September 23, 2026
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Reading along with us in Nehemiah and 1 Peter? Here’s today’s reading:
Nehemiah 1 (NIV)
Nehemiah’s Prayer
1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah:
In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.…..Continue Reading
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What compassion and conviction Nehemiah has for his people that are suffering and for the purposes God is trying to accomplish through them and for them. Both are things to replicate as we too see God’s people everywhere who are suffering and recognize how God’s will is being thwarted and seeing what we might do about it. All of us can pray, as Nehemiah does, and recognize all that God is and all that God has done and is doing. How faithful He has been to the Jews and how He has acted in faithfulness even as the people were unfaithful. But now as they are seeking to reestablish something new in the promised land, Nehemiah turns to God for help. What a resource prayer is in our lives to ask God to intervene as we seek to do God’s will in our lives. And how He would orchestrate things for us to accomplish His will.