Are You a Trouble Maker?
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Nehemiah 6:1-4
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1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah was doing a good work doing the task in which it was that God had pressed against his heart. Yet their will always come a time where when ever your doing very good at what it is your doing that people don't like it so they decided to start problems. People would rather see you worst off then them. They hate when what God has for you starts to come together especially when they expected it to fail. You wonder why is it that people rarely like seeing other's doing good for themselves? Yet Nehemiah reply back to their trouble making was only I am doing a great work so why should I stop? If you really look at it it's like saying why should I come down to your level to play your games when things are going good for me. Really think about it if someone is causing issues in your life when things are going good for you why should you have to go down to their level and stop what your doing? It's not like what your doing is not coming together for a better cause! Nehemiah decided that he would keep doing his work! Yet the enemy decided he would keep coming after Nehemiah trying to start trouble. Think about Job! Job was a good man he had so much going for him when he was tested by the enemy. The enemy did everything to get Job to stop serving God. Yet Job even after losing everything was still going to serve God!
Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
He Say, She Say
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Nehemiah 6:5-8
5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
If people can't find nothing on you often they will make up something to find out about you. Why spread rumors about things that are not even true? Sanballat sent a report saying things in which were not true about Nehemiah and his work in which was being done. Yet Nehemiah reply was that his accusations were false about what it was that he was saying about him. It's a great feeling to know within yourself your doing the right thing that when people make up stories about you because they are looking for some type of fault that you can just reply saying that what they have to say about you is false! To be confidant about it! Say what you please but what your saying has no truth in it! Alot of the time the things in which people say can try to get you from doing the task in which God wants you to accomplish. Job was getting tried by God but even Job wouldn't listen to God when he lost everything he was going to keep serving even when others think you should stop keep doing what God has called you to do.
Job 2:9-10
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
You Made it Despite of What Everyone Else Said You Trusted God In Faith!
Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Nehemiah finished the task it was that God said and in record time because God was with him! We think about Job, He lost everything but in the end God gave him everything back even better than before! So what Gods task may seem strange to everyone else no matter what trust. Gods test for Job was for him to be faithful and keep serving God! Noah's test of faith was to build and ark! The three Hebrew boys was to not bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar!
Nehemiah to build a wall! Whatever your task is in the end it will be worth it. God does not lay things on our hearts to do for a waste. Ive watched as God has started to restore my family after he told me to "build an Ark " which was leave college in my junior year a crazy step of faith but my family is being restored more and more each day and I love it! I wouldn't have it any other way! Despite of what anyone said I seen it all come together right before my eyes just the way God said! Noah's family got saved from a flood, The hebrew boys didn't get burned in the fire, Nehemiah finished his wall!Job saw a better latter day after everything he went through God restored everything back! That's why it is key to walk by faith and not by sight! It is best to believe God despite of what things look like or others may say!
Nehemiah to build a wall! Whatever your task is in the end it will be worth it. God does not lay things on our hearts to do for a waste. Ive watched as God has started to restore my family after he told me to "build an Ark " which was leave college in my junior year a crazy step of faith but my family is being restored more and more each day and I love it! I wouldn't have it any other way! Despite of what anyone said I seen it all come together right before my eyes just the way God said! Noah's family got saved from a flood, The hebrew boys didn't get burned in the fire, Nehemiah finished his wall!Job saw a better latter day after everything he went through God restored everything back! That's why it is key to walk by faith and not by sight! It is best to believe God despite of what things look like or others may say!
Job 42:12-13
12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
I take Back What I said!
Nehemiah 6:16
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
In the end no one will really have much to say when they see that God was behind what was to be accomplished! The enemies were cast down in their own eyes because they thought that Nehemiah was the one who was behind the work being done but it was God. When God sets out for a task to be finished it will be finished. The floods came in Noah's day and once they came No one had much to say because they were all drowning because it flooded. Jesus is coming back one day and you may laugh mock and make jokes now but one day we will all have to stand before God on judgement day! On that day everyone's lips will be moving confessing Jesus Christ is Lord!
Philippians 2:10-11
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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