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Dr. Erez Soref: What is Your Prayer? | One for Israel

January 17, 2026 | 27:10

Dr. Erez Soref: What is Your Prayer? | One for Israel
This series brings the ancient story of Jerusalem's restoration to life on location in the Holy City. Join Dr. Erez Soref as he explores how Nehemiah's calling, leadership, and vision speak powerfully to personal restoration, spiritual renewal, and God's end-time purposes today.
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| Dr. Erez Soref: What is Your Prayer? | One for Israel | January 17, 2026
  • Nehemiah,
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  • His story is not just history,
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  • It's a prophetic call to us today.
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  • It's always prayer first, action later.
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  • The burden shapes our hearts,
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  • It defines the god-given vision.
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  • I believe that seeing israel today
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  • Is the greatest proof that god is alive
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  • And he's faithful to his promises.
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  • Come with us as we walk the walls
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  • With nehemiah.
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  • I am dr. erez soref.
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  • I was born and raised in the heart of israel,
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  • But i never heard the gospel message
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  • Until on a journey abroad,
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  • My eyes were opened to the jewish messiah.
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  • From that point,
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  • My life has been dedicated
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  • To bringing this gospel back to my people israel,
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  • Equipping them to reach israel
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  • And the world.
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  • Together, as jews and gentiles,
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  • We are one in messiah, one for israel.
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  • This is jerusalem, the city of the great king,
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  • Chosen by god
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  • And fought over for centuries,
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  • Destroyed and rebuilt time and again.
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  • These walls have seen kings and conquerors,
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  • Prophets and priests.
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  • They've heard the cries of war.
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  • And for generations this city has witnessed
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  • The prayers of both jews and christians,
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  • The cries of the saints.
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  • Despite all the warfare, jerusalem still stands,
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  • A city of promise and great hope.
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  • Isaiah declares:
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  • This is the city where david reigned,
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  • Where god's presence filled the temple,
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  • Where yeshua was crucified and rose again,
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  • And where he will one day return.
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  • But these walls were not always strong.
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  • Once they lay in ruins, burnt and broken.
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  • And in that moment of despair,
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  • God raised up one man, nehemiah.
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  • His story is not just history,
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  • It's a prophetic call to us today.
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  • Come with us
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  • As we walk the walls with nehemiah.
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  • Around 2,500 years ago,
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  • Jerusalem fell to the babylonian empire.
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  • Men were killed, the temple was destroyed,
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  • And families were torn apart.
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  • The people of god were taken from their home
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  • And carried off into exile.
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  • Generations of jewish people grew up
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  • Outside of the land
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  • As they were scattered around the world.
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  • But after 70 long years, a miracle happened.
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  • Cyrus, king of persia,
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  • Decreed that all jewish people were free to return home,
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  • Free to rebuild jerusalem, our temple,
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  • And worship the god of israel.
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  • He gave us the legal right and even the funds
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  • To make this our home once again.
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  • People streamed back to this land.
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  • The faithful began together to rebuild.
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  • During that time, the prophet zechariah
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  • Spoke of a future messianic king
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  • That would enter the rebuilt city of jerusalem
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  • Riding on a colt of a donkey.
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  • God was working through cyrus,
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  • Calling his people
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  • To rebuild the city
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  • For our future king.
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  • Our people returned to the land
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  • To prepare the way of the lord.
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  • But soon, opposition struck.
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  • People that had settled
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  • In this land during our exile
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  • Began accusing jews
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  • Of rebuilding jerusalem illegally.
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  • They petitioned to the persian emperor
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  • Questioning the legitimacy of israel's actions.
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  • Some even began to attack.
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  • Jerusalem became an unsafe place to live.
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  • Fear spread and this city remained vulnerable.
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  • Its walls were broken down
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  • And its people were exposed.
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  • A famous rabbi from the 13th century
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  • Coined a saying that has become well known
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  • In jewish tradition:
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  • "maasei avot siman levanim."
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  • "the acts of the fathers
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  • "are signs to sons."
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  • It means that things that happen to the forefathers
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  • Serve as signs of what will happen
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  • To their children, to us.
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  • History is truly his story.
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  • Through events that happened in the past,
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  • God is teaching us about what is happening now
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  • And what will happen in the future.
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  • The days of the forefathers
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  • Are prophetic markers for us.
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  • From those events,
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  • We can take powerful lessons and warnings
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  • And apply them to our day.
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  • In 1948, israel as a nation was reborn in a day.
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  • It was formed legally and legitimately.
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  • Our sovereignty has been recognized worldwide.
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  • But the same day we declared independence,
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  • Five nations declared war on us.
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  • We survived that war and many since.
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  • But we are still locked in a fight today.
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  • In the un, we face more resolutions condemning israel
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  • Than any other nation,
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  • While we are the only democracy in the middle east.
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  • We hear accusations that we have no right
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  • To this ancient land of our forefathers.
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  • And of course, terror attacks on our soil.
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  • Sadly, some within the worldwide church
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  • Even deny the modern state of israel has any connection
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  • To the israel of the bible.
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  • But the facts are screaming from the ground.
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  • Every day we find new archaeological evidence
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  • That ties our people to this, our ancestral homeland.
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  • We are direct descendants of the israelites
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  • In the bible.
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  • We're speaking the language
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  • Of our forefathers
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  • And walking the same ground they walked,
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  • Promised by god to abraham.
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  • The voices of opposition and pressure we faced
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  • When returning to this land
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  • Are exactly what nehemiah faced in his day.
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  • And just like our people back then,
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  • We also must remain firm
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  • In holding to god's promises.
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  • Just as they were preparing jerusalem
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  • For the messiah's first coming,
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  • Today we are preparing this land
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  • For messiah's second coming.
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  • And as we are living in a time
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  • Where we have no choice
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  • But to defend our nation,
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  • Our people at that time
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  • Needed to do something
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  • To defend jerusalem.
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  • Before nehemiah, a godly man named ezra
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  • Led one of the first waves of exiles back to jerusalem.
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  • Under his leadership,
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  • They built the initial version of the second temple
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  • And restored worship.
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  • But while some of the spiritual foundation was laid,
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  • The physical protection was still missing.
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  • The city itself remained vulnerable,
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  • Its walls broken, its gates burned.
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  • And so jerusalem was very unsafe,
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  • Unprotected from enemies,
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  • And filled with fear for safety.
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  • This ruin and fear caused the people
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  • To neglect god's temple and worship.
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  • So you see that the physical reality
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  • Directly affected the spiritual reality.
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  • And that's where we meet a man named nehemiah.
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  • Nehemiah was jewish,
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  • Serving in the palace of persia,
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  • The superpower of the day,
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  • Centered in modern-day iran.
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  • Nehemiah was living in the capital, shushan,
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  • A thousand miles from jerusalem.
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  • Like many other jews,
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  • He was born and raised in exile.
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  • But unlike many of the others,
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  • He lived a comfortable life with a successful career
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  • In the royal court, directly serving the king.
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  • That king would have grown up with people
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  • Like esther and mordecai.
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  • He had seen personally the hand of god
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  • On the jewish people.
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  • Perhaps that's one of the reasons
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  • Why he appointed nehemiah, being jewish,
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  • To a high position in the palace,
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  • Cupbearer to the king.
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  • Nehemiah lived a favorable life in persia,
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  • Until one day his brother arrived from jerusalem
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  • With news.
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  • Nehemiah asked him about the city and the people.
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  • The report his brother gave was heartbreaking.
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  • Nehemiah writes:
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  • This is the moment of heaviness,
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  • The moment the burden drops.
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  • Have you ever experienced this?
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  • It's a time where something is so distressing,
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  • So alarming, that it shakes you out of any comfort
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  • And shifts the direction of your life.
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  • Something you know you can't fix on your own.
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  • What do you do in moments like this?
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  • Ignore the pain?
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  • Throw up your hands in hopelessness?
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  • Or run to god?
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  • Sometimes god allows us to experience heavy burdens,
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  • So we will run to him.
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  • The burden shapes our hearts,
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  • It defines the god-given vision,
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  • And then it moves us into a position of prayer.
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  • And then it moves us into a position of prayer.
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  • 70 years after the exile,
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  • Our people were returning to jerusalem
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  • To rebuild the city and the temple.
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  • But because of opposition and attack,
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  • Many were afraid to live there.
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  • The worship of god in his holy temple
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  • Was interrupted.
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  • A jewish man named nehemiah, living far away in persia,
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  • Heard the report.
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  • The walls of the city were broken down,
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  • Burnt with fire.
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  • Jerusalem was in distress.
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  • Nehemiah felt the pain of his people
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  • And this place.
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  • He's quoted in every jewish wedding
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  • And is written in psalms:
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  • There is something supernatural in god's love for this city.
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  • Something supernatural
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  • In my people's eternal heart for jerusalem.
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  • That kind of love weighs on a person.
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  • It weighs on our people and on all god's people.
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  • The heaviest burdens can give birth
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  • To the clearest visions.
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  • After hearing the troubling report about the city,
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  • Nehemiah spent four months
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  • Letting this burden shape him.
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  • Four months cultivating a vision.
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  • What is a god-given vision?
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  • It's not about man-made plans.
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  • Vision is being captured by something
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  • Much greater than you.
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  • And it's allowing god to cultivate his prophetic view
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  • Of what he wants to do.
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  • As nehemiah mourned for jerusalem,
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  • God birthed into him his divine vision.
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  • A vision bursts forth
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  • From a heart that burns with passion,
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  • Distressed by the gap between what is
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  • And what should be.
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  • Not just a wish.
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  • A person with a vision has a compulsion,
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  • A burning passion from god
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  • That something must be done.
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  • They cannot keep the status quo.
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  • And like anything that comes from god,
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  • Vision will change the world around us.
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  • Today my friend, mati shoshani, and i
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  • Are sitting here at one for israel bible college
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  • To have a conversation about nehemiah.
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  • So we've been talking a lot
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  • About prayer
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  • And prayer being sort of
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  • The guiding power behind
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  • A lot of what happened here,
  • 00:12:04.740 --> 00:12:06.542
  • What you did with the team
  • 00:12:06.542 --> 00:12:07.676
  • And over the years.
  • 00:12:07.676 --> 00:12:08.944
  • You talk a lot about nehemiah.
  • 00:12:08.944 --> 00:12:11.079
  • And in that book,
  • 00:12:11.079 --> 00:12:12.414
  • And that story is very clear on a few things,
  • 00:12:12.414 --> 00:12:14.983
  • I love the pragmatism of the person,
  • 00:12:14.983 --> 00:12:17.352
  • But there's also an element of prayer.
  • 00:12:17.352 --> 00:12:18.854
  • It's always prayer first, action later.
  • 00:12:18.854 --> 00:12:21.957
  • Both are important. -that's right.
  • 00:12:21.957 --> 00:12:23.258
  • My liking or seeing nehemiah as an inspiration
  • 00:12:23.258 --> 00:12:26.862
  • Started early on in my walk with the lord.
  • 00:12:26.862 --> 00:12:29.398
  • And i think the first time i seriously studied nehemiah,
  • 00:12:29.398 --> 00:12:33.569
  • Actually it's probably closer to 30 years ago.
  • 00:12:33.569 --> 00:12:35.938
  • I remember i had a file with my notes on it
  • 00:12:35.938 --> 00:12:39.408
  • And i just had it in my library for many years.
  • 00:12:39.408 --> 00:12:42.077
  • And then a few years ago, we had a staff conference,
  • 00:12:42.077 --> 00:12:45.414
  • Our first staff conference.
  • 00:12:45.414 --> 00:12:47.115
  • And as a staff, we studied the book of nehemiah
  • 00:12:47.115 --> 00:12:51.854
  • And so dived in much, much deeper to that.
  • 00:12:51.854 --> 00:12:54.456
  • First of all, he wasn't primarily a spiritual leader.
  • 00:12:54.456 --> 00:12:58.460
  • Yeah. -he was a civil leader,
  • 00:12:58.460 --> 00:13:01.163
  • But he knew the word of god.
  • 00:13:01.163 --> 00:13:03.565
  • He really did know the word of god very well,
  • 00:13:03.565 --> 00:13:05.634
  • You can see it in his prayers,
  • 00:13:05.634 --> 00:13:07.269
  • And he was a man of prayer,
  • 00:13:07.269 --> 00:13:08.937
  • And, as you said, action.
  • 00:13:08.937 --> 00:13:10.939
  • And i think that it's a rare combination.
  • 00:13:10.939 --> 00:13:14.076
  • A very strategic thinker.
  • 00:13:14.643 --> 00:13:16.345
  • He thought deeply about things before he did it.
  • 00:13:16.345 --> 00:13:18.847
  • He took the time to pray and learn.
  • 00:13:18.847 --> 00:13:22.017
  • And over the years of my walk with the lord,
  • 00:13:22.017 --> 00:13:23.719
  • I've always gone back on occasion to nehemiah
  • 00:13:23.719 --> 00:13:26.121
  • To receive inspiration.
  • 00:13:26.121 --> 00:13:28.657
  • Finally, i think that the comparison is interesting
  • 00:13:28.657 --> 00:13:32.327
  • Between the period that he lived and our time.
  • 00:13:32.327 --> 00:13:36.632
  • Because when nehemiah lived,
  • 00:13:36.632 --> 00:13:38.000
  • It was a season that
  • 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.102
  • Our people have come back to israel
  • 00:13:40.102 --> 00:13:42.504
  • To rebuild it after the first temple diaspora.
  • 00:13:42.504 --> 00:13:46.141
  • And, you know, the wall, that's his life mission.
  • 00:13:46.141 --> 00:13:49.811
  • The wall around jerusalem, civil,
  • 00:13:49.811 --> 00:13:52.481
  • I mean, it's a, you know, it's a very physical task.
  • 00:13:52.481 --> 00:13:56.118
  • But that provided the basis for yeshua's first coming.
  • 00:13:56.118 --> 00:14:01.056
  • And i think in some way we have a privilege.
  • 00:14:01.056 --> 00:14:03.292
  • I say we, as all of us in the israeli body
  • 00:14:03.292 --> 00:14:06.228
  • Of the messiah,
  • 00:14:06.228 --> 00:14:07.663
  • We have the privilege to build a spiritual wall
  • 00:14:07.663 --> 00:14:11.033
  • Around our people
  • 00:14:11.033 --> 00:14:13.035
  • In preparation for the messiah's second coming.
  • 00:14:13.035 --> 00:14:16.138
  • What is the biggest success,
  • 00:14:16.738 --> 00:14:19.508
  • The biggest moment that is unexpected
  • 00:14:19.508 --> 00:14:21.777
  • In your perception that you didn't see coming,
  • 00:14:21.777 --> 00:14:24.913
  • That you're most proud of or most blessed by?
  • 00:14:24.913 --> 00:14:28.050
  • Can i offer a possible answer?
  • 00:14:28.050 --> 00:14:30.919
  • So this is, my father's a pastor.
  • 00:14:31.687 --> 00:14:33.288
  • This is one of the conversations i have with him.
  • 00:14:33.288 --> 00:14:35.857
  • In almost every congregation in the country,
  • 00:14:35.857 --> 00:14:38.961
  • The pastors, the deacons, the elders,
  • 00:14:38.961 --> 00:14:41.430
  • And anyone of leadership in the congregation
  • 00:14:41.430 --> 00:14:43.799
  • Has come through this institution
  • 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.634
  • And is now better for explaining their faith
  • 00:14:45.634 --> 00:14:48.103
  • And teaching others of the faith in a mature way.
  • 00:14:48.103 --> 00:14:50.572
  • In every house in israel, there's at least,
  • 00:14:50.572 --> 00:14:53.275
  • If they have access to the internet,
  • 00:14:53.275 --> 00:14:54.309
  • They've probably been educated
  • 00:14:54.309 --> 00:14:55.711
  • On the topic.
  • 00:14:55.711 --> 00:14:56.845
  • And those two alone,
  • 00:14:57.312 --> 00:14:59.014
  • If i look at a nation being transformed,
  • 00:14:59.014 --> 00:15:01.483
  • Both when it comes to the depth of the body of messiah
  • 00:15:01.483 --> 00:15:04.152
  • And then the depth of knowledge of it,
  • 00:15:04.152 --> 00:15:06.288
  • That is something that did not exist
  • 00:15:06.288 --> 00:15:07.723
  • Before this organization existed.
  • 00:15:07.723 --> 00:15:11.093
  • I think the principle is,
  • 00:15:11.093 --> 00:15:12.627
  • And i really love about this,
  • 00:15:12.627 --> 00:15:14.096
  • To talk about this in my own life
  • 00:15:14.096 --> 00:15:16.164
  • And share it with my own children
  • 00:15:16.164 --> 00:15:17.699
  • And also with our staff,
  • 00:15:17.699 --> 00:15:19.901
  • That the principle in the kingdom of god is,
  • 00:15:19.901 --> 00:15:24.573
  • Be faithful with little and i'll give you more.
  • 00:15:24.573 --> 00:15:27.676
  • And that's, we really try to live our lives
  • 00:15:27.676 --> 00:15:30.579
  • According to that.
  • 00:15:30.579 --> 00:15:31.913
  • So erez, where do you go next?
  • 00:15:31.913 --> 00:15:32.914
  • We've talked about all these
  • 00:15:32.914 --> 00:15:33.815
  • Different things that
  • 00:15:33.815 --> 00:15:34.516
  • You've been doing,
  • 00:15:34.516 --> 00:15:35.617
  • What are the next 2, 3, 5 years?
  • 00:15:35.617 --> 00:15:37.919
  • What do they look like?
  • 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.354
  • So first of all, for the past 12 years,
  • 00:15:39.354 --> 00:15:42.824
  • 13 years, we have been praying about our next station
  • 00:15:42.824 --> 00:15:46.328
  • As the current building has become way too small for us.
  • 00:15:46.328 --> 00:15:49.331
  • And we're at the phase where
  • 00:15:49.331 --> 00:15:52.134
  • We're waiting for permits to start building
  • 00:15:52.134 --> 00:15:54.069
  • A much bigger campus in a different location.
  • 00:15:54.069 --> 00:15:57.539
  • So that's something that takes a lot of effort
  • 00:15:57.539 --> 00:15:59.541
  • And will enable us to do a whole lot more.
  • 00:15:59.541 --> 00:16:03.078
  • So let's end on a topic of prayer.
  • 00:16:03.078 --> 00:16:05.080
  • We've talked a lot about nehemiah.
  • 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:06.481
  • So the junction between a life of prayer
  • 00:16:06.481 --> 00:16:09.418
  • And a life of action.
  • 00:16:09.418 --> 00:16:11.053
  • And those two come together.
  • 00:16:11.053 --> 00:16:12.220
  • If someone's watching this
  • 00:16:12.220 --> 00:16:13.155
  • And they're asking themselves,
  • 00:16:13.155 --> 00:16:14.489
  • Okay, where do i connect those two?
  • 00:16:14.489 --> 00:16:16.258
  • The action about israel and the prayer about israel.
  • 00:16:16.258 --> 00:16:18.760
  • What's your message to them?
  • 00:16:18.760 --> 00:16:19.961
  • So they can get prayer requests
  • 00:16:19.961 --> 00:16:22.497
  • As well as action items
  • 00:16:22.497 --> 00:16:24.900
  • On our website, oneforisrael.org.
  • 00:16:24.900 --> 00:16:28.770
  • That's oneforisrael.org.
  • 00:16:28.770 --> 00:16:31.573
  • What is your vision today?
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  • For me and our team at one for israel,
  • 00:16:34.709 --> 00:16:37.145
  • We are burdened for this land
  • 00:16:37.145 --> 00:16:39.314
  • And my people israel.
  • 00:16:39.314 --> 00:16:41.149
  • We see that spiritually israel is not as it should be.
  • 00:16:41.149 --> 00:16:45.454
  • Rejection of the messiah and even rejection of god
  • 00:16:45.454 --> 00:16:48.690
  • Are all too common in the holy land.
  • 00:16:48.690 --> 00:16:51.193
  • This is still god's chosen people
  • 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:53.695
  • And god's promised land.
  • 00:16:53.695 --> 00:16:55.530
  • But we see the great need for god's move in revival.
  • 00:16:55.530 --> 00:16:59.468
  • When yeshua saw jerusalem, he wept.
  • 00:16:59.468 --> 00:17:02.337
  • He carried a burden that his people would know
  • 00:17:02.337 --> 00:17:05.107
  • The one that could bring true peace.
  • 00:17:05.107 --> 00:17:07.876
  • When paul thought of israel,
  • 00:17:07.876 --> 00:17:09.644
  • He said that his heart ached in anguish.
  • 00:17:09.644 --> 00:17:12.914
  • These are heavy burdens.
  • 00:17:12.914 --> 00:17:14.549
  • Yet it's god alone that gives the vision
  • 00:17:14.549 --> 00:17:18.086
  • And empowers us to carry out that vision.
  • 00:17:18.086 --> 00:17:21.356
  • Let the burden shape you.
  • 00:17:21.356 --> 00:17:23.125
  • Feel the heart of god.
  • 00:17:23.625 --> 00:17:25.560
  • The thing that breaks you
  • 00:17:25.560 --> 00:17:27.129
  • Is the thing that god can use to build you.
  • 00:17:27.129 --> 00:17:30.031
  • Let the weight drive you to seek god.
  • 00:17:30.031 --> 00:17:33.502
  • Go to him and lay your burdens upon him.
  • 00:17:33.502 --> 00:17:37.105
  • Burden is transformed into vision
  • 00:17:37.105 --> 00:17:39.574
  • Only in the place of prayer.
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  • Discover how you can
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  • Pick up bricks
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  • And build with god.
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  • Order our new book today,
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  • "walking the walls with nehemiah",
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  • And awaken god's vision in your life.
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  • Nehemiah had received a burden from the lord
  • 00:18:06.803 --> 00:18:09.907
  • For the ruined city of jerusalem.
  • 00:18:09.907 --> 00:18:12.476
  • But he didn't just rush ahead with his own ideas
  • 00:18:12.476 --> 00:18:15.946
  • On how to solve the problems.
  • 00:18:15.946 --> 00:18:17.714
  • He spent time actually grieving and mourning
  • 00:18:17.714 --> 00:18:20.551
  • With god for days.
  • 00:18:20.551 --> 00:18:22.452
  • He didn't just buckle under the weight of the grief.
  • 00:18:22.452 --> 00:18:25.889
  • He knew that god would bring comfort.
  • 00:18:25.889 --> 00:18:29.092
  • Nehemiah's name means "god will comfort."
  • 00:18:29.092 --> 00:18:32.896
  • And it's a powerful thing when we open our hearts to god
  • 00:18:32.896 --> 00:18:36.934
  • And feel the desperate need to which he calls us.
  • 00:18:36.934 --> 00:18:40.971
  • He will use us to bring the comfort to others.
  • 00:18:40.971 --> 00:18:44.241
  • Looking at the words of nehemiah,
  • 00:18:44.975 --> 00:18:47.044
  • We can find powerful principles
  • 00:18:47.044 --> 00:18:49.446
  • On praying through a burden
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  • So that it shapes into vision.
  • 00:18:51.548 --> 00:18:53.884
  • First and foremost, he focused on god's character.
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  • He began:
  • 00:18:57.321 --> 00:19:06.597
  • He prayed like a man
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  • Who knew god's promises are true.
  • 00:19:08.665 --> 00:19:11.368
  • Next, nehemiah looked within.
  • 00:19:11.368 --> 00:19:14.271
  • He confessed his sins,
  • 00:19:14.271 --> 00:19:16.273
  • Not just the sins of his people,
  • 00:19:16.273 --> 00:19:18.108
  • But his own sin.
  • 00:19:18.108 --> 00:19:19.710
  • Revival always begins with a focus on god and repentance.
  • 00:19:19.710 --> 00:19:24.514
  • And after confession, nehemiah prayed the scriptures.
  • 00:19:24.514 --> 00:19:28.752
  • He was a civil leader, not a religious leader,
  • 00:19:28.752 --> 00:19:31.788
  • But he still knew god's word.
  • 00:19:31.788 --> 00:19:34.524
  • He reminded god of his covenant promises
  • 00:19:34.524 --> 00:19:37.327
  • That he would restore his people.
  • 00:19:37.327 --> 00:19:39.529
  • And as he prayed, he began to realize something.
  • 00:19:39.529 --> 00:19:42.466
  • He was the one that god was going to use
  • 00:19:42.466 --> 00:19:45.469
  • To accomplish the next step of his redemption plan.
  • 00:19:45.469 --> 00:19:48.672
  • Nehemiah would share his burden
  • 00:19:48.672 --> 00:19:50.641
  • And vision with others of similar heart.
  • 00:19:50.641 --> 00:19:53.477
  • He knew that he himself would need prayer and support.
  • 00:19:53.477 --> 00:19:57.614
  • The next step in god's plan
  • 00:19:57.614 --> 00:19:59.650
  • Would require nehemiah to ask a favor from the king,
  • 00:19:59.650 --> 00:20:03.220
  • The ruler of half the world.
  • 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:05.355
  • So nehemiah finished his prayer by asking god:
  • 00:20:05.355 --> 00:20:08.892
  • "grant me mercy in the sight of this man."
  • 00:20:08.892 --> 00:20:11.795
  • This man, the emperor of persia
  • 00:20:11.795 --> 00:20:15.065
  • With armies at his disposal.
  • 00:20:15.065 --> 00:20:17.334
  • Yet when nehemiah came before god,
  • 00:20:17.334 --> 00:20:19.870
  • He was aware that even the king was just a man.
  • 00:20:19.870 --> 00:20:24.041
  • When you've stood before the throne of god,
  • 00:20:24.041 --> 00:20:26.777
  • You won't fear the thrones of earth.
  • 00:20:26.777 --> 00:20:30.280
  • We're sitting down with hananya naftali,
  • 00:20:30.280 --> 00:20:33.016
  • A digital aide in the office of the israeli prime minister.
  • 00:20:33.016 --> 00:20:36.887
  • Hananya can give us insight
  • 00:20:36.887 --> 00:20:39.356
  • On standing before powerful world leaders
  • 00:20:39.356 --> 00:20:42.326
  • While staying anchored in faith.
  • 00:20:42.326 --> 00:20:44.628
  • Hananya, thank you so much
  • 00:20:45.195 --> 00:20:46.530
  • For taking the time to be with me today
  • 00:20:46.530 --> 00:20:49.466
  • And discuss prayer and favor.
  • 00:20:49.466 --> 00:20:53.170
  • First of all, it's wonderful to be here with you.
  • 00:20:53.170 --> 00:20:55.806
  • And i have to say it's such a big blessing for me
  • 00:20:55.806 --> 00:20:58.842
  • Because growing up as an israeli,
  • 00:20:58.842 --> 00:21:01.878
  • I never, in my wildest thoughts
  • 00:21:01.878 --> 00:21:05.182
  • Ever imagined that i would serve
  • 00:21:05.182 --> 00:21:07.484
  • The prime minister of israel.
  • 00:21:07.484 --> 00:21:09.553
  • So i remember actually growing up,
  • 00:21:09.553 --> 00:21:11.054
  • I would always look up to him,
  • 00:21:11.054 --> 00:21:13.123
  • Seeing him on television.
  • 00:21:13.123 --> 00:21:14.658
  • And, you know, growing up,
  • 00:21:14.658 --> 00:21:16.059
  • I used to be very shy.
  • 00:21:16.059 --> 00:21:17.594
  • So for me, sitting here, talking to you,
  • 00:21:17.594 --> 00:21:21.031
  • That was the opposite of my nature.
  • 00:21:21.031 --> 00:21:24.101
  • Natural tendency. -exactly.
  • 00:21:24.101 --> 00:21:26.236
  • And that's why i said, you know,
  • 00:21:26.236 --> 00:21:27.938
  • God has such an incredible sense of humor.
  • 00:21:27.938 --> 00:21:30.073
  • But, you know, i have to say,
  • 00:21:30.073 --> 00:21:31.375
  • When i understood my calling,
  • 00:21:31.375 --> 00:21:33.610
  • All i had to do is to answer.
  • 00:21:33.610 --> 00:21:35.779
  • You know, when that was god's mission
  • 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:37.481
  • For my life, all i have to do
  • 00:21:37.481 --> 00:21:39.082
  • Is answer and trust,
  • 00:21:39.082 --> 00:21:41.318
  • Answer yes, and trust that he will provide me
  • 00:21:41.318 --> 00:21:43.987
  • With the tools, the right tools
  • 00:21:43.987 --> 00:21:45.856
  • To fulfill this mission. -amen.
  • 00:21:45.856 --> 00:21:48.024
  • To make a long story short,
  • 00:21:48.024 --> 00:21:49.393
  • I started filming videos about israel.
  • 00:21:49.393 --> 00:21:52.696
  • It was after the protective edge operation,
  • 00:21:52.696 --> 00:21:55.499
  • The gaza war in 2014.
  • 00:21:55.499 --> 00:21:57.434
  • And i remember raging inside of me.
  • 00:21:57.434 --> 00:22:01.671
  • Now, at that time, you were in high school?
  • 00:22:01.671 --> 00:22:03.273
  • No, i was... -in the army?
  • 00:22:03.273 --> 00:22:05.575
  • In the army. exactly.
  • 00:22:05.575 --> 00:22:06.510
  • I was in the army corps.
  • 00:22:06.510 --> 00:22:07.911
  • They sent us into the gaza strip
  • 00:22:07.911 --> 00:22:09.413
  • And we were given strict commands.
  • 00:22:09.413 --> 00:22:12.249
  • You are not going to target civilians.
  • 00:22:12.249 --> 00:22:14.551
  • This is the objectives, to destroy hamas tunnels,
  • 00:22:14.551 --> 00:22:17.988
  • Hamas infrastructure.
  • 00:22:17.988 --> 00:22:19.523
  • And once we got back...
  • 00:22:19.523 --> 00:22:22.058
  • So when you're in the gaza strip,
  • 00:22:22.058 --> 00:22:23.326
  • You actually don't have any communication
  • 00:22:23.326 --> 00:22:25.228
  • To the outside world.
  • 00:22:25.228 --> 00:22:26.530
  • But when you return to israel,
  • 00:22:26.530 --> 00:22:28.398
  • You get your phone.
  • 00:22:28.398 --> 00:22:29.633
  • And what's the first thing that, you know,
  • 00:22:29.633 --> 00:22:32.569
  • A jewish soldier does when they get
  • 00:22:32.569 --> 00:22:34.838
  • Their phone back?
  • 00:22:34.838 --> 00:22:36.106
  • You call your mother.
  • 00:22:36.106 --> 00:22:36.907
  • So i called my mom
  • 00:22:36.907 --> 00:22:38.074
  • And i calmed her down.
  • 00:22:38.074 --> 00:22:40.076
  • Next thing i did, i checked the news
  • 00:22:40.076 --> 00:22:41.344
  • And i see that they're vilifying us.
  • 00:22:41.344 --> 00:22:43.880
  • They're calling us war criminals, you know,
  • 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:46.116
  • Burning the flag of israel.
  • 00:22:46.116 --> 00:22:47.250
  • And i was raging in my heart.
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  • And i don't know if it's a very spiritual thing,
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  • But, you know, it's a very israeli thing.
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  • And i decided to make a change.
  • 00:22:52.689 --> 00:22:54.658
  • And i started making videos about israel
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  • And it got the attention of the advisors
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  • Around the prime minister because i asked them
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  • If i can interview the prime minister.
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  • I just sent them a message on facebook.
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  • The simplest thing, i introduced myself
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  • And i said, hey, actually, we follow what you're doing
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  • And let's book an interview with the prime minister.
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  • Now, in israel, when you say,
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  • Let's book an interview, we don't mean right now.
  • 00:23:20.917 --> 00:23:24.554
  • It's like seven months from now, you know,
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  • The israeli time.
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  • So what i have to say is
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  • That it's very interesting
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  • How we made the interview happen.
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  • And after i interviewed the prime minister,
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  • They offered me the job
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  • And now i work for the prime minister.
  • 00:23:36.433 --> 00:23:39.035
  • Something very inspirational that we see
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  • In the book of nehemiah is that once he knew
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  • What god has called him to do,
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  • To leave the palace and go to jerusalem,
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  • You know, this deserted place and build the city wall,
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  • He couldn't just tell the king,
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  • I'm quitting, you know,
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  • See you in jerusalem.
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  • He couldn't do that.
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  • And so for four months,
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  • He was praying.
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  • He called some others around him
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  • To pray with him at some point.
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  • He prayed, then he waited for the right opportunity
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  • To speak with the king
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  • And tell him what he wanted.
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  • And the opportunity presented itself.
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  • The king asked him, so what are you asking?
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  • And nehemiah didn't start mumbling.
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  • He just gave the king a list.
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  • Boom, boom, boom, boom...
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  • And the king gave him everything
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  • Because it was prepared in a lot of prayer.
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  • Did you have a similar experience?
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  • Something you can share with us?
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  • It's so inspiring.
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  • You know, the book of nehemiah
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  • And you see so many similar stories like, you know,
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  • In the book of esther, queen esther.
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  • And one thing they have in common
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  • Is the boldness. -yes. -that i believe
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  • Stems from our faith in god. -yes.
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  • And knowing who you are in god.
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  • Exactly.
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  • You know, that's something
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  • That really pushed me
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  • In my service with the prime minister
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  • Or other stuff.
  • 00:24:55.845 --> 00:24:57.047
  • It's because i understand
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  • That at the end of the day,
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  • I report to god, not to people.
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  • So why should i fear people?
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  • And i want to believe that nehemiah,
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  • He had the same or similar moment
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  • That he understands that, hey, i'm in this pivotal time
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  • In the jewish history.
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  • We need to rebuild.
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  • We need to restore, time of restoration.
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  • There is no time for mumbling,
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  • No time for overthinking.
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  • And, erez, i have to say,
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  • The god of israel is not history.
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  • I know we read about it in bible,
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  • But at the end of the day, he is alive.
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  • And i believe that seeing israel today,
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  • It's the greatest proof that god is alive
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  • And he's faithful to his promises.
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  • Amen.
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  • And he has a plan
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  • And he will see this plan through
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  • For all peoples.
  • 00:25:42.125 --> 00:25:43.994
  • Well, thank you, hananya.
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  • It's been absolutely fascinating.
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  • And i really thank you for your time.
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  • And for you, our viewers,
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  • I pray for you that you will know the place
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  • That you have before god,
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  • That you will spend time in prayer.
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  • And when he calls you, you will say:
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  • Yes, here i am.
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  • Each one of you,
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  • You may not stand before kings
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  • Or prime ministers,
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  • But each one of you has a place of influence.
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  • And i'm praying that for you.
  • 00:26:11.087 --> 00:26:13.490
  • Nehemiah's burden had become vision,
  • 00:26:14.257 --> 00:26:17.527
  • Birthed in prayer.
  • 00:26:17.527 --> 00:26:19.295
  • And prayer would now lead him to his next step
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  • Of bold faith.
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  • So let me ask you, what is your prayer?
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  • God wants to do something in the earth today.
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  • And he's looking for those willing to partner with him,
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  • That will take on the burden,
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  • That will catch a vision, that will pray,
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  • Really pray.
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  • See god as he is, confess sin,
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  • Remember the covenant
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  • And be willing to stand before kings or coworkers,
  • 00:26:46.890 --> 00:26:50.727
  • Neighbors or nations.
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  • Next time, we'll see what happened
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  • When nehemiah's prayer met god's opportunity
  • 00:26:54.964 --> 00:26:58.568
  • And how a cupbearer became a builder
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  • Who changed the future of jerusalem.
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  • Join us as we continue
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  • To walk the walls with nehemiah.
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