OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL... DATE : WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015......

THEME : SOWING BEFORE REAPING

Memorise :

Be not deceived; God is not mocked:

for whatsoever a man soweth, that

shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7

Read : Galatians 6:7-10

7 Be not deceived; God is not

mocked: for whatsoever a man

soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh

shall of the flesh reap corruption;

but he that soweth to the Spirit

shall of the Spirit reap life

everlasting.

9 And let us not be weary in well

doing: for in due season we shall

reap, if we faint not.

10 As we have therefore opportunity,

let us do good unto all men,

especially unto them who are of the

household of faith.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : Judges 5:1-6:35

and Mathew 25:14-30

Message

Our God is great. Not only is He

great, He is the Greatest. He

possesses all Wilsom , riches and

glory. The plan of God and His

delight is for you to prosper ( 3 John

2 ). Prosperity here implies

abundance, fullness and sufficiency.

One thing we need to know is that

prosperity does not come by

speaking in tongues, but by the

wisdom of sowing and reaping. At a

particular time in my ministry, by

necessity , I started given out

neckties to elders who were

ministering along with me. I then

noticed that all my close associates

started given me only neckties upon

their return from foreign trips. Out

of curiosity, I asked God why this was

so. He told me 'Son' if you sow a tie,

you will reap ties .' I then switched

to sowing good shoes into the life of

those I was sure were of the same

shoe size with me. However, the

return I got from this did not come

as fast as neckties did. I went back

to God to know why, He told me 'Son,

if you plant maize and also plant

yam. Both harvest will come, but not

at the same time .' Then, I

Understood the lesson that it is the

quality of your sowing that

determines the quality of your

harvest.

There is a category of people who

want to reap without sowing, they

can best be described as thieves. It

is very wrong to expect a harvest

when you have not sown. Make

efforts to sow into that particular

area of life where you desire harvest.

Entering into your financial

breakthrough may not come easy.

You have to provoke Heaven to act

on your behalf by sowing. No one is

poor enough to have nothing to sow.

If you check yourself very well, you

will realise that there is a seed in

your hand you can sow. The Church

in Macedonia had so little, yet, they

were committed to giving to the work

of God ( 2 Corinthians 8:1-2 ). In the

early days of my joining the

Redeemed Christians Church of God,

there was a meeting in which my

Father- in - the - Lord, the late

founder of the Church, asked all

workers to empty their treasury

because of an urgent need in the

church. Out of excitement of been

privileged to be part of the saints,

my wife and I as workers emptied

our accounts with nothing left. At

workers meeting the following

Sunday, my father - in- the - Lord

asked ' How many of you have done

what I instructed '? Out of

excitement to be counted among

those who had complied, my wife

and I raised our hands and we

received the shock greatest of our

lives. We discovered that we were

the only ones that had complied!

Ashamed, we quickly brought down

our hands; but see what the Lord

has done with our lives today. The

many seeds of those days needed a

lot of patience to become the great

harvest of God's blessings today.

Key Point :

Nobody is entirely poor. There is

always a seed in your hand that you

can sow.'

AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE.