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You pray, serve, and sing… but God still doesn’t truly have you: understand why! | WATCHMAN NEE'S PRAYERS | YouTubeToText
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The content asserts that periods of hardship, silence, and perceived rejection are not divine punishment but essential processes of "formation" or "breaking" by God. This breaking is necessary to remove self-reliance and pride, making individuals pliable and dependent on Him for a deeper, more impactful purpose.
You're tired, aren't you? You look
around and everything seems still. Too
much silence, too much rejection. It
feels like the more you try to do the
right thing, the more doors close. And
then comes that question you try to
avoid, but it imposes itself like a
shadow that insists on staying. Has God
forgotten me? No, he hasn't forgotten
you. But he's doing something you don't
understand right now. And it's not
punishment. It's formation. It's always
like this. It always has been. Joseph
had big dreams but ended up in a pit and
then in prison. Moses grew up among
riches but ended up tending sheep in
anonymity. David was anointed but lived
as a fugitive. And why? Because before
God raises someone up, he breaks them.
And he doesn't break them because he
hates them. He breaks them because he
needs to remove everything that's wrong
inside. That thing that you yourself
don't see. That thing you disguise with
good intentions. That thing you believe
is faith, but deep down is just fear
disguised as control. You think you're
ready. You think you've prepared, but
you still trust in yourself. You still
rely on your abilities. You still depend
on your own strength. God doesn't use
those who are still too whole. Because
those who are too whole don't bend. They
don't listen. They don't depend. That's
why he allows the ground to slip from
under your feet. Not because he wants to
see you fall, but because it's on your
knees that you learn to listen. Watchman
Knee said that God doesn't look for
beautiful vessels, but broken ones.
Because it's through the cracks that his
life can flow. While you insist on
protecting your reputation, your image,
your plan, he's trying to protect the
eternity he placed inside you. But you
resist. You complain. You ask for relief
when what he wants to give you is
transformation. You want the process to
end, but he wants the process to fulfill
its purpose. And it hurts. I know it
hurts. It hurts to lose. It hurts to
wait. It hurts to see others moving
ahead while you're left behind. It hurts
to see doors closed after so much
prayer. It hurts to see silence as an
answer. But it's in that place, in that
exact place where you feel you have
nothing left, that he works most
intensely. Because while you still had
something of your own, a strategy, an
escape, a strength, you weren't ready
yet. But now, maybe now that you don't
know what to do anymore. Maybe now he
can begin. You think you're late, but
God is not in a hurry. You want to go
up, but he wants to dig deeper. Because
the deeper the foundation, the higher
the building can be. And what he wants
to build in you is not small. But the
problem is that you still dream of
visibility, of recognition, of results.
And he's calling you to obedience in the
dark, to faith in the invisible, to
trust when everything collapses. Moses
had to unlearn everything he learned in
Egypt. David had to trust even while
being persecuted by a king he didn't try
to overthrow. Joseph had to keep
believing even after being forgotten by
the one who promised to help him. And
you, you're still waiting for everything
to make sense. But faith doesn't rely on
explanations. It's based on who God is,
even when nothing else seems reliable.
And that's what he's doing with you.
He's removing the layers, the false
security, the dependence on others, the
need for approval. He's cutting off what
you thought was strength, but was just
pride. And he does it in silence without
warning, without asking permission,
because he knows that if he asks, you'll
refuse. So he empties. He stops
everything. He undoes your plans and you
revolt. But later when the dust settles,
when you've cried all you had to cry,
you realize that something is left.
Something you didn't know. Something
firmer. Something that no longer depends
on praise nor on results nor on
feelings. Real faith. Watchman Knee
wrote that God prefers to use a broken
man than a brilliant man. Because
fragility when surrendered becomes space
for the spirit to operate. And you are
you trying to appear strong or are you
willing to be broken? Because only when
there's nothing left of you can he begin
to use what is his in you. Before that
it's just a dispute. A dispute between
your will and his will. Between what you
idealized and what he planned. Between
your haste and his eternity. There's no
use in forcing it. There's no use in
trying to rush the process. When God
wants to raise someone up, he first
dismantles them. It's not about
punishment. It's about purpose. And as
long as you don't understand that,
you'll keep fighting against the process
that was made to set you free. Because
yes, you need to be freed. Not from
people, not from demons, but from
yourself, from your control, from your
vanity, from your logic. You're still
waiting for the crown. But you forgot
that before it comes the cross. The
cross of
renunciation. The cross of silence. The
cross of waiting. And you carry this
cross without understanding. But you
don't need to understand now. You just
need to continue because God isn't
trying to prove something to you. He's
molding you for something that only
someone who is broken can carry. You
haven't been rejected by chance. You
haven't been forgotten by accident. You
haven't gone through the desert as
punishment. Everything has a purpose.
And it's not just a generic purpose.
Nice to say. It's a purpose that changes
who you are inside. That transforms you
into someone he can trust. Because he
doesn't entrust his plans to those who
still need a stage. He doesn't deliver
weight of glory to those who haven't
learned to walk in the dark. Do you want
to be used by God? Then stop running
from the furnace because it's in it that
those who have structure are revealed.
Those who have roots, those who don't
give up. And it's not about strength.
It's about surrender. You've thought
about stopping, haven't you? You've
thought that maybe you've misinterpreted
everything, but you haven't. You're just
in the middle of the process. And the
middle always seems confusing. It always
seems dark. But it's at this point that
it's decided who continues and who goes
back and you've come too far to go back
now. So don't ask God to take you out of
the process. Ask him to teach you to
endure because he won't waste anything.
No tear, no waiting, no silence.
Everything will make sense. But not now.
Now there's only one thing to do.
Remain. Even without applause, even
without direction, even without results,
remain. Because those who don't give up
in the dark will see the light when it
finally comes. And when it comes,
because it will come, you won't need it
to confirm anything anymore. Because you
will have learned that God is faithful
even when everything seems lost. And
then yes, he will raise you up, not for
your glory, but because you have become
someone who no longer lives for
themselves, because someone who died
with Christ no longer needs to prove
anything. And someone who was broken by
God doesn't get lost when he lifts them
up. Write in the comments, "God is my
strength." If you believe that he
sustains you in all battles, and when he
finally raises you up, it's not as you
imagined, it's not with noise, it's not
with honor, it's not with recognition,
he doesn't make a fuss. God doesn't need
others to see what he's doing in you. He
just wants you to see, for you to
understand that you no longer confuse
position with purpose, nor visibility
with value. Because those who were
molded in secret no longer need an
audience. And that's exactly why they
can be entrusted with eternal things.
Because they have already died to the
desire to impress. Because they are
tired of justifying themselves. Because
they have learned that in God what
matters is to be, not to appear. You
didn't get here by merit. And you won't
continue by strength. The journey
continues, but now the steps are
different. Before you walked fearing to
lose. Now you walk knowing that you have
already lost everything that could hold
you back. Before you looked at others
with comparison. Now you look with
compassion. Before you thought you
needed to prove your worth. Now you know
that your worth is in the one who chose
you even when you had nothing to offer.
Watchman Knee said that true ministry
begins when the work of the cross has
been completed in us. And do you know
what that means? It means that
everything that is yours needs to die
first. Your ideas, your motivations,
your methods, your desires. The cross is
not just a symbol, it's a process. And
what it touches, it kills. Not to
destroy, but to liberate. How many times
have you tried to hide behind
activities, behind service, behind
titles, and all this crumbled? Because
God doesn't want what you can do. He
wants what you are when you can't do
anything. It's that you without
performance, without a shield, without a
mask that he wants to reach. And that's
why he allows the collapse because he
knows that as long as you still have
something to hold on to, you won't
surrender completely. And maybe you're
still trying to fix what he's trying to
destroy. Maybe you're still trying to
rebuild something that he himself is
tearing down. Not out of malice, but
because that was never part of the plan.
It was your idea, not his. And no matter
how well-intentioned it was, it won't
survive the fire. Gold survives. The
rest turns to ashes. And what he wants
is pure gold. Not the appearance of
gold, not the sound of gold, but true
essence. Do you realize now how his
silence was grace? How that closed door
was protection? How that separation was
deliverance? Do you see now that it
wasn't rejection but correction? Because
whom he loves, he disciplines. And
discipline hurts, but it heals. It frees
you from what you didn't have the
courage to abandon yet. It distances you
from what would distance you from him.
And it's this severe love that you're
experiencing. A love that doesn't pamper
you, that doesn't deceive you, that
doesn't leave you comfortable in a
shallow faith. A love that wants your
eternity more than your immediate
well-being. You may still feel the
weight of everything you lost, but what
you lost was no longer necessary. God
doesn't leave you with excess. He
aligns. He cleans. He adjusts. You think
you're empty, but he's creating space
for the new, for something that doesn't
fit in the middle of the old structure.
And only those who accept the process
realize this. Those who stop resisting,
those who stop trying to understand
everything before obeying. Watchman Knee
pointed to that inner place where only
the spirit can touch. He spoke of a work
that no one sees, but that changes
everything. A work that silences the
restless soul, that disciplines desires,
that disarms pride. A slow but
definitive work. And it's this work that
is happening in you now. Even if
everything seems still, even if
everything still hurts, even if the
answers haven't come yet, God doesn't
need to explain to transform you. He
just needs you not to run away. And
that's why you're still here. Even with
the cracks, even with the pain, even
with the unanswered questions, there's
still faith inside, there's still fire.
Even if it seems like embers. And he
values that remnant of faith because
with that, he can rekindle everything.
You don't need to have much. You just
need not give up. You just need to
continue. Even when you don't feel
anything, even when praying seems like
talking to the walls, even when
worshiping seems like a lie, continue.
Because it's precisely at this time when
everything in you screams to stop that
transformation is happening. God doesn't
just want your obedience when everything
is going well. He wants your
faithfulness when everything seems to go
wrong. Because that's where faith is
proven. Not on stage, but in the desert.
Not when there are witnesses, but when
no one sees. And you are in that place.
That place where everything is being
redefined. where you need to decide
whether you will follow by conviction or
whether you will stop by discouragement.
Where the sky seems mute, but where God
is closer than ever. He is teaching you
to walk without guarantees, to trust
without explanations, to love without
return. And that's not weakness. That's
maturity. That's what he wants to form
in you. A faith that doesn't waver, a
heart that doesn't negotiate, a
surrender that has no plan B. Because
it's this kind of people that he uses,
not those who shine on the outside, but
those who were crushed on the inside
until no vanity remains. You don't need
another revelation. You need to obey the
one you have already received. You don't
need new signs. You need courage to
continue with what you already know.
Faith doesn't grow with emotion. It
grows with renunciation. And each
renunciation you make in secret builds a
foundation that no one can see, but that
sustains everything that will come.
Because it will come. What God started,
he will complete. But not in your time,
not your way. And you need to reconcile
yourself with that. with the idea that
control is not yours, that the path is
not yours, that the result is not yours.
You were not called to understand
everything. You were called to believe.
And true faith begins where
understanding ends. When you accept that
there is no more logic, that there is no
more how, that there are no more
answers. And even so, you decide to
continue this faith God honors. This
faith God rewards not with applause but
with transformation and that
transformation is worth more than any
visible result because it changes who
you are. It changes how you live. It
even changes what you desire. Watchman
knee taught that the spiritual Christian
is not the one who does more but the one
who has been most deeply touched by the
cross and this cross is acting in you.
Each refusal, each silence, each
frustration has a purpose. No suffering
is wasted. No waiting time is useless.
Everything is being used to make you
like Christ. And Christ was broken, was
rejected, was betrayed, was silenced.
Did you expect an easier path?
Disciplehip is dying. And dying hurts.
But only those who are being prepared to
resurrect die. And when you resurrect
with Christ, nothing dominates you
anymore. neither fear nor the opinion of
others nor the losses nor the past. You
no longer live reacting to what happens
around you. You live responding to what
God is doing within. And that changes
everything because peace no longer
depends on circumstances. Hope no longer
depends on time. And strength no longer
depends on what you feel. You no longer
need to pretend that everything is okay.
Because your faith is no longer
sustained by feelings. It has been
purified. And the fire that burned your
illusions now warms your conviction. You
know who you are. You know who you
believe. You know in whom you hope even
when nothing else makes sense. That's
what God was doing all this time. He
wasn't punishing you. He was freeing
you. He wasn't delaying you. He was
aligning you. He wasn't testing you. He
was molding you. And now that you no
longer need certainties to continue, you
are ready. Because those who have
learned to walk with God in the dark
never get lost when the light comes on.
So don't fear what's coming. You were
trained in pain. And whoever was trained
in pain doesn't give up at the first
obstacle. You might even fall again, but
it won't be the same fall. Now you know
the way back. Now you know where
sustenance is. Now you no longer depend
on external stability to have internal
stability. You've been through something
many couldn't handle and you're still
here. That's already a victory. That's
already a sign that God protected you
even when you thought you were alone.
And if he protected you until now, he
will continue to. Not because you
deserve it, but because he is faithful.
And his faithfulness doesn't depend on
your performance. It depends on his
commitment to what he promised. Watchman
N used to say that God doesn't work
hastily because his goal isn't
efficiency, it's eternity. And that's
what he's building in you. Something
that lasts, something that isn't
fleeting, something that withstands the
seasons, the crises, the losses. You
were marked by something eternal. And
now everything in you will start to
align with that. You'll realize that
some things no longer attract you, that
some voices no longer influence you,
that some desires no longer control you,
not because you tried hard, but because
you died to them. And someone who has
died no longer responds to the same
stimuli. That's why you feel this
internal silence, this strange calm.
It's not emptiness, it's healing. It's
not coldness, it's stability. You are
being established, grounded, rooted, and
that can't be seen from the outside, but
it's felt on the inside. Keep going.
Don't back down because you're closer
than you think, more prepared than you
imagine, more free than you've ever
been. God is raising you up. Yes. But
not to a place of exposure, to a place
of authority. Authority that comes from
conquered pain, from proven faith, from
complete surrender. And no one can take
that away from you because it wasn't
given by men. It was forged by God.
Write in the comments, "Jesus, my
savior." If you acknowledge that he gave
his life for you, and when that
authority comes, it doesn't need to
raise its voice or demand space. Because
it doesn't come from strength. It comes
from brokenness. It doesn't impose
itself. It simply is. And whoever was
marked by God carries a presence that
speaks even in silence. You start to
notice this not through the eyes of
others, but through the fruits that
didn't sprout before. Fruits of
gentleness where there was agitation,
fruits of forgiveness where there was
resentment, fruits of trust where there
was fear. You start to act differently,
not because you memorized a new
behavior, but because the old you is no
longer there to react as before. What
God broke in you, he won't rebuild with
the same materials. He didn't take you
to the bottom to return to the same
place. You were deconstructed so that
something completely new could be
generated. And this new doesn't mix with
the old. That's why so many things are
falling out of place. Relationships that
used to make sense now sound strange.
Conversations that used to excite you
now tire you. ambitions that used to
drive you now seem empty. It's not
arrogance. It's growth. It's that you no
longer fit in the places where you used
to hide. It's no longer possible to
settle for distractions when you've been
touched by the eternal. And now that
you're starting to see more clearly, you
also perceive the risks. Because when
God raises you up, you become a target,
not of people, but of spiritual forces
that resist everything that is true,
everything that is pure, everything that
comes from the cross. And this is where
many stumble. They confuse opposition
with rejection. They confuse battle with
defeat. They confuse pressure with
abandonment. But if you remember where
you came from, what you've already
endured, what has already died in you,
you'll know that there's no turning
back. There's no more old normal.
There's the new path, the narrow one,
the silent one, but also the true one.
You're not being tested to prove
something to God. You're being revealed
to yourself. Each crisis reveals where
you still trust yourself. Each pressure
reveals where the cross hasn't touched
yet. And there's no room for disguises
here. What's at stake isn't your
reputation. It's your character. God is
more interested in who you are becoming
than in everything you can do for him.
Because what you become sustains what
you will carry. And maybe you look ahead
and still see nothing. No promise
fulfilled, no clear sign, just the
memory of what he said, of what once
made you get out of bed full of faith.
And now that seems so distant. But
understand the promise hasn't been
cancelled. It was buried. Because every
true promise needs to die before it can
be resurrected. It's in this burial that
it purifies itself. That it frees itself
from your wrong expectations. That it
stops being about you and starts being
only about God. Do you remember Abraham?
He received a promise and waited years
until it was fulfilled. And when the son
finally arrived, God asked him to give
him up. It seems crazy, but it wasn't
the son that God wanted. It was
Abraham's heart. The promise cannot
become an idol. What God promised you
can never take his place. And that's why
sometimes he allows the things you've
waited for the most to become silent,
distant, almost lost. because he's
asking you if I don't give you anything
else would you still follow me? That
question hurts. It pulls you out of a
place where your faith was disguised
interest and you start to realize that a
lot of what you called faith was just
attachment. It was just an attempt to
control the outcome. But now you're in
another place. Now your answer doesn't
need to be pretty anymore. It needs to
be sincere. And if you're honest, you'll
admit that sometimes you don't want to
continue. That sometimes you think about
stopping, that sometimes faith seems
useless. And it's exactly here that God
manifests himself, not when you're
strong, but when you admit that you have
no more strength. Watchman knee wrote
that God takes us to the point where we
can't do it anymore. And it's at that
point that he acts. It's not at your
limit that he gets frustrated. It's at
your limit that he reveals himself.
Because while you can still do it, you
still control it. But when you can't do
it anymore, all that's left is to trust.
And that trust when everything fails is
what he calls faith. You need to
remember God's silence isn't
disinterest. It's an invitation, a call
to go deeper, to go further down, to
leave the surface of emotions and enter
the stability of the rock. Faith that
survives silence is faith that can carry
glory. But glory not as men think. Glory
that manifests itself in secret, in the
breaking of bread, in serving in
silence, in obeying when no one sees.
And you'll realize little by little that
this silent faith carries an authority
that needs no explanation. You don't
need to prove anything anymore. You
don't need to chase after what you lost
because what is yours in the kingdom is
not lost. God keeps it. And he will give
you what is necessary at the right time.
Neither before nor after. And if it
hasn't arrived yet, it's because it
wouldn't be a blessing yet. It would be
a burden. God doesn't anticipate
blessings that you don't have the
structure to sustain. That structure
he's forming now. And it's built on
daily obedience. Not in big events, but
in the yes said when everything says
it's not worth it. When you choose to
love even hurt. When you choose to stay
even tired. When you choose to believe
even in the dark, that's where the
kingdom advances, not on platforms, but
in locked rooms, in silent deserts, in
decisions that no one applauds. You need
to understand it's not about what you
feel. It's about what you believe. The
feeling will fluctuate, but faith can be
strengthened. You won't be stable by
nature, but by choice. Therefore, stop
waiting to feel to act. Start acting
even without feeling because faith is
not born from emotion. It grows in
obedience. And when you start to obey
even without motivation, God starts to
breathe new breath into you. Watchman
Knee used to say that the secret of the
Christian life isn't in trying to
improve the old man, but in living the
new life. And the new life only
manifests itself when the old man is
left aside, not treated, not perfected,
crucified. And that means that it's not
you who lives anymore. It means that
your arguments, your wills, your
opinions no longer have the last word.
It means that you've become a channel,
not the center. That's freedom. Because
there's no lighter burden than not
having to defend your own will anymore.
There's no deeper rest than knowing that
you don't need to prove any worth. You
were accepted before performing. You
were loved before changing. You were
called before understanding. And all you
need now is to respond. Not with pretty
words. But with sincere surrender, you
will still cry. You will still be
frustrated. You will still have days of
silence, of confusion, of pain. But now
you know where to look. Not inward, not
outward, but upward. And looking up, you
will remember that you are not alone,
that you are not abandoned, that you are
not lost. You are in process, and
process hurts, but transforms. Process
tires, but builds. Process is not
punishment. It is care. Continue. Not
because everything makes sense, but
because you've seen enough to trust. And
if he hasn't failed until now, he won't
start with you. You may even fall again.
But now you know how to get up. Now you
know where your strength is. And your
strength isn't in you. It's in the one
who chose you before you knew what
choice was. And whoever is chosen
doesn't walk alone. He walks sustained.
Watchman Knee used to say that whoever
has died to himself is no longer afraid
of death. And you are learning to die
every day, to die to pride, to die to
control, to die to dreams that weren't
born in God's heart. And at the same
time that you die, you live. You live
with an intensity that the world doesn't
understand. You live with a peace that
chaos cannot steal. You live with a hope
that doesn't depend on circumstances.
You live with a light that comes from
within. You are being prepared to carry
something that the world cannot explain.
Something that can only be sustained by
someone who has already gone through the
cross. And when the time comes, and it
will come, you will realize that
everything was worth it. Every tear,
every loss, every weight, because
nothing was in vain. God doesn't waste
pain. He transforms. He refineses. He
prepares. And when he raises you up, no
one will be able to say that it was you.
Everyone will see that it was him and
only him. So follow, even trembling,
even without understanding, even with a
heavy heart, because you are exactly
where you should be. And whoever is in
God's hands is never out of place. Write
in the comments, "God renews me." If you
feel that he restores your strength when
you are tired, you will remember these
days. You will remember the night when
you thought everything was over, but you
still couldn't give up. You will
remember the moments when faith was just
a thread, but that thread was enough to
keep you standing. You will remember
when no one believed, when no one
understood, and yet you remained not by
strength, not by talent, not by
strategy, but by grace. The same grace
that sustained you until here is the one
that will lead you from now on. You
didn't imagine that this path would be
like this. So narrow, so lonely, so
silent. But you also didn't imagine that
there would be so much depth, so much
truth, so much revelation in this place
where everything that is superficial
dies. What remains now is real. What you
carry now has weight, has roots, has
history. What you live now cannot be
imitated, cannot be borrowed, cannot be
copied. It was forged. You were forged
by fire, by waiting, by pain. How many
times have you tried to get up on your
own? How many times have you forced
exits that weren't doors? How many times
have you thought you had found the
solution only to be taken back to the
place where it all began? Total
dependence on God. He never wanted your
effort. He always wanted your surrender.
You don't need to be strong. You need to
be surrendered. You need to trust even
when you don't see anything. You need to
believe even when everything seems lost.
You may be living the end of a season.
And that's scary because the new hasn't
started yet. Because there are no clear
signs. Because what sustained you before
no longer works. It's the interval
between what was and what will be this
time between the known and the
invisible. But it's in this space that
God builds the invisible within you.
It's here that he pours out what the
eyes don't capture. It's here that he
establishes your identity, not in what
you do, but in what you are in him. It's
in this emptiness that he plants eternal
convictions. The old you might try to
accelerate this process. Maybe you were
already looking for another mission,
another direction, another occupation.
But now you've learned. You've learned
that it's not about doing, but about
being, being present, being available,
being sensitive. God is not after
activity. He is after intimacy. And if
he brought you to this point, it's
because he trusts that you no longer
need proof to obey. You already
understood. You've already been through
the school of brokenness. You've already
been visited by the cross. And whoever
was touched by the cross no longer lives
according to their own plans. You will
realize that God starts to send you to
places you wouldn't choose. to talk to
people you would avoid before, to
perform tasks that don't seem big, but
that carry a weight of eternity. Because
now you no longer live to impress. You
live to obey. Now you no longer measure
God's will by logic. You just respond.
You no longer wait for motivation or
confirmation. Just listen. Just feel.
Just know that it's him. That's enough.
Watchman Nay used to say that true
ministry is not something you seek but
something that finds you when you no
longer have ambitions. And that's what's
happening to you. The glory of God is
beginning to manifest itself in the
small things in the firmness of your
voice when you pray in the presence you
carry without saying anything in the
answers that don't come from the mind
but from the spirit. in the peace you
transmit even when you are silent. It's
the testimony of a soul that went
through the process and survived. More
than that, it flourished. God didn't
raise you up to live on the memories of
a past revival. He is writing a new
story where each chapter is written with
your daily surrender. He didn't call you
to echo voices. He called you to be a
voice. A voice that is born from the
secret place, from obedience, from
intimacy. And this voice doesn't need a
spotlight because it carries its own
light. The light that comes from within.
The light that was lit in the dark. And
you're going to start seeing fruits. Not
the ones the world applauds, but the
ones heaven recognizes. Quiet
conversions, restored hearts, lives
touched by a gesture, a word, a prayer.
You might never hear the applause. You
might never see the full impact. But God
sees and he notes everything. Because he
weighs hearts, not numbers. He measures
faithfulness, not fame. He answers the
hidden, not the displayed. And you've
chosen the path of the hidden. And on
that path, there's no rush. There's
purpose. You're going to feel the
resistance. You're going to feel like
you're carrying something the world
doesn't understand. You're going to feel
the spiritual opposition that only
exists when the kingdom is advancing.
But you're also going to feel the grace.
The grace to keep going even when you're
tired. The grace to love even when
you're hurt. The grace to remain even
when you're despised. That grace won't
abandon you. It sustains you. It covers
you. It surrounds you on all sides. And
when the enemy tries to remind you of
what you've lost, you'll remember what
God has built. When he tries to accuse
you of your failures, you'll remember
that you've already been justified. When
he tries to steal your hope, you'll
remember the blood that has already
guaranteed your future. You're no longer
vulnerable to the voices of fear because
your mind has been renewed. Your soul
has been healed. Your faith has been
rooted. And nothing that comes against
you can destroy what God has already
sealed. This doesn't mean everything
will be easy. It means you now know how
to wage war. Now you know that fighting
in God isn't struggling, it's resting.
It's not running, it's remaining. It's
not shouting, it's trusting. You've
learned that the most powerful weapon is
obedience. That the strongest shield is
truth. That the most effective armor is
presence. You've learned to remain. And
whoever remains bears fruit, and whoever
bears fruit glorifies God. You don't
need to make noise. Your consistency is
already a miracle. Your gentleness is
already a testimony. Your faithfulness
is already an altar. And God is being
glorified in your journey. Not because
it's perfect, but because it's real. Not
because you always get it right, but
because you always return. Return to the
cross. Return to the altar. Return to
the voice. And this constant return is
what makes your life a living sermon.
Watchman Knee said that the true work of
God is invisible to the natural eye. It
begins where no one sees and ends where
only God can measure. You are being part
of that work. And even if you don't
understand everything now, even if the
pieces don't fit together yet, you know
you're on the path. And that's enough.
Knowing that you are where God has
placed you is the greatest security you
can have. Because where God plants you,
he also sustains you. And where he
sustains you, no one can remove you. You
don't need to chase after doors anymore.
God will take you where you need to be.
Not through your connections, but
through his direction. Not through your
contacts, but through his hand. Not
through your effort, but through his
grace. You are no longer living by
opportunity. You are living by design
that changes everything. You are not at
the mercy of circumstances. You are
aligned with heaven. And heaven has a
perfect time. You will see. You'll look
back and realize it was necessary. Every
loss, every silence, every fall, every
day of discouragement, it was all part
of the plan. You weren't left out. You
were set apart. You weren't forgotten.
You were hidden. You weren't punished.
You were prepared. And now what is to
come is not a reward for effort. It is
the fulfillment of an eternal purpose.
So breathe. Keep going. Trust. Because
now you carry something that cannot be
explained, only lived. You carry the
mark of brokenness, the light of hope,
the firmness of the cross. And the world
needs that. Not more discourse, not more
appearance, but lives that have been
transformed from within. And you are one
of those lives. Therefore, continue.
Even when it doesn't seem worth it, even
when the weight seems too much, even
when everything in you wants to stop,
continue because God is still writing.
And what he writes, no one can erase.
And when this process finally makes
sense, when you realize everything he
has built, you will understand. It was
worth every second because it wasn't
about what you could do. It was about
who you needed to become. And now you
are. Now you know. Now you have seen.
And no one can take that away from you
because it was God who did it. It was
God who wrote it. It was God who raised
you up. And what he raises up, no one
can tear down. Write in the comments,
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