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

3. God has promised even to restore the years of lost harvest to those who are genuinely broken, open, and repentant.

a. Joel 2.23-26 – Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before. [24] “The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. [25] I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. [26] You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.”

b. Gal. 6.15 – For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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

1. No matter what is sown or how, it is God that gives the growth and the increase.

2. We can trust God for restoration and renewal as we seek his face afresh.

3. God is not limited to the past; the future is an open horizon for him in every way, according to the power of the Spirit that works within us (Eph. 3.20-21)!