DEFEATING DEFEATING DISCOURAGEMENTDISCOURAGEMENT

We don’t face opposition

because we’re doing something wrong,

we face it because we’re doing

something right.

YOUR ENEMY YOUR ENEMY WILL ATTEMPT WILL ATTEMPT

TO:TO:

DISCOURAGE YOU FROM THE OUTSIDE

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When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was

greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews,

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and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, "What are

those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will

they offer sacrifices?

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Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to

life from those heaps of rubble — burned as they are?"

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Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, "What they are building — if even a

fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall

of stones!" 

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Hear us, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as

plunder in a land of captivity.

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Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown

insults in the face of the builders.

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When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his

own work. From that day on, half of my men did the work,

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while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah who were building the wall. Those who

carried

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materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in

the other, and each of the builders wore his sword at his

side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet

stayed with me.

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Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the

people, "The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each

other along the wall.

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Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there.

Our God will fight for us!"

OBSTACLES

CRITICISMS

DISCOURAGE YOU FROM THE INSIDE

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Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of

the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the

wall." 

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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.

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Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons

and your daughters, your wives and your homes." 

DEFEATING DISCOURAGEMENT

REMEMBEREMEMBER THE R THE LORD.LORD.

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… ”Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome. 

DEFEATING DISCOURAGEMENT

FIGHT FOR FIGHT FOR YOUR YOUR

CAUSE.CAUSE.

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… and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your

wives and your homes." 

HELEN KELLER: HELEN KELLER: The Woman With No

Boundaries

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in

Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Her father, Arthur Keller, was an editor and also

had fought in the Confederate Army. Her

mother, Kate Keller, stayed home with

Helen.

When Helen was 19 months old, she was

very sick and developed a severe fever. She

survived her illness and her fever which left her deaf and blind. When

Helen was seven years old, her parents got a

suggestion from Alexander Graham Bell and contacted a school

for blind to find a teacher for Helen.

Anne Sullivan was hired to help Helen. Anne helped by teaching

Helen letters, how to behave, and how to talk.

Anne showed Helen what letters were and

what things were.

One example, Anne taught Helen the word water by using a water pump. Anne wanted

Helen to fill up a pitcher. When Helen felt the water running on her

hands Anne taught her the letters W-A-T-E-R.

Anne also taught her how to have good

behavior. For example, Helen was eating

everyone’s food off their plates with her hands. Anne pushed her to sit down and use her fork. Anne kept Helen’s arms

to herself.

Anne taught Helen how to talk by placing Helen's

hands on the lips and throat so Helen could

feel the sounds.

Helen’s accomplishments were

going to college, reading and writing in Braille, and writing her own book. Helen went to Radcliffe College.

Radcliffe didn’t want her to attend. Helen didn’t

care about their thoughts so she

attended there anyway

She graduated in 1904 and learned five different languages. She was the first deaf-blind person to

receive BA degree.

Helen had two typewriters. One was

regular and another one was Braille. She used a

typewriter to write books, letters, and

articles. Anne changed the college books to

Braille and Helen read the book. Helen wrote her first book called,

“The Story of My Life," which she while in

college.

Helen was important to other people with

disabilities because she inspired people. She

showed that Deaf and blind people deserved respect. She helped support various Deaf-Blind programs. Helen inspired people with

disabilities because she was persistent.

One way she showed persistence was when she applied to college. Another way was when

she learned letters, words, and sentences. Anne kept showing her more letters, words, and

sentences and Helen kept wanting to learn

more and more.

Helen showed that it doesn’t matter if person

has a disability. She showed that if a person

works hard and has persistence, that person

can make it.

She founded an organization in 1915,

"Helen Keller International;" which was dedicated to preventing blindness and teaching people how to live well. The organization printed

books and music in braille and these books helped blind people so they could understand and learn new things.

Helen Keller inspired everyone. Some people thought she wouldn't be able to do anything like

normal people do. Despite her disabilities,

she was exactly like normal person but only

just deaf-blind.

Although less engaged in her later life, Keller never wavered in her

commitment to radicalism. Forty-three years after her death,

Keller’s story still inspires.

She saw things that many sighted people

miss, heard things that many who can hear

don’t. To say that hers was a life well-lived

would be a huge understatement.

HKI has been working in the Philippines since 1975 and has had a

major presence since 1986.

HKI – Philippines’ project implementation

has resulted in a coherent, integrated program of technical

assistance to the Government of the

Philippines (GOP) and includes activities in:

Vitamin A supplementation Nutrition

Education Child survival Primary eye care

HKI-Philippines has developed numerous innovative and user-friendly information,

education, and training materials to support the implementation of pilot-

tested strategies.

Presently, the HKI-Philippines team

continues to provide high quality technical

assistance to the GOP, to local government units, and to various

international and local non-governmental

organizations.

““The unselfish effort to The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others bring cheer to others

will be the beginning of will be the beginning of a happier life for a happier life for

ourselves.” ourselves.”

– Helen Keller

Character cannot be Character cannot be developed in ease and developed in ease and quiet. Only through quiet. Only through

experience of trial and experience of trial and suffering can the soul suffering can the soul

be strengthened, be strengthened, ambition inspired, and ambition inspired, and

success achieved.success achieved.

-Helen Keller

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-102 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on

me.

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That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak,

then I am strong.