18 ESV If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

📖 1 John 1:8–9 ESV If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

📖 2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Prayers that get heard & change the world:

3. Claim God’s .

📖 Nehemiah 1:8 ESV Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples…

📖 Isaiah 62:6–7 ESV You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest, 7 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

📖 Ephesians 3:20–21 ESV Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

📖 Romans 8:28 ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

📖 Nehemiah 1:9 ESV but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ 

Prayers that get heard & change the world:

4. Identify as God’s .

📖 Nehemiah 1:10–11 ESV They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 11 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.

Sermon in a sentence:

Build your life with God through , starting in , continuing in , claiming the , and ready to & change the .

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