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Rebuilding Your Life: How to Handle Opposition

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HOW TO HANDLE OPPOSITION

Rebuilding Your Life - Episode 3

11/22/20 | Gabe Kolstad

3 Kinds of Opposition:

  1. Internal 2. Relational 3. Spiritual

Spiritual Battles Require Spiritual Breakthroughs

#1 Predictor of Victory or Defeat:

E.F. > I.F. = Defeat | E.F. < I.F. = Victory

When external forces are greater 

than internal forces, defeat is near

 

When internal forces are greater 

than external forces, victory is inevitable


How Nehemiah Handled Opposition

1 Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, 2 saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!”

4 Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land! 5 Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in front of the builders.”

-Nehemiah 4:1-5

What You Must Do NOW to Overcome

1. Get PERSPECTIVE

“Don’t be afraid!” Elisha told him. “For there are more on our side than on theirs!” 

-2 Kings 6:16

  • See the truth about your IDENTITY

No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

-Romans 8:37

  • See the truth about your DESTINY

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son…

-Romans 8:29


HOW? Take the BIBLE CHALLENGE! 

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2. Go to PRAYER

Prayer unlocks the power of God in your life

Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.    -2 Kings 6:17


Jesus replied, “This kind can be cast out only by prayer.” -Mark 9:29


HOW? Join LIVE PRAYER Wednesdays @ Noon on Facebook

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If you’ve never said YES to Jesus, to receive His unconditional love and forgiveness, consider praying this prayer:

Jesus I give you my life. Thank you for saving me. I believe in you. Your life. Your death on the cross. And your resurrection. Forgive me of my sins. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Lead me. And teach me to follow you. And I ask it in Jesus name.

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