Devotions from Nehemiah
9 devotions
February 27, 2022
Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verses: 6:10-11 Nehemiah was leading this great work, for the good of the people and of the city. If he showed fear, fear would overwhelm the people and they would be discouraged. If he sought to save his own life…
Continue reading...February 28, 2022
Passage Read: Nehemiah 8-11 Meditation Verse: 9:26 The prophets testified against the people in order to turn them back to the Lord. But of course the people hated that, and worked to silence the prophets, even killing them. No one wants to be told what…
Continue reading...March 1, 2022
Passage Read: Nehemiah 12 - Esther 2 Meditation Verse: Nehemiah 13:26 This is such a wise statement: Solomon for all his wisdom could not resist his foreign wives, but succumbed to their pressure and was led astray from the Lord by them, and through him,…
Continue reading...February 25, 2023
Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verse: 6:14 It is sad that these foreign leaders who cared nothing about the welfare of the Jews would be able to hire prophets from among the Jews to intimidate one who was seeking to do good to the people.
Continue reading...February 26, 2023
Passage Read: Nehemiah 8-11 Meditation Verses: 9:34-38 The leaders of the people here acknowledge that they are all slaves in their own land, though the Jews in Jesus' day will declare that they have never been slaves of anyone! This generation acknowledges that they are…
Continue reading...February 27, 2023
Passage Read: Nehemiah 12 - Esther 2 Meditation Verse: Nehemiah 13:22 It's interesting that Nehemiah is concerned about God remembering his good works on behalf of the Lord and His people. He was truly concerned about honoring the Lord and making sure His people walked…
Continue reading...March 15, 2024
Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verses: 4:4-5 This, of course, flies in the face of "pray for those who persecute you," but Nehemiah didn't know about Jesus. Yet there is one God, one Lord; Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So how does…
Continue reading...March 16, 2024
Passage Read: Nehemiah 8-11 Meditation Verses: 9:30-31 God was committed to His people, but that doesn't mean He saved every last Israelite. The soul who sinned, died. And that surely means that he was lost to eternity. In the story of Lazarus the beggar, it…
Continue reading...March 17, 2024
Passage Read: Nehemiah 12 - Esther 2 Meditation Verses: Nehemiah 13:10-12 There is a natural bent in people to turn away from the Lord. Though they begin well, under the lead of a dedicated ruler, if he departs, they go back to their old ways.
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