APPLICATION: Read  & watch/listen to Nehemiah 1:1-11

Who is Nehemiah?

I. Nehemiah’s Concern: vv. 1-3
    A. Jews: 
    B. Jerusalem:

II. Nehemiah’s Character through his Prayer: vv. 4-11
    A. Nehemiah’s Awareness: v. 4
        1. Situation:
        2. Seriousness:

    B. Nehemiah’s Adoration: v5
         1. God of Heaven:
         2. Great God:
         3. God who Keeps:

    C. Nehemiah’s Admission: vv. 6-7
         1. Claiming it:
         2. Calling it:

    D. Nehemiah’s Assurance: vv. 8-10
         1.  In God’s Word
         2. In God’s Response.

    E. Nehemiah’s readiness to Act: v. 11


PRAYER:





[1] Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. and R. Kent Hughes, Isaiah: God Saves Sinners, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 95.
[2] Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. and R. Kent Hughes, Isaiah: God Saves Sinners, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 95.
[3] Gary V. Smith, Isaiah 1–39, ed. E. Ray Clendenen, The New American Commentary (Nashville: B & H Publishing Group, 2007), 238.
[4] J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 101–102.
[5] Gary V. Smith, Isaiah 1–39, ed. E. Ray Clendenen, The New American Commentary (Nashville: B & H Publishing Group, 2007), 242.