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Pray First

November 09, 2025 • Forward City Church

This week, Marc began a new series on Nehemiah. Chapter 1 of Nehemiah begins with Nehemiah, a Jewish exile who is an official in Babylon, receiving news of the Jerusalem community. Jerusalem's walls were destroyed and much of the city was in ruin.

Marc unpacks for us that Nehemiah's immediate response was prayer and fasting for God to give Nehemiah favour to bring a remedy to this tragic situation. Marc notes that we ought to have our hearts broken when we hear and see the tragedy happening around us in our world.

Marc invites us to pray to God for what is breaking his heart and how we can serve the communities in which he has placed us. Marc noted that Nehemiah does not pray in hopes that God handles the problem, but in hopes that God would be gracious to Nehemiah, providing for Nehemiah's partnership with God's will.