Sow a Seed
2 Corinthians 9:10-11
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
1 John 3:16-18
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
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If I didn’t mention money at all, I wouldn’t do justice to the subject of prosperity. My pastors taught about many other things that affect our prosperity—repentance, walking in love, believing God, refusing to sin, refusing to worry, and forgiving those who have offended us, to name a few. But let me leave you with a couple of final thoughts about giving and receiving.
1) To prosper, we have to sow a seed. If you need a blessing, you have to be a blessing to someone else. If you need healing, pray for someone else’s healing. If you need a job, pray for someone else who needs a job.
2) God supplies the seed for us to sow. If we don’t have money, we can also sow a seed by giving of ourselves. Give someone a ride to church, help an elderly neighbor with yard work or shopping, or visit someone in jail or in the hospital
3) The first 10% of your earned income (the tithe) belongs to God. Don’t expect Him to bless you if you withhold it. The other 90% is yours—but it will go a lot further if you dedicate it to the Lord.
4) When you sow a seed, believe God to bless you with a specific result. One man I know wrote a check to his church equal to one mortgage payment. In the corner he wrote, “Mortgage, paid in full.” Within 6 months, his house was completely paid off.
5) Start sharing what you have NOW with those who have less. If you are faithful to honor God and love others with the little you have, He will bless you with more.
Sometimes I don’t feel like I have much to sow, but over the past two weeks I have been helping a homeless woman in recovery from crack cocaine and alcohol, who has even less than I have—and God has poured out blessings on my family as a result.
· As we drove home from church last Tuesday, my kids started complaining that we had no food in the house. I made them stop complaining and start thanking God for everything He’s given us and for supplying all our need. The next morning, a friend called unexpectedly and took me shopping at Costco for over $200 of food.
· Two days later, another lady took my teenage daughter shopping and bought her several new outfits.
· The day after that, my daughter was given a full scholarship to go on a Christian retreat at Hume Lake, which normally costs around $400.
· By the end of the week, I was out of gas and low on money. That night, one of my pastors handed me a check for $200. Even the homeless lady I had been driving to church gave me $10 for gas. (If you’re thinking I should’ve turned it down, I started to—but she insisted because she wanted God to bless HER finances!)
God is faithful to His word. He will provide seed for you to sow, and He will bless you abundantly for sowing it.
God bless you abundantly as you pursue prosperity in every area of your life—for His name’s sake.
Cathleen
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
1 John 3:16-18
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
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If I didn’t mention money at all, I wouldn’t do justice to the subject of prosperity. My pastors taught about many other things that affect our prosperity—repentance, walking in love, believing God, refusing to sin, refusing to worry, and forgiving those who have offended us, to name a few. But let me leave you with a couple of final thoughts about giving and receiving.
1) To prosper, we have to sow a seed. If you need a blessing, you have to be a blessing to someone else. If you need healing, pray for someone else’s healing. If you need a job, pray for someone else who needs a job.
2) God supplies the seed for us to sow. If we don’t have money, we can also sow a seed by giving of ourselves. Give someone a ride to church, help an elderly neighbor with yard work or shopping, or visit someone in jail or in the hospital
3) The first 10% of your earned income (the tithe) belongs to God. Don’t expect Him to bless you if you withhold it. The other 90% is yours—but it will go a lot further if you dedicate it to the Lord.
4) When you sow a seed, believe God to bless you with a specific result. One man I know wrote a check to his church equal to one mortgage payment. In the corner he wrote, “Mortgage, paid in full.” Within 6 months, his house was completely paid off.
5) Start sharing what you have NOW with those who have less. If you are faithful to honor God and love others with the little you have, He will bless you with more.
Sometimes I don’t feel like I have much to sow, but over the past two weeks I have been helping a homeless woman in recovery from crack cocaine and alcohol, who has even less than I have—and God has poured out blessings on my family as a result.
· As we drove home from church last Tuesday, my kids started complaining that we had no food in the house. I made them stop complaining and start thanking God for everything He’s given us and for supplying all our need. The next morning, a friend called unexpectedly and took me shopping at Costco for over $200 of food.
· Two days later, another lady took my teenage daughter shopping and bought her several new outfits.
· The day after that, my daughter was given a full scholarship to go on a Christian retreat at Hume Lake, which normally costs around $400.
· By the end of the week, I was out of gas and low on money. That night, one of my pastors handed me a check for $200. Even the homeless lady I had been driving to church gave me $10 for gas. (If you’re thinking I should’ve turned it down, I started to—but she insisted because she wanted God to bless HER finances!)
God is faithful to His word. He will provide seed for you to sow, and He will bless you abundantly for sowing it.
God bless you abundantly as you pursue prosperity in every area of your life—for His name’s sake.
Cathleen
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