Week 22 Building and Warfare Go Hand in Hand (Nehemiah 4)

Nehemiah 1:3-11 Concern for the Ruins His prayer life Founded on who God is Intercession Confession & repentance Delight in Prayed for favor Continuous prayer

Nehemiah 1:3-11 Concern for the Ruins His prayer life God put it in his heart All vitally important for building! Building is repairing the breaches in our walls

Breaches to our spiritual defenses 1 John 2:16 (NLT) For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.

Breaches to our spiritual defenses “We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” - D.A. Carson

Nehemiah’s response to those who offended him Warfare Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Nehemiah 4:1-23 Nehemiah’s response to those who offended him Warfare AND Strength in labor starts to give out Family units

Nehemiah 4:1-23 Overcoming fear Simultaneous Building Wholeheartedness Preparedness

Nehemiah 6:15-16 (NKJV) 15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty- two days. 16 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.