Beyond Excuses: Why We Choose to Believe Before We See
By Kevin & Gabby Pilger
There is a kind of faith that only makes sense after the fact. And then there is the kind God actually asks for.
We are writing this before the full picture is visible. Before the provision is complete. Before the map is filled in. Before anyone would look at our lives from the outside and say — yes, clearly, that all makes sense now. We are writing it now, on purpose, because that is exactly the point.
And we believe — with everything in us — that this is not only our message. This is a message for the church. For the time. For the days we are living in right now. No more excuses.
He Spoke Before the Storm
A week before the tornado came through our roof — before the water damage, before the restructure, before the release from our jobs, before the ground shifted under everything familiar — God gave us a word. Not after. Before. Let that land for a moment.
Before we were unemployed. Before the income stopped. Before the calendar cleared in ways we did not choose. Before any of it looked the way it looks right now — He spoke.
He does not operate in coincidence and He does not scramble. He knew what was coming, and He drove a stake into the earth before we needed something to stand on — because He knew the moment was coming when we would need something that didn't move.
The storm came. The jobs ended. The ground shifted. The stake held.
We are not victims of what happened. We are witnesses to what He did with it — and what He is doing with it still. Every disruption was preparation. Every ending was a clearing. He was not reacting to our circumstances. He was orchestrating them — and the word He gave us before any of it arrived was the proof that He had already been here.
He knew. He always knows. He provides before we know we need it, and He is still providing in ways we have not yet seen. That is the God we are dealing with.
And we believe He is saying the same thing to the church right now that He said to us before the storm: I am already ahead of this. I have already spoken. Now — will you believe Me before you see it?
He Calls Things That Are Not As Though They Were
The God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.
Romans 4:17
He does not wait for your situation to look like your calling before He names it. He named Abraham father of nations before a single child breathed. He called Gideon mighty warrior while he was hiding in a winepress. He spoke the end from the beginning — not because He was guessing, but because He was already there.
He has named us. He has commissioned us. He is speaking over Keystone Table Rock Ministries things that do not yet exist in the natural — and He is speaking of them the same way He speaks of everything He has already decided. Done.
We did not leave our jobs to find a calling. We stepped into a calling that was already spoken — into work He already named, already funded in the Spirit, already declared finished before our last day on the clock. And right now, in this moment, He is actively building what He already declared. Not someday. Now.
We are not chasing something. We are walking into what He has already prepared, already declared, and is actively bringing to pass.
And this is not just our story. This is the church's story. He has already spoken over the body of Christ. He has already named it, commissioned it, and declared what it will do in the earth in these last days. The question is not whether He has spoken. The question is whether we will believe it — and move — before the natural catches up to the spiritual. No more excuses. He has already spoken.
Should He Not Be Concerned?
The book of Jonah ends with a question. Not an answer. A question — because the question is the answer.
God looks at Nineveh, that great city full of people who do not know their right hand from their left, and He asks: Should I not be concerned?
We sat in a room recently with men who have been in Pakistan and Uganda and Zambia and Burkina Faso — men who came back changed, reporting what they saw with their own eyes. Hundreds of evangelists waking up. Churches being born in places where there were none. People receiving Christ in markets, in prisons, on dirt roads, in languages that have never had a Bible. And the cry from every nation was the same: Please come. Please come. Please come.
God heard that before any of us did. He has been answering it longer than we know. And right now — today — He is moving pieces into position. He is opening doors. He is calling workers. He is arranging divine appointments in rooms and on roadsides and in airports and in houses with water-damaged ceilings.
He is concerned. He has always been concerned. And His concern is not slowing down — it is accelerating.
And here is the hard question He is asking the church in this hour — the same question He asked Jonah, the same question He asked us: Should I not be concerned — and if I am, why aren't you moving?
His concern has become our assignment. And we believe it is meant to become the church's answer. We are unemployed by the world's calendar. We are fully employed by His. No more excuses.
The Time Has Come
Not eventually. Not when the conditions improve. Not when we feel more ready or the numbers add up or the plan is tighter or the income is restored to something that makes sense on paper. Now.
God is moving differently than He has before. Not because He has changed — He is the same yesterday, today, forever. But because the hour has changed. Jesus is coming. And there are things He wants to do, things He needs the church to do, in the days before the day of His coming. Things that cannot be done after. Things that can only happen in this window, while the harvest is still ripe, while the doors are still open, while there is still time.
We were in that room. We felt the urgency. It did not produce fear — it produced clarity.
The window is short. The workers are few. And God is actively, right now, looking for people — looking for a church — that will say yes before they see the full picture.
He found two of them in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma — in a house that had water damage from a tornado, in a season that looked like loss from the outside and looked like launch from where He was standing.
But He is not just looking for the Pilgers. He is looking for you. He is looking for the church to rise to this moment — to lay down the excuses, to step out of the comfortable, to look at the window that is closing and decide that the urgency of the hour is more compelling than the security of the familiar.
The time has come. Not for us alone. For all of us. No more excuses.
He Needs This Voice
This is the part that is hardest to say — not because it sounds too large, but because saying it out loud means we can no longer pretend we didn't hear it.
He doesn't need impressive voices. He needs yielded ones. He needs people who have been in the marketplace and on the mission field and in the hard middle years and the storms that come through the roof and the transitions that don't make sense on paper. He needs people who know what it is to wait and work and wonder — and then wake up one morning and realize the calling was never not real, that every season was preparation, that even the unemployment is part of the appointment.
He needs the Pilgers. Not because we are exceptional. Because He said so. And we choose to believe Him.
And right now — in real time, in the middle of the not-yet — He is using this voice. He is opening doors with it. He is connecting it to people and nations and moments that confirm, over and over, that He meant what He said. We are not waiting to become something. We are something He is actively deploying.
But this is bigger than our voice. He needs the church's voice. He needs every yielded, willing, available person who has been sitting on a calling and calling it humility when it is actually fear. He needs the evangelist who stopped going. The missionary who came home and never went back. The believer who knows there is more but has settled for comfortable.
He needs yielded voices. He needs them now. And the excuse list — the money, the timing, the preparation, the uncertainty — He already addressed every single one of them at the cross. No more excuses.
You Are a Witness Too
Here is what we need you to understand. There is a reason you are reading this. Not because we are clever communicators or because the algorithm sent you here. You are reading this because He arranged it — and in reading it, you have become a witness.
A witness to what He said to us. A witness to what He did — and is doing. A witness to the moment before it all comes to pass in full — so that when it does, and it will, you will know: I saw this before it happened. I was there.
That is not small. That is sacred. You did not stumble into our story. He walked you into it — because what He is doing right now, in our lives and through this ministry, is something He wants more eyes on. More voices carrying. More witnesses standing in agreement.
The church does not need more spectators in this hour. It needs witnesses who become participants. No more excuses.
This Is Not a Plea
We are not asking you to do anything God has not already been leading you to do. We are not begging. We are not performing. We are not managing your emotions toward a response.
We are simply two people who heard something from God, chose to believe it before the storm, before the release, before the unemployment, before any of it made sense in the natural — and are now watching it unfold in real time. And we are being obedient to witness it out loud, so that others can witness it with us.
If something in you is stirring right now — that is not our doing. That is His. And He does not stir without purpose.
If you feel led to pray for us and what God is building through KTRM, pray. There is no more powerful partnership on earth. We feel every one.
If you feel led to partner financially with what He is doing — with reaching nations, training evangelists, and carrying the gospel to places that are crying please come — the door is open. Every gift is an act of faith, not charity. You are not giving to us. You are co-laboring with a God who is actively, right now, doing something in the earth.
And if you feel led to share this — with one person, with your people, with anyone who needs to hear that God is still moving and still faithful and still calling ordinary people to extraordinary obedience — share it. Witnesses multiply witnesses. And He is looking for more.
We said yes before we saw it. Before the storm. Before the release. Before the income stopped. Before the natural caught up to the spiritual. We are saying it still. And we are watching — in real time, right now — as He does exactly what He said He would do.
He is faithful. The time has come. The window is short. The harvest is His, and He is deeply, urgently, actively concerned. The excuse list is empty.
And somewhere in the world right now, someone is saying please come — and we intend to go. Will you?
From the Table to the Nations. There's a seat for you here — and a world waiting out there.