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Article Contributed by Dr. Jay Snell
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When Will I Reap My Financial Harvest
Everything we sow has its own specific season for reaping its
harvest. God has a time set in concrete for all harvesting. We
cannot change God's set time for the harvest of any seed we sow.
We can not arbitrarily plant a seed and tell God to "hurry up my
harvest." Your particular seed has a specific "season" to bring
in the harvest.
Eccl 3:1 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven: (KJV)
In other words, there is a set season or time for everything. We
can't sow a thing that does not have a set time or season for
reaping. We can not arbitrarily change the reaping season.
Ps 104:23 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour
until the evening. (KJV)
Ps 104:27 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give
them their meat in due season. (KJV)
We work and labor. But the meat from this work and labor comes
from God. And it comes in due season. We can not change God's
appointed season.
All our reaping will occur exactly when it is due and not
before. God operates on a "due season" basis and He sets the due
date.
When we sow financial seed into God's work, each of them is
assigned a "due date." No harvest reaping will be possible
before the assigned due date of each individual seed we have
sown.
2 Cor 9:6 6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap
also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully. (KJV)
Paul equates our giving financial offerings with sowing and
reaping in the context of 2 Cor. 9:6 above. We readily see that,
for Paul, offerings were the same as sowing.
Since sowing brings a harvest, we can expect a harvest of our
financial seed sown, just like we can expect a harvest of
cotton, corn or any other kind of seed.
This harvest from "kinds of seed sown," in other than
agricultural seed, is demonstrated from Paul's statement below
about "well doing."
Gal 6:9 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. (KJV)
Planting financial seed in God's work is certainly "well doing."
And notice the harvest date for this planting! The harvest date
is the first day of the month called "Due Season" for that
particular seed.
Finally, we must know that different kinds of seeds require
different lengths of time to reach their appointed harvest
dates. So it is with planting financial seed.
Some come to their due season for harvest rather quickly. Some
require, however, a rather lengthy time before their due harvest
season.
The largest harvest usually requires the longest time to reach
its due season. So be patient.
A certain person planted many seeds in a ministry that was
qualified to bring forth the large harvest. They became
impatient while waiting for their harvest.
Then they heard someone say, "If you are not reaping now, you
have been sowing into the wrong field. Sow into my field and you
will reap now."
The problem with the above is this. If the above person changes
the "field" where they give and start receiving immediately, the
harvest they are reaping probably came from the field they just
left. You see, it was the good ground after all.
For someone to say "my field causes quicker reaping" is
nonsense. The large harvest takes the greatest time to reach its
own "due season." This so called new field, "my field," can not
generate an instant harvest.
Be patient. Your harvest will come in its own due season.
About the author:
Dr. Jay Snell authored several books showing the healing,
prosperity and family well being God promised Christians. These
books presented on TBN many times. http://www.jaysnell.org
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