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Nehemiah chapter 1. This is a very favorite book of
many people love the character of Nehemiah, but it is something
I feel is in season in season. Can we see the map there for a
second? So you see the Persian Empire,
you look at the map. That's that's how they have all
that shade, which is not yellow, but you know, little greenish
yellow. That's all from Macedonia,
Lydia, Mazaka, Persian of Assyria, Sousa first of all is
Parthiya Bhaktra, Maracanda, it goes on up to Indus river.
That is almost you know that part of Maracanda Bhaktriya.
They sound like Afghanistan and Pakistan and borders of India.
That's the huge Persian Empire and in these times, in that kind
of alien or not a really God fearing kind of a people,
ruthless people, and they were ruling with iron grip on the
people and God put his people in those places to still show his
mercy and to sustain those kingdoms. 100 years before
Nehemiah, you have Daniel standing in the course of
Babylon Empire with Nebuchadnezzar and his sons.
And after 100 years now we have Nehemiah come into the thing.
So you have the Babylonians, they ruled for about 87 years,
87 years, 586 BC onwards, Babylonians, they, they actually
destroyed the Jerusalem and all the walls were brought down,
temple were destroyed. All those kind of things
happened 559 BC to 331 BC, 170 years you have the Persians
ruling and after that you got Alexander the Great comes on the
scene. He was there only for 13 years,
but he impacted the whole history.
He changed everything, the roads system, everything.
He changed. And after Alexander the Great,
the Kingdom became was parted into four parts and all kinds of
things we know in the history. And afterwards the Romans came.
But one thing we need to know, whoever is a king, whoever is an
I mean emperor doesn't mean anything at all because God is
sovereign over the kingdoms. Every king has served his own
interest, but they also served the interest of Jesus Christ
because they are preparing the way for Jesus Christ to come
into the world. 13 years of brief time of Alexander's life.
He came from this side to this side, from the West to the east.
He came conquering. He conquered vast portions and
he in he enforced the Greek language and Greek culture all
over the Kingdom and that became the media or medium for writing
the epistles and all the New Testament, the Greek one man, 13
years of life impacting history, preparing the church to adopt
Greek language. Anybody feeling that presence of
Holy Spirit here right now, He is here right now.
So that is that is what we need to understand as Christians, as
believers. Our perspective should be 1 of
God honoring perspective that he is sovereign.
He is on the throne and we are to worship him.
We are to obey him. We have to live for him.
No other agenda. There is no other agenda for
Christians. You are made to live for Jesus
Christ and to reflect the image that was lost by Sidna, Adam
being restored in Christ Jesus, that the world will see Jesus in
you. So when you look at the
Nehemiah, he stepped into a time, a critical time.
Everybody is a critical time. What is critical about name as
times the book of Ezra precedes book of Nehemiah.
So Ezras book If you read some of the things you understand
Ezra chapter 4 verse 12. It says the king should know
that the people who came up to us from you have gone to
Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city.
They are restoring the walls and repairing the foundations.
So when Ezra came with the team of people, lots of priests have
come with him and they started rebuilding the temple and a
delegation was a letter was written to a hazardous one or
attack success one. He's a king at the time.
And when he they wrote the letter, they said these people
are wicked people and if you allow them to build, they are
going to rebel against you. They will stop paying taxes.
They are going to declare independence.
You are going to lose everything and he made search.
He ordered a search be made in the Kingdom and he said yeah,
the things are as they are saying that is true.
So he issued a letter. That is Ezra chapter 470 to 23.
In that the king replied and ordered the work to be stopped.
He said let that work be stopped.
Now in that king in that Kingdom, Nehemiah was the cup
bearer and cub bearer. Who is a cub bearer?
He is the most trusted, most reliable person because the cub
bearers responsibility is closely knit with the life of
the king. If the king is going to be
poisoned, first person to die will be the cub bearer, because
he will taste the wine in the Press of the king, and
everything goes wrong, Everything goes wrong.
And that instant his head will be separated from his body.
He cannot afford to look sad in the presence of the king.
If you look sad, the king will say something is brewing in his
mind. I think he's planning harm
against me. Take him away.
Done. You have to be happy in the
presence of the king and you have to be, I mean, bubbling,
and you need to show that composure in your in your face.
Your face cannot look sad in the Press of the king.
That's a job description. Is it just about handing over a
cup or tasting it and then giving it to the king?
No, he has to oversee everything from the time that harvest
happens, how the grape juice is extracted, how the wine is made,
every step he needs to be in his control and he needs to make
sure that nothing goes wrong and even one step anywhere.
And ultimately when it comes in the cup, he drinks it before the
king because he knows it is uncontaminated, it is not
poisoned, and he has a confidence to drink before the
king. And when king looks at him, that
face, he knows that's not contaminated, it's not
adulterated, it's not poisoned. And then he drinks from it and
he has access. The Kabir had access to the
kings presence even if the queen was present.
In chapter 2, you see the queen was present with the king and
Nehemiah was there in the presence of the king and the
queen. He had access to the highest
place, most trusted, most influential position he was in.
But being the cupbearer, he must be aware that an addict.
A letter has been issued to stop the work of the Temple in
Jerusalem and it is just stopped.
How do you raise the matter with the king again to get
permission, when the king himself has said no, this should
work, should stop. And then how do you go and talk
to him and say no? Let this work proceed.
It was a critical time. That's the reason why you have
the you have the necessity of a man like Nehemiah who is
completely sold out to God. He's completely sold out to God.
He was the cup bearer, a responsible position, but he was
concerned for Jerusalem, He was concerned for Judea and his
concern was always there on his heart.
He was he is carrying the burden of Judea and Jerusalem on his
heart and when his brother Hanani along with few others of
his friends are relatives came from Jerusalem.
The first thing that you see here is when you go back home,
you look at chapter 1, you underline every word that says
I. What do you underline I that
will give you a clue as to what actions I has done that is
Nehemiah has done Nehemiah. He says I questioned them about
the Jewish remnant that survived the exile and also about
Jerusalem. When the kings came and took
away the people of Judah and put them in different places, they
left some people behind who are weak or to get to take care of
the wine vineyard and to keep the land to do the agriculture
part. So he says, how are the people
who have been left behind? How are they doing now?
What is the condition of Jerusalem?
He was asking this. He questioned.
I tell you, this is the first quality for a minister of God,
first quality for a leader, first quality for a Christian.
He is to ask questions about the welfare of the church.
We need to ask the questions about welfare of the church.
The church is a modern Jerusalem, modern Judea, modern
Kingdom of God. So we need to look at the
condition of the church and be asking questions.
Is the church healthy? Is the hell is the church doing
the purpose for which it has been called?
He questioned them. They said to me, those who
survived the exile and are back in the province are in great
trouble and disgrace. There are two different words he
used here, great trouble and disgrace.
And then he says the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and the
gates have been burned with fire.
How many gates were there in Jerusalem?
Any guess? 12, 12 gates.
And when you read the book of Nehemiah, Nehemiah rebuilt 6 of
the gates by name. Who did it, what?
Everything you will see in the details, 6 gates is rebuilt.
What am I trying to say? When you have a big huge city
and you've got 12 gates, 6 have been burned down, the doors have
been burned down and the stones are burned down.
And you know once a stone is burned down, it is of no good.
You can't reuse it again. You can't just and then put it
back again. No, that is useless.
You have to replace it with another stone.
And it's not an easy job. So Nehemiah became a critical
person, acting at critical times to do a very critical job to
restore the walls of Jerusalem. Why is it important?
When you have the walls and the gates in the right place, that
city is safe? Its a question of safety.
Its a question of peace. Its a question of being
independent. How can you be independent when
Persia Persia is ruling? This is again a food for
thought. In this world there could be
many countries, many parties, many political views ruling
over. But the Christians, the church
must have their gates in the right place and their walls in
the right place, because only then you will function as God
wants you to function. That's very, very important that
our perspective, our understanding of the church
should be so watertight that no enemy can sneak in when the
walls are not there, the gates are not there.
Enemy can walk in anytime, day and night and slaughter, kill,
steal, destroy. And the church today is in that
condition. Today's church is exactly like
what near my heard great trouble and disgrace.
Why disgrace? People are falling in sin.
Why disgrace? There's no financial
accountability in the in the church.
I'm not talking about one church.
I'm talking about the whole world church all over the world.
There's no financial accountability, no sexual purity
and the servants of God are falling right, left, center mega
churches are falling. That's because we don't have the
system. The walls and gates are not in
this right position. Spiritual walls, spiritual gates
have to be reinstated in their place.
Then only the church will be healthy.
Moral things have to be rightly applied.
So what happens there? Gates have been burned with
fire. When I heard these things again,
I, I read and underlined everything here, highlighted it.
I heard these things first. I questioned, now here is I
heard these things. What do we do when we hear?
When we were planning the
vacation and I was planning to visit Texas, I go to Dallas in
the in the flight. When the when the flight was
going down to land, I looked at the city and said, God, I am
coming into a city which is like a graveyard because many
churches have fallen in this city.
What do you have for me to do in this city?
What am I going to do in this city?
I need you. I need your help.
You know this is what is required.
My point is very simple. When Nehemiah heard these
things, what did he do? I sat down and wept.
When do you sit down?
Will you lose your strength when you hear the news of the church?
Are your legs strong or weak? If you feel that weakness and
you sit down, I know that you have a heart like Nehemiah.
And when you hear the news of the church, the church is not
doing well, not doing well, and it doesn't affect you.
I know that you are not a Nehemiah.
We need to be like Nehemiah in our hearts.
We need to be like Nehemiah. We must be sad and weep for the
church. And here is the thing.
As I was meditating on this passage last night, what it
struck me was national disaster is impacting personal life of
Nehemiah. Something is happening in the
country, somebody have happening somewhere.
He himself is safe in the Persian courts, being a
cupbearer and the most rich man, very influential man.
But when he hears about Jerusalem, he struck with
sadness. He lost his strength.
He sat down and wept for that city.
So we need to have that condition.
When the national problem has become a personal problem, a
Nehemiah will be born. When the national problem
becomes a personal problem, a Nehemiah will be born.
If you want to be transformed by the power of the Holy Ghost, you
need to have the heart like Nehemiah, a heart like Nehemiah,
and then you will become a Nehemiah.
You will become a Nehemiah. So what is happening here is
judgment of God has fallen on Israel.
Judgment of God has fallen. It began after Solomon during
the reign of ray bomb. It was split into two kingdoms
and later on it went down and down and down.
Now it is completely wiped off, completely wiped out.
They the Kingdom is not in their in their hand anymore.
Its completely ruined. In 586 BC Babylonians came and
destroyed Jerusalem, the southern Kingdom of Judah and
what is left Nothing. So they were taken away.
A Nehemiah must be one of those captives taken to Persia.
And in that captivity this man had enough character.
This man had enough of who these people can look at him and say
this man has character. This man can be trusted, This
man can be a reliable person. My life can be safe in the hands
of a alien, a man whom had defeated, whom they walked over,
whom they captured and brought here.
I can trust my life with him. That is a miracle to happen in
the in that land. That is a miracle to happen in
that land. And he was rising in his
position and he becomes a cupbearer, the most trusted
position. It can be more powerful than a
Prime Minister. So here is judgment of God has
fallen. And how do you pray?
That is the question. How do you pray to God when you
know that God has judged the church?
How do you pray? Unless you know God, you cannot
pray well. You need to know this God.
If you don't know who this God
is, your prayer is not going to be powerful.
Your prayer is not going to be effective.
You are not going to get a result for your prayer if you
don't know who this God is. I will prove to you from one
example. Let's look at Daniel Chapter 9,
verse four. I pray to the Lord my God and
confessed it begins with confession.
Let's say it begins with confession.
I confessed, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His
covenant of love with all who love Him and obey His commands,
we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have
rebelled. We have turned away from your
commands and laws. We have not listened to your
servants or prophets who spoke in your name to our kings or
Princess and to our fathers and to all the people of the land.
What is Daniel doing 100 years before Nehemiah?
He prayed a similar kind of a prayer.
You want change? You want revival?
You want a church to become a mighty tool of God, mighty
instrument of God. We need Daniels and we need
Nehemiahs who know their God, who is a covenant keeping God.
You cannot just say he's a covenant keeping God and walk
away. Feel nothing in your spirit.
You cannot. And if you say he's a covenant
keeping God and it doesn't impact you, you don't know this
God. You don't know this God.
I don't want to be too harsh, but there was a time I myself
did not have it. But by the mercy of God, I
understand that he is a covenant keeping God.
And when you know that covenant, it comes down to every time when
you have a communion, you are re re re writing it or enacting
that covenant again between the infinite personal God who became
a man had died for you and broke allowed his body broken shed his
blood. And he said this is my body
broken for you. This is my blood shed for you.
You are bring you to the covenant again and that covenant
is the most powerful coverage in all the world that can change
you from a covert into a brave man that can change you to a
defeating man into a victorious man.
It will change your life when you understand the covenant
keeping God. That's how Daniel started.
That's how Niemeyer started. National problem has to become
personal problem. When I looked at certain things
in the last one month, something stirred up with my heart.
We are in the end times. The church is living as if it
doesn't mean anything. Jesus is coming, OK, Let him
come whenever he wants to come. But Omega has a different
calling. We are called to be a church for
the end times. So I cry, I am crying out to
God. How do you want us to be a
different people in these times? How do you want us to carry that
nature of God and bring that message of God with the urgency
to the people of God? How do we do it?
You'll have to begin where Daniel began, where Nehemiah
began by becoming people of prayer.
Becoming people of prayer and when one man is impacted by what
is happening, he will stir up a storm and a tsunami of prayer.
Warriors will arise because of 1 Nehemiah 1.
Nehemiah can raise the whole batch of people who will become
warriors. You might be saying, come on,
how do you say that? Prove it from the Scripture.
Look at the verse, verse 11. Oh Lord, let your ear be
attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer
of Your servants. There is one servant, There are
many servants. What must have happened?
This is my imagination. When he heard he forgot about
his job. Cup bearer, goodbye.
Maybe it was a roster. Because you see this is
happening in the month of Kislev, in the month of Kislev
in the 20th year, that is 20th year of Artax exists one in his
reign, 20th year in the month of Kislev.
But when you see again in Chapter 2 in the month of
Nissan, between Kislev and Nissan there's four months.
So probably when he heard the news, he was off the roster to
present, go into the Kings presence and offer the Cup.
So these four months he used it the benefit, he humbled himself
and he became man of prayer. He was praying publicly,
spraying publicly, probably must be wearing sackcloth or putting
some dust on his head. What he was doing to attract the
attention of the people, I don't know, because many of the people
in the Bible have done it. They have done it and he must be
praying in publicly. Oh Lord, have mercy upon us.
We have sinned against you. We are all our forefathers have
sinned against you. We did not keep your commands.
He must be wailing and weeping and somebody passing by will
stop and say this man is doing something good and I must do the
same thing. He will join him and 3rd another
will join him. Another will join him.
One servant has become servants. This is happening over more than
a month to three months of time. So you want change to happen,
the church to become powerful, we need that revival of prayer
first. So I am saying why not?
We have a 21 day of prayer, 21 days of prayer.
After this message. Let me know if you are
interested. And then let's decide on a day.
I mean a place don't worry about how much time it takes for you
to travel and go back home, but come for one hour of prayer.
One hour nobody will preach nothing you, you will all, we
all will gather there for one hour.
We pray in tongues and say God, we want that fire, the fire that
he put on the day of Pentecost. We want that fire to come from
Omega. We want that fire to come upon
Christchurch. We want the revival.
Let us become men of prayer.
But you need your eyes to be opened first.
Near my eyes were opened when he heard the news that the gates
were burned down and the walls have been turned down.
And then he that problem which is outside, you know how many
kilometers he was, he was in the capital of Sushan.
That's about nearly 1800 kilometers according to my
calculation. And some people put it at 1600
kilometers. Somebody else put it at 1500
kilometers. But that's long distance those
days it took nearly four months of travel by foot four months.
And he's safe in the in the in the capital of Persian Empire.
And he need not have bothered about Jerusalem.
He need not have bothered about the burnt walls.
He need not have bothered about the walls that are broken down.
He need not have done any of those things because when you
see him as a governor in the land of Judea in in Jerusalem,
he did not take a single dollar, I would say today's language, a
dollar from the Persian government or from the local
taxes for 12 years. He was, he was, he was the
governor and there were people eating at stable 100 to 200
people and he they were all fed from his money.
He never took a single paisa from it in a single dollar.
For that he was wealthy, wealthy.
Yet that problem which is outside has become his personal
problem. If you want revival, it has to
1st come into your heart. Your heart must be stirred.
Your heart must be sold out to God.
Only then the revival will come. It has to come.
It has to transfer the problem outside.
Problems we transferred to inside and the revival will
begin. So if that's what God is doing
in your heart, let me know. Let's start 21 days of prayer.
You want 40 days, No problem. OK.
But the point is we need to respond.
If you say no, no, I'm tired, I work all day, when I come home,
I got children. All those problems will be there
always, but when you put God first, He will make a way where
there's no way for you to become a man and woman of prayer.
Let's do that. 21 days. I'm fast my time.
So Deuteronomy chapter 28 was 64.
I'll just read this and conclude it.
Deuteronomy chapter 28. Was 64.
Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from from one
end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other
gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your
father's have known. Among those nations you will
find no repose, no resting place, the sole of your foot.
There the Lord will give you an anxious mind.
Eyes vary with longing and a despairing heart.
You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread,
with night and day, never sure of your life.
Go on and on. When you break the laws of God,
when you go to idolatry, this is what is going to happen.
And today, if God wants to rewrite Deuteronomy, chapter 28
was 64 onwards. What He will say when you leave
me, when you don't care for my Kingdom, when you are not
bothered about my holiness, you are not living in covenant with
me. I will leave you to the mobile
phone. You shall be watching all kinds
of social media that can be Facebook or Snapchat, Instagram
or TikTok X or YouTube. Your eyes will be heavy, you
will have wrist pain, you will have neck pain, and you will
have back pain because you're stuck to the phone all the
times. Can we rewrite greater than 28
like that? Do you want God to say that to
you? Kush is the mobile phone.
So I want to close here and the one of the things are the best
way to conclude the whole thing is Nehemiah.
How does he conclude Nehemiah? Very.
At the end of the chapter he says what does he say?
Sorry, I lost the place. Nehemiah Chapter 1.
Oh yeah, what he did was give your servant success today by
granting him favor in the presence of the man.
This man. Who is this man, Ha Suarez or
Zexis one? He's saying the only answer to
all this is you need the favor of God.
If God doesn't have favor, nothing is going to change.
If God doesn't show favor, revival is not going to come.
If God doesn't show favour, circumstances are not going to
change. If God doesn't show favour,
finances will not come. If God doesn't show favour, you
will be in trouble all the time. And Nehemiah says he turned to
God. I said give me favour in the
sight of this man. Why does he need favour in this
man? Because this man has said stop
the building of the temple. Stop the building of the temple.
In Ezra chapter 4, he said stop. And now to restart the work, to
rebuild the walls, you need the favor of the same man.
Once. Who is the man who said no?
You have to make this man to say yes.
And it begins with confession, confessing the sins.
When you confess the sin, the power of Satan is broken over
you. When you confess the sin, Satan
cannot rule your life anymore. He will stop you from confessing
the sin. He will stop you from turning to
God and say sorry, Lord, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
He will stop you from saying it because the moment you say it,
he loses power over you. Decide today whether you want to
turn to God and reject Satan or accept Satan and turn away from
God, whether you want to be Nehemiah, you want to be Daniel,
you want to be Elijah. Those things happen only when
outside problem becomes an inside problem.
The question is, has God put that burden on your heart?
Let's bow our heads in prayer. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you Jesus, thank you, Jesus, you have spoken to us
this morning. I humble myself at your feet, my
Lord, my God, that we have entered the end of the end
times. We have entered the end of the
end times. Things are becoming worse every
day. So right now, by faith, I put
the bread of flesh upon Israel and Iran.
I put the breath upon Israel and Iran.
I put the powerful bread of Jesus upon Israel and Iran.
And I pray, Father, that your Kingdom will come, that your
rule will come in these end times and that Persian Kingdom
which you have saved, directed, protected by sending people to
that nation, particularly a man like Nehemiah, to govern the
nation properly. You give wisdom to the king,
protection to the king. The same people today Iran is
invading your people, Israel. So I pray now, Father, in the
name of Jesus, that your Kingdom will come, that your rule will
come in that place, that peace will come in that place, in the
name of Jesus, but not our will. But your will be done if you
want the power of the Holy Spirit, if you are wanting the
power of the Holy Spirit and you want your eyes to be opened to
see the heart of God, and if you want to humble yourself and say
God, I want to become a man and a woman of prayer.
I just want you to stand where you are so that I can pray and
ask the Holy Spirit to touch your heart this morning.
Rasa Baranasandaranam rochere bahasse Sandra no koroko Sandra.
Name Mana sasteroni Reba Shaktre Sandra no Rabba Harness.
Yesterday re Rabasha Koroko saka seba Baba.
My Lord, give us a vision of the cross.
Give us that vision of the cross.
Roll that burden, Oh God, that you are bearing on the cross.
Roll it on our heart that we may become a godfather like
Nehemiah. Sit down, down and cry because
the people are not turning to God, not turning to Jesus.
I pray for the revival to come again, Father, I pray for the
revival to come again. We want the revival of God.
We are not doing enough. Touch our heart, touch our heart
let the problem of the church become our personal problem that
we may humble us at your feet and pray to you day and night.
And you are a covenant keeping God and you will answer that
prayer and send a refreshing reign of the Holy Ghost, the end
time visitation of the Holy Ghost upon the church in the
name of Jesus. I'm asking now for your children
to be touched by you, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost,
touch their heart now. I pray open their ears to hear
your voice and their. I used to see your plans and
your purposes. Touch their heart.
Everybody, I pray, touch our hearts, touch our hearts.
Touch our hearts, Touch our hearts, Oh God, touch our
hearts. Touch your mind.
Let every cusp be broken. Let every cusp be broken.
Times of refreshing come in a new way in our lives.
To the glory of your name, I bow before we worship you.
Holy Spirit, I pray fall on your children now, let your glory
fall upon them, let your glory fall upon them, let your glory
fall upon them in the name of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost. We have prayed in Jesus name and
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