THE LORD OF THE HARVEST

Life and Ministry

Sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi

  It is impossible for Him to be the Lord of harvest without also being the Lord of the seedtime.

He is Lord all the way.

Who cultivated the land is the one with the right to take the harvest

The harvest is plentiful but there are no workmen?

This implies that harvest time is asking for greater grace than was needed during cultivation.

The earth must have given in its strength.

Harvest time is a season and things have to be done in haste before the season is past.

The harvest can be lost unless they are quickly gathered into a good barn.

This means that work in the field cannot be delayed without serious consequence.

What happens during the seed time of any life?

Great efforts are greeted with little results.

But for the help of God, the spirit of discouragement would have reigned.

This is the reason the Bible says that “he that weepeth going forth bearing precious seeds shall return with gladness.”

There is gladness in the day of harvest because every little effort receives a just reward.

In  seedtime, fallow grounds are broken.

This can require the building up of spiritual assets in a virgin land.

Introducing new and strange but powerful ideas fail almost every single time.

Someone recently quoted Sir Winston Churchill as saying “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm”.

Seedtime is a time when great lessons are learnt and paid for painfully.

Precious lessons learnt then will regulate our behaviours during harvest time.

The problem of many of us (especially Christian churches) is that they forgot they once failed.

It is noble to fail again and again and still keep going forward.

What we often call failure is when results fall below what we expect.

A harvest is a period when results are greater by far than what we deserve.