What Touches God's Heart Nehemiah 1: 3-11, 2: 20

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v.3 1. Compassion for God’s people.

(The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great 

affliction and reproach;)

v.3 2. A genuine heart for God’s work.

(…the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, …)

v.4 3. Willingness to bear a burden for Godliness to be gained.

(...when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, ....and mourned certain

days, and fasted, and prayed.)

v.5 4. Genuine faith.

(I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, …)

v.6 5. Genuine repentance of sin and turning from it.

(...and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against

thee:...)

v.8, 6. Steadfast assurance in God’s faithfulness.

  10 (Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandest thy servant, Moses, 

…)

(Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou has redeemed…)

1:11 7. A desire for God’s name to be exalted, His work accomplished, His people

2: 20 obedient, His presence acknowledged, His testimony presented, His glory given.

(delight to fear thy name)

(…The God of heaven will prosper us.)