WAIT FOR YOUR HARVEST
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Memorise
But let patience have
her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:4
Read:
Hebrews 6:11-15
6:11 And we desire that every
one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the
end:
6:12 That ye be not slothful,
but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
6:13 For when God made promise
to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I
will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
6:15 And so, after he had
patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
6:16 For men verily swear by the
greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
MESSAGE
I learnt a valuable lesson some years ago. When the crowd of
participants at our monthly Holy Ghost service began to increase, I decided to
select seven elders to help in the area of ministering to people. I gave each
of them neckties that I had used during previous ministrations. “Put on these
neckties; they are already soaked with God’s anointing during my previous
ministrations” I told them. Whenever they wore those neckties and ministered,
supernatural miracles always occurred. As signs and wonders happened in the
area of ministration, something else happened in my own life. I was showered
with gifts of neckties. Each time my close acquaintances travelled, they came back
with just one type of gift - neckties. Wherever they travelled to, the only
gifts they brought to me were neckties. Then I asked God, “Why are these people
just giving me neckties? Can’t they come up with some other gifts beside
neckties?” God gave me insight into what was happening. He said, “Son, if you
sow ties, you will reap ties.” I quickly got the message and decided to start
sowing shoes. I located pastors who wore my shoe size and I gave them a good
number of my shoes, among which were some of my best shoes. I expected a
harvest of new shoes in the first month following my act of giving, but there
was no gift of shoes for me. When another month rolled by and there was still
no gift of shoes for me, I went to God and said, “Daddy, you told me that if I
sow, I would reap.” It was then the Lord taught me another lesson, He said,
“Son, if you plant maize, you can harvest it within three months, but if you
plant yam, you will wait a little longer”. The Almighty God said to me, “Shoes
are of greater value than ties, the greater the quality of the seed sown, the
more time you will have to spend in waiting for the harvest. You have planted
shoes and you will have to wait a little longer; but the moment the harvest
starts, there will be no stopping it”. Later, I was showered with shoes of all
sizes and colours: big, small, white, green, black and all kinds of
sophisticated shoes. When the harvest eventually came in full, I was pleasantly
surprised. James 5:7 says,
“Be patient therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive
the early and latter rain.”
If you have sown any seed, your harvest will soon come. Just wait a
little while and your harvest will locate you in the Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point:
Father, please let my harvest come speedily and help me not to be
weary in well-doing.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
2 Chronicles 29:3-30:27
Ecclesiastes 3
Farther accelerate my harvest time and help me not to be weary in well doing
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