Rebuilding Your Walls (Part 3)

Internal attacks of Satan are those made from within the Body of Christ. They include:
1. Discouragement.
Nehemiah 4:10-11
The workers became discouraged which resulted in:
• Loss of strength.
• Loss of vision because of "too much rubbish."
• Loss of confidence

2. Dissension.
Nehemiah 5
Nehemiah 5 opens with dissension among God's people. If Satan divides the Body of Christ, he makes us ineffective. We are busy battling each other instead of building. Wrong motives are always behind dissension. In Nehemiah chapter 5 the wrong motive was greed.

3. Weak believers.
Nehemiah 4:12
The enemy used weak workers (symbolic of weak believers in the Body of Christ) to try to defeat the construction project.

The following strategies were used by Nehemiah to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. You can use
the same strategies to assure victory at your spiritual walls:

(a) Examine your walls.
As Nehemiah did in the natural world, examine the walls of your spiritual life. (Nehemiah 2) Has the enemy crept into your personal life, your home, church fellowship, business, etc.?

1 Corinthians 11:28 "But let a man examine himself..."

2 Corinthians 13:5 "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves..."

Remember that self-examination is one of the symbolic gates of your wall in the spirit world. Satan will try to prevent you from self-examination because it will result in recognition of areas in your life where you have let him destroy the walls and invade.

(b) Confess your sin.
As Nehemiah, recognize that the reason walls are destroyed is because of sin. Then like he did in
Nehemiah 1:5-7, confess your sin and ask forgiveness:

1 John 1:8, 9 "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

(c) Recognize you can't build alone.
When Nehemiah's workers said, "We ourselves are unable to build the wall," it was a true statement. By themselves they were unable. They needed the power of God to equip them for the task-so will you!

(d) Arise and build.
As Nehemiah, determine to rise and rebuild your spiritual walls:
Nehemiah 2:20 "Then answered I them, and said unto them, the God of Heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build: but ye have no
portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem." Be prepared, because you will face opposition from the enemy.

(e) Don't be diverted.
Nehemiah refused to be diverted by enemy tactics in Nehemiah 6:2-3. Do not let the enemy divert or distract you from rebuilding your spiritual walls.

(f) Don't be swayed by popular opinion.
Popular opinion was that Nehemiah was a rebel. Popular opinion held that the walls could not be properly rebuilt. Nehemiah was not swayed by popular opinion. Rather than conform to popular opinion, Nehemiah set an example. He said, "So did not I, because of the fear of God." Become an example in spiritual warfare. Do not become part of the crowd that says victory is impossible.