Nehemiah Chapter 1

In college I had to write a paper of sorts on the principles gleaned in Nehemiah on being a manager or leader. We could not use any commentaries or helps we just had to read the book and glean it on our own. I dreaded the assignment at first but after I got into it I enjoyed it. I decided recently it would be a good time to go back over Nehemiah. With Babe being gone, now more than ever, I am a manager and leader and I feel I have some work to do on that!! I want to raise the kids as best I can.

Just in the first chapter I saw in vrs.2 and 4 that Nehemiah was tender toward others afflictions. Vrs.11 Nehemiah knows how to communicate with God and ask of Him.  Nehemiah asks for prosperity that day. We must know how to communicate with God, how to ask of Him, before we can appropriately communicate with and lead men/children.

At the beginning of the book of Nehemiah. There were notes on the book and it said that "This book affords many instances of individual faith acting on the written word (e.g. 1. 8,9; 13. 1). It is the principle of 2 Tim. 2. [ This out of the notes from The Scofield Study Bible] When I turned to 2 Tim. 2 I saw that I had claimed certain of these verses back in February of 1998 (vrs. 3, 4, 19-21, 24-25). There were things I needed to reminded of in those verses. I typed just a few of them out . . .

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 

[The hardness of a deployment with no husband, 3 kids, school, a child on the way, etc. endure it as a soldier to the one who called me to it]

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life: that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 

[so much to distract and get my eyes off my Saviour]

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

[This verse definitely reminds me of how to lead the children with gentle patiance and always ready to teach. Sometimes patiance is so hard to display!]

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

[This stung when I read it. It brought to mind a situation with a non-Christian (probably) where I did not use meekness. Lesson learned.]