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Rise and Build Nehemiah 6: Focus and Finish

Rise and Build Nehemiah 6: Focus and Finish. Pray and Commit. Pray and Commit We got 2!. PK. What are your New Year’s Resolutions?. What were your New Year’s Resolutions?. We got distracted And forgot the Greatness of the Goal And the Power of our God.

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Rise and Build Nehemiah 6: Focus and Finish

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  1. Rise and BuildNehemiah 6: Focus and Finish

  2. Pray and Commit

  3. Pray and CommitWe got 2!

  4. PK

  5. What are yourNew Year’s Resolutions?

  6. What were yourNew Year’s Resolutions?

  7. We got distractedAnd forgot the Greatness of the GoalAnd the Power of our God

  8. What if there was hope?What if we really could change?What if we could be differentA year from now?

  9. Nehemiah is doing a Great workIn the Power of his GodWhat can stop him?Becoming Distracted

  10. Nehemiah - Jewish Servant to a Persian King - Never acts without praying. Never prays without acting on it

  11. Review- Hears a report from his homeland- Prays for 4 months, then asks the King- Building walls with great opposition

  12. Nehemiah is resolved: To build a wallAnd change the course of a nation

  13. Distraction is one of the GreatestTools of the EnemyUnless we understand…The Greatness of our WorkAnd the Power of our God

  14. Chapter 6

  15. When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—

  16. Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”

  17. Anything suspicious here?

  18. So far- Opposition from outside- Discouragement inside- Appeals from beside- Exploitation by fellow Jews

  19. “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”But they were scheming to harm me;

  20. The Greater the Calling The Greater the Potential Impact=The Greater the Opposition

  21. The Greater the Calling The Greater the Potential Impact=The Greater the OppositionJesus faced it

  22. Distraction is the one of the GreatestTools of the EnemyFocus comes from UnderstandingThe Greatness of your WorkAnd the Power of your God

  23. When your life is about Something GreatDistractions are seen For what they are

  24. …they were scheming to harm me; so I sent messengers to themwith this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”

  25. Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.Isn't Nehemiah building a wall?

  26. Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.Isn't Nehemiah building a wall?He’s rebuilding a people

  27. Isn't Nehemiah building a wall?He’s rebuilding a peopleHow does that VisionContribute to strength and resolve?

  28. Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter…Meaning…?

  29. …in which was written: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem says it is true—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.

  30. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!’

  31. Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together.”

  32. Plausible…But Nehemiah isn't concerned with his rights, but doing what is rightHow great is the threat?

  33. Distraction:Fear and Intimidation

  34. Temptation:Respond Emotionally- "Why me?"

  35. Distracting Temptation:Respond Emotionally- "Why me?"Truth: It’s not about NehemiahIt’s about the Work

  36. Respond Emotionally=- Standstill- Everything Falls Apart

  37. Distraction is the one of the GreatestTools of the EnemyUnless we understandThe Greatness of our WorkAnd the Power of our God

  38. Distraction is the one of the GreatestTools of the EnemyUnless we understandThe Greatness of our WorkAnd the Power of our GodIt's about God, not Nehemiah

  39. How should heRespond?

  40. I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.”

  41. They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”

  42. 1- Give it the depththat it deserves2- Pray, Trust and Continue the Work

  43. One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home.Chill Time!

  44. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple…

  45. …and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”

  46. Plausible…

  47. Plausible…Temptation: Let Fear Dictate Actions

  48. Plausible…Temptation: Let Fear Dictate ActionsIf so, he sinsDisqualifies himself and it ends

  49. Distraction is the one of the GreatestTools of the EnemyFocus comes from UnderstandingThe Greatness of the WorkAnd the Power of God

  50. Decision:Do I protect me?Or protect the Work and Trust that God will protect me?

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