Sowing and Reaping - Part 4

Genesis 1:11-12
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 8:22
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Ecclesiastes 3:2
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

Acts 17:26
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

While sowing, it might be a season of tears but at harvest, those tears will  turn to joy. 
Pentecost is the harvest festival of the Jews. That is when the Holy Spirit descended on them. That is why the Holy Spirit is known as the Lord of the harvest.

Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.

The three main laws of sowing and reaping

1. You reap only if you sow.
2. You reap what you sow
3. You reap more than what you sow.

Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

If you give, you will receive.
If you want a blessed future, start giving and helping others. In time, God will bless you.

Mark 4:26-29
He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a person scattering seed. When the man sleeps, the seed sprouts and he does not know how.
Four stages:

1. Planting
2. Death of the seed

John 12:24
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

3. Resurrection

Every seed once it has died, will rise again, just like Jesus did.

1 Corinthians 15:36-38
How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

4. Harvest
   

Mark 4:29
As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

Sowing and reaping happens in these four stages. Between this is Time when we must patiently wait on the Lord. 

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About The Author:

Dr. Damien Antony
Born and brought up in a Christian family, Dr. Damien Antony possessed an unquenching quest for truth right from his boyhood days and eventually his relentless search led him to the Bible. He is a Revival Preacher, Bible Teacher, Leadership Trainer, Author and a Life Coach. He moves under the anointing for Prophetic, Healing, Deliverance, Inner Healing and Financial Breakthrough. God has also blessed him with an Apostolic Mandate to take the Universal Body of Christ to the next level of revelation and anointing.