Category: Devotionals

In Nehemiah 12, the completed walls of Jerusalem are dedicated, accompanied by worship and giving. This passage, which sees an external object purified for…

Scripture does not view cities as inherently evil things, but places where people and resources can pool together for mutual support and benefit. God…

In Nehemiah 10, God’s People put their renewed spiritual commitment down in writing. As was common in the Bible and in their times, they…

The prayer of Nehemiah 9 comes at the end of the first celebration of the Feast of Booths in many years. After finding joy…

As they read through the Scriptures, “they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of…

For the believer, our joy and strength is found in the Lord. God’s unchanging goodness and mercy to us, expressed through his Word, demonstrated…

Passages like Nehemiah 8:1-8 demonstrate this principle of expository teaching. Ezra the Scribe, who led an earlier return of Jews from exile, is called…

No wonder they would be called upon to repopulate Jerusalem. It was not just time for the town planners to rejoice, but for all…

The right character was important because what was most needed was not walls (though they were needed and important) but right hearts which sought…

The conspiracy against Nehemiah’s character was designed to demonise him in the face of the authorities. Sadly, Satan and enemies of God’s Church try…

Twelve years later, many of those under Nehemiah’s governance still faced the same hard scrabble to live. While Nehemiah could have enjoyed the benefits…

For the Jewish population of Nehemiah’s day, money misery was very real. Most lived close to starvation, one bad event away from disaster. Many…

Nehemiah’s citizens were faced with attack by the devil, and were forced to defend themselves from what was a spiritual attack (with physical consequences).…

Nehemiah’s building project certainly caught the devil’s attention. Here God’s People were rebuilding the walls to protect God’s temple, and Satan couldn’t have that!…

Nehemiah’s arrival in Jerusalem was followed by careful, and quiet, planning. It was only when Nehemiah had his plan ready that he explained the…

Nehemiah’s actions show how his experience of God’s good hand caused him to trust God more. Even so, Nehemiah knew the world he lived…

In Chapter 1 we were introduced to Nehemiah as a man of prayer. Confronted by the defenceless state of Jerusalem, Nehemiah turned to the…

The book of Nehemiah introduces us to the man, and his personal character. But most importantly, it introduces us to a man of prayer.…

Read Ezra 10:18-44 Any parent or adult who has supervised children knows that the time that is most fearful is when they go suddenly,…

That repentance brought the same from many of God’s People who observed him, and were convicted by the Holy Spirit to do the same.…

We need to understand the point of the laws, and what they meant for the Jewish people and for us today in the light…

Ezra’s example is one we can follow as well as we walk through our own seasons of change. As believers, we know that for…

Ezra was returning to Jerusalem to bring about further reform of the worship and rule of God's People there. He went as a man…

This list also gives us a cultural check. In our culture, youth is idolised. Everyone wants to look young. Sometimes it feels like everything…

Ezra was a man who was placed in the blessed position. Ezra wanted to return to Jerusalem to reform worship and life there. Thankfully,…

Nearly sixty years pass between the end of chapter 6 and the beginning of chapter 7. At the end of chapter 6, a group…