Please remember what you told your servant Moses: "If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations."  Nehemiah 1:8 (NLT) " If you want specific answers to prayer, then make specific requests. If your prayers consist of general requests, how will you know if they're answered?  " Here are four secrets to answered prayer from the life of Nehemiah: 1. Base your request on God's character.  Pray like you  know  God will answer you: "I'm expecting you to answer this prayer because of who you are. You are a faithful God. You are a great God. You are a loving God. You are a wonderful God. You can handle this problem, God!" 2. Confess the sins of which you're aware.  After Nehemiah bases his prayer on who God is, he confesses his sins. He says, "We've sinned." He says "I confess . . . myself . . . my father's house . . . we have acted wickedly . . . we have not obeyed." It wasn't Nehemiah's fault th