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Nehemiah chapter 2 verses 4 and 5.

Then the king said to me, what are you requesting?

So I prayed to the God of heaven, and I said to the King, if it pleases the King, and if your

servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah to the city of my father's graves

that I may rebuild it.

I love this moment in Nehemiah's life so now he's standing before the king he's

about to ask for favor for support and going to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem and this is the moment of risk.

This is the step of faith that Nehemiah for months has been preparing to take because if this goes awry then he could he could die the

king could say you do not ask me for that I do not give that to you and you are no longer my cupbearer and you are out of my service and

maybe even take his life.

Like this is an extremely important, significant, risky step that Nehemiah is taking and right before he takes it

Nehemiah 2.4 says so I pray to the God of heaven and then I said to the king it's like I just picture

Nehemiah just lifting up his eyes right before he takes this major step of faith

he's like,

God, please help me. And then he does it.

And you read on the rest of Nehemiah chapter two and God

provides and Nehemiah gets all the support he needs to go to Jerusalem to rebuild

the walls there.

I want to tie this with what we prayed according to in Nehemiah chapter one.

So Nehemai had spent months of fasting and praying

leading up to this day.

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