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August 5 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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In today's reading we will read Nehemiah Chapters 2-3. Today we will see God put the task of rebuilding Jerusalem's walls back up on Nehemiah's heart and provide for Nehemiah to be able to carry out the task that He has put on his heart!
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about God's faithfulness to complete the good works he has prepared for us to do. If God puts something on our hearts to do then He will also provide for it to be done, as He did in Nehemiah's case. Just as God placed Nehemiah RIGHT WHERE HE WAS, so are WE placed to be in positions to DO what God puts on our hearts to do! It is my prayer that we will all be encouraged to be bold and strong for whatever task God sets for us to do, knowing that if God puts it on our hearts to do, He will DO IT!
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Introduction and Daily Reading Plan
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Welcome everybody to today's daily reading through the day by day kids Bible written by Karen Henley. i am your hostess Robin within the family way coaching and I am so glad that you are joining me this year as we read through the whole Bible getting the big picture in chronological order and having a great time doing it especially with our daily applications.
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Thank you for being here whether you are following along on your podcast or whether you are watching the video somewhere. If you are using your commitment calendar, it's time to take that out and get your sticker ready or whatever you're using to mark it off.
Nehemiah's Role and Strategic Placement
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You are about to hear the Bible today.
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Well, we are going to be continuing on in the book of Nehemiah today, reading chapters 2 and 3, as well as the very last verse of chapter 1.
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The very last verse of chapter one tells us that Nehemiah was placed in a position of being the cup bearer to the king of Persia. So it is just awesome to see how God has strategically placed his people in positions of ah ability to have influence in the kingdom of Persia.
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I love seeing that over and over again. We have Esther, we have Mordecai, we have Nehemiah, and it is just awesome to see how God has strategically placed people.
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Nothing was done by coincidence, was it? It is God's divine planning, God's divine intervention, almost we could say, and in order to carry out his plans.
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I don't even think we can call it an intervention because it's just really God's divine planning. And I love to see God's divine planning, don't you? God has purpose and design in everywhere that he puts us.
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And I hope that that's part of the daily application that we take away today as we read through Nehemiah chapters 2 and 3 today.
Nehemiah's Mission and King's Favor
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The first section is entitled, Burned Gates.
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I was the king's servant. We know now that he was the cup bearer. I took drinks to the king. One day i took the king's wine to him.
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The king had never seen me sad with a sad look on my face before. So he asked, why are you sad? You're not sick. Your heart must be sad.
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i was afraid, but I told the king, It's because of Jerusalem. It's the city where my people lived. It's a pile of sticks and stones.
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Fire has burned up its gates. And that's why I look sad. What do you want to do about it? Asked the king. I prayed to God.
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Then I answered the king. If you're happy with me, let go to Jerusalem. Let me build the city back up. The king was sitting beside the queen, and he asked, How long will this trip take?
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When will you be back? He was glad to send me. So I gave him a time. Then I said, need to take letters to the leaders and around here.
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The letters should tell what I'm doing. In this way, the leaders will let me travel through their lands, and I'll be safe. Would you write a letter to your forest keeper too?
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I asked. Then he can give me wood to build gates by the worship house, and he can give me wood for the city wall, and he can give me wood for a house to live in.
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God was with so the king did what I asked. The king also sent army captains with me, and he sent guards on horses too.
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I went to the leaders of the lands and I gave them the king's letters. Two leaders who lived close by heard about this. Their names were Senballat and Tobiah, and they were upset that someone would come to help God's people.
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I went to Jerusalem. I stayed there for three days. Then I went out into the city at night. I took a few men with me, and I was the only one riding on a horse.
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Now I hadn't told anybody else what I was doing, but it's what God had put in my heart to do.
Rebuilding Jerusalem's Walls
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went out the valley gate and I went toward the fig well.
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I took a good look at the city walls. They had been broken down, the gates had been burned. And then I went toward the fountain gate and the king's pool, but there was no room for my horse to get through. So I went into the valley and I looked at the wall there.
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At last, I came back through the valley gate. The leaders didn't know what I had done, and I hadn't told any of the Jews about it. Then I told them, Look at this problem.
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Jerusalem is a pile of sticks and stones. The gates have been burned down. Come on, let's build the wall again and then we won't look bad any anymore.
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I told them how God had been with me and I told them what the king had said. They said, let's start building. So they did. Sanballat and Tobiah heard about this and they began making fun of us.
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What are you doing? They asked. Are you turning against the king? God will help us finish this, I said. We are his servants.
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We will start building Jerusalem again. You don't own Jerusalem. You have no right to this city.
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Priests built the sheep gate again, and they built the wall to the hundred tower. They built as far as the next tower, and then men from Jericho built the next part after that.
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Other men built the fish gate again, and they put doors and bars in it. Many men worked on the walls and gates. A gold worker helped.
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A perfume maker helped. They built Jerusalem up to the broad wall. Some men fixed the wall across from their houses and they built back the oven's tower.
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One man's daughters helped him fix part of the wall. The workers fixed the valley gate and the fountain gate. They fixed the wall by Shalom Pool and the king's garden and they went as far as the house of heroes.
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They also fixed the wall across from the water gate. And the priests fixed the walls by the horse gate. Each priest fixed the wall in front of his own house.
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And that is the end of our reading today.
Reflections on God's Provision and Encouragement
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Did you love seeing God's provision? God provided abundantly. God has has caused the king to still be ah favorably disposed to the Jews to help them rebuild. He is providing the materials.
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And then the people were the workers. Everybody was then encouraged to do it. I love how Nehemiah had had has spoken that God put this task in his heart.
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There may be times that God places a task in our hearts, and it may seem very big. But you know what? If God has put it in our hearts to do so, He will make it happen, won't He?
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Let us be encouraged today that if we hear God putting something on our heart, to act on it, knowing that God will see through to the end what He has begun.
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He has begun a good work in us and he will carry it to completion. We have that promise. And if there are tasks that are good works that God has put on our hearts to do we can be encouraged that he will carry them through to completion and provide for them.
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he will provide for the things. He doesn't want us to become discouraged to say, well, this is a huge task. How am I going to do it? Nothing is impossible with our God, and if he has put things into our hearts to carry his works out, he is certainly going to succeed.
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Our God is on the winning side. Anything we do is will win. If God has placed it, then he will always succeed.
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ah That is a fabulous daily application today, don't you think? We can see God's divine provision. We can see that God placed Nehemiah into a position for such a time as that.
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It is my great hope that we are building on these lessons that we are learning every day and seeing how they work together to to be making us strong in God.
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that we may be bold and encouraged and brave to step up and do whatever it is that God has given us to do. For with man, these things may be impossible, but with God, nothing is impossible.
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So thank you for joining me today. i hope that you feel that God has lit your light today. i know he has definitely lit mine today. i love reading his word. It is always so applicable.
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it is so encouraging. I love these examples of God's faithfulness. We know by now that God has shown his faithfulness and if he was faithful, then he does not change and he is still faithful for us today.
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I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day today, whatever day you are getting around to watching today's reading. And I will be here for everyone again tomorrow.