FAITH CAPSULE: Keep on waiting on God and your enemy will continue to fail.

Nehemiah 1-2

Nehemiah received news about condition in Jerusalem and news concerning the Jews who had escaped and survived the captivity, “…The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.” So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” (Nehemiah 1:3-4) Nehemiah was disturbed about the condition of his brethren and Jerusalem. His concern provoked his desire to rebuild. Nehemiah waited on God in prayer. He testifies, “So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” (Nehemiah 2:4-5) Waiting in prayer is communicating with God and it opens heaven. Rebuilding the wall was his major agenda because life‘s difficulty for the people in Jerusalem was due in large part to the wall. The point here is Nehemiah’s attempts were carefully propagated by waiting on God in prayer. Nehemiah was granted his desire by king Artaxerxes. All that was needed to rebuild the temple was in place. The project continued and God’s hand of favor did not fail to manifest. Do you have a project coming up? It is important to commit every involvement into the Lord’s hand so that His good hand will answer for you. During the construction of the wall, there were all kinds of opposition and the enemies meant to deny the construction of the wall of Jerusalem. There was opposition through ridicule, opposition through threat of attack, opposition through discouragement, and opposition through extortion. When the wall was completed, opposition did not cease. The enemy will never stop working its evil ways. The completion of your project will not discourage the enemy to stop coming after you. The completion of the wall did not stop the enemy’s continuous attacks. It is written, “So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.”(Nehemiah 6:15-16) You would think that the enemy would give up after the completion of your project, but that is not true. It was not true concerning the wall of Jerusalem. After you have completed your project, do not cease from your waiting in prayer to God. Keep on waiting and the enemy will continue to fail concerning every other project.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s instruction and teaching in the way you should go.