Sowing that reaps the harvest you desire requires planning.
Sowing tulips harvests tulips. Sowing okra harvests okra. You get the idea. If I plant corn, I am not expecting beans at harvest time.
This spring I decided to plant a small garden. Before the actual gardening began, I purchased a journal - my garden journal for 2013. In this journal, I began planning the garden.
Sowing tulips harvests tulips. Sowing okra harvests okra. You get the idea. If I plant corn, I am not expecting beans at harvest time.
This spring I decided to plant a small garden. Before the actual gardening began, I purchased a journal - my garden journal for 2013. In this journal, I began planning the garden.
What kind of garden did I desire? Formal and ornamental, vegetable, rose, .....
I realized, I needed to know the goal for my harvest. The desired harvest determines what kind of garden I would plant. After some thought, I decided I would love to invite more birds and butterflies into the yard for photography.
Great I had a goal! My harvest needed to fall within this goal.
Sowing spiritually, is the same as sowing naturally. We can see the parallels in the Bible between natural and spiritual sowing and reaping.
What are your goals? Do they fall in line with the Word of God? What kind of harvest do you need to fulfill these goals?
The summer in between my two years of attending Rhema Bible Training College, I traveled back to Tennessee for my teenage children who really wanted to spend the summer with their friends they had missed all school year. A woman at the local church we attended came to me and said, I want to fill up your gas tank for you when you leave services today.
Of course, I said, "Great." At the time, I really needed that tank of gas, and I followed her to the gas station across from the church, and she filled it all the way up.
As we prepared to leave, she said, "Joy, I want to fill up your gas tank every week after service." It was a prayer answered for me. I was very thankful. She faithfully looked for me after every service to make sure I stopped with her by the gas station.
Later that summer, before returning to RBTC I let her know how much I appreciated what she did for me over the summer, and I asked her why she wanted to fill up my tank each week.
She replied, "Our finances were low, and I did not want to run out of gas before getting paid. So I sowed into your gas tank. Then, I realized I could do this every week."
"Did it work? Did you get the money you needed for gas?" I asked.
She smiled and said, "My gas tank has been full all summer. And, even my husbands tank has been full all summer We have had plenty to fill both our tanks and yours."
We do not always see the results of our sowing exactly as we would like. There are many other things that effect the results our a harvest (which I will discuss in future postings).
However, we always reap the harvest.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:38
Plan what you sow, if you want to specifically reap.
Great I had a goal! My harvest needed to fall within this goal.
Sowing spiritually, is the same as sowing naturally. We can see the parallels in the Bible between natural and spiritual sowing and reaping.
What are your goals? Do they fall in line with the Word of God? What kind of harvest do you need to fulfill these goals?
The summer in between my two years of attending Rhema Bible Training College, I traveled back to Tennessee for my teenage children who really wanted to spend the summer with their friends they had missed all school year. A woman at the local church we attended came to me and said, I want to fill up your gas tank for you when you leave services today.
Of course, I said, "Great." At the time, I really needed that tank of gas, and I followed her to the gas station across from the church, and she filled it all the way up.
As we prepared to leave, she said, "Joy, I want to fill up your gas tank every week after service." It was a prayer answered for me. I was very thankful. She faithfully looked for me after every service to make sure I stopped with her by the gas station.
Later that summer, before returning to RBTC I let her know how much I appreciated what she did for me over the summer, and I asked her why she wanted to fill up my tank each week.
She replied, "Our finances were low, and I did not want to run out of gas before getting paid. So I sowed into your gas tank. Then, I realized I could do this every week."
"Did it work? Did you get the money you needed for gas?" I asked.
She smiled and said, "My gas tank has been full all summer. And, even my husbands tank has been full all summer We have had plenty to fill both our tanks and yours."
We do not always see the results of our sowing exactly as we would like. There are many other things that effect the results our a harvest (which I will discuss in future postings).
However, we always reap the harvest.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:38
Plan what you sow, if you want to specifically reap.
Today's passages are Galatians 6:7-10 and Matthew 13:2-11.
Galatians 6:7-10: Gal 6: 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gal 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Matthew 13:2-11
Mat 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Mat 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mat 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mat 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Mat 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mat 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gal 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Mat 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mat 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mat 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Mat 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mat 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
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