Fight for your Family: Part 1

Nehemiah 4:7-8 (NIV) When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.

Nehemiah 4:14 (NIV) After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, ‘Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.’

2 Corinthians 2:11 (NIV) In order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

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Nehemiah 6:13 (NIV) 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.

Genesis 3:1-5 (NIV) Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?

Mark 3:25 (NIV) If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

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Nehemiah 6:3 (NIV) 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?’

1 John 2:15-17 (NIV) Do not love the world or anything in the world…The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

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Nehemiah 4:11 (NIV) Also our enemies said, ‘Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.’

John 10:10 (NIV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (NIV) For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

What Does it Look Like to Fight FOR Your Family

1. Fight with , not .

James 5:16 (NIV) The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

2. Speak , not .

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV) These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children.

3. Lead by , not .

Joshua 24:15 (NIV) But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

4. Stay , not .

Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV) Do not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encourage one another.

5. Break , not .

Exodus 34:7 (NLT) I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations.

6. Fight the , not the .

Ephesians 6:12 (NIV) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.

7. Pursue , not just .

Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV) The joy of the Lord is your strength.

Psalm 126:2 (NIV) Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’

Joel 2:25 (NIV) I will restore the years the locusts have eaten…