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b"This week begins a new series on the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah had such a big view of God and it gave him strength, security, peace, and contentment in the midst of uncertainty, insecurity, danger, turmoil, complaint, grumbling, weariness.\\nHe also placed a high priority of prayer. Prayer as we shall see today and in coming days, was not an add-on for Nehemiah. It wasn\\u2019t a \\u201cspiritual discipline.\\u201d It wasn\\u2019t a ritual. It wasn\\u2019t only for when he was in a real mess. When prayer is only \\u201cyou HAVE to pray because God wants you to\\u201d then you really don\\u2019t understand prayer.\\nPrayer, as we will see in Nehemiah, is a response of relationship. We don\\u2019t talk to God because He\\u2019s a high maintenance God who needs conversation with us our He\\u2019ll be lonely or empty without us. Prayer is a response of our heart because we know who He is, what He has done, and how without Him, we will never really be ultimately satisfied. We need prayer far more than God needs it. And we need it all the time, whether we realize it or not. So we will look at Nehemiah's prayer this week and the person of Nehemiah next week.\\nText: Nehemiah 1:11b-2:8Speaker: Sam ShinDate: 1/20/19"