A Sojourner's Quest

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2. For instance, if you only give a little bit of investment to your marriage, you will only get a little bit of return, however, if you give focused time and effort to your family, it will reap large return.

3. The size of the harvest is proportional to the investment made.

4. This is the fundamental principle of all finance in the modern world.

C. The application of the principle to our personal discipline and testimony

1. The determination to give more in a certain direction will ensure that you will receive more in that direction.

2. Our decision for Beth not to work and invest in the children: what it produced

3. This principle underlies the reason certain people in certain fields have acquired such levels of accomplishment, attainment, and expertise.

V. Law Five: You Will Always Reap in a Different Season Than When You Sow.

A. The biblical support

1. Eccles. 3.1 – For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

2. Gal. 6.9 – And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

3. Isa. 40.30-31 – Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; [31] but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up