Day 4
“Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man. I was cupbearer to the king.” Nehemiah 1:11 “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Nehemiah comes before God in humility. He recognises God’s greatness and approaches the Lord as His servant and as one who honours God’s name. His delight is in the fear of the Lord just like Jesus, the Branch of Jesse (Isaiah 11:3). Humility is dependence on God, rather than on self. As the king’s cupbearer and as one who knew what it meant to approach a king and to serve authority, Nehemiah lived in the natural what he lived in the spirit. John reminds us of this important principle when he writes, “anyone who does not love is brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen” (1 Jn 4:19)! Integrity is living in the natural what we li...