Kris Miyake: Don’t Let the Fight Distract You From the Work (Nehemiah 4:1)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 31/12/2021

Kris Miyake: Don’t Let the Fight Distract You From the Work (Nehemiah 4:1)
Our friend, Kris Miyake, Founder of “The Movement,” speaks at the King of Kings Sunday service on 11/14/2021. Quotes: “The issue for Sanballat and Tobiah was not winning the fight, it was distracting them from the work. They knew that as long as the wall wasn't built the Jews were vulnerable. The Jews were vulnerable. But once that wall was rebuilt, all of a sudden, the enemy would have no access. The enemy wants to distract you and get you focused on the fight because if you fight you won't work. When you're done with what you're building what God has called you to build you won't have to fight anymore.”

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Jesus looks with the disciples and says, "Look I want you to see the fields, the fields are white for harvest." So he says, "Pray to the Lord of the harvest - not to bring harvest Pray to the Lord of the harvest to... what? Get the workers out in the field. If there is not harvest around you, it's not because God has not sent the harvest - it's because the laborers are not collecting. 

There are people right now all around us - anxious, afraid, depressed, unsure... and if the church would just for a minute be like Nehemiah and not get caught up in the arguments, the fights, the rhetoric, and the agendas and if we would just focus on the work in front of us maybe America would see the salvation that we've been praying for.

There are three ways the enemy wants to distract you from the work by taking up the fight. The first one is mockery. That's what they started with they started making fun of them. He started making fun of him laughing at him and it got back to Nehemiah. But Nehemiah refused to be distracted - instead, he prayed. When people talk bad about you, don't get caught up in your fields for like three months talking to everybody else about how you're not offended... Pray! Be honest with God.

Nehemiah was thinking, "Look God, you know my heart. I don't have time to pray foolish lying prayer... some holier than thou prayer. Look God, it is me and you! Nehemiah and you God! Look I want you to burn them up. I want you to send them into Persian captivity! I want the Persians to come through and just wipe them out so they can experience what we experience. Why don't you do that God?”

Then he says, "All right guys, God will fight for us. Let's go! Let's keep working." We need to start praying some honest prayers. Some of us are so pent up with so much aggressive stuff because we don't know how to just pray honest prayers to God. He already knows! You are not fooling him! Some of us are so used to gaming everybody else we believe we can game God... You fooled your parents. You fooled your sister and brother. You fooled your co-workers. We think, "Oh I can fool God too." But we can't. 

So, it's mockery first, the second thing he does is intimidation. When the mockery didn't work and Nehemiah and his people kept working. Then the enemy started making threats. He will start off by mocking you. "Who do you think you are?" Today, you will come out of this message (hopefully inspired), by all the words God spoke to your heart. You're going to leave motivated, but you step out there and before you make it to Wawa… Do you know what the enemy's going to do? He'll say, "You know you can't do that! You are not a pastor." I mean... look at you - you are a nobody. You don't like talking in front of people.   Are you really going to approach them? You don't even know them... What if they laugh at you?

He starts with the mockery and then when you push through that, then comes the intimidation... Don't you do that! Don't you give your time to serving the kingdom. I'll make your children hate you. Don't you stand up for what God said. I'll take away your job. Don't you stand up for that, I'll make your life miserable. Then, finally, his third tactic - once he gets you in a place where you start to shake in your confidence, that's the moment he strikes, trying to overwhelm you on all sides with attacks. That was Sanballat and Tobiah's plan...overwhelming attack.

But if we would focus on the fields that are white to harvest, and not get caught up in the fight... as long as you keep working, you'll finish what you're building. When you're done with what you're building what God has called you to build you won't have to fight anymore. God told Nehemiah, "I'm sending you to build not to fight." When the fight came to Nehemiah, he said, "I'm going to follow the word.