NEHEMIAH: TIME TO REBUILD: PLANNING REQUIRES FAITH
Message Date: 1/19/25
Speaker: Pastor Rod Hidalgo

Planning requires

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Prayer is the foundation. Planning can built on top of prayer.

Nehemiah’s first response was prayer.

Nehemiah 1:
1. Nehemiah was a

man living in Babylon
2. Nehemiah learns his

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is destroyed
3. His first response was to

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, fast, and mourn
4. He is

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to the king

Nehemiah 2:1
In the month of

in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king.

Nehemiah

on the Lord.

Nehemiah was still faithfully doing his

.

Nehemiah 2:2

 I had not been

in his presence before,   so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.”
I was very much

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…

Nehemiah allowed himself to

.

Do you create space in your life to feel?

The King diagnoses

of heart.

Nehemiah admits he is

.

Nehemiah 2:3
…but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face

look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in

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, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Nehemiah told the

.

Nehemiah 2:4
The king said to me, “What is it you want?” Then I prayed to the God of heaven…

Nehemiah saw an

door.

Nehemiah said a

prayer.

Nehemiah 2:5
…and I answered the king, “If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him

me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can

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it.”

Nehemiah had a clear

.

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the word; be prepared in season and

of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.

1 Peter 3:15
Always be

to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.

If God opened the door for you, would you be able to walk through it?

Planning requires

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Nehemiah 2:6-7
Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time. I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have

to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?

Nehemiah did his

.

Nehemiah 2:8
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And

the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests. 

Nehemiah faced

.

opposition.

Nehemiah 2:10
When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were very much

that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites.

“The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.” —Oswald Chambers

Planning requires

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Where do you need to start planning as you wait?

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