Peoples Gospel Church's "Listening to God" Devotional

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+010     CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 32 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+009     CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads. 2 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+008     CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+007     CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+006     CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 10 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+005     CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+004     CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. 8 And they all plotted…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+003     CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel… 5…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+002     CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 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…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+001     Nehemiah In the fifth century B C, many Judeans were returning from exile to the southern part of the land of Israel. They faced great difficulties: their capital city and temple had been destroyed, foreigners had moved in, and they were no longer ruled by their own king.…