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for what we want from our hearts, and thanking Him for what He has done for us. Now we do not need to say just the same words each time we pray, but we can talk to Him and tell Him about anything that is troubling us, and thank Him for the many blessings He has given to us. When you ask mother or father for something do you say just the same words each time? Our mem ory verse, says, “ Lord, teach us to pray.” Prayer. Dear Lord Jesus, we would ask Thee to teach us how to pray, and we thank Thee for Thy great love to us. Draw the letter “ P” and ask the class to tell in one word what the lesson is about. Tell the story of Nehemiah’s prayer. Ask them to guess another word beginning with “ P” . Give them a few clues so they can guess more easily. Explain how that prayer is a neces sary preparation in all things that we do for God. Power is that which we need to carry on God’s work, and we receive it in answer to prayer. Explain how Nehemiah claims God’s promises. Ys- 8, 9. m BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Em Hansell August 27, 1922
sat down and wept, and would not eat, but he prayed to God. He told God that he knew how wicked His people the Jews had been, in not obeying God’s words; he also told God how kind and good He (God) had been to send men to warn Israel that if they kept on in their sin their beautiful city of Jerusa lem and their homes would be destroy ed, and they would be carried away into strange lands. You see Nehemiah went to God in prayer and told Him all about what was making his heart so sad, and then he pleads for God to hear his prayer, because he loves God and wants to do everything pleasing. He closes his prayer by asking God to be with him and give him favor as he goes to stand before the king.' Now, boys and girls, Nehemiah has shown us what we ought always to do at all times— pray. Our little verse that we say each morn ing, tells us that prayer is asking God
SEPTEMBER 3, 1922 NEHEMIAH REBUILDS THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM Golden Text. Our God shall fight for us. Neh. 4:20. MASSON TEXT Neh. 3:1-7:4. (Read Neh. 2;9-20;
1 Cor. 3:9-17.) fight against Jerusalem, and to hin der it. (9) Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. (10) And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. (11) And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay
(4:6) So built we the w all: and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. (O But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and T o biah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls o f Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, (8) And conspired all of them together to come and to
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