Pray: With God Nothing Is ImpossibleBattling&

•God does His best work, in impossible circumstances!

•There are many things you can do AFTER you pray, but there is nothing you can do UNTIL you pray!

•George MacDonald, "In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably."

•2 Corinthians 10:4 -(“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds”;)

•Prayer moves the hand that moves the world!

Alan Redpath, "There is too much working before men and too little waiting before God." If we took 1% of the energy, we put into trying to MAKE things happen and invested that into prayer, we would see an exponential increase in blessings!”Behind every great work of God there is somewhere a kneeling figure.

A Prayer of Contrition

•2 Corinthians 5:11 –“Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;”

•We used to fear God and it showed in our behavior and lifestyle.

• I'm against today's preaching and music and programs in the church that tries to pull God down to man's level.

A Prayer of Concern•There's 2 times to pray: when you feel like it and when you don’t. •"We pray without crying, we give without sacrificing, we live without fasting...is it any wonder that we sowwithout reaping?"•"Our eyes are dry, our faith is old, our heart is hard, our prayers are cold."•“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goethforth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”

A Prayer of Confession

•Psalm 66:18 “ If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”

• It would do no good to weep over the ruins if he was not willing to repent of the sin which led to those ruins.

•Ezra 9:5-6 –“And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.”

•Ezra 9:7- “Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.”

•Nehemiah is about prayer and it is about revival and rebuilding. Revival cannot and will not come until God’s people wake up and speak up for Jesus. •Matthew 19:26 – “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

A Prayer of Confidence

• Identify a promise of God, then stand on it, and tell Him about it.

• Isaiah 45:11- “Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye Me.”

• Faith is believing God’s promises regardless of the circumstances, and regardless of the consequences.

PRAYER OF CONFIDENCE

A Prayer of Commitment

•He is willing to be the answer to His own prayer.

•We can do nothing until we pray, but there is much we should do after we pray.

Principles

•Prayer teaches patience.

•Prayer teaches perspective.

•Prayer brings us peace.

•Prayer makes us more productive.

• It all began in the month Chisleu ( October or November).

•All Nehemiah did in chapter 1 is pray.

•Now in chapter 2, it’s the month of Nisan (March or April). Its four months later. How long did Nehemiah pray? 120 days. It goes on to tell how Nehemiah then asked the King for permission to go rebuild the walls.

•How long did it take to rebuild the walls? Just 52 days. He prayed for 4 months and had it done in less than 2.