Nehemiah chapter 4 verses 1 -7                 Nehemiah's   faith in God and his love for his people is impressive -- and this, in spite of hardship and opposition. Opposition from outside and discouragement from inside, yet the task of rebuilding the wall was complete in only fifty-two days.       There are some great lessons for us to learn from chapter four, beginning in the first three verses:       Here is this man, Sanballat, who heard about this band of Jews rebuilding the walls and he was angry. He ridiculed the Jews. He spoke to his associates and the army of Samaria, no doubt with a tone of ridicule and sarcasm: "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble...?"  Tobiah agreed: "What they are building - if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall of stones." Let's learn this: I