VISION AND MISSION

PRAYER OF NEHEMIAH

COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION

TO BUILD THE WALL COURAGE

What is compassion?

• emotion that we feel in response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help

• sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it

• Tagalog: kahabagan; pakikiramay; awa; habag;

• Nehemiah was moved with compassion about all he had heard (1: 3-4)

• Nehemiah felt their brokenness like it was his own (1: 6-7)

• Nehemiah expressed confidence in God’s promises (1:8-10)

• Nehemiah asked for and received three things from the king: permission, protection, provisions (2:1-8)

• Nehemiah assessed the need (2:12-16)

• Nehemiah encouraged the people of Jerusalem to build the wall (2:17-18)

• Nehemiah inspired confidence in the people (2:18)

• Nehemiah handled opposition (2:10; 2:19)

• Nehemiah was able to encourage people to work together

• When the wall was rebuilt/finished in 52 days, he was able to restore unity among the people of Jerusalem