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Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
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Base Your Prayers on God's Record
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon emphasize that Nehemiah's prayer is built on powerful arguments. He reminds God of His past actions, specifically that He has already 'redeemed' His people with 'great power.' This teaches believers that a potent form of prayer involves recalling God's past faithfulness as the foundation for seeking His help in the present.
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Nehemiah
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19th Century
Anglican
Nehemiah’s appeal to God. The prayer is a perfect example of the private and individual devotion with which the later Hebrew Scriptures abound. It …
Baptist
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now these are your servants, and your people Meaning those that were in Jerusalem and Judah, gathered out of several…
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Presbyterian
Nehemiah was the Persian king's cup-bearer. When God has work to do, He will never lack instruments to do it with. Nehemiah lived at ease and in ho…
