The close of Nehemiah’s prayer is one of my favorites in all of Scripture. Up until this point in the narrative, Nehemiah’s position in the Persian kingdom is unknown, but at the end of this prayer, we discover that he was the cupbearer to the king. Nehemiah, like Daniel before him, had received great favor and promotion in a foreign empire. As the cupbearer, Nehemiah was a right-hand man of sorts to this Persian King Artaxerxes. Nehemiah was influential and positioned well to make a request of the king, his government, and his nation...

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