“Be” Part 1 | Be Prayer

9.29.24

21 Days of Prayer

In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer. —Psalm 109:4 NASB

I will pray until I become prayer itself. —Psalms 109:4 TPT

I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” —Isaiah 56:7

Then He [Jesus] taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? —Mark 11:17

• Nehemiah is a biblical narrative of restoration, and it is a
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  for our times. It’s the story of rebuilding the wall in Jerusalem.

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, 2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
4 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. —Nehemiah 1:1-4

1. Pray first! Prayer is our

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response, not our last resort.

• The wall was built in

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  in chapter 1 before it was built physically in chapters 2-6.

• We are called to kingdom culture and prayer culture, not outrage culture.

For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. —James 1:20

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” —2 Chronicles 7:14

a. Nehemiah 1:5 - Prayer starts with praise, magnifying God. Begin with thanksgiving, exalted God, not the problem.
b. Nehemiah 1:6-9 - Then it moves into praying the word, praying God’s promises. I will build my church!
c. Nehemiah 1:10-11 - be clear and specific about the needs. He prayed specifically for favor, and favor was granted.

2. Prayer

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us to brings heaven’s solutions to earth’s problems.

• Prayer
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  you to handle problems that you don’t even see coming yet.
• Prayer prepares us to take the right action.
• Prayer
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  Nehemiah from burden to action. It does the same with us.

O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
For I was the king’s cupbearer. —Nehemiah 1:11

• There is an element of surrender in prayer.
• Nehemiah gave God his
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  ; He became willing.

Your people shall willing in the day of Your power. —Psalm 110:3

• “Your people will be your love offerings”
• “Your people will serve you willingly.”
• “Your people will offer themselves willingly”

3. Continue in prayer. Prayer

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is embedded throughout the entire book.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? —Galatians 3:3

And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. 2 Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.”
So I became dreadfully afraid, 3 and said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”
4 Then the king said to me, “What do you request?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” —Nehemiah 2:1-4

• Prayer was built into
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  they were doing
• Prayer was continual, not occasional.
• Nehemiah conducted himself with an
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  of prayer.
• Not formulaic or ritualistic. Relational!

Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.” 9 For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. —Nehemiah 6:8-9

• How will you engage in 21 days of prayer?