In Nehemiah’s prayer to God in chapter one, he said:
"Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.'
10 "They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. 11 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man."
I was cupbearer to the king.
It may seem quite arrogant that Nehemiah reminded God that His reputation was on the line – these were His people He had redeemed by His own strength. What would the nations think if he didn’t redeem them as He promised?
But in praying this, Nehemiah was reminding himself and building his own faith up. Jehovah is the God of Promise and “he is not a man that he should lie.”
I’ve often prayed the Word back to God and in hearing it spoken out loud it brought faith and hope to my heart. Here is one from Romans 5:8-10
8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
This verse reminds me that if God loved me enough to die for me while I was an enemy, filthy in my sin; how much more, now that I am His friend, will He work on my behalf and empower me to overcome – to rebuild the ruins. His reputation is at stake in us. He has an investment in me and He doesn’t want to see it wasted.
WOW! God is interested in the ruins being rebuilt and He lends His hand, His power, His resources, His motivation, His faith and hope. Let’s not get discouraged but encouraged. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.”
What Words will you pray to God to remind yourself that He is more than able to cause you to be successful in this daunting task? Share your “reminding” Word prayers with the rest of us.
Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Prayer: “Thank You Lord that you will complete that which you begun in us and will not give up till the end. What You begin, You finish. Give us faith to cooperate with Your completing work in us.” Amen
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Even to my old age you are He, You are the one who will sustain me. You made me and you will carry me; you will sustain me and You will rescue me...I will remember the former things...you are God and there is no other. You are God, and there is none like you.
Is. 46:4
You are always with me; You hold me by my right hand. You guide me with you counsel. and afterward You will take me into glory Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but You, God, are the strength of my heart and my portion forever...it is good to be near you...Ps 73: 23-26
Dianne, Thanks for sharing a Scripture prayer with us. What a faith builder!
Your loving-kindness is better than life itself. You are the inexhaustible treasury of blessedness. O Lord God Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in You!"
You, God know the way that I take, when You have tested me, I will come forth as gold. My feet will closely follow you steps;...Cause me to treasure your words more than my daily bread. (Beth Moore)
John 4: 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
11"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Lord, help us to understand the life giving properties of the Living Water springing up into eternal life within us. Thank you for this living, satisfying, refreshing, restoring water. Help us to be consciously aware of the living water ever present already within us. Amen.
Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Evern these may forget, but I will not forget you." Isaiah 49:15
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