Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | June 17, 2020 | LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED, SO THE PEOPLE HAD THE MIND TO WORK | So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

Beloved, there is something about the God of heaven, your loving Father. He always rewards labour of love done for His glory.

2 Chronicles 15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

No wonder the Jews in the days of Nehemiah laboured to rebuilt the wall of Jerusalem and were rewarded.

Nehemiah 4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah who before the rebuilding of the wall was a cup bearer in the king’s palace, became the Tirshatha or governor of Judah.

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

Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED | So built we the wall; for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

Beloved, as the Lord rewarded and promoted Nehemiah, you also shall be rewarded if you conscientiously advance the kingdom of Christ, especially at this perilous time.

But then, their is a work in the kingdom, that God has always been very passionate about. However, from time immemorial this work has always suffered a dearth of labourers . See it yourself.

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED | So built we the wall; for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

This particular work is the most potent way of turning multitude to righteousness.

Beloved see saints in Bible days both in the old and new testaments that have engaged it to save souls from perishing.

Abraham

Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Rahab the harlot.

Joshua 2:12-13 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Moses

Deuteronomy 9:18-20 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED | So built we the wall; for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

Jesus Christ our Lord.

Luke 22:31-32 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Paul apostle

Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Epaphras

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED | So built we the wall; for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

Beloved, God promised that if you will commit yourself to doing it, the unsaved in your world of influence, your unsaved spouse, children, parents, siblings, close and extended family members, neighbors and colleagues shall be saved.

Isaiah 62:1, 6-7 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Beloved, it is no secret, you are going to shine as a star for all eternity. So engage in turning others to righteousness through your prevailing prayers. God bless you.

Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN THE BIBLE – NEHEMIAH PRAYED | So built we the wall; for the people had a mind to work. – Nehemiah 4:6

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