Topic:A God Of Purpose Then Job replied to the LORD: I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:1-2 The greatest theme in this book of Job is that it reveals to us the character of God Himself. God often appears to …
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Topic:The True Sabbath Rest READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:15-22 In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem …
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Topic:Are You Faithful? READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:10-14 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because these men were considered trustworthy. Nehemiah 13:13a Notice how representative this …
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Topic:Real Heroes And Real Life READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 12:1-26 These were the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua Nehemiah 12:1a This takes us back to the heroes of the past. Zerubbabel led the first return from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem in 538 …
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Topic:Any Volunteers? READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 11 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns. The …
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Topic:Time After Time READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 9:16-37 But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you …
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Topic:The Power And Peril Of A Witness READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:15-19 So the wall was completed… When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah …
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Topic:A Great Work READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:1-9 I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you? Nehemiah 6:3b These erstwhile enemies suddenly become Nehemiah’s friends and invite him to a conference down on …
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Topic:Internal Strife READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 5 Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers. Nehemiah 5:1 In chapter 5, the Unseen Enemy tries yet another approach. Nehemiah has successfully handled the threatened attack from without, but now he runs into a problem from …
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