If God Called You To Do It… You Should DEF Do It!
One thing I have experienced over the past few months was a lot of dead ends! I knew God called me to this but somehow I got a bit discouraged when I kept walking by faith, doing the work, only to keep running into dead ends. I thought that because God said to do a thing, everything was supposed to fall into place. It is wild reading through the Bible and on a plan yet it is right on time with what you are going through in life. I was reading through Nehemiah when they were rebuilding the wall. God told them to build the wall yet, they were being attacked, mocked, threatened etc it was HARD. But they continued even though it seemed as if it would not be completed.
Many of us give up before a thing is completed. We look at our “reality” and it makes no sense what God is calling you to do. You are doing the work yet nothing is coming into fruition.
A realization came to me, God was literally ordering my steps. Like I could see God redirecting me, blocking doors so that I would not go through them. I could see my growth despite the discouragement. I was more at peace when things wouldn’t work. I complaints were very limited. My stress, was nonexistent. My snapback game was so much better. Although I had thoughts of lowering my bar, changing my goals, and altering the gameplay, I didn’t do so! I kept on pushing and guess what… doors began to open. The ones that God wanted me to go through.
Living a surrendered life looks like resting in God’s arms in the middle of a hurricane. A surrendered life looks like soaring above the storm. A surrendered life looks like resting in green pastures. A surrendered life looks like promise despite the rubble.
When we answer God’s call to do a thing and it is challenging, God is calling you to rest in Him, pray for strength and endurance, to trust that He will show up and show out, to believe that His plan is perfectly complete.
In Neh 4
10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”
12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.
16 From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
19 Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”
21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. 22 At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.” 23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.[c]
When you continue reading, there were so many threats, deception, lying, and attempts to kill, yet they kept building.
In Neh 6
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
Done by our God! If God called a thing to be done, He will DO IT!!! Just continue to move in faith. Know that God has you covered!
My prayer for you is that you walk by faith and not by sight. Do not allow man to make you run from what God is calling you to do. I pray you are strengthened and encouraged in the Lord.
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