The document discusses the prayer of Nehemiah and the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls. It summarizes that Nehemiah prayed for four months before receiving permission from King Artaxerxes to rebuild the walls. Through prayer and guarding, the walls were completed in just 52 days. It also discusses the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus", written by Joseph Scriven to comfort his ill mother. Scriven devoted his life to helping others after tragedies with his fiancée and another woman he loved. The document provides reasons to pray such as knowing and following God's will and overcoming temptation, and what to pray about like God's things and our needs.

1. Albert Samuel Milton

2. Prayer of Nehemiah
The walls of Jerusalem were broken down.

3. Prayer of Nehemiah
First, Nehemiah prayed for four months.

4. Prayer of Nehemiah
• Artaxerxes, king of Persia, (445/444 BC) Granted
Permission for Nehemiah.

5. Prayer of Nehemiah
But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and
night to meet this threat. Nehemiah 4:9

6. Prayer of Nehemiah
• So on October 2 the wall was finished--
just fifty-two days after we had begun.
Nehemiah 6:15

7. Prayer of Nehemiah
God answered the prayers.

11. What A Friend We Have in Jesus
What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear, All because we
do not carry everything to God in prayer.
- Joseph M. Scriven

12. What A Friend We Have in Jesus

13. Song Writer - Joseph M. Scriven
• His fiancée accidentally drowned in 1845, the
night before they were to be married.
• There he again fell in love, was due to be
married and the young woman suddenly fell ill
of pneumonia and died.
• He then devoted the rest of his life to helping
others.

14. What A Friend We Have in Jesus
• he received news from Ireland of his mother
being terribly ill. He wrote a poem to comfort
his mother called "Pray Without Ceasing” in
the 1855.
• It was later set to music and renamed by
Charles Crozat Converse, becoming the hymn
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus” in 1868.

15. Why to Pray?
1. Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will.
1. Pray to overcome temptation.

16. 1. Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will
• For I have come down from heaven not to do
my will but to do the will of him who sent
me. John 6:38

17. Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill
God’s Will

18. Jesus Prayed
• Very early in the morning, while it was still
dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went
off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Simon and his companions went to look for
him, and when they found him, they
exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”
Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to
the nearby villages—so I can preach there
also. That is why I have come.” Mark 1:35-38

20. Before We Pray
1. We need to know God as our Father, we
need to know with the revelation. No one in
the old covenant ever called God as their
Father, but Jesus revealed God as our Father
and ask us to call God as our Father.
2. We need to know that God is able to do
anything and everything according to His will.
He is all powerful and almighty God.

22. What to Pray?
1. Pray about the things of God. (Matthew 6)
1. Pray about our needs. (Matthew 6)

23. 1. Pray about the things of God
(Matthew 6)
• Hallowed be thy name.
• Thy kingdom come.
• Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

25. 2. Pray about our needs
(Matthew 6)
• Give us this day our daily bread.
• Forgive us our debts as we forgive others.
• Don’t lead into temptations but deliver us
from evil.