Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

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Vi s i on for Mi s s i on: Nur tur i ng an Apos to l i c Hear t

The Laws of Sowing and Reaping, continued

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 with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. 4. James 5.7 – Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. 5. Rom. 8.24-25 – For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? [25] But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.