A Nation That Prays Together Stays Together

Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast

Skip Heitzig

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives. After a national revival broke out in Jerusalem during a Bible study, the people gathered again for prayer. Let’s notice a few key elements that make for an effective experience of communicating with God.

I. They Looked Up: Adoration (vv. 5-6)

II. They Looked Back: Reflection (vv. 7-35)

III. They Looked Within: Confession (v. 37)

IV. They Looked Around: Petition (vv. 32-37)

V. They Looked Ahead: Submission (v. 38)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers,
0:07.5	we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls.
0:16.4	It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and
0:25.9	obedience rather than fear or despair.
0:28.7	This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into
0:34.7	a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action.
0:44.3	Morning.
0:45.3	Welcome to church.
0:47.3	Welcome to this service.
0:49.3	Is this the best service?
0:51.3	Are you like the best group ever? You know, from time to time,
0:57.5	you just need to hear me tell you how much I love you. And especially when we do a message that
1:04.2	whenever you talk about prayer, people get very silent, very kind of guilty. And I don't want you
1:10.6	to feel that way. We have a message before us
1:14.6	that for some may be hard-hitting, for others very encouraging. But let's get to it. Turn with me to
1:20.8	Nehemiah Chapter 9. Nehemiah Chapter 9. One of C.S. Lewis's most famous quotes, you've heard me say it before,
1:31.3	is that pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. And so the whole quote is God whispers to us
1:41.0	in our pleasures. He shouts to us in our pain. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a
1:49.0	deaf world. Whenever you find a person in pain, you usually find that person in prayer. It's during
1:57.3	times of suffering and pain that we often will cry out to the Lord like no other time.
2:04.5	That's not only true of individuals, it's true of nations as well.
2:09.6	When a nation is in crisis, the nation will be on its knees.
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