Yesterday I heard a message called “Strengthen my hands” by David Gibbs, Jr. I want to recap it for you. Nehemiah was a captive, serving a pagan king. The Lord laid a burden on his heart to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. Impossible task. 

The burden was a call to action. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 says, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” The Lord empowers those who answer His call. Through God’s miraculous intervention the king allowed Nehemiah to go, and he provided the finances and the resources.

The work was intensely fought against by their enemies. Yet, in Nehemiah 6:9 we read Nehemiah’s prayer. It says, “For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.” After that prayer the wall was completed in 52 days!

Spurgeon and Moody both said that this prayer is the second greatest prayer recorded in the Bible. The first being for salvation. David Gibbs, Jr. encouraged his listeners to pray this prayer every day. Here are his key points:

1. God loves to strengthen the weak. In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Paul acknowledged that he was weak. We need to get real with God. James 4:10 says to humble yourself in the sight of the Lord. He knows our heart, but He wants us to acknowledge our weakness. 

2. He is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34. 

3. He has unlimited power. He wants to strengthen us with the same power that God used to raise Jesus from the dead. What we face is insignificant to His unlimited power. Nothing is impossible for God. Luke 1:37.

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My note: as I typed this I realized that Nehemiah refuted and renounced the enemy’s words through his prayer ~ great strategy for spiritual warfare!