To Those Who are Pushing:
Pushing is not enough. Be sure you are pushing according to the will of the Father, for His are the only purposes that matter.
James 4:2-3
You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Ephesians 5:15-17
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 3:10-11
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 14:12
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
Hebrews 1:11
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Bride of Christ, you are called to give birth to His good works, works that have been prepared for you, which are the will of the Father.
They are His works.
They wait, unseen, so that they may be revealed through you, whose head is Jesus Christ.
Ask and ask and ask, but if you ask amiss you will not receive. Push as hard as you like, but nothing will come of it, for the Lord has invited you to be a part of His purposes, not come to take part in yours.
Do not push in vain.
Your faith does not create something out of nothing, but is given to reveal the things that are already there, prepared from beforehand by the Father. The unseen things are there, in Christ, waiting in advance.
Therefore, understand what the will of the Lord is, that you might agree with it and bring forth the fruit required of you.
As the body without the spirit is dead, so is faith without His deeds.
Amen.
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Noah Kinderknecht