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A prayer to seek the Lord during distractions by Chelsea Dimitias, read by Liam Arden.

Then I sent him this reply.

No such things as you say have been done for you are inventing them out of your own mind.

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, their hands will drop from the work and it will not be done.

But now, oh God, strengthen my hands.

Nehemiah 6-8-9

Distractions are inevitable, throughout scripture, we're told that not only will distractions come,

but they'll be used by the enemy to knock us off course.

Thankfully, God has shown us how to battle these distractions.

Nehemiah was a man in the Bible who dealt with persistent distractions from his enemies,

who attempted to stop the work God had called him to do.

Satan's distractions are the same today as they were back then.

He doesn't have creativity, but he is cunning and cutting.

He seeks to unearth old pain.

He targets the same insecurity, the same lie that was once told, or the same mistakes of our past.

Satan will use whatever causes us to pause, drop, or stop the work of our hands for the kingdom of God.

When we look at Nehemiah's story, we see the same tactics.

Persistent distractions orchestrated the same way each time,

five times to be exact, that his enemies sent for him.

Each time, desiring to stop the work that God had commanded of him to do in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah, through his strength in the Lord, called them out for being the lying fear enticers that they were,

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