See What The Lord Has Done 3/18/2018

They All Don’t Like What They See

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Ask three people about a incident that they all witness and you may have three different and conflicting observations

President Trump can does something and it makes the daily news feed. Well if you listen to CNN you will get one version and Fox News will give you an entirely opposite one.

You can achieve in your mindset a great personal accomplishment. And you are of the foolish conclusion that every one is happy for you.

The fact is that every one is not a supporter of your dream. And not every one is elated for your success.

As a Born - Again believer it should come as no surprise that the adversary the Devil is not at all delightful in your Heavenly success stories.

Not only that but he has human imps that are used to not only dislike your spiritual gains, but are there to hinder you from obtaining them.

But the fact is that God told Joshua:

  There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee

9. What you have to realize in your sanctified mind is that whether they like what they see or not: they will know that it was the work of God.

10. I don’t care if they don’t like it. If it makes them upset. If it infuriates them; Just as long as they know God did it.

Nehemiah in our theme: faces a test of faith and organizational skills that every spiritual leader as well as the individual saint will come against in their life.

Nehemiah faced these challenges that we have and will have in our warfare.

He had to have continual concern for what belonged to God

He had to have a powerful prayer life ( Nehemiah prayed from Nov/Dec to March /April) before he approached king of Persia.

He could not become discouraged by first impressions

He had to be a motivator to people who were depressed and repressed

He had work with limited resources

He work with opposition

But he decided to finish the work........

If you want the enemy to see your victory you have to know that you have to make your self a tool that God can achieve a victory through.

Jabez said to himself I don’t want to be as my kindred. Ungodly Underachievers Un motivated

King James Version Chapter 4

1 Chronicles 4:10

10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, †Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest †keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Let us look at out theme text:

The Wall Is Finished

  So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. 

  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. 

What was done through Nehemiah for the work to be seen.

A disgraced congregation

An incomplete process with a reproachful wall

A stagnant people

A damaged people and A damaged wall

The had to work and fight at the same time. put on the whole armor

Nehemiah had to work with burnt and broken pieces brick.

Jeremiah (potter house)

  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. 

7. He had work through Sanballat the Horonite Tobiah the Ammornite Geshem the Arabian

8. They tried to call a meeting to distract the work in the valley of ONO

I want a work that will be seen........

Jeremiah potter house

King James Version Psalm 118

22  dThe stone which the builders refused

Is become ethe head stone of the corner.

23  †This is the LORD’s doing;

It is marvellous in our eyes.

24  This is the day which the LORD hath made;

We will rejoice and be glad in it.