YOUR HARVEST SHALL BE IN PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT SOWN

SUNDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER, 2022.

Topic: YOUR HARVEST SHALL BE IN PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT SOWN

MEMORIZE: “Remember this: He who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously and that blessing may come to someone, will also reap generously and with blessings."  (II Corinthians 9:6, The Amplified Bible)

SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs 11:24-26.

“There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself. The people will curse him who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.”

EXPOSITION: 

This principle applies in every area of your spiritual life. If you give grudgingly of your time, talents, and finances to the work of God, then your harvest will be small. If you sow generously, you will reap abundantly. There are different levels of productivity in spiritual harvest described in John 15. You can bring forth any of these four dimentions: 

i. Fruit: “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” John 15:2.

ii. More fruit: “every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” John 15:2.

iii. Much fruit: “"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” John 15:4.

iv. Permanent fruit: “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” John 15:16.

God's desire is that you bring forth much fruit and that it is permanent. 

Peter identified some qualities you should develop in your life in order to be fruitful: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (II Peter 1:5-8). Peter warns that if these qualities are not developed you will lack spiritual vision: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. (II Peter 1:9)

PRAYER POINT: Lord, help me to be fruitful and more fruitful in Jesus name.

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Acts 13-15.