building with God or building for god?
Am I building with God—or just building for Him? This question has become one of my greatest internal checks as a Kingdom business builder:
Because here’s what I’ve learned…
It’s possible to be completely sold out for the mission. To pray, fast, serve, and even quote Scripture over your brand and still be building something that God didn’t author. Or maybe worse… something He did initiate, but we took over without Him.
In the Kingdom, alignment matters as much as assignment.
Building for God sounds right, but it can become performance.
We treat the business like it’s a gift we’re offering up to God. We move quickly. We “hustle” with spiritual language. We say, “This is for God!” but we never slowed down long enough to ask, “God… is this what You want me to build?”
We seek results more than relationship. We strategize more than we surrender. The risk? We end up building a structure He never asked for—or one He started, but we finished in our own strength.
Building with God requires intimacy.
It’s slower. More refined. More rooted in prayer than in planning. It means we sit with God before we build the funnel. We listen longer before launching. We check our hearts when things start to grow—to make sure we’re not running ahead of Him, calling it faith when it’s really fear of falling behind.
When you build with God, there’s no separation between the sacred and the strategic. Your business meetings become prayer meetings. Your content becomes ministry.
The Fruit of Building With God
It doesn’t mean there won’t be trials. But there’s peace in the process. There’s grace to sustain. And there’s fruit that lasts—not just numbers, but transformation. You start to see God’s fingerprints in the details.
How Do You Know the Difference?
Here are three questions I ask often:
Did I ask God before I started this, or did I just assume He’d bless it?
Do I feel led… or pressured?
Is this building intimacy or just giving me identity?
If you’re sensing a check in your spirit, that’s not condemnation, it’s an invitation. God is not asking you to stop building. He’s asking you to build with Him again.
Kingdom business is more than “doing good things for God.” It’s walking closely with Him so what we build reflects His heart.
So, ask yourself today, with humility and honesty: Am I building with God… or just building for Him?
Let’s be builders of intimacy, not just impact. Let’s build with Him.
If this stirred something in you, I created a free resource to help you start right where you are. It’s called the Kingdom C-Suite; a simple guide to meeting with God daily.
👉🏽 Get your free access here: Kingdom C-Suite — Camille Babin
Let this be your starting place for building with God again.
