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Nehemiah 1:4-11 (August 11) When I heard this, I sat down and cried. In fact, I refused to eat for several days, for I spent the time in prayer to the God of heaven.
"O Lord God," I cried out; O great and awesome God who keeps his promises and is so loving and kind to those who love and obey him! Hear my prayer!
Listen carefully to what I say! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you;
yes, I and my people have committed the horrible sin of not obeying the commandments you gave us through your servant Moses.
Oh, please remember what you told Moses! You said, "'If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations;
but if you return to me and obey my laws, even though you are exiled to the farthest corners of the universe, I will bring you back to Jerusalem. For Jerusalem is the place in which I have chosen to live.
"We are your servants, the people you rescued by your great power.
O Lord, please hear my prayer! Heed the prayers of those of us who delight to honor you. Please help me now as I go in and ask the king for a great favor--put it into his heart to be kind to me." (I was the king's cupbearer.)
Daniel 9:3-10 (December 2) As I prayed, I fasted, and wore rough sackcloth, and sprinkled myself with ashes,
and confessed my sins and those of my people. "O Lord," I prayed, "you are a great and awesome God; you always fulfill your promises of mercy to those who love you and who keep your laws.
But we have sinned so much; we have rebelled against you and scorned your commands.
We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, whom you sent again and again down through the years, with your messages to our kings and princes and to all the people.
"O Lord, you are righteous; but as for us, we are always shamefaced with sin, just as you see us now; yes, all of us--the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel, scattered near and far wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
O Lord, we and our kings and princes and fathers are weighted down with shame because of all of our sins.
"But the Lord our God is merciful, and pardons even those who have rebelled against him.
"O Lord our God, we have disobeyed you; we have flouted all the laws you gave us through your servants, the prophets.
Colossians 1:9-12 (October 4) So ever since we first heard about you we have kept on praying and asking God to help you understand what he wants you to do; asking him to make you wise about spiritual things;
and asking that the way you live will always please the Lord and honor him, so that you will always be doing good, kind things for others, while all the time you are learning to know God better and better.
We are praying, too, that you will be filled with his mighty, glorious strength so that you can keep going no matter what happens--always full of the joy of the Lord,
and always thankful to the Father who has made us fit to share all the wonderful things that belong to those who live in the Kingdom of light.