Devotions from Nehemiah

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…

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…

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.