Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

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The Laws of Sowing and Reaping, continued

The Laws of Sowing and Reaping: Personal Discipline and Fruitfulness The Law The Explanation You will reap what you sow Sow to the Spirit and reap God’s best You will reap what others have sown Transcend the harvest you have inherited You reap the same in kind as what you sow Choose wisely what you want to reap before you sow You reap in proportion to what you sow Sow more to get more in return You reap in a different season than when you sow Learn to be patient as you await the harvest

It is going to be better (or worse) than you gave

You reap more than what you sow

You can always transcend last year’s harvest

God gives the growth, so trust in him alone

We cannot help but see that the [people] who have achieved wonders in modern science and technology are [people] of very great inner discipline. Not one has succeeded by following the path of least resistance.

~ Elton Trueblood. The Yoke of Christ . Waco, TX: Word Books, 1958. p. 128.

Prayer and Affirmation to God

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. [8] For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. [9] And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ~ Galatians 6.7-9