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Before I launch into the 11 to 20, I was preparing for 11 to 20
but my eyes went on verse 7. So I got stuck there for a long
time. I would say verse 7.
So I want to share a few thoughts on verse 7 and then we
will go into 11 to 20. Verse 7 says I also said to him,
if it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of
Trans Euphrates so that they will provide me safe conduct
until I arrive in Judah? What is what is this verse
saying? Can we see it on the screen if
possible? Verse 7 If it pleases the king,
may I have letters to governors of Trans Euphrates so they so
that they will provide me safe conduct until I arrive in Judah.
So here what is happening here is he is having the letters
given so that he can travel safely to Judah.
Who can stop him? Now no one can stop him because
he is having the letters from the king.
So now those letters have lot of power.
The letter written by king number one thing that happened
when king gave the letter is tables were turned.
Everybody said tables were turned.
What is meant by tables were turned here there was a the art
exists. Art exists is the title like
Pharaoh. So you have more than one king
having the same kind of a title. During the time of Ezra, many
decades ago, they tried to rebuild the temple and people
complained saying, oh, if you allow these people to rebuild
it, this is going to revolt against you.
You are going to lose the taxes. They said, the king, art execs,
they said stop it. Stop the rebuilding of the
temple, stop the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
So now you are getting letters to reverse the same thing to say
let the walls be rebuilt. Do you do you see how it is
changing the letter? It is changing the situation
completely. It is turning other tables.
It is you are ignoble, reproach, put down, no safety, no
prosperity. You are being looted anytime,
every time. Now once you have the walls, it
is going to be everything going to be tables are going to be
turned. So I decree and declare, by the
power of the Holy Ghost, the table should be turned in your
own heart this morning, tables being should be turned.
Why is it important that? Well, as I was meditating on
that. Now Nema has letters.
What is the letters for letters to Asaph so that he may release
the timber required for the doors and anywhere it is
required, the SEDAR or whatever is required, oaks whatever needs
required. He has to release the timber for
the temple, for the gates and for the house he is going to
live. Usually it is built with stones
and mortar and things like that but inside the house it is
furnished with panels of wood and he needs lot of wood for
that. So he has a letters to for the
wood to be released and whatever help is required, they have to
give. They cannot touch him anymore
because he's coming not as a common citizen, but he's coming
back as a governor of Judah from the cub bearer.
He's putting on a hat of governor.
He is transitioning from cub bearer to a governor.
And I tell you, when you are in the plan of God, when you are in
the will of God, when you are doing His will, when you are
living for him, you will not be always a cup bearer, but you
will transition to become one with.
You will begin to move with authority.
You will walk in authority. Now what I want to focus on this
morning is just the letters. Will the walls be rebuilt?
He has letters. Will the walls be rebuilt?
No, he had to have a vision, he had to have a plan.
He had to speak to the people to motivate them.
He had to gather them together. He has to be praying all the
time. He prayed for 3-4 months.
He was traveling for four months and he arrived into Jerusalem
and all these 4-4 months of travel, he must have been crying
in his heart. God, I want you to give me
favor. Let the people believe me.
Let touch their hearts that they
will reunite and they may join me in this venture of rebuilding
the walls. He must be crying out as walking
every day morning to evening and he must be crying in his heart
for this favour, this revival to come so the walls can be rebuilt
and Nehemiah. So there are two things here. 1
is called positional, 1 is the positional, other is actual.
So one is here. He is having the positional
positionally he has everything released for him.
But actually it has not yet happened.
It has not happened. Tables turning of the tables
happens, happened even before, during when Esther was the
queen, tables were turned. How did he turn?
Haman succeeded in getting the king to stamp with his signet
ring and he cast lots and it fell on a day called pouring.
And pouring was the day they decided that all Jews all over
the Persian Kingdom must be killed in every city and village
finished, no Jews should be living anymore.
But when God intervened because, hey, Mordecai was seeking God,
because Esther was seeking God, God intervened, turned the
tables, and they reissued another letter on the same day.
Jews, you have the power to defend yourself and to kill your
enemies if required. And that day, when the Purim day
came, Jewish, Jewish people killed their enemies everywhere.
Tables were turned. Everybody said tables were
turned. And when Jesus crushed of
Nazareth, when he came and died upon the cross, there must have
been apparent celebration in the Kingdom of darkness where Satan
in Satans Kingdom, he must have said, yeah, we have put the Son
of God on the cross. We have succeeded in killing
him. We have won, we have won.
He did not stay long because Jesus Christ from that grave he
went into the Kingdom of darkness and he defeated the
force of darkness. He took the keys of Hades and
death and he has came out and that victory has to be
celebrated. That victory has to be crowns
and it sent shock waves in the city of Jerusalem and the tomb
was shaking. The earthquake was there and the
tombstone was rolled away to find Jesus not inside the board,
in that his body not in the tube anymore.
Tables were turned. Satan thought he won, but he
lost. He thought he won but is lost.
So in our lives we are saved. Everybody say we are saved, but
we are yet to be saved. Your your sins are forgiven.
You are justified. You are made holy.
You are given righteousness of Jesus Christ.
You are putting on like a robe upon you.
But a time is coming when you will be totally freed from the
presence of sin. Now power of sin.
You are set free from power of sin.
Sin cannot have dominion over you anymore.
Tables are turned, but you need to walk into it.
Just because you know the truth doesn't make you a St. doesn't
make you a man of power, doesn't make you to go and heal
everybody you come across, raise everybody from the dead.
It's not going to happen until there's a transition between
having the letter and possessing what the letter says.
Positionally, we are saved. One of the best things that I
ever have learnt in my life is a phrase in theology.
It is called already and not yet.
Everybody say already and not yet.
When we don't have this thing fixed in our mind, when we are
not aware of this truth, we are going to be disappointed.
Let's say who? I mean God has given us
authority to lay hands on the sick.
They shall recover. That's a promise.
Now we are praying for every week.
We are praying for people and sometimes they are not healed.
What is why it is not happening? So sometimes, you know, there
are times are gone. One time I went to Crushes
Hospital, someone said, oh, somebody's with cancer, would
you like to go and pray? I said, yeah, definitely.
I took somebody along with me and we went into the room and we
prayed fire to come down and to heal and to raise the person.
And when I came out, the man with me said that was a very,
very powerful prayer. Either they will live or die.
And the third day the person died.
What am I trying to say here? Is there is a potential for that
person to be healed when we pray?
But when it does not happen, what you have to pray as if you
are going to receive that answer, that person is going to
be healed when it does not happen, Its not in your domain
to feel about it. You don't be depressed about it.
You don't be detected about it. Oh God, I went and prayed in
your name, nothing happened. Oh that man died.
That can send me to depression, but this is what it is already
and knotted. There will be cases when people
are healed. There will be cases when people
will be delivered. There will be cases when we can
successfully throw out the devils, and sometimes we cannot.
And it is subject to certain things.
You need to grow in it. If I want to go into a shop and
let's say I want to buy this kind of a thing item there, and
that item says there's a label hanging, the $1000.
I quickly open my wallet, check how much money I have.
Yeah, $500 I have. Can I get it?
No, I need to have $1000. Every single dollar has to be
paid before I can take it and walk away.
Same way there is a place for discipline in prayer.
There is a place for discipline in studying the word of God
before the letter becomes actually you enter into the
meaning of the letter to possess the things that the letter is
giving you, you. There is a discipline of prayer,
study of the word, faith, growing in faith, growing in
faith. Every day I am crying out to
God. God, you said you, whoever
believes in you when he uses the word, whoever he doesn't talk
about the disciples anymore. He talks about anyone who is
going to believe in him is going to do what he does and greater
works than they shall he do. I am crying out, God, I need to
do this. I need to do what you have done.
I've been praying for a couple
somewhere else in the in some part of the world for more than
six months. I am praying.
One time I prayed, the man was knocked down and he fell on the
bed happily. And I saw I was really a little
bit to know that he fell on the bed.
And other day when I prayed for him, the devil manifested and he
was looking into the camera and says I can't look into her, I
cannot look into your eyes. I'm afraid inside.
I'm afraid inside, separated by thousands of kilometers,
connected by Internet. He's looking into the camera, I
can't look into your eyes. I'm afraid inside.
I'm shaking inside. I said they will come out.
And I thought for a moment whether he's gone or I said, oh,
I don't think he's completely gone.
It took me 40 to 45 minutes of praying on the phone, WhatsApp.
And then he walked back and he was spitting out for me kind of
a thing from his mouth and through, you know, in his own
house. He was uncontrollably spitting
everywhere. And there was no one in the
house. His wife was not there.
And this guy ultimately walks down to the bed and there he, he
fell down on the bed. I said, OK, that's also good.
I think it is gone, but only to know that yesterday again, I
pray that is not gone. Now what am I trying to
communicate here? You can have a letter in your
hand. Jesus has given you the letter.
You shall cast out demons. Has he given you the letter?
Yes. But is it a reality yet?
Not 100%. So in between what happens, I
need to increase my faith. I need to study the Word, I need
to believe Him, I need to pray, I need to be more of the Holy,
fulfilled with the whole, more of the Holy Ghost.
Until it happens, I should not give up.
And many of us are confused when it comes to the New Testament
reality, the new creation reality.
Yeah, we are children of God. We are saved.
We are set free from the domain of Satan.
We are all these things we have. But again, He has given us
authority to cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead.
Blind eyes to be opened. Deaf, He has to be opened.
Lamb should walk, dead should be raised.
We have the letter in our hands, but we are not walking in it
yet. The challenge is to do.
If we have been doing it for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40
years, it has not worked for us. We have not arrived there yet.
We had to change the way we do things.
I was talking to somebody. I said I am not praying enough
yet. I prayed yesterday 3 or 4 hours
for the service. I said I called on fire.
I said, oh, the whole heart, the church should be filled with the
glory of God and people should be, should not be able to stand
on their feet because of the glory of God as it happened in
the Old Testament. I have prayed, I have prayed, I
have prayed, but has it happened?
No. That means what?
I need to pray more and the church has to pray more to walk
into the reality of what is promised.
We have to pray. That's the call for 21 days of
prayer is that we should walk in Revival should come into Omega.
Revival should come into the city of Christchurch.
That is possible only this is the only one ingredient in the
recipe is the prayer is the most essential. 1.
You take it out, you will not have what you want to have.
You will not have an orange cake and there is no orange juice in
it and no orange rinse in it. Put in it.
It will not be an orange cake if it is a chocolate cake, it
didn't have chocolate for revival, we need one ingredient
is prayer. The Holy Spirit says, son, you
are saying the right thing right now.
So at the cross, tables are turned in our favor to rebuild
broken walls, to set up the gates, to restore dignity from
disgrace to dignity, to set our families free, to write your
future, pursue vision, His Kingdom.
All these things have been done, but we are not walking in it
yet. The look at the gates, they are
burned down. Look at the walls, they've been
broken down. And I tell you, the situation of
Jerusalem is the situation of every local church.
I'm not talking about only our church, Every church.
If you have eyes to open, you will see that the walls are
broken now and the gates have been burned down.
And I'm telling you, this is the story of families.
Every individual family can be affected in different ways, more
than we can ever imagine. People are affected in every
family. And what happens here?
Nehemiah comes after so many decades and walks into
Jerusalem, and then he says we should be rebuilding the walls.
People look at him and say why should we rebuild the walls now?
We have been living here for so many decades.
We are all right without walls being rebuilt.
Why do you want to tell us to rebuild?
There will be resistance to prayer.
There's one thing the devil fights you.
It will be the requirement to pray.
He will keep you engaged on your WhatsApp, on your Facebook, on
your YouTube or your any other kind of social media hours.
Together. He can keep you busy and He has
succeeded. He has succeeded.
You don't need another person to disturb you, just the little
thing. Maybe that should go on the
altar. It has to go on the altar.
Whatever comes between you and prayer, sacrifice it.
Sacrifice it. Bring it to God and say God, I
know this is important, but this is coming in my way between you
and me. I need to put it on the altar.
Whatever it is, it can be business, it can be anything,
relationship, Whatever it is, we need to do it.
So what is the difference between positional victory and
actual victory? Positional victory is like
having the letter that Nehemiah has.
Actual victory is walking in it, possessing it, enjoying it.
And there is a difference between these two.
We have our identity in Christ. We are children of God, saved by
from the power of sin, from the power of Satan.
But you have to overcome sin in many forms and grow in holiness
daily, not just once in a while. Daily we must have victory.
What is that besetting sin that is defeating you again and again
and again? And you are going back to God,
saying, Lord, please wash me in your blood and set me free.
That means we are not yet arrived there.
Authority. You are seated with crash in
heavenly places. You need to have increasing
dominion over sickness. Peace in all our relationships,
peace in all aspects of life such as finances, children's
welfare, personal health. Are we working in authority?
If not, we only have a letter in the hand.
We don't possess it yet, but the path is one man.
Ingredient is prayer. Believing I am a new creation
means they no longer need to wrestle with sin or develop
character. Some people think oh I'm a new
creation, I'm a new creation. They don't have a struggles with
flesh and blood and with the sin and Satan.
No, no, that is reality. You will have this fight with
the flesh. You will have the fight with the
devil. The new creation doesn't change
the situation. So when some people only believe
in positional authority and not actually possessing it, the
problem comes here is they may neglect spiritual disciplines
like prayer, accountability or scripture study.
We need not do that. Thinking I have authority in
class means every challenge will be instantly overcome.
Some people think like that, oh, I have authority, the problem
will be gone next moment. No, it will not.
You will stay there in the family, you will stay there in
your personal life and you will have to fight it.
You will have to root it out. There are times we will be
shouting and when we are delivering somebody, I will kick
you out. You devil, in the name of Jesus,
I kick you out. I kick you out, I kick you out.
We pray for an hour or two sometimes before the devil
ultimately leaves the person. And if it is so easy, why are we
working so hard? It will be foolish on our part
to be working hard. Some people ask me, why are you
crying, shouting like this for one hour, 2 hours?
Do you want to be free or you don't want to be free?
That's what I asked. Oh, I want to be free, so I
allowed to shout until that goes.
Or you are so desperate, so disgusted with you, so much
repulsing the its presence, you must be throwing it out by
yourself. God gives us personal victory,
our identity, authority, access to Him, but He also calls us to
work it out. That's the reason why Paul says
elsewhere in Philippians chapter 2, workout your own salvation
with fear and trembling. We had to work it out.
We cannot just have 5 minutes quiet time and two minutes grace
for the food and expect everything to go well.
There's one thing that I learned in my life is prayer.
There was a time I was preaching.
Very busy morning. Early morning, 7:00, I'm
standing and preaching to the preachers, the pastors to
prepare them and then go to my work.
And the evening again. I take my motorway, drive for 40
kilometers and preach the Word. I get in the evening and all
night I'll be making notes. Early morning, 6:00, the Xerox
shop opens. I used to give it there and get
copies done. Go 7:00 again, stand there and
preach prayer out of the window. Would you ask me now?
I would rather pray than preach 3 times a day.
No, I'm not interested. I am not interested to preach 40
messages in a month. No, I have done it and you had
not done anything. No change anywhere.
I'm happy to be on my knees praying because that is going to
move the mountains. That's going to move the
mountains. So that's all about verse 7.
Having a letter in your hand is not going to change that.
The walls will rebuild by itself.
He had to envision, he had to have a plan.
He had to motivate the people. He had to inspire people.
He had to gather the people and he had to make them do things.
And they had to say, he said let us rebuild the walls.
And they had to say let us rebuild the walls.
We need to have that, we need to do it.
I am saying this 21 days. Whatever is inconvenience you
have, consider it as a sacrifice for God.
The petrol you have to spend the time, you may be just losing
some time on your YouTube messages.
Don't worry about it. Come for prayer because in the
corporate trade something happens when people gather
together and pray something happens.
There is power in united agreeing prayer of unity of mind
is great power. So we see many things in this
chapter that when this when the news went around that Nehemiah
has come into Jerusalem. The news went to a certain group
of people. Verse 10 send ballot the
Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite.
The official heard about it this.
They were very much disturbed that someone had come to promote
the welfare of the Israelites. When we want to rebuild the
walls, there will be people who will be disturbed, there will be
people who will be unhappy. So these guys, who are these
guys? Sun Ballad is a Samaritan and
Tobiah is an Ammonite. Who are the Ammonites?
You know when Moses said let the people out of Egypt and when he
comes to certain place the Ammonites are the Moabites are
the ones who came and attacked, are seduced and made them commit
sin for God was very angry with the people of Israel killed.
Many thousands were killed on that day.
The same guy is now opposing the work of God and he has a name
Tobiah, which is a Hebrew name. A Hebrew name does not guarantee
his heart is for God. Someone can have a name called
Jacob or John or Peter or any other name.
It doesn't guarantee their heart is for the Kingdom of God.
You can bear the name, but not the have the heart.
And they were opposing, they were displeased.
And one of the things that you see here is when he came to
Jerusalem, there were army officers with him and cavalry
with him. Cavalry, that is soldiers were
there with him. But you know what Nehemiah did,
you don't hear about the rest of the book.
You will not hear about this army, the cavalry, the army
officers. You don't hear Why?
Because Nehemiah said this rebuilding of the wall is a
spiritual activity and it cannot be accomplished with the might.
He said I will not, I will not use the soldiers to rebuild the
walls. What?
What kind of a stance is that? Spiritual work has to be done in
a spiritual way, not political way.
We cannot bring politics into the Church of God because church
is a spiritual place and you have to do things spiritually,
not politically here. So he refused to use the
soldiers. He refused to use their
presence. So he must have said after a few
days, OK, thanks guys, I'm safely arrived into Jerusalem.
Now you can go back to Persia, go back to Susa, the capital.
I will handle this matter myself.
How many of us have that kind of a courage, that kind of a
commitment, that kind of AI mean a heart like a lion to say, I
will take this matter into my hands.
I tell you that requires a lot of determination, that requires
a lot of commitment, that requires a lot of guts.
I would say to work for the Kingdom of God is not something
easy is not something easy. We need to have that kind of a
thing. And then he says in verse 11, I
went, I went to Jerusalem and after staying there three days,
he, this man has travelled for 4-4 months on foot, walking
every day, morning to evening. And now he says comes into the
city and he's taking how many days rest?
Three days. If I were in that place for one
month, I would have been sleeping.
We just had a tour of America for one month and for one week
we were nearly two weeks it took for us to recover.
And I think probably Nehemiah did not have jet lag because he
was transitioning slowly through the timeline.
I mean, that may be one of the reasons.
I was thinking why did he do what he did?
I was thinking about it. Probably that could be the
reason. But if you are determined to
fight, if you are determined to stand, if you are determined to
accomplish the vision that we have for our lives, there has to
be a fight and there has to be shedding of the blood.
There has to be a struggle and we should be prepared for it.
One of the things they will, they are going to ask the
question is what is this guy coming from Persia?
What do you know about Jerusalem?
You just came yesterday. But we are living here for so
many decades. You want to rebuild the walls?
Forget it, man. It is not easy job.
It is not. People would be discouraged.
And I tell you, when we talk about prayer changing things,
people will resist the same way. Why things are not changing, the
family, finance, health, why they are not changing?
Because we are not willing to pray.
Oh no, no, we pray. OK.
What kind of prayer is it? I'm not trying to disqualify or
put down anybody's prayer. That's not my point.
My point is there is a way of engaging your heart with the
heart of God where you know this man.
He could not, I'm sure when he went around looking for the
thing. One of the things that we says
here about Nehemiah is he he was there only for three days.
He took rest and then immediately jumped into action.
What did he do? I set out during the night with
a few men. After three days he was
interacting with the people who were coming and talking to him,
and he must have said this guy has a heart Fogger, this guy has
a heart Fogger, that guy has a heart Fogger.
OK, you see me after three days in the night and they come meet
him in the night and he takes a mule or a donkey and that's the
only mount he had with him. And they inspected the walls and
he went around the city and where did he begin?
Sorry, Can we have the map please?
Not this one, please. One more.
Ah, yeah, that's the one. Now he begins his thing from
here. The Valley Gate.
That's probably his. He must have found a house to
live somewhere nearby. So he chooses to start from
there. He goes down.
He goes to Jackal. Jack.
Jackal. Well, it must be about 500 yards
from Valley Gate, Jackal. Well, probably inside the wall
probably. And then he goes down to Kings
Garden and he comes to Dung Gate here.
And then from the Dung Gate he goes to Fountain Gate and then
he goes to up through, he comes up to Watergate.
But then you see here there is a wall here, this light line here,
that must be the wall that's been broken down.
And there's so much of rubbish, there's so much of rubble, you
cannot walk there. So he says when my mount had we,
we came to place where the mount had no place to go.
So he left the mount there and he went on foot.
He walked in the darkness. He walked and what did he do?
He took probably this is the wall rebuilt by Nehemiah because
it's impossible to rebuild this one.
It's like a valley, it's on the slope and rubble.
It is very hard to rebuild it again.
So what he did was he changed the plan and he said let's
rebuild inside like this. So one of the things that did is
there is a kings house here somewhere and one of the walls
of the king, they use it as a wall for the city wall.
You know what certain things are?
Some information that I learned as I was studying this is what
would be the perimeter of Jerusalem in Neymar's time.
If you start from here, you go around like this.
It's about 1.5 miles. That is 2.4 kilometers.
Sometimes we think Jerusalem or must be a big city.
It was not, at least during the time of Nehemiah, it was very,
very small and it was smaller still in the time of Solomon.
Because here you have got about 10 gates.
You start from here, Valley Gate, and then you got this Dung
gate and you got a fountain gate, Watergate, Horse gate,
Eastgate. Don't think this is crashed
gate, Eastgate Ship Gate and the Fish gate and Eshana Gate.
All this gets 10 gates are there, but during the time of
Solomon there are only 5 or 6. The walls were not completely
rebuilt, must be done afterward. But now Nebuchadnezzar comes and
he pulls down everything. So I was thinking what part of
the area he would have come and attacked because it is fortified
all around. This side is valley, This side
is valley. So when Nehemiah came up to this
point and this was all rubble, he must have gone away from here
and walked down like this and again retreated back and back up
to Valley Gate and finished the trip to 2.4km multiplied by two,
4.8 kilometers. So we must have taken 3, two
hours leisure walking, two hours or three hours to go around and
come back. But what did he do?
He did not let anybody know about it.
He did secretly sometimes is a quality of leadership is they
should not speak their mind until it's the right time to
speak. And Nehemiah was a great leader.
He knew how to communicate and when to communicate.
So he said, no, no, I'm not going to tell anybody about it.
By night I went out through the valley gate toward the Jackal
well and during Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem
to understand the structure of Jerusalem and the work that is
done. You need to study Chapter 3 to
understand Chapter 2. Because here you see, he started
visiting or checking out from the valley gate.
But when they begin the work, they start from the ship gate
and like this. And he divided the whole wall
into 41 or 42 sections and alerting them to different
leaders to rebuild near their own home.
I don't want to hurry up, but we'll study that in chapter 3.
But the point here is he had to move away from the rubbish
rubble and then he had to walk and then he examined.
Now one of the things that I want you to understand here is
the word used there in verse 13. By night I went out through the
valley gate toward the Jackal well and the Dung Gate,
examining the walls of Jerusalem.
Everybody say examining. What is this word examining?
Examining is a medical word. When you have a wound, sometimes
it is covered with dry, you know all kinds of material there and
then you want to know how deep is the wound.
You lift it up and probe. That is what he did.
He probed the damage to the walls in the night, going on the
foot, going on the mule. And I tell you, we need to take
stock of our own families, our own, our own business, our own
relationships and look at it where it is hurting.
Lift the lid, lift that debris, lift that pus and see how deep
is it that is hurting. And that requires a lot of
courage to look at your own problem that way.
And he did it. He did it for the city.
He did it for the people. And examine the walls of
Jerusalem which have been broken down, at gates which have been
burned down. He was probing to find out how
deep is the problem. Then he moved on to Fountain
Gate and the King's Pool. Of course, I just showed all
those things here. Fountain Gate is here.
King's Pool is here. This is a little bit puzzling to
me why he mentioned Fountain Gate and then mentions the
King's Pool here. This is also called Pool of
Siloam. You know what is the Pool of
Siloam is all standing for? It stands for Revelation.
It is Jesus said to one of the blind men, What did he say?
He put some mud on his eyes and say go and wash in the pool of
Siloam. And he went there and washed his
eyes in this place and he came back seeing.
We need that. We need ice to be washed.
We need to regain our sight and only then we will be able to see
properly what is the condition we are living in.
The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing,
because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the
priests or the nobles or the officials or any others who
would be doing the work. He kept some things secret, and
some things have to be told publicly, But there's a time,
right? Time for it.
Then he said to them, You see the trouble we are in, You see
the trouble we are in, the gates have been burned with fire.
Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and we will no longer
be in disgrace. You know the word disgrace.
It's just not a good word at all.
When a woman in Israel did not have children, it was a
disgrace. And when the walls are broken
down, gates are burned down, it's a disgrace because anybody
can come in and walk into the city and attack the people and
loot the people. So we need to know what are the
areas of our life, family, children that are born down
where, where the walls are broken down, where the gates are
bound on. And I tell you, I had, I will be
praying for my children. I will be praying for future.
Sometimes I'll have to say, God, you need to do this for the
future. I am praying now whether I am
there or not. Remember that I have prayed this
good thing should come to my children.
You need to have foresight in prayer and you need to do it and
God will answer his prayer and he says let us rebuild the wall
of Jerusalem and we will no longer be in disgrace.
I also told him about the gracious hand of my God up God
upon me. Now this is a testimony time he
was, he heard the news broken down by the news.
Weeping, crying, praying in public place until people
walking by passing by say, oh, why is this man crying?
Why are you crying Nehemiah? Because the walls are broken
down and the gates are burned down.
Oh, I'm crying for the things to be revealed.
I'm crying for Gods mercy. Oh is it so?
I will join you in prayer. I will join you in prayer.
After a month or two, there's a
big gang of people who are praying there.
A moment of prayer came. But then here he says after the
three months or four months of prayer, he goes to the king and
he looks sad and he says why? And you know all that we have
talked about in the previous message, he's telling how the
king had granted him the permission to go back and the
letters to governors of transiferates and letters to
Asaph and the cavalry and the army officers.
This is a testimony time when he shared the testimony how God's
hand was upon him. This is a phrase you will see in
the book of name again and again how God's hand has been upon
him. That is the testimony that will
stir up the people to say, I believe what you are saying.
I believe God is going to help us.
Let us rebuild. Is anybody with me?
And then you see, they replied, let us start.
Let us start rebuilding. He says, let us rebuild.
And now they are responding, let us start rebuilding.
In between the time of the time is the time of testimony.
Testimony has a power to stir. Testimony has a power to boost
the faith of the people. Testimony has a power that will
help you to achieve what is beyond achievement, normal
achievement power. That faith comes with testimony,
and I tell you, I have seen again and again the power of
prayer. I cannot Live Today on the
prayers I have prayed last week. I cannot Live Today on the
prayers I have prayed last month.
I cannot Live Today on the prayers I have prayed last year.
No, you need to be praying today for answers for today.
So verse 19. But when Sun ballot the horror
night, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab
heard about it. They mocked and ridiculed us.
What is this you're doing?
They asked. Are you rebelling against the
king? You see what?
When you want to walk in faith, when you want to pray, people
are going to mock you. Hey, you've been praying the
same prayer for 10 years. Why are you praying again?
You're wasting your time. They're going to mock the devil
will use people among your friends, among your relatives,
in your family. They will put you down because
you pray. Sometimes you are you are
praying, you're trying to walk with God and you lose your
temper and you're angry with somebody in the family.
Somebody will say, ha, I saw you praying all week and what is
this? You're losing your temper right
now. They'll mock you.
It doesn't cancel the prayer that you have prayed.
But what I'm trying to say here is don't worry about this.
Praying is a business between you and God.
No one can, no one should influence what you say, how you
pray. It is between you and God, a
business one-on-one you look into the face of God, stand in
His glory, stand in His presence and hear His voice and do His
will. That is the model.
And people who mock will be silenced automatically.
And second thing they did was after mocking, ridiculing, they
said, are you rebeling against the king?
This worked few decades ago when Ezra was trying to rebuild a
temple. They said they sent a letter,
these people are rebelling against you.
And now they are saying the same, same words.
Are you trying to rebel against the king?
It worked then. But Neymar said, no, I'm not
listening to you guys. I have the letter from the king.
I am going to build, but you will not have a share in it.
You know when you are convinced about your vision, when you are
convinced about your purpose, when you are convinced about
what God wants to do, then you are not going to be moved away
by other people coming and doing anything.
Whatever they say, whatever they do, you are not going to be
moved by it because you know that you have heard from God and
you know that you have received a vision from God and you wanted
to come to pass in your life during your lifetime, in your
city, in your church. You are going to be committed to
the vision. Nobody can put you away from it.
Nobody can discourage you. The question is, do you have a
vision for yourself? Do you have vision for the
family? Do you have vision for the
church? Do you have vision for the city?
I think I should finish it there.
So verse 20, he says I answered them saying the God of heaven
will give us success. We his servants will start
rebuilding. But As for you, you have no
share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.
You know, this is this is what is happening even today in
Israel, isn't it everybody trying to do the same thing.
Syria is trying to attack from the north.
Iran is trying to attack from the east and all things are
happening there and trying. Russia is trying to support the
Iranians. All these things are happening.
But you know what, that country stands as a sign in the End
Times. Whether you agree or disagree
about the place of Israel, some people, you know, say, oh, they
are killing so many people in Gaza.
True. I am not saying they are doing
the right thing. Does not cancel that Israel is a
sign in the end times. They are not a godly people, I
agree, but doesn't cancel that they are a people God has
chosen. Put a stamp upon it and you need
to be looking at that nation to know when crash is coming back.
And moreover, we should know who is the Ammonite, who is the
Tobiah, who is this sun ballad, who is the geisha and the Arab
who is trying to enter in your life to disturb you.
You should know how to identify your enemy and shut them up so
that you will keep doing what God wants you to do.
Shall we pray? Commit yourself to pray from
Monday, from tomorrow, 21 days and see what God is going to do
to change personal life, family, finance, church, City.
We need change, we need revival, we need the hand I've got upon
Nehemiah to come upon this church, upon our lives, upon our
individual lives. Sari sakthare barano bohroni
mane sahandarano history kasha sastre bandarano Rosa SE Banda
baroni ma samara Sheikh sastakuroni.
Many people have set out on this journey and they face trials and
opposition and have fallen down victims.
The Lord says, my son, my daughter, I want you to change
your story. I want to change your story.
Do you want to change your story?
If you cry out to me, I will definitely answer, says the Lord
Samarehandabarano Sambhastarehandarano Risharaste
Sandraano Robos. In the name of authority of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the purpose of God shall be
fulfilled. In Omega, it shall be fulfilled.
Each one of our individual lives and our families, it shall be
revived. I decree, in the name of Jesus.
If we cry out these next 21 days, it shall be revived.
It shall be revived. New life will flow into each of
our families, into our lives, to the glory of His name.
He is committed to it. If we are committed, He is
committed to it. We praise you Jesus, We give you
glory, honor and praise. Oh Father, I pray bless each one
of us. We have heard the word.
Help us to walk into the actual part, not just positional
victory, but actual victory. Not just position in Christ, but
actually reign with Christ. Walk in authority and power and
let our lives be changed until we see blindness open, deaf ears
open lame Walking Dead, raised to the glory of Your name, we
have not received anything. Even if you raise the dead, it
is not the ultimate thing. We haven't even reached the
minimum. So I pray, Father, for your
mercy and grace. Pour it out, pour it out, pour
it out right now. Touch the hearts of a children
who are under the influence of my voice.
Touch their heart, touch their heart, touch their heart.
To the glory of Your name we worship you, we honor you, let
your Kingdom come later will be done to the glory of your name,
Jesus name we have asked and everybody says Amen.
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