Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Harvest

This is a time to receive our harvest, and we'll reap in two different ways:

FROM SEED THAT WE HAVE ALREADY SOWN:

Genesis 8:22 - "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest."

Isaiah 55: 10,11 - "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it."

A HARVEST GAINED BY ENTERING INTO THE LABOR OF OTHERS:

John 4:38 - "I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

Deut.6: 10,11 - "Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers....to give you great and splendid cities which you did not build, and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant...."

Ecc.2: 26 - "For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that He may give to the one who is good in God's sight."

Nugget of Gold: It is time to call forth (by faith) the harvest that is appointed to us in each of our fields - marketplace, ministry, family, etc. The land, both spiritual and natural, must release its harvest to us from seed that we have faithfully sown (often, in tears). The land must also release that which the Lord Himself has decreed to come into our hands as "plunder" from the world and the world system. This money, land, and other material possessions will be used for His Kingdom purposes, and will be "sanctified through the word of God and prayer", as well as giving.

EXPECT IT NOW!

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