Nehemiah 1: 6  please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

Nehemiah 2: 4 Then the king said to me, “What do you request?”

So I prayed to the God of heaven.