Nehemiah learns that the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates burned. He sits down and weeps upon hearing this news. He then mourns, fasts, and prays to God about the situation. The document discusses how God gives fresh assignments and prophecies to his people, and encourages the reader to ask God for a fresh assignment if something brings them to tears regarding their people or city, as Nehemiah did.

1. NEHEMIAH
God’s assignment on a man
Part 1: How God gives fresh assignments

2. Nehemiah 1:1-11 (NIV)
1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month
of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel
of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah
with some other men, and I questioned them about the
Jewish remnant that survived the exile, and also about
Jerusalem. 3 They said to me, "Those who survived the
exile and are back in the province are in great trouble
and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and
its gates have been burned with fire." 4 When I heard
these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I
mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of
heaven.

3. 1. ASK FOR A FRESH ASSIGNMENT!
1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the
month of Kislev

4. 2. STIFFEN YOUR SPINE
…. in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of
Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah
with some other men, and I questioned them about the
Jewish remnant that survived the exile, and also about
Jerusalem. 3 They said to me, "Those who survived the
exile and are back in the province are in great trouble
and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and
its gates have been burned with fire."

5. Proverbs 14:12 (NIV)
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the
end it leads to death.

6. 3. WHAT’S THE PROPHECY OVER YOU
Jeremiah 29:10-11 (NIV)
10 This is what the Lord says: "When seventy years
are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and
fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this
place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,"
declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to
harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

7. John 2:19 (NIV)
19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple,
and I will raise it again in three days."

8. 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the
Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received
from God? You are not your own;

9. Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NIV)
31 "The time is coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 It
will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I
took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke
my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the Lord. 33
"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that
time," declares the Lord. "I will put my law in their minds and write it
on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No
longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying,
'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of
them to the greatest," declares the Lord. "For I will forgive their
wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

10. 4. WHO OR WHAT BRINGS YOU TO TEARS?
4 When I heard these things, I sat down and
wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and
prayed before the God of heaven.

11. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV)
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all
comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that
we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort
we ourselves have received from God.

12. 1 John 3:8 (NIV)
8 … The reason the Son of God appeared was to
destroy the devil's work.

13. Matthew 13:37-40 (NIV)
37 He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is
the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good
seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds
are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who
sows them is the devil.