I was listening to Perry Noble’s leadership podcast for this month and was taking/making notes as some things jumped out at me and now I am passing my thoughts on to you.

1-Whenever you endeavor to do something for God there will be some level of resistance. The question we need to ask is, “Where is the resistance coming from?”

2-If the same kinds of people that resisted Jesus are showing resistance toward the work you are trying to do you are probably headed in the right direction.

3-If we are not experiencing any resistance, we are probably not making any progress or stepping out in faith.

4-Muscles don’t grow if there is no resistance. An offense that is trying to score will always have to got through a defense that wants to prevent that. We should never be surprised by resistance.

5-Sadly, too many people give up right @ the point when there is about to be a break through.

6-You can do something good and it will usually be safe, but when you want to do something GREAT it will always be risky!

7-There should be fruit & progress, if there is none then you are probably taking foolish risks in the wrong direction.

8-If your resistance is coming from people who love Jesus and love you, it usually isn’t resistance, it is a rebuke and we need the humility and wisdom to see that.

I leave you with this, Nehemiah had taken on a monumental task, he was leading the effort to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem. This was an epic task. And he faced tremendous resistance for so local punks. They harassed him and tried to stall the progress that he was making with his team. One day when they came to him he replied and said, “I’m doing a great work; I can’t come down. Why should the work come to a standstill just so I can come down to see you?” (Nehemiah 6:3)

As we seek to hear form God and obey His leading, we must keep that verse at the forefront of our minds, we can’t stop what we are doing, we are doing a great work for God! Why should we let that come to a standstill to argue with people who don’t believe in the vision God has given us.

What are your thoughts?