Work and War

Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
But he said, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?”
He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds. Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
(Genesis 15:6-11 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)

When we are at work doing what our God has led us to do, our enemies are at work also. They try to discredit Yahweh and discourage us.

Just as Abram drove away the birds that attempted to ruin the sacrifice he brought at Yahweh’s instruction, just as Nehemiah resisted the pests Sanballat and Tobiah, and as Paul stood against Elymas when he was trying to disrupt Paul’s influence on the proconsul, we must stand against the thief and destroyer to protect the people to whom we speak and any other building we do.

Do not forget that you are at war to take the land you have been promised.