Dealing with Difficult People – Nehemiah 2 – [Against the Odds] – Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston

As long as you’re on this earth you are going to be dealing with difficult people but the good news is that you do not have to let difficult people limit or ruin your life or stop you from accomplishing what God has for you.

We see in Chapter 1 of Nehemiah that Nehemiah had received immense favor from the king to go and make a difference by helping rebuild the walls in Jerusalem but Nehemiah was about to encounter the most difficult situation he had yet encounter and that was difficult people

Nehemiah 2:10 “But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of my arrival, they were very displeased that someone had come to help the people of Israel."

When you decide to step out and do something great or do something to make a difference not everybody is not going to be willing to support you. Why, because we expose things in peoples lives. When everybody is complacent everybody is happy, when one person wants to get out and make difference it makes everyone else look bad so that want to pull them back in to the background or back into the system to keep them quiet.

The Devil is happy with a church that is full, but the devil is not happy when the church is effective.

Jesus didn’t have any trouble from anybody until He wanted to make a difference and Nehemiah didn’t have any trouble until he was willing to make a difference.

When you decide to go after God and make your life count you’re going to face opposition every time because you are becoming some one who is dangerous to the enemy because you began to expose the light into the darkness.

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