PASTOR OLUWASEYI OSANYINBI
GENESIS 8:22: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”;
JAMES 5:7: “ Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”
There are times and there are seasons. There are issues we have to pay attention to from one season to another. Everything about human beings is embedded in seasons. In the beginning, God created things with seeds in them. The whole of creation began to operate on the law of seedtime and harvest.
Harvest can be seen at a personal level where we expect to reap the harvest of the seeds we have sown in different dimensions. The onus lies on us to plant the right seeds in the right seasons. Many, a time, we think more of ourselves when it comes to harvest. However, it is imperative that we pay attention to the fact that God is also eager for a great harvest. The husbandman is waiting for the harvest. The reason He saved is for the harvest. God’s command to us to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ talks about harvest. He has invested a lot in our lives to make us blossom, when will He get His own harvest? We must have the proper understanding of each seed we sow. We must not be ignorant farmers. Patience is required in waiting for the harvest of the seeds we have sown. The seed must first fall to the ground, die and follow other necessary processes before the harvest comes.
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There are many people we envy thinking they are very successful people but God sees them as fools. We are fools when we think we are self-sufficient outside of God. We are not in Christ to pursue our personal agenda. We are in Him to bear fruit. He is our Lord-the One who has exclusive right over our very existence. We live for Him and Him alone. When we begin to bear fruit, God will prune us so that we can be more fruitful. Pruning is the removal of things in our lives which are not necessary.
ROMANS 12:1-2: ” I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.“
When God says to present our bodies as living sacrifices, it means that we should give up our rights and ambitions. He will always pinpoint our Isaacs to us so that we can give them up. Any time you conform to this world, you are denying God of your reasonable service. Some of the most destructive people to the agenda of God are people that were in love with God who later conformed to the world. The harvest starts with us as living sacrifices. Without us first putting our lives on the line, the harvest God expects from us will be elusive.