Sowing and Reaping

October 21, 2015

Devotions:

        “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:19‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        God has already provided everything that we need according to HIs riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  God's supply is not according to our economy or according to our job or the promise of money from someone but according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. God owns all the cattle on a thousand hills and all the silver and gold belongs to Him.  The earth and its fulness belongs to God and humans are just stewards here.  God has more than ample supply.  In fact when God meets your greatest need it will not even begin to touch His resources.  He will not even be able to see that anything has changed.  

        God's willingness to provided for our need is seen in Jesus going to the cross to die for our sins.  The Father freely gave up Jesus to redeem us so if He holds anything back from us, provision, healing, or anything then He is saying that those things are of more value than Jesus.  the only begotten Son from the bosom of the Father is of greatest value to the Father and He willing gave Him up for us.  god is standing on tip toes in anticipation of blessing us by providing for our needs.

        He is waiting for us to ask in faith for what we need and then act like we believe that we have received it.  For finances this is to give or sow where He directs us not to manipulate God but to demonstrate that we believe what He has said, that He would supply.  The whole kingdom works on the principle of sowing ane reaping.  We editate on 2 Corinthians 8:9 and 

2 Corinthians 9: 6-11 until we are excited about its reality, then we believe it.  When we see it producing for us, and we act on it we will then see results.  

        A part of giving is tithing, which is giving to the church we attend the first tenth of our income.  By this we are acknowledging that all things come from God, He is our source of supply.  In this we honor God.  Then we are to give offerings as God directs.  The tithe given out of thanksgiving for God's abundant supply for us then activetes and empowers the offering as seed that God will multiply back to us to meet our need over and above all that we could ask or think.  Think on these things!