Reaping

 

Reaping
Genesis 26:1-5

1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. 2 Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

           

As children of God, we are accounted as righteous when we believe by faith that Jesus is the Son of God. We follow Him and live our lives according to the scriptures. Those of us who are not born a Jew are Gentile. Our faith in Jesus puts us in Christ because He is the seed of promise that God made with Abraham. Galatians 3:8-9   And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. Galatians 3:26-29 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Our lives are now in Christ; therefore, we must follow His teachings and seek the kingdom of God and all His righteousness will be added to us. When we put the Lord first in our lives, He will reveal many things to us to show us how much we mean to Him. Our basic needs are met and for our faith, we are rewarded when we diligently seek Him.

We should have this mind every day desiring to know Jesus for ourselves. He is the One who died for our sins and made the provision to save and forgive us. No matter how long it takes to find Him we must stay the course. Throughout the scriptures He blessed many because of their faith.

Whatever we may think about ourselves or our lives it’s not the same way that God see’s us or feels. He sees the end of a thing before it is created and manifested. Remember in scripture Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Jesus is the Lord of the harvest. He gives seed to the sower and multiplies their seed according to righteousness. Saints, we are His harvest, and our souls are blessed because of the atonement for our sins. We must get our faith up and activate pursuing the kingdom of God. There is an abundance of blessings, mercies, favor, peace, joy, righteousness, and grace that Christ has predestined for the souls that are His.

We have been given these divine provisions and spiritual blessings to taste and see that the Lord is good. When we glorify the Lord’s name and give Him praise and honor and follow His commands, we are humbling our minds and hearts before the Lord. This puts us on His mind when we exalt His name. Everyone has a special praise and cry that only the Lord knows and understands.

The power of the Holy Spirit is bringing to us the revelations of the Father’s will for our lives. We must submit our will and yield ourselves to let Him plant the seeds into us. Our hearts need to be empty of pride, malice, anger, gossip, meanness, and ugliness. Whatever we are not confessing to the Lord we need to be real with God and get on our knees and let it out so that we can be poured into as He desires to bless each of us.

The seeds that we receive from the Holy Spirit will birth many miracles and blessings in our lives. This doesn’t just bless us, but our children, generations, and our bloodlines. It is through our obedience that the Lord remembers to increase, bless, and prosper our families. These seeds are created to bloom the fruit for which God made it. Our purpose, legacies, ministries, deliverance, gifts, destinies, new ideas, creativity, spiritual callings, clarity, and solutions to unanswered mysteries, all begin with a word from the Lord.

The Lord is so vast in all His ways. We must stop trying to figure everything out by blocking the process of His will and work in our lives. The scripture tells us Matthew 19:26  But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Many of us are presently giving birth to the seeds that we’ve been carrying. The unexplained trials, trauma’s, persecutions, spiritual attacks back-to-back, can’t seem to get a break, there’s always something going on that’s robbing us of our peace. These light afflictions are nothing compared to the glory that the Lord is going to reveal in our lives.

We must run to our prayer closets and sit and wait on the Lord to speak a word to us. He’s there in the secret place within us waiting for us to be still. We must be intentional and sacrifice our time for the Lord in secret. He speaks to those who are thirsty and whose hearts are open, pouring out praises, tears of wanting to know Him, surrendering everything to Him all the pain, hurt and unconfessed sins.

We are being prepared for the Lord of the harvest. Jesus is coming back for the saints who are asleep in Christ first and for the living in Christ for we are the righteous that believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we must be vigilant and pray to the Father for His will to be done in our lives. Now let us hold on to this hope that we have in Christ Jesus and continue to remember Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” It only takes one seed to reap a harvest worth more than millions.

 

An Abundance of Blessings

 

Hold on it will come to fruition

Every good deed will prosper

Delay does not mean denied 

As you press your way forward

Your prayers are being manifested

The universe is forming your breakthroughs 

You must believe with all your heart

Sometimes the wait seems impossible

In due season you will understand 

Your life will bloom forth the harvest

As you draw closer to the abundance

Count every delay a blessing 

Sometimes God is testing your faith

When the time comes you will be ready

The righteous will not be forsaken 

Sometimes the suffering prepares the way

As you embrace your inheritance

The sun will shine bright upon your face

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