05/29/2026
"PARTNERSHIP!" ... 2 Cor. 6:1, “We then as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.”
Workers together with Him or co-laborers with Him; this is what normal Christianity is supposed to be! We are partners with Christ releasing heaven’s manifestations in earth. Too many have a one dimensional perspective of partnership by thinking it’s to be a robotic interplay between themselves and God in which their will is completely dialed down to zero and His will completely takes over their thoughts and desires. They see themselves as remote control beings, totally under God’s direction as He sits in heaven and works the master controls. This is just the opposite of what scripture describes. Our ideas, dreams and opinions have a monumental influence on how God carries out His plans in the earth. We are co-laborers, partners, meaning that apart from Christ our work is not complete, and at the same time, His work on earth is not complete without us. We are contributors to His plans, not just robots carrying out His ideas. God is actually interested in our desires and dreams and has opened up His plan to our influence.
God created us with a free will, with desires and dreams so that our will is so valuable to God that He will not violate it even at the cost of His own Son! Without a free will we are nothing more than animated playthings, dolls or toys. But with a free will, we become lovers of God and co-laborers with Him.
Gen. 2:19 … God told Adam to name all the animals and assign to them their character and nature! That’s co-laboring!
Ex. 32:7-14 …Moses interceded with God over the fate of Israel. God wasn’t playing mind games with Moses; He was interacting with him as a friend.
Jesus described our relationship in the same terms - Jn.15:15 - “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
Jn. 14:14 - “If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”
Jn. 15:7 - “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
Servants are not partners, friends are! God desires for us to engage Him, to change His mind, to direct His ideas, to share in His unfolding plans. It’s not that He lacks for ideas and plans; He enjoys our participation. By becoming a friend of God, you do not lose the humility of a servant; however, your relationship and perspective shifts. There comes a point in our relationship with God where obedience is not our primary issue. Levels of relationship with God exist that many of us have never conceived of or experienced, and until then, our co-laboring with Him will be more limited than it needs to be. ... 1 Kgs. 8:15-17 - “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, Who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and with His hand has fulfilled it saying, ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’ Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.”
God said, “I didn’t choose a city, I chose a man, and the temple was in the heart of the man.” God was saying, “The temple wasn’t My idea; David was My idea!” David’s creativity and desires wrote history because God embraced them. This is very hard for us to first believe! We think anything we do for God must flow directly from the Throne and be carried out to the letter, as if from a heavenly instruction booklet. God’s approach is different. He has purposely made Himself vulnerable to the desires of His people. History unfolds according to what we do, what we pray, what we don’t do, and what we don’t pray! He gave us Kingdom principles that set up our parameters. God then said, “Dreamers, come! Let’s dream together and write the story of human history.”
Ps. 37:4 - “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” God wants to be impacted by what we think and dream. God is not so much after our desires to change our desires to become what He desires. God is after our desires and our intimacy.
Jn.20:23 - “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.” Jesus said, “Whoever you forgive, I forgive.”
Partnership is simply a concept many do not understand, because true friendship with God is so foreign to us. Most misunderstanding comes because we don’t know which our desires come from God and which are carnal. The very word DESIRE is made of the prefix DE meaning “of”, and “SIRE” meaning “the Father”! Desire is, then, by nature, of the Father. But before we come to Christ, our desires are corrupted because desire springs from with which we have communed! If we commune with greed, our desires will be greedy. If we commune with anger over a past hurt, our desire will be for revenge. But when we commune with the Father, our desires are pure.
Mk.11:24 - “Whatever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them, and you will have them.”
The kingdom is bigger on the inside than outside. There is plenty of room for our desires, our creativity and ideas. We don’t think or dream independently from God, but because of Him!
God is saying, “I’m going to give you one huge idea, and I want it to shape every breath of your life, every bit of ministry, every prayer. The idea is ‘On earth as it is in heaven.’ Now, go, run with it and make it happen!” ... As we come into true intimacy with God, more of what takes place is a result of our desires, not just receiving specific commands from heaven. God begins to feed off our desires just as he did David’s desire. The temple doesn’t even appear to be God’s idea, but it was so good that He put it in His book and made it a big part of His work on earth. He’ll do the same thing with our ideas and desires!
Jn. 5:19 - “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” Jesus was saying, “I see what moves the Father, and I allow what moves Him to set My course.”
When we surrender to the Lord’s agenda, He’s suddenly interested in hearing what we have to say. Our surrender to God makes Him vulnerable to our ideas and dreams. It becomes a co-laboring effort. When we co-labor with Christ, our collaboration bears both our imprint and His. ... Dreaming with God unlocks deep reservoirs of creativity in our lives. Unfortunately, creativity with many in the church is on lock-down because people fear their own desires and dreams. Religion bottles up any creative impulse Holy Spirit put within us. Too many are shackled by the familiar- doing things the same way and then expecting different results. We stick with the same old, tired methods and ask God to do a new thing through us, but expect Him to do it in a way in which we are familiar.
God invades our imaginations with dreams that involve new, creative ideas. He puts into our minds unique thoughts and ways of expression that we’ve never had before. This is the God speaking into your thoughts, bringing witty inventions and life’s solutions. This is exactly what scripture talks about in Phil.4:19…“according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” This means that God out of His realm of glory will release ideas, concepts, creative things, and witty inventions to His people that will cause tremendous provision to come to them. True partnership is God's ultimate desire for the church today. Selah.
