CHANGE YOUR WORLD IN 52 DAYS—4 

FINISHING STRONG 

 

 

When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the 
rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was 
left in it — though up to that time I had not set the doors in the 
gates. Nehemiah 6:1 

 

. THE _____________ YOU GET TO DOING WHAT 
GOD WANTS DONE, THE ______________ YOUR 
ENEMY WILL FIGHT TO STOP YOU. 


 

 

YOUR ENEMY’S STRATEGY 

 

1) YOUR ENEMY WILL TRY TO ______________ YOU. 


Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet 
together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono..." Nehemiah 6:2 

 

. I’M NOT COMING __________________. 


But they were scheming to harm me; 3 so I sent messengers to 
them with this reply: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot 
go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to 
you?" Nehemiah 6:2-3 

 

2) YOUR ENEMY WILL TRY TO ______________ YOU. 


 

. BY SPREADING ___________________. 


Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same 
message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter 6 in which was 
written: "It is reported among the nations — and Geshem says it is 
true — that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore 
you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports 
you are about to become their king… Now this report will get back 
to the king; so come, let us confer together." Nehemiah 6:5-6, 7b 

 

 


. BY TEMPTING YOU TO _______________________. 


(Shemaiah) said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the 
temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming 
to kill you."…12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he 
had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had 
hired him. 13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would 
commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad 
name to discredit me. Nehemiah 6:10, 12-13 

 

. I’M NOT ____________ ______. 


But I said, "Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me 
go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!" Nehemiah 6:11 

 

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two 
days. 16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the 
surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, 
because they realized that this work had been done with the help of 
our God. 

Nehemiah 6:15-16 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal & Small Group Questions 

 

1. What could distract you from doing the most important thing 
God wants you to do? 

 

2. How is the enemy trying to tempt you in order to discredit your 
integrity? 

 

3. What have you learned the most from this series, and what are 
you going to do about it?