Sowing And Reaping

We have all heard about:  Seedtime and Harvest, Giving and Receiving, Sowing and Reaping.  It is the same principle.
Open your Bibles to Gen 8 and Gal 6

Allow me to set the stage for this Lesson with this PROFOUND TRUTH:

EVERYTHING IN LIFE STARTS WITH A SEED! EVERYTHING IN THE EARTH WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SEEDTIME AND HARVEST!

Say that!

EVERYTHING IN LIFE STARTS WITH A SEED! EVERYTHING IN THE EARTH WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SEEDTIME AND HARVEST!

We will be learning about the Law of Sowing and Reaping. 

Gen 8:22 reads, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”

Gal 6:7 says, Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
Jesus Himself constantly compared faith with a seed being sown to get a desired result.  He said in this familiar Scripture:
…If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there; and it will remove; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Luke 8:11 tells us, The seed is the Word of God.
From time to time we have all faced mountains of need:  Spiritual problems, Sickness, Family needs, Fear, Financial needs and many more.  But the Good News is the LORD tells us what to do to get these mountains removed. 

What do we do to get these mountains removed?

WE SOW A SEED OF FAITH

The Bible says in Romans 12:3b, …God has dealt, or God has given, to every man the measure of faith. 
Not “A” measure of faith, but “THE” measure of faith.  We all get the same measure.
We all have faith and each of us has the same potential to develop our faith.  It is up to us to develop it. 

The Bible talks about: No faith in Mark 4:40, Little faith in Matthew 8:26, and Great faith in Matthew 8:10.  It is up to us to feed our faith, exercise or use our faith, and develop our faith.

How do we get faith?  Where does faith come from?  Romans 10:17 tells us.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 

God’s Word says in four different places that: The just shall live by faith: In Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11 and also in Hebrews 10:38 which says, Now the just shall live by faith: but if any one draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.  So really, FAITH IS THE KEY TO EVERY THING!

Let me prove it to you or state it in a more familiar way.

Hebrews 11:6 says without faith it is impossible to please Him.  Without faith it is impossible to please God. 

What does impossible mean?  It can not happen.  So we’ve got to have faith to please God. 
Listen to Romans 14:23AMP in part.  … For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin.
We must have faith so that we can sow in faith.  But, we must realize that we can have great faith in one area, no faith in another, and little faith in still another.  This will become clearer later in the Lesson.

When we use the faith that God has given to us according to His Word, it becomes a mighty tool to move the mountains of need we face in our lives.  Our seed-sowing and our reaping put us in charge of the harvest that God said we will receive.  We take control rather than sitting around at the mercy of the devil.

Each act of faith is a seed sown, and it will be multiplied back to us many times, according to God’s Word!
Jesus Christ is God’s Seed.  He is God’s covenant of blessing, to us.  Because of Jesus and through Jesus, we can make a partnership of blessing with God.

Let me give you:  Three Key Principles of Seed-Faith:

#1  God is your Source
#2  Give and it will be given to you
#3  Expect a Miracle

​We will talk about each of them NEXT TIME