{"id":2022,"date":"2022-01-23T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2022-01-29T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:10:26","slug":"nehemiah-1b-whats-your-first-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"Nehemiah (1B): What&#8217;s Your First Response?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/01-23-22.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:4<br>Response: Fast and Pray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasons a person might fast:<br>To express sorrow.<br>To express repentance.<br>To express humility.<br>To express concern. <br>To express worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:5-11 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:5<br>Nehemiah Praises God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:6-7<br>Nehemiah confesses disobedience and corruption against God <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:8-10<br>Nehemiah calls on God to be God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deuteronomy 4:33 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah 1:11a <br>Nehemiah asks God to give him favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 6:5-8,  Matthew 6:16-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prayer and fasting should be our first response, not our last resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Challenge: fast and pray 3 times this week.<br>Personal: for an area of need.<br>Community: for our outreach efforts.<br>Kingdom: for unbelievers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d722b853-a9ea-4f9e-8739-229be0b6decd\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/01-23-22.mp3\">Nehemiah (1B): What&#8217;s Your First Response<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/01-23-22.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d722b853-a9ea-4f9e-8739-229be0b6decd\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nehemiah 1:4Response: Fast and Pray Reasons a person might fast:To express sorrow.To express repentance.To express humility.To express concern. To express worship. Nehemiah 1:5-11 Nehemiah 1:5Nehemiah Praises God Nehemiah 1:6-7Nehemiah confesses disobedience and corruption against God Nehemiah 1:8-10Nehemiah calls on God to be God. Deuteronomy 4:33 Nehemiah 1:11a Nehemiah asks God to give him favor. Matthew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nehemiah (1B): What&#8217;s Your First Response?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nehemiah","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}