When the Lord calls His people into specific seasons, He doesn't focus on their weaknesses. Instead, He encounters them and speaks to the future version of who they are yet to become. Often, we rise to answer that call without knowing how to build what God is asking us to. We wonder where, how, when, and even what to build.
But the Eternal One is calling us into a season where we construct structures with foundations rooted in Him. When God says, "Build," it’s not always something grand. It might be a relationship, friendship, business, marriage, career, skill, or character. And He says: "Build according to My standard."
Whenever God wants to build, He stirs up men and women and places within them the builder’s staff. He did it with Cyrus—who was part of God's plan. Cyrus enabled the men God had chosen to rebuild His temple.
When Zerubbabel began to build, the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard of it and came to interfere. Every time God says, “Build,” the enemy responds with adversaries—sometimes people, but often adversaries in the form of distractions, bad character, wrong strategies, or resistance to God's intent.
The builders recognized that although their adversaries came under the guise of help, their true motives were not aligned with God. When they refused the help, the enemy retaliated by disrupting the work. This is the strategy: lies, intimidation, and satanic resistance.
When God calls us to build, we must not mix holy things with profane ones. The people of God did not build by the strength of their own hands, but by prophecy. God knows that if we rely only on our strength, resistance will stop the work. But when we align with the One who called us, we build with divine backing.
At one point, the people stopped building because of opposition. But when the prophets spoke again, they resumed the work. We, too, have the constant word of the Lord and can surround ourselves with a support system that reminds us of Heaven’s agenda.
This is your reminder, beloved: the eye of the Lord is also the hand of the Lord, and it is upon you. Do not cease the work. Satan’s strategy hasn't changed—but we serve an eternal God, and we are His people.
Someone told me it's okay to be afraid, it's okay not to know the whole picture but we can trust in the ability of God that we will not loose our way.
Stay Revived!
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