Shaping Your Future by Barry Bennett

Author:Barry Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781680315530
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers

These are the seeds of life, the seeds of a possible future. How can anyone look at this list and believe that passivity and resignation represent the Gospel message? I can only imagine God’s grief at seeing His children battered by the enemy in a fallen world while they believe their resignation and suffering are true faith.

As I mentioned earlier, seedtime and harvest, or sowing and reaping, is one of the clearest teachings in the Bible. Not only is it a natural law, it is a spiritual law. In fact, the natural law of sowing and reaping is a manifestation of the spiritual law that sustains it. What is seen was not made out of things that are visible (see Heb. 11:3).

Sowing means giving something you have in order to bless others. You can sow time, resources, attitude, love, service, or even a smile. We sow time and love to reap healthy family relationships. We sow wisdom to solve problems. We sow words to bring forgiveness, health, and vision. We sow resources to release abundance.

A harvest is every good thing that God brings into your life. A new opportunity, a new relationship, an idea, a vision, or a blessing of resources are all harvests. They represent blessings from seeds sown in the past and carry their own seeds for the future.

Giving is the very nature of God. God is Love and Love gives. God had a Son, but He wanted a family. He gave His Son in order to reap you and me.

Elijah demanded food and water of the widow woman. Her offering was the seed that opened the door to her survival for over three years (see 1 Kings 17:8-16).

Jesus received the offering of bread and fish and multiplied it to feed 5,000.

Jesus said to give and it would be given unto us pressed down, shaken together, and running over (see Luke 6:38).

God saw the giving and heard the prayers of Cornelius and sent an angel to change his destiny (see Acts 10:1-8).

Paul encouraged cheerful giving and explained how such giving would unleash “all grace” in order that the givers would have an abundance for every good deed (see 2 Cor. 9:6-11).

Your seed is a door to your destiny. Everything can be a seed. Your thoughts, words, actions, and resources can all be sown into the Kingdom or into the darkness of the world, and they will multiply according to their kind. Your confession of Jesus Christ was a seed that forever changed your eternal future. It can also change your future in this life if you choose to be a visionary with all that God has given you.

Grace flows from the principle of the seed, but you will never sow toward a harvest you don’t believe in. Future provision and abundance are found in the seeds of our thoughts, words, actions, attitudes, and resources. Increase is designed into every seed, but if you don’t see the harvest God has promised, you won’t sow in faith. You’ll simply live a life of resignation.

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