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Greetings;
Today I am heading home after being on the road for almost a month. God did some great things in Africa, Madeira Island, and Portugal. I completed another training course in Portuguese and found that God is speaking and moving in Portugal in similar ways as in other parts of the world. There is a stirring for an awe of God and an awe of His presence. Now I am ready to return home and be with my family and church community in Bellingham.
The purpose of our lives is harvest. There are many aspects to the harvest of our lives. Harvest is not just something that happens at the end of our lives. There are many seasons and categories of harvest in our lives. Our lives should end in a maturation and culmination of the testimony of life that we have lived for the sake of our world. We must believe what God says, stand fast on His words, and be diligent to apply ourselves in the process of His promises in our lives. We don’t just wait for God to do something in our lives. We have to embrace how things are in heaven to see the increase of heaven’s influence in our lives. Let’s think about Biblical meditation a minute. Meditation in the world is a process of emptying one’s mind of everything to receive some form of serenity. Biblical meditation is to fill our thoughts with all this is of God in order to see the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God birthed within our hearts and souls. We choose to look at what God says and what He is like in order to receive a transformation by the metamorphosis of our minds. It is a principle of the law of harvest. We choose to see how it is in heaven and then we submit the lesser laws of our thoughts and lives in order to reap that heavenly harvest in our lives. As human beings with Christ in us, we must understand this principle well.
God determines the harvest before He determines the sowing. Our eyes have not seen, our ears haven’t heard, and our thoughts haven’t thought of the things He has prepared for us; but He has revealed it all to us by the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:9, 10). This is the law of harvest. We know the end in our spirits before we can even know the beginning in our minds. We must choose to submit to this greater law of harvest in everything we do. I hope that I am challenging your thoughts. I am not attempting to answer all the questions or explain all of the details of the law of harvest today. I am simply seeking to provoke you to think according to a greater calling, purpose, and destiny.
God has determined an end, but we must start with a beginning. We must never despise the day of small beginnings, because great destiny requires many small beginnings. When we think small beginnings, God thinks harvest.
Isaiah 46:9, 10 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,’
The law of harvest demands that we sow seed in order to reap a crop, but we must see the crop in a spiritual realty before we can choose to labor in the natural. We must see where they are going in the Spirit before we see it in the natural harvest fields of life. The labor of lives must be towards a spiritual goal seen in heaven. Not everything that we sow is purposed by God for us to reap, but everything that God has purposed for us to reap requires us to sow. We don’t sow to reap. We sow because we see the harvest. Ishmael was a result of the law of sowing and reaping while Isaac was the result of the law of harvest. We don’t sow seed because we want to see a harvest. We see a harvest, so we sow seed. As children of God’s inheritance, we must live their lives by the vision of a heavenly harvest. What God says, we can do. What God makes known in heaven, we can receive here on earth. We must be men and women of faith who lead our children and grandchildren to become the same. We see the harvest, so we sow seed. Blindly sowing seed is seed sown from unbelief. We must live for the harvest!
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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Thanks Again – Ted J. Hanson
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