[Wednesday's Devotional] - Name your seed and harvest

Listen to me now.
Give me your closest attention.
Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow?
Or harrow and harrow and do nothing but harrow?
After they've prepared the ground, don't they plant?
Don't they scatter dill and spread cumin,
Plant wheat and barley in the fields
and raspberries along the borders?
They know exactly what to do and when to do it.
Their God is their teacher.

And at the harvest, the delicate herbs and spices,
the dill and cumin, are treated delicately.
On the other hand, wheat is threshed and milled, but still not endlessly.
The farmer knows how to treat each kind of grain.
He's learned it all from God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
who knows everything about when and how and where.
Isaiah 28: 23-29 [The Message Bible]

True story: A few years ago, a great man of God I know, told this testimony. He was learning the principles of giving and receiving from the Lord, as the bible teaches. Then one day he gave £x to the Lord which was his full earnings for the week. That night there was trouble at home. His spouse was not very impressed!

In the wee hours of the morning, there was a knock on the door and a farmer walked in. He handed the man of God a cheque - 100 times £x, the amount given. He said it wasn't for the man of God to give to the church but a gift for him and his family. "Why?" The man of God asked.

"I am a farmer", the man replied. "I know that if I have some corn seed and need a harvest of corn, I have to sow some corn seed. If I need to harvest some tomatoes, I have to sow some tomato seed. I also know, each seed has a time duration to provide a harvest. As well as this I know that amount of seed and where to sow is also important."

To cut a long story short, a few months later, the farmer invited the man of God to his farm. He was very happy. A major farm disaster which only God could deal with, had just been averted. He went on to explain that, the morning he came to give him that cheque, he had had a sleepless night. Then, it finally dawned on him that he needed to sow in God's Kingdom and name the harvest he wanted to see including the time frame, during prayer.

At that, the man of God remembered the Word of the Lord, that as long as the earth exists, there will be seed time and harvest and that whatever a man sows, he will receive. So pray about your needs. Ask God for his will about what seed to sow, where and for what harvest. The man of God said, had the revelation not come through a farmer, and confirmed by his own experience that morning, he would never have truly believed. He knew that everything the farmer knew about sowing and reaping, he had learnt from God - who knows everything about when and how and where.

Farai Mutsambiwa