This month on the Potter's Touch, Pastors Tore Roberts and Sarah Jake's Roberts deliver four distinct yet deeply connected messages that speak to the heart of spiritual maturity.

This week, Pastor Toray Roberts' message, a shovel and a sword, paints a vivid picture of leadership, unity, and resilience under opposition, drawing from Nehemiah's

story of rebuilding Jerusalem's walls.

Hey family.

Welcome to the Potter's Touch.

Sometimes God calls you to build and battle in the same season.

Today, Pastor Toray is going to teach us how to keep working on what God's called us to while defending against the distractions, divisions, and attacks that try to stop us.

Get ready to take your position.

This is a shovel and this sword.

Here is exceptional leadership.

Therefore I, this is Nehemiah, therefore recognizing what's taking place, recognizing the confusion

and the disruption while we were making progress, now I've got to be the strategic leader that I am.

Can we pray for strategic leaders, please? In the church. Strategic leaders. Therefore, I position men.

I'm repositioning thing. Last week we talked about reformation.

Therefore I position men behind the lower parts of the wall.

Guess where? At the openings, the place of our vulnerability.

And I set the people according to their families. I gave them purpose.

I set them according to their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows, and I looked and I rose and said to the nobles, to the leaders and to the rest

of the people, do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for

your brother and your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses. And then verse 15,

it says, and it happened when our enemies heard that it was known to us

and that God had brought their plot to nothing.

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