July 18, 2021

Seed & Harvest Time II

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“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.” Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.”
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭9:7-11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The anchor verse is verse 10:
“Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,”
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭9:10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Purpose:

1. To supply and multiply the seed you have sown (giving).
2. Increase the fruit of righteousness.

1. Even in the time of famine, Issac prospered. God supplies and multiplies our giving towards missions. Giving to God breaks the poverty off our lives.

“Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.” Genesis‬ ‭26:12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭6:38‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37:19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭14:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭1:11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

2. He increases the fruit of our righteousness. We become a tree of life when we give to the Lord.

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.”
Proverbs‬ ‭11:30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭1:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

““Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17:7-8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“It came to pass the same day that Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” So he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭26:32-33‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭9:8‬ ‭NKJV