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Partnering with God
By Amanda Johnson
Has a small child ever helped you make cookies? If so, you know how much extra time, patience, and clean-up it takes. Sure, it would be easier (and faster!) for you to make the cookies without their âhelp,â but the look in the childâs eyes when they get to enjoy eating the finished product of their work makes it all worth it.
In the same way, have you ever wondered why God needs you to help build His kingdom? If He is really the all-powerful, all-knowing God, couldnât He do this without your help? Wouldnât it be easier for Him to do it Himself?
The reason God needs us is because He has decided to need us to build His kingdom.
And, the crazy part about it is He doesnât need anything. Acts 17:25 says, âNor is He worshipped with menâs hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.â He is self-existent, self-sufficient, and self-sustaining. Yet, God decided to need you.
God doesnât need us to exist, yet He decided to need us to co-exist. He chose to partner with us on the earth. The first example of this takes place in Genesis 2, when God let Adam name the animals. Genesis 2:19 says âAnd whatever Adam called each living creature that was its name.â He decided to partner with Adam by letting him choose the names rhinoceros, llama, and turkey!
In Mark chapter six, it says, âJesus could not do a mighty work there because of their unbelief.â Now thatâs an amazing verse! It doesnât say Jesus would not, it says He could not because they didnât believe. Is it possible God has limited His unlimited power on this earth to our faithâour partnership?
Mark 16:18 says, âThey will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.â It doesnât say, they will recover and they will lay hands on them. They will recover is Godâs part, but it doesnât happen until we do our part. He chooses to use our prayers to heal and build His kingdom. Jesus also said, âWhatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose will be loosedâ (Matthew 16:19). His kingdom is built and expanded through our hands and our prayers!
God has a great plan to redeem the brokenness in the world and build His kingdom here on earth, but it requires a partnership with us, His Church. What is your God-given role in His kingdom? Have you decided to partner with Him?
Prayer
Lord, thank You for choosing to partner with me on the earth. Please help me see what is my part in building Your kingdom. I humbly offer all I have to Your work on the earth. In Jesusâ name, Amen.
Memory Verse
"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Matthew 16:19
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