by Nannette Oatley Johnson | Oct 1, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friend, Nehemiah 9:1-37 is the longest recorded prayer in the entire Bible. I won’t be laying it out here but I strongly urge you to take a look at it. The people who both offered the prayer and heard it clearly understood why they had fallen into...
by Nannette Oatley Johnson | Aug 31, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friends, Don’t you just love when you are reading, researching and writing about a topic that you, first and foremost, are the one most blessed by it? I can only hope, that you my readers, find my writing encouraging and uplifting too! God’s word is a...
by Nannette Oatley Johnson | Aug 1, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friends, In Chapter 6 of Nehemiah it was more of the same. The opposition continued and crises and problems threatened the very existence of the entire Jewish state. One of the crucial lessons of the book of Nehemiah is that life is a battle from beginning to...
by Nannette Oatley Johnson | Jun 30, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friends, Last month in Nehemiah chapter 4, the tension escalated to the point where the enemies of God were plotting to assassinate the Jews and put an end to their work (4:11-12). Nehemiah’s people had to continue the sacred work of rebuilding the temple,...
by Nannette Oatley Johnson | Jun 1, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friends, God put the Book of Nehemiah on my heart in early 2023. I’ve been sharing the story in segments with you ever since. Let me do a quick re-cap for you so you can appreciate the momentum that is building and why Nehemiah and the Jewish remnant...
by Nannette Oatley Johnson | May 4, 2023 | RESILIENT PSYCHOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Dear Friends, As the second chapter of Nehemiah opens, his opportunity has arrived. After four months of prayer the time had come. In his duties before the king as a cupbearer, the anguish he felt within was etched on his face. The king of Persia asked him, “Why...
