Leaders Your Enemies Are Priceless

 

What if I told you that your enemies are priceless?

Life-changing encounters, filled with difficulties, suffering, and enemies. A short story of an outstanding leader called Nehemiah, which meets trouble time to carry out an impressive vision regardless of the profound resistance. But, despite the troubles and the extreme fight, Nehemiah a powerful and strong leader boosts the hardship versus chances to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

Heck bursts out; still, it takes an individual who is pushing and defying throughout times of frustration. Instead of doubt, worry or retribution, Nehemiah seized the issue to the Lord. A truthful tale of self-empowerment, leadership, and bold determination.

Will Nehemiah achieve his aspirations or yield to the miseries of his enemies?  Or will he discover that discouragement times are emerging from God for a purpose?

How far would you go to accomplish your dreams?

Good day I hope you all well, today I want to share a chapter of my Book Gods Purpose demands persistence. Its chapter where I talk about a Leader is the mids of problems, is tested to overcome adversity despite the issues and circumstances. I hope you enjoy this read.

Chapter 10

Slingshot Effect 

“There is no doubt in my mind, that you can't live by what you see, 

but rather by what you believe.”

Nehemiah really understood his purpose and had persistence. He understood that his purpose demanded skills to get the victory in Jesus Christ. He prayed when needed, acted at the precise moments, and activated his faith. It all worked for Nehemiah, he got the job done despite the troubles he faced during the process. He managed to understand the power of his resistance and how to apply such power to position him in a favorable position before God the King. 

Could Nehemiah have had a slingshot effect? There is a saying that things get worse before they get better. Have you experienced such things? Let me give this story a different twist. I'm not here to defeat all that has been said in this book, but rather to give you a reality check of something that is real even though we can't see it. Just because you cannot see some things, it doesn't mean they don’t exist. 

What if all we have said or written in this book don't work? What if, you do all that has been said and still you find yourself in the same spot you have been for years. Or perhaps, in the same problems without a final resolution. What if you don't get the same results that Nehemiah did?  What if in the midst of your turmoil, God is nowhere to be found? You keep asking yourself, where is God when others are attacking you. What if you persist until the end but still, God doesn't show up. What if? Nothing happens. You have tried it all, but nothing happens. Discouragement shows up instead of God. It seems, the more you do the farther away you move from getting things resolved. You keep praying, but the push isn't there anymore.

All of what we have said in this book is true, but sometimes, reality plays a role that discourages you from seeing things from a different perspective. What if the discouragement is from God? You will not know until you do what you have to do. By doing so, you will undoubtedly release God's power wrapped inside the discouragement. All you need to do is just keep pushing forward.

 Persist in prayer to manifest God's power that will unwrap the gift that is inside the discouragement. It will enrich your life in such troubled times. “What if,” is a doubtful statement that brings uncertainty and discouragement, but it is also a declaration of possibilities that in light of your faith has maximum potential. There is no doubt in my mind, that you can't live by what you see, but rather by what you believe.

It's your belief that will make the invisible visible and bring victory for you. Just because it is not happening now, doesn't mean it will not happen. You have to keep pushing and persisting until the “What if” becomes “I Know So”—a positive result in your life.

Nehemiah knew how to pray and act.  He prayed to the Lord and together with his prayer, God revealed a strategy, which would trigger his faith to comply with the mandated task. Another example was Moses when he was at the crossroads that many of us experience every day. Moses was in front of the Red Sea with the people of Israel. He was being pursued by the soldiers of the Pharaoh and facing his disgruntled people who insisted that it would have been better for them to be in Egypt than to die in the desert.

But this kind of discouragement had a very positive outcome, which we all know. Nonetheless, Moses sought the Lord's face to know what he should do. ”It only gets worse before it gets better.” He was pursued by the soldiers of Pharaoh to a place where Moses and his people had no way out. At least that’s what it appeared to be? This left Moses to do what he had to do. Push forward because there was no returning to Egypt. It was crunch time and quitting was not an option. This is a perfect example of a slingshot effect in which Moses found himself. I call it “the syndrome of the slingshot effect”

 But what is the slingshot effect?

Let me explain what this means. When you are using a slingshot you pull back the sling to create enough tension to reach the intended target. The further away the intended target is, the more tension we need to apply to the sling.  The aim here is to hit the TARGET.  While we are pulling the sling more and more toward the back to create the necessary tension, a paradoxical effect is also happening. How? As we are pulling back the slingshot, we are also pulling away from the target. The idea is to hit the target, and for that matter, you need to pull away from it. Pulling away is necessary TO CREATE the tension to reach the proposed goal with precision.

The slingshot effect also happens in our daily lives. As tension is created during difficult times  an illusion comes to mind that we are fading away from our purpose. As the matter at hand intensifies, it hinders our vision and ability to hit the target. Moreover, it seems that we are further away from our prophetic purpose and away from achieving our blessings. Or daily life issues create tension in our lives, but it's that tension that brings the opportunity to make things possible. That very same tension will help us to focus on our target, our godly TARGET in life. In times like these, only a heart connected to God's beat will perceive the vision with an anointing to be persistent.

Everything seems to be failing, you're about to give up,  it seems that there is no purpose, there is no provision,  it seems that no matter how hard you try nothing is working in your favor, and what God once told you “the vision,” the promise is not for you. Everything seems to be—but it is merely that. Remember, we don't move by what we see in front of us, but rather what we believe. And know SO!

If you persevere and resist, if you're tenacious you will be able to perceive in the Spirit that you are in the slingshot effect creating the tension to hit the target, God's Purpose.

 Instead of seeing burned stones you can see a temple, a house, a great wall. God is getting ready to embark on your prophetic destiny. But this promise is for those who resist firmly and are persistent.

We need to make a difference just like the woman with the excessive blood flow. She pushed forward at all times, regardless of the situation and the opposition. She drove herself with perseverance in the midst of the crowd. People pushed her aside and placed her at a distance from Jesus. But she desired and was willing to keep going forward. Her spirit was declaring “If I only touch his outer robe, I will be healed.” 

 

Then a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the [tassel] fringe of His outer robe; 21 for she had been saying to herself, “If I only touch His outer robe, I will be healed.” 22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Take courage, daughter; your [personal trust and confident] faith [in Me] has made you well.” And at once, the woman was [completely] healed (Mathew 9:23)

 

Once again, “If I only touch His outer robe.” It was a declaration of possibilities with a divine guarantee that what she wanted would happen by persisting and believing that everything is possible when you believe in God and His kingdom. It is a declaration reassuring that her sickness could be healed with a touch of Jesus’ robe.

Let us not give up. There is no room for quitting. Persist and resist until something happens because God will show up. Quitting is not an option. Remember God’s Purpose Demands Persistence. Keep pushing forward in Jesus’ name.

Nehemiah’s odyssey lasted 52 days (Neh 16: 15) and the walls were completed.

Make sure that you finish what you have started by persisting at all times.