(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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(UK) Happy New Year everybody, it’s 2009!
(TRINIDAD) Please pray for me. I need the strength to move on. I know this marriage is not working out. My husband is pushing me to lust. This marriage was not through a love matching wedding. We were from 2 different countries. We were together for 27 years and were miserable. My husband is cheating on me with the woman he truly loves. Our whole married life has changed since he met his love and with the help of his wicked family. And as for me, I am afraid of the unknown. I married at the age of 16 and never had a boy friend. I’ve only known my husband. Pray for me.
(ZIMBABWE) Thanks Cindy and Steve for your articles. To tell the truth, praying is good. Let’s have faith in everything we pray for and the Lord will continue to shine upon us. I have been having problems in my marriage and didn’t know where to go until I started praying P.U.S.H. and then things started to change. My husband now appreciates and respects me as his wife. I will always continue to pray for others. GOD BLESS YOU. Thanks once again Cindy and Steve.
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(CANADA) Hello, May God bless everyone that comes to this site. Your testimony is encouraging. P.U.S.H means I don’t have to give up or give in to any situation when things are not going the way I want it. What the Lord needs from me is my FAITH to be dependent on Him alone. I strongly believe that God will never give my right partner to another woman.
(SOUTH AFRICA) I believe that if I can kneel before God, I can stand before any man or situation. I strongly believe that God will restore my marriage and give me back my ground. As Cindy said, What God put’s together, no man/women can separate. He moved out last week Friday, but I believe, I believe that God will do the necessary. I gave him (my package) to the Lord and now the Lord will do what needs to be done because for too long I tried out of myself to get things restored. I’m weak but in God I know I’m strong. I will not allow the devil to destroy my marriage or steal from me, as God promise us in His word that he gives us, peace, joy, happiness, love, wealth, wisdom… and all the good for those who believe.
In the Name of Jesus, I take back my marriage for God is Love, He’s a God of His Word. I love him so much and am willing to walk the road – forgive – forget – Only & most importantly grow closed to God. I ask that you all will pray with me for the return of my husband to me as his wife and my two kids who needs him so much.
(SOUTH AFRICA) I am married for 23 years. This is a very short version of my life. I developed an addiction for gambling 8 years ago. When my husband found out about it he wanted to leave me. We discussed it and he said he will stay only if I would go for therapy. I agreed to it but he never wanted to join me in counselling, said it was my problem. I went though a lot of emotional abuse. I went for several counselling sessions on my own.
Since then he constantly brought up the gambling and started to abuse me emotionally. It caused problems in our relationship in so many ways, fighting over finances, family, our sex life deteriorated. I lost my mother and sister in this time. He started to drink more and would then want to be intimate after that. My daughter was then raped in December 2008 and my husband accused me of it being my fault. I became depressed and ended up in a clinic for depression. My husband still refused to join me for counselling.
I’ve decided that I am going to leave him. He still refuses to go for counselling but wants me to give him another chance. My love for him is gone. I don’t have any feelings left for him. He said that we must give our lives to God and our marriage will change. I do have a relationship with God and know He can change anything but I still feel I cannot stay in this marriage. Am I wrong to not want to give us another change? I cannot go through that kind of emotional abuse again. I lost myself over the past years and did not know the person I became. He previously wanted to leave several times always telling me that he does not love me and that he regrets ever marrying me. What shall I do?
(ZAMBIA) Hi, My husband and I are currently on separation since January this year (not my wish). We have 2 children together aged 7 and 3 years. Our problems started when my husband started having an extra marital affair. It’s what has caused this separation. He moved out of our matrimonial home and is staying on his own and is also seeing another lady.
I want to confess that it’s very painful to be disappointed by a person you love so much. This is the most painful, difficult and toughest situation I have gone through. I just want thank the Lord for the grace that he has given me to handle this tough situation.
I also want to give credit to a friend who introduced me to this site after learning what am going through. I have been encouraged by reading some of these comments which some people are going through. I want to start PUSHING more than ever before because there is power in PUSH.
Please pray for me and my husband so that we may be reconciled back. Pray for God to remove the lies that the evil one has brought into my husband’s life and to break the bondage where he is right now. I believe that what God has put together, no man can put asunder. The other woman will not put my marriage asunder. Pray he will have nothing to do with the other lady for the rest of his life forever.
May the Good Lord richly bless you for the wonderful job that you are doing. Stay blessed! SASSY
(ZAMBIA) Good Morning. My next door neighbor was saying about you that whatever happens, God will shine down your career ahead of you. Thank you Lord for everything you’ve given me to help with my GCSE support that I needed importantly.
(CANADA) At one point a few years ago the Lord showed me that while I liked the white picket fence idea of marriage, I also had been afraid of marriage because I’ve seen so many go wrong.
However in a radio broadcast at the time I heard even men share testimonies of how the Lord answered their wives prayers and restored their marriages and in reading one of the posts here too, I know that with the Lord all things will work out fine and there is no need to be afraid. Our God is able.
The one thing now is, I need the Lord to bring the one He chooses to me. At this time I do love a man whom I’ve come to know a lot. He is everything I could ask for in a husband but other than confirmations on my end, he really has heard nothing. Please pray for the Lord to guide me and confirm His plans with others if truly this man is His will for me.