Ever had a situation that totally caught you off guard? I mean it was so troubling, so

painful, so devastating. You said to yourself or cried out loud, God, why? why why God this isn't there if that's

where you're at or someone you know stay with me God has some help for you today Stay with

Chipping.

Chipping from the edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians

through the Bible teaching of Chippingram. For the past several broadcasts we've

been studying the book of Nehemiah learning how to overcome adversity, betrayal, and discouragement.

But in this program, Chip reveals that when those tactics fail, Satan gets really

personal.

So today, as we continue our series, keep pressing ahead, Chip will help us build up our

defenses against these attacks and be sure to stick around after this teaching as

Chip shares deeper insights to guide us in this area. You won't want to miss it.

If you have a Bible now, go to Nehemiah Chapter 6 for Chip's talk, facing personal attack.

I was having breakfast with some very old friends, known him for 20 years, been very close,

and you know the kind of friends that are, you know, come to your kids, weddings and become, you know, aunt and uncle.

And we've gone way back and I could tell that the man was really wrestling with something and, you know,

normally what's great about our friendship is I'm just chip I'm not past or this or that and we're just tight and he said you know I got a question I need to ask you in head at those tones like put your pastor hat on

put your theological hat on because I'm wrestling with something I kind of know the

right answer but I like your thoughts on it.

I begin to tell a story about one of his older sons,

Godly man, Godly husband, has been greatly used in his church, high integrity, but he's been working on a business

for, you know, 10, 15 years and just at the point he gets to the breakthrough,

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