When you're leading a team to accomplish a challenging assignment, the role becomes

even more difficult when the naysayer show up.

So how do you keep your cool when your adversaries take shots at your leadership?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues our study on the Life of Nehemiah.

It's called Hand Me Another Brick.

In the fourth chapter of Nehemiah's book, we find this great leader under intense scrutiny.

His measured response sets the benchmark for leaders.

Our study continues in Nehemiah chapter 4.

Chuck titled his message, Knocked Down, but Not Knocked Down.

Over those opposing points of view that said, let's don't build a wall.

Verse 4.

I notice two things that he does in response to the criticism.

The first thing, verses 4 and 5, he talks to God about the criticism.

He gives the opposition over to God.

Here, O our God, he prays, how we are despised.

Send their reproach on their own heads.

Give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

Don't forgive their iniquity.

Let not their sin be blotted out before thee, for they have demoralized the builders.

You see, the channel of communication was prayer.

You remember what David said when he took the stone in his hand and he started slinging

the slaying over his head, walking toward that ugly giant named Goliath.

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