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God Trains My Hands For Battle
Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 23, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: Today I am talking about spiritually strong hands: hands that carry the Bible to church, hands that hold the Bible painstakingly for hours and read the Bible, hands that stretch out to heaven and pray, hands that help the servants of God, hands that work hard and supports the work of God etc.
God would never forget the ‘men’ who held the hands of Moses during the battle against the Amalekites, Bezalel was the grandson of Hur (Exod. 31:1-2), the Hebrew name Bezalel means “in the shadow of God”, the Lord said, " I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship..” It was Hur’s grandson who constructed the tabernacle. Isn’t that awesome? God said: “Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands..” (Deuteronomy 30:9)
God trains my hands for battle / PART 3
Nehemiah 6:9”They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But I prayed, "Now strengthen my hands."
I woke up at 4 am, while it was still dark to pray, after an hour of prayer, I picked up my Bible to read - BAM- in the quietness, I felt His nearness and the relevance of His Words, the Lord started talking to me, after an hour of Bible reading, I joined my family for morning prayer and I shared my ‘HOT’ conversation with God that day. We were all rejoicing and praising God, I will be sharing portions of the revelation that I received in the wee hours of that day.
Nehemiah! Matching his passion and commitment is tough! I’m awed; I wonder if I could squeeze ‘Nehemiah’ into this small devotion of mine, he is a huge subject, let’s concentrate on what we need for our subject matter today. The above scripture is just awesome, awesome, awesome…… the enemies were trying to scare, frustrate, intimidate and chase them away from the mega project of building the burnt walls of Jerusalem , but Nehemiah knew who to call, he said: Lord, Now strengthen my hands! Hurray!
Listen to me friends, the moment you decide to rebuild the ruins in your life, the nasty devil will come against you, are you listening? However, read my entire series on ‘God trains my hands for battle’ and be strengthened. Right from chapter one, when the enemies come against him, all I saw Nehemiah do what is to call the Lord! Amen. Prayer was his weapon! Since the people had a powerful leader like Nehemiah, they brushed aside the threats of the enemy and continued to employ their hands to work on building the wall. People would come to mock, guffaw, shout and stop your work but I encourage you today to never quit. Someone said, “ I have no need to work on my marriage which has already deteriorated”, my answer, ‘to escape is easy, to stay and get it healed is challenge’, you don’t need this message to tackle ordinary problems, I write so that you dust yourself and arise to do gigantic stuff.
Nehemiah got murderous threats and warnings; yet, he kept going, Nehemiah said,” the men of the guard who followed me, none of us removed our clothes, each took his weapon even to the water.” This is incredible! (Nehemiah 4:23)
Well, if you ask me: how did Nehemiah build the walls in 52 days? From where did he get the strategy? How did he manage to overcome the threats of the enemy? How was he able to keep the spirit of unity among the workers? Go back to chapter one, when Nehemiah heard the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire, we read: