30 60 Hundredfold by John Avanzini

Author:John Avanzini
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-24T19:29:50+00:00

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The Sixth Law of the Harvest: You Must Always Wait a Period of Time Between Planting and Harvesting

... a man should cast seed into the ground;

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up....

Mark 4:26,27

Thank God for the ministry of the faith teachers in recent years. How far forward these anointed men of God have brought the Church since the mid-1960s!

Those of you who can remember the prevailing theology before that time will recall it was common to blame God for every misfortune that befell the Church or its members. The error of that day caused us to believe cancer was one of God's ways of calling His precious saints home. We even believed God would cause the death of a child to get the attention of an erring parent. How nice it is to now know God is always on our side. He is not the author of our tragedies.

The children of God have learned a great deal from the faith teachers. But we must extend the faith message to emphasize patience. Realize that I am not saying we need a message to replace the faith message, but a message to complete it. The expanded message of patience is the scriptural succession to the faith message. In the Bible we read it is not through faith alone that we receive the promise, but it is through faith and through patience.

... be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:12

To My Knowledge, Only One Harvest Comes Without Patience

Let me clarify this statement. In the regular course of preaching the above text, I used to say there was nothing under the sun that produced an instantaneous harvest. I felt very safe in this statement and emphasized it with several illustrations—corn, wheat, apples, acorns, and so on.

After one particular service, I was at the altar shaking hands with some of the church members when a precious saint came to me. She said if I would not take it as a rebuke, she would like to correct a statement I had made. I responded that if she would just be gentle, I believed I would be able to stand correcting without letting it ruin the rest of my day.

With this said, she gave me a big smile. I smiled back at her and said, "Well, let's have it. I'm ready. What did I say wrong this morning?" She smiled again, a sweet and loving smile. I smiled back even broader and said, "Okay, what is it? What did I get wrong?"

She said, "There is one thing you can give away and receive from it an instantaneous harvest."

I asked her to please tell me what it was, because for the life of me, I could not think of one, single thing. She smiled even broader this time and just held the smile on her face.

I must say, I was growing a bit impatient. People were standing behind her waiting to shake hands with me.

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