SOWING BEFORE REAPING
Memorise: Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7
Read: Galatians 6:7-10, Bible in one
year: Judges 5:1-6:35, Matthew 25:14-30
Our God is great. Not only is He great,
He is the greatest. He possesses all wisdom, riches and glory. The plan of God
and His delight is for you to prosper (3rd John 2). Prosperity here
implies abundance, fullness and sufficiency. One thing we need to know is that
prosperity does not come by speaking in tongues, but by the wisdom of sowing
and reaping. At a particular time in my ministry, by necessity, I started
giving out neckties to elders who were ministering along with me. I then
noticed that all my close associates started giving me only neckties upon their
return from foreign trips. Out of curiosity, I asked God why this was so. He
told me “Son, if you sow a tie, you will reap ties.” I then switched to sowing
good shoes into the life of those I was sure were of the same shoe size with
me. However, the return I got from this did not come as fast as the neckties
did. I went back to God to know why, and He told me “Son, if you plant maize
and also plant yam, both harvest will come, but not at the same time.” Then, I
understood the lesson that it is the quality of your sowing that determines the
quality of your harvest.
There is a category of people who want
to reap without sowing. They can best be described as thieves. It is very wrong
to expect a harvest when you have not sown. Make efforts to sow into that
particular area of life where you desire a harvest. Entering into your
financial breakthrough may not come easy. You have to provoke Heaven to act on
your behalf by sowing. No one is poor enough to have nothing to sow. If you
check yourself very well, you will realise that there is a seed in your hand
you can sow. The Church in Macedonia had so little, yet, they were committed to
giving to the work of God (2nd Corinthians 8:1-2). In the early days
of my joining the Redeemed Christian Church of God, there was a meeting in
which my father-in-the-Lord, the late founder of the church, asked all workers
to empty their treasury because of an urgent need in the church. Out of
excitement of being privileged to be part of the saints, my wife and I as
workers emptied our accounts with nothing left. At the workers meeting the
following Sunday, my father-in-the-Lord asked “How many of you have done what I
instructed?” Out of excitement to be counted among those who had complied, my
wife and I raised our hands and we received the greatest shock of our lives. We
discovered that we were the only ones that had complied! Ashamed, we quickly
brought down our hands; but see what the Lord has done with our lives today.
The many seeks of those days needed a lot of patience to become the great
harvest of God’s blessing today.
Key Point
Nobody is entirely poor. There is always
a seed in your hand that you can sow.
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