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Faithfulness: Finishing Your Work Well

Leadership Matters, part 9 of 10
The difference between a dreamer and a doer is how long they stay in the project. A dreamer starts many projects but finishes few. A doer always finishes his work and finishes it well. The mark of a great leader is that they are a doer who is faithful to finish all that they start. In Nehemiah 6:15 – 7:3 we discover that in spite of all the opposition, all the problems, all the challenges, all the critics, and all the disorder, that Nehemiah completed the construction of the wall around Jerusalem in an amazing fifty two days. His leadership had inspired a tremendous amount of work effort and accomplishment among the people. As a result, they were able to celebrate the wall and honor God for his work through them to reestablish the capital city of Israel, Jerusalem, by building protective walls to keep them safe from enemy attack. Nehemiah demonstrated another great trait of all leaders, faithfulness. Faithfulness marks every leader because leadership remains faithful in good times, bad times, easy and hard times, trying times and smooth flowing times. We’ll look at how to measure our finishing touch ability as people who strive to grow our leadership with our family, friends and our coworkers.

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* True greatness is never measured by how we ___START___ but how we ___FINISH___.

“Be sure to finish the work the Lord gave you.”
(Colossians 4:17, NCV)

How To Measure Your “Finishing Touch”

1) SELF: “I WORKED ___DILIGENTLY___ TO THE END.”

“So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul [October 2, 444 B.C.], in fifty-two days.”
(Nehemiah 6:15, NIV)

2) GOD: “I GAVE ___ALL THE CREDIT___ TO HIM.”

“When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.”
(Nehemiah 6:16, NIV)

3) TASK:_”I OVERCAME ___EVERY OBSTACLE___ FACED.”

“During those fifty-two days, many letters went back and forth between Tobiah and the officials of Judah. For many in Judah had sworn allegiance to him because his father-in-law was Shecaniah son of Arah and because his son Jehohanan was married to the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah. They kept telling me what a wonderful man Tobiah was, and then they told him everything I said. And Tobiah sent many threatening letters to intimidate me.”
(Nehemiah 6:17-19, NLT)

4) OTHERS: “I WAS USED TO ___GET PEOPLE INVOLVED___.”

“…the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed.”
(Nehemiah 7:1)

“I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah..”
(Nehemiah 7:2)

“I said to them, ‘… also appoint residents of Jerusalem as guards…’”
(Nehemiah 7:3)