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Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. If you are new to this, my name is

Bro. And we just spend a few minutes every day diving into God's word and asking him to stick some truth and wisdom in our hearts.

And I'm grateful for all of you who are making this a regular part of your day and super grateful for the team that makes this podcast even possible.

We've been looking this week at the story of a guy named Nehemiah who takes on this daunting task of rebuilding the broken down walls around the city of Jerusalem.

After over seven decades of exile and captivity, the Israelite people are allowed to return to their homeland, only to find it in very rough shape.

Now, there's still lots of enemy nations out there that would love to enslave them again,

and they don't have a strong military presence, and since the walls were down around their city,

it left them super vulnerable to anybody who wanted to attack, no ADT security, no ring doorbells,

no gated community, nothing to protect them.

So Nehemiah gets a word of this, and it breaks us heart.

And he weeps, and he prays, and he fast asking God for help. And then he takes a deep breath and

makes a very bold ask of the king he works for. He asks the king to grant him a leave of absence

so he can go back and lead this rebuilding project.

And since Nehemiah was such a positive, joy-filled, capable, humble servant of the king,

God had given him favor with the king.

And the king could see what a genuine burden Nehemi had for his people,

so Artaxerxes the king agrees to let him go.

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