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Everything written in God’s word is to encourage us.  We are like living stones being built together.  This is like a picture of the church coming together.  Nehemiah’s heart is the secret to rebuilding the walls of the church in America.  Many things have been done in the church in America; some good and some bad things must all be acknowledged.  What was done wrong before God must be acknowledged and repented of.  Nehemiah heard from the Lord and encouraged them to rebuild by their sphere of influence.  He assigned them parts of the walls near the homes.  It’s time for us to get busy.  Everything just doesn’t happen; there is process.  This is not about watching everybody do this.  You are going have to take responsibility  around your influence.  It’s not bout building buildings but instead about building people.  People are what is important; because if you don’t focus on people you will be caught up in rebuilding the building at the expense of God’s people.  They continue to discuss how just the hearing of this caused Sanballat and his crew to be upset.  They began to attack before they got started; and  it didn’t stop them; they even came back  to try to stop them again.  What did they actually say.? We live and move by faith.  We must not throw our faith away.  The enemy comes against your faith you must contend for it.  Sanballat comes to disintegrate your faith.  He began to sow seeds of doubt with the desired result of stopping them.  “What are these feeble Jews doing?” he asked. The enemy will focus in your limitations and inabilities to do what God has called you to do and if you listen you will go down.  If you are trying to do anything through your own strength then you are defeated already.  Our inabilities should be clearly visible before all so that the Lord will get all the glory.  If you take inventory of your strengths instead of putting your faith in God you will go down.  Sanballat goes further to question whether the walls will ever be rebuilt.  The enemy will continue to sow doubt to drown you out. 

Sanballat sows seeds of Doubt

 

Sanballat continues to do his very best at attacking Nehemiah by asking more questions to so doubt such as “will they offer sacrifices?”.  This is scary to Lucifer because he wants the money.  He realizes that they are going to lose their money because God will be honored.  He continues to sow more doubt.  “Will they finish it in a day?”  They begin to put rulers on you trying to measure what God is going to do.  Don’t worry about it; just work.  Know the vision because people without a vision perish.  “Can they bring the stones back to life?”  How many people have been so hurt and burned?  1 Peter 2:5 says “you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”  Yes, Sanballat, what God has called us to do will happen and the walls of the church’s in America will be rebuilt. 

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