YOUR HARVEST?

Mark 4:20
20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
NASU
** Thirty, sixty or a hundred? Is it our choice to what we produce as good seed or does it just happen? I believe it’s our choice. So with that in mind, you can decide if you want to sit back and do a little for the kingdom of God or you want to step it up and produce 100 fold for the kingdom of God. When we reap our harvest from our life seed, who will get the crop? Will we carry that crop throughout eternity or will we offer that crop to the one who died for us and gave us everything? Either way, it will be a reflection on our lives as Christians and what we did with the life we had here on the earth. I don’t know about you, but I want to offer a 100 fold gift to God when I’m done with this life.

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

Num 13:33
we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." NASU
** According to your faith, be it unto you…. These words are very true! Here they were right at the door of the promised land and all they had to do is trust in the Lord and yet they could not see what God had for them right then and there. According to what they saw is what they believed, instead of walking in faith, they walked in fear. I wonder how many times I passed up miracles and blessings and promised lands because I walked according to what I saw instead of what the Lord God had planned for me? I want to see what God sees instead of what I see!

OBEDIENT TO THE VISION

Acts 26:16-19
16'But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you; 17 rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'
19 "So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision, NASU
** This very vision that God gave Saul, he also gives to us… it is our Mandate to help the lost get their eyes open and that they may be forgiven of their sins….. Paul’s comments was, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” Are we disobedient or are we working hard to set the lost free? There are so many people slipping into eternity without Jesus Christ in their lives…. Who will go for Him? Who will rescue the lost? Will you?

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

Num 3:15
15 "Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number." NASU
** As a pastor of a smaller church, I hear every once in a while about someone leaving a mega church and on of their problems were… “they felt like a number and not a person.” I can totally understand what they are saying and how they feel…. However, it’s amazing to me that God has dedicated a whole book in the bible that talks about numbers and numbering people. It would be sad if everyone of the Israelites decided to leave because they just felt like a number. The amazing thing about this (if you choose to look on the positive side of numbering) is that every name, every number, every person that was numbered, had a job that was important enough that gave them that number in the first place. As I read thru this book I see different teams doing different things and that being a number of a particular team would be nothing more than having a number on the back of my jersey when I’m playing baseball or football. Now don’t get me wrong, I totally understand how you can feel disconnected when you attend a church that is in the thousands and even in the hundreds UNLESS you have made yourself available to help in a certain area or team to make a difference among the thousands or hundreds…. Hmmmm…. I don’t know what my number is, but if I’m number 345, then I’m going to be the best 345 that ever was counted! How about you?

MY DEFENCE

HEY.... I'M BACK FROM VACATION.... SORRY FOR THE BIG GAP

Acts 24:10-11
10 When the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded: "Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense, NASU
** Many people have accused me of stuff. I’ve found that if I am submitting to God and to His leaders over me and I’m following His calling on my life, that I can say the same thing that Paul said here…. “I cheerfully make my defense.” The only time I’ve ever been nervous about someone’s accusations is when I have not been walking with God the way I know I should be. It’s always nice when someone is saying something about you and you know that what they are saying is not true and you have proof that it is wrong….. the question is though, have you been walking with integrity in your past so that those who hear the accusations will believe you over the accuser? (and believe me there is always others who hear what is going on).
1 Peter 2:12
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. NIV

HIS BOUNDARIES.... HIS LOVE

Ps 16:6
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;surely I have a delightful inheritance. NIV
** Oh how great our God is!My boundaries? the place that God puts me? Pleasant places... His plan for me is good and blessed places. And my inheritance? Oh my gosh, He said to Abraham, look at the stars in the sky and see if you can count your inheritance.... He says that to me and to you too! I can't count them can you? I mean, of course i've tried to count them, but the longer I look at the stars even in one place, i begin to see layers of stars far beyond the group that i see so bright. How great is the depth of His love for us! I hope you haven't forgotten how much God loves you during the time you've been working so hard to make a living and get the work of life done.... He loves you unmeasureably, above and beyond you could ever imagine! THAT'S WHERE MY BOUNDARY LINES FALL....