2. Ezra-Nehemiah Teaches Believing and Doing Ezra 7:1-28

3. …for the hand of the Lord his God was on him. Ezra 7:6b …for the good hand of his God was on him. Ezra 7:9b …I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me… Ezra 7:28b

4. KNOW THE WORD

5. For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Ezra 7:10

6. KNOW THE WORD Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. Psalm 119:173

7. KNOW THE WORD

8. KNOW HOW TO WORK

9. “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach. Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.” Ezra 7:25-26

10. KNOW HOW TO WORK Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. Psalm 119:98-100

11. KNOW HOW TO WORK

12. KNOW HOW TO WAIT

13. But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness 2 Peter 3:8-9

14. KNOW HOW TO WAIT Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. Ezra 8:21

15. KNOW HOW TO WAIT Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. Ezra 7:27-28

16. KNOW HOW TO WAIT