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Nehemiah was a great leader. According to James Montgomery Boice, Nehemiah's leadership abilities were born from his submission to God, his ability to focus on the right goals, his wisdom in handling complex situations, and his courage to act decisively. "But the most important thing about Nehemiah," says Boice, "is that he was a man of God, and because he was so close to God in prayer and...

overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of those about me seemed insufficient for the day.”3 Is this what makes a leader? The world may not think so, but the Bible teaches that this is the first and greatest dynamic: the leader and God. We are going to be looking at Nehemiah’s mastery of prayer more than once in this volume, but there is no better way to be introduced to it than by a study of the prayer with which the book starts. Here are
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