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This Is How You Know Your Team Will Be Successful

10/6/2021

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Nehemiah 4:17 – “…for the people had a mind to work.” NASU

  • When Your Team Works Together
Nehemiah had received special permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall. When he arrives he surveys the broken-down wall. Then he brings everyone together and lays out the plan on how they are going to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem.

It is one thing to lay out your plan and a totally different thing to execute it. The Israelites under the leadership of Nehemiah worked together and they were totally focused to accomplish Nehemiah’s plan.

You know your team is going to be successful when they are focused, not allowing anything to distract them. They had “a mind to work” is the comment recorded in the book of Nehemiah about the Israelites.

What a great compliment!

Can you imagine how you would feel if the Bible were being written today and in its pages were the words “the people had a mind to work” and you were the people that being referred to?
  • Two Florida Churches
As I serve the Lord in Florida, I have been honored by God to serve along some great Christians from two different congregations. The first one is New Life Christian Church of Wildwood, whose minister is Matt Malott, and the other is Fairway Christian Church, whose minister is William “Butch” Gastfield.

One of my roles at Fairway is the Mission’s Minister. New Life and Fairway joined together this past week and on Friday (1st) and Saturday (2nd) to pack 90,000 packets of food for IDES (International Disaster Emergency Services).

As I served with over 200 Christians in packing these packets this scripture in Nehemiah came to my mind “for the people had a mind to work”.

We packed 90,000 packets. What we thought was going to take us 8 hours of time took us 6 hours and 50 minutes.  How was that possible? The Christians had a mind to work.

In Nehemiah's day they rebuilt the wall in 52 days because they had a mind to work (Neh. 6:15). 
  • Successful In Life
Do you want to be successful in life? Then have a mind to work. Stay focus. Don’t be lazy.

One other thing you need to know about the Israelites while they were rebuilding the wall, they were being harassed the whole time by Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem. Three men who flat out lied about Nehemiah and the Israelite’s intention for rebuilding the wall. Nehemiah would not allow these distractions to take him away from his purpose.

If you have a purpose don’t allow distractions to deter you. Have a mind to work and “getter done”.

Read Nehemiah and you will see a man who was interested in pleasing God and that was all that mattered to him. I say let’s be like Nehemiah, and the way to do that is to stay focused and have a mind to work in the LORD’s vineyard.

This About These:

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. - Theodore Roosevelt 

Stay Pumped,

Gary A. Serago      
    
Minister of God’s Word
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