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Where Is God in What You’re Building? Letting the Spirit Take Ownership

 

Where Is God in What You’re Building? 

"And in Christ you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit."  Ephesians 2:22 (KSB)

Building a home on a foundation of faith


   Where is God in what you are building? Build your consciousness, and your consciousness will build your life. Your consciousness is your awareness of God and your awareness of good. When you build your consciousness on spiritual truths, what you create will endure, thrive, and bless. The right foundation matters. If you build on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone your structure will stand. You don’t have to build alone. Your career, education, marriage, family, ministry, or even your business doesn’t have to be constructed in isolation. You can build it together with God. The question is: Where is God in what you are building?

   Sometimes we treat God like a visitor, welcome for a moment, but not permitted into every room of our lives. He’s a guest in our plans, our relationships, our goals. We edge God out with ego, limiting Him to Sunday mornings or desperate prayers. But where is God in your daily decisions? In your thoughts? In your behavior? In the blueprints of your life? For others, God is more like a renter. We offer Him conditional access with a spiritual "lease" if He doesn’t move fast enough or in the way we want, we threaten to evict Him. Is God a partner, or merely a temporary tenant?

   God desires to co-create with you not just as an advisor or visitor, but as a co-owner. “My life is not my own.” When we invite God fully into our plans, we recognize Him as the ultimate source. Whether it’s your career, your ministry, or your family, it's no longer yours alone its God’s vocation flowing through you. A threefold cord is not easily broken. Where is your spiritual consciousness? Your thanksgiving? Your worship, not just after success, but throughout the process? God, who began a good work in you, is faithful to complete it. Let God dwell in the midst of what you're building, from the foundation to the finish line.

   Ask yourself: Is God just visiting your plans, renting space temporarily, or does He own the blueprint? Your body is His temple. Your life, His workmanship. God is in you, through you, and working all things for His glory. So where is God in it?

Three Ways God May Be Present in What You’re Building:

   1. Visitor – Allowed in occasionally but not trusted with ownership.

   2. Renter – Present under conditions and time limits.

   3. Owner – Has full access, rights, and authority over the building process.

   What are you currently building in your life? And more importantly where is God in it?

📖 Reflection: In what areas of your life have you made God a guest instead of the owner?

💡 Action Step: Invite God to co-build with you today pray over your plans, surrender control, and trust His timing.

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