(Author Unknown)
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with bright light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man He had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. This, the man did, day after day.
For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down with his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore, and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.
Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, the Adversary decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man’s weary mind: “You’ve been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn’t budged. Why kill yourself over this? You’re never going to move it” —thus, giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man.
“Why kill myself over this?” he thought. “I’ll just put in my time, giving just the minimum effort and that’ll be good enough.” And that’s just what he planned to do— until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord. “Lord” he said, “I’ve labored long and hard in Your service, putting all my strength to do that which You’ve asked. Yet, after all this time, I haven’t even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What’s wrong? Why am I failing?”
The Lord responded compassionately,
“My friend, when I asked you to serve Me— you accepted. I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength— which you’ve done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to Me— with your strength spent, thinking that you’ve failed. But is that really so?”
“Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscular. Your back sinew is mighty. Your hands are callused from the constant pressure;and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you’ve grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven’t moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you’ve done. I, my friend, will now move the rock.”
At times, when we hear from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants. What God ACTUALLY wants is just simple OBEDIENCE and FAITH IN HIM. By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it’s still God who moves the mountains.
P.U.S.H. = Pray Until Something Happens! When everything seems to go wrong, just P.U.S.H. … When the job gets you down, P.U.S.H. … When people don’t react the way you think they should, P.U.S.H. … When your money looks funny and the bills are due, P.U.S.H. … When people just don’t understand you, just P.U.S.H.
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(USA) This is really AWESOME! Pray Until Something Happens.
(ZIMBABWE) Glory be to the Almighty GOD! Firstly l would like to thank God for the life he has given to me in the past year and everyday. In the past year the Lord has blessed me in so many different ways. Beside me being a sinner, l was promoted at work. Both my parents are still alive through his grace. There were so many accidents world wide, but these were far away from me and my family. I just want to thank him (God) for all the blessings.
(USA) P.U.S.H. REALLY WORKED FOR ME AND MY MARRIAGE. MY HUSBAND AND I WERE SEPARATED FOR 7 MONTHS. HE LEFT ME FOR ANOTHER WOMAN AND I DIDN’T THINK I WANTED HIM BACK. THEN I STARTED PRAYING FOR THE PAIN TO GO AWAY, AND SEARCHING THE INTERNET FOR ANYTHING THAT WOULD HELP. I CAME TO THE PUSH WEBSITE, AND I STARTED REALLY THANKING GOD FOR SENDING A STORM IN MY LIFE. THAT’S WHEN I SAW IN THE BIBLE (WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER NO MAN CAN SEPARATE) AND I STARTED BELIEVING THAT. I PRAYED FOR MY HUSBAND AND FOR MYSELF SO THAT WHEN GOD SENT HIM HOME I’D BE ABLE TO FORGIVE HIM AND LET THE PAST GO. AND NOW HE’S HOME AND IT’S A BLESSING. THANK YOU JESUS. BUT I’M STILL PRAYING EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY. SO DON’T GIVE UP P.U.S.H. CANDI
(KENYA) I’m looking forward to get married one of these days, much as I’m not in any relationship right now. Ive been reading people’s comments on this site and surely some of them have touched me. They have made me believe that much, as not all, marriages work because of various reasons, mine will. Please pray for me for God to help me choose my partner wisely. So far, all the men who ask me out are just not my type, or I just don’t like a number of things in them. I’m not so sure, does this site also hook up people? Shalom, Naomy
Dear Naomy, I pray the Lord will show you His will for your life concerning marriage. I pray the Lord will help you to be strong and patient, and not settle for someone that would not be a godly marriage partner for you. I pray He will guide you in finding someone of strong moral character — one who is spiritually strong and mature, someone that will honor our God and treat you with love and respect, as his marriage partner.
I pray the Holy Spirit will help you to discern the husband of God’s choosing for you — if that is His ultimate will for your life. I pray the Lord will bless your efforts as you look to Him, to help you to work on your own issues — helping you to prepare to BE the right partner, as well as FIND the right partner. I pray the Lord blesses you and keeps you and shines His face upon you!
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God.” (Philippians 1:9-11)
(CANADA) Hey ladies, hope you all had a great Mother’s Day. I wanted to say that P.U.S.H has really worked and God has really blessed my marriage. Things are getting better and better. We are getting along well and I’ve come to pray for everything. It has been a battle but God always had a way out He just wanted me to have faith and to P.U.S.H.
It has been a tough journey and I’m blessed to have gone through it all with all of you. Thank you so much for praying for me and my husband. It’s amazing that all God wants is for us to go to Him with faith and He’ll do the rest. I continue to pray hard for myself and for my husband and for all of you.
Anyone out there going through problems in your marriages or any other area in your life please P.U.S.H. I’ll testify that it works wonders and God is always faithful. God wants us to have the faith that moves mountains but He’ll move the mountain for us. (Thanks Steve and Cindy for that comment.)You can all read Deuteronomy 31:6,8. I love you all. God bless you. Cindy and Steve thank you so much for all that you do and your prayers. Later
(U.S.A.) You are more than welcome Anne. You and the others who participate in being in community with helping each other in the Lord, bless our lives in more ways than we can ever express. God is so gracious to allow us to participate with Him and with all of you in this awesome way! Blessings in Him, Cindy and Steve
(UNITED STATES) GOD BE BLESS YOU ALL, DONT STOP PRAYING MY HUSBAND HAS JOINED MY CHURCH ,WE PRAISE GOD TOGETHER NOW AND HE CANT WAIT FOR SUNDAY TO HEAR WHAT THE BISHOP HAS TO SAY THANK YOU JESUS (GOD BLESS ALL MARRIAGES )
(USA) My name is Kimberly and I feel that I need prayers from Christian believers and leaders. I am 26 years old, am on Social Security Income, and am currently living with my father, James. We argue most every night. He lashes out at me a lot. The drinking, I know plays a big part in it.
I am lost and confused and I don’t even know how to talk to him. I am almost fed up. I try to get him to go to A.A. and church but he refuses. He really aggravates me. I don’t even look forward to him coming home after work, because I know that he will pick arguments. I am trying to keep my mouth shut and not talk back to him. I am fed up with him.
Pray that he will quit drinking. I am also aggravated that he is good friends with our neighbors, who drink, do drugs and don’t go to church, because they have a huge impact on him. Pray for that situation as well.
I am currently separated from my husband. I miss him. I want to be together with him again. I want to tell him that I am sorry. I want him to forgive me. He has our children in N.Y. and has them calling another woman mommy. The few times that we have talked on the phone, he seems very angry with me and unforgiving. He calls me names like a no good mother and says that I never loved the kids and even has his fiance get on the phone and talk to me.
I believe in God and I believe in miracles. I just need a few more prayer partners and prayer believers in restored marriages and
miracles. Also, pray for me and all my loved ones, and all that is on my heart.
(USA) Wow!! I have been where you are. Not exactly the same story but close. The bottom line is prayer. Prayer is so powerful. I was divorced from my husband for 13 years, because of drugs and alcohol. I prayed for him everyday. I loved him everyday. When I felt I couldn’t pray, I would call the elders of the church and they would pray for him. It took 13 years of everyday prayer, but today we are remarried and he is serving the Lord with gladness. So… Don’t give up!
I would however, get out of the home where drinking abounds. You need to be in a house of light, not darkness. I will pray for you.
(RWANDA) Hi! I visited your blog now, and I was touched by various comments on PUSH matter and would like to share this experience with my church members this coming Saturday because I am a Seventh Adventist believer in what we call Mission Bulletin for the church. Let us continue to PUSH whoever we are, wherever we are, and whichever churches we attend. May God bless us all. SAM