Nehemiah Chapter 4 teaches us many different lessons but more specifically God teaches about how to deal with adversary.
We see the impact of discouragement of Sanballat and Tobiah, and what then can do to a believer. They used discouragement and insult to try and stop them from moving forward.As we press into the things of God and move forward in life, we might experience mockery and insults. In any aspect of your life,you will usually face some level of criticism and adversary. The question is how do you respond to it?
The closer you are to fulfilling your potential, the more the enemy will try to distract and discourage you! This discouragement in its best form will be the manipulated truth. The enemy will try the very best to take your focus away from the truth and the truth of the task.
Discouragement is a powerful weapon because it is the opposite of faith. The enemy will try everything to move you away from a life of faith!. This why we are continually called by Christ to guard our hearts, to increase our faith and live by faith. Habakkuk 2.4. When we look into our lives, we realise that we pray differently under faith and under discouragement, we move differently under discouragement than under faith.
When Sanballat and Tobiah are speaking against Nehemiah, they are also ridiculing the God in Nehemiah. When you give God complete ownership and you understand that it is not just you that will fight, but it is God that will fight for you.
Put your trust in the name of God, the attack might not stop immediately but that doesn't mean you need to give up trusting Him, because 'Greater is He that is in you, than He that is in the world' 1 John 4.4
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