El Paso reconnaissance

Nehemiah 7-9

The Lord blessed us with a good trip to El Paso.  In just a few days, the Lord warmed our hearts for the land and people.  I had a good research meeting yesterday.  We saw several houses and made an offer on one.  We pray that the Lord will give us wisdom, and that He will protect us and bless us as we seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness.

I love these verses from Nehemiah, and I pray that the Lord would bring about such a recovery of those who profess to be followers of Christ (especially in the US):

^9:5 Then the leaders of the Levites ... called out to the people: "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, for he lives from everlasting to everlasting!" Then they prayed:   "May your glorious name be praised! May it be exalted above all blessing and praise!  ⁶ "You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you. ⁷ "You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham. ⁸ When he had proved himself faithful, you made a covenant with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. And you have done what you promised, for you are always true to your word. ... ¹⁶ "But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands. ¹⁷ They refused to obey and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them, ¹⁸ even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!' They committed terrible blasphemies. ¹⁹ "But in your great mercy you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night. ²⁰ You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst.

Heavenly Father, I praise you because you are the only true God, Yahweh.  Your faithfulness endures to all generations, and your love has been poured out abundantly in Christ Jesus.  Thank you for taking care of me; may I always remain thankful for your kind and careful attention.  I love you, and I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.