Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

That Tobiah, the Ammonite, was beside him, and he said, yes, what are they

building? If a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall.

Here, O our God, for we are despised.

It just gives you a little taste.

And I wanted to read more than just one verse to pray according to today,

because it gives you a little taste and just a few verses of all the opposition

that God's people faced and rebuilding these walls around Jerusalem.

They faced opposition internally and externally.

We could read through and see all the different ways that God's people were

attacked from within and from without to the point where later here in Nehemiah,

chapter four of verse 17, maybe one of the most famous pictures in the book of

Nehemiah is the people working on the wall with one hand and holding their

weapon and the other because they were facing attacks coming at them as they

worked, but it really gives a picture of the spiritual battle that plays out

in all kinds of physical ways that we all inevitably face when we try to obey God's

word in this world.

It will never be easy to obey God's word, to proclaim God's word, to spread God's

word in this world.

There will always be opposition.

The reason I love these particular voices, so this is the beginning in a sense of

much of that opposition.

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