HARVEST V PRINCIPLES OF HARVEST

I.                   LAWS OF HARVEST

1.     We reap only what has been sown. Galatians 6:9

2.     We reap in the same kind as we sow. Gen 1:11-12

3.     We reap in a different season than we sow. Eccl 11:1

4.     We reap more than we sow. Hosea 8:7

5.     We reap in proportion to what we sow.  Matthew 19:29

6.     We reap a full harvest of good only if we persevere evil comes to harvest on its own. Galatians  6:9

7.     We can’t do anything about last years Harvest but we can about this one. Philippians 3:13-14

II.                PRINCIPLES OF HARVEST

1.     Must be recognized

John 4:35

³⁵ Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

Mark 4:29

²⁹ But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

2.     Requires Ingenuity

Proverbs 6:6-11

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, ⁷ Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, ⁸ Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? ¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep—¹¹ So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

3.     Embrace Inconveniences  

Proverbs 20:4

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; Therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 25:13

¹³ Like the cold of snow in time of harvest Is a faithful messenger to those who send him, For he refreshes the soul of his masters.

4.     Invites Slumber

Proverbs 10:5

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son; He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

5.     Requires Prayer

Matthew 9:37-38

³⁷ Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. ³⁸ Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

6.     Brings Permanent Removal of Long-Standing Problems

Matthew 13:30

²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” 

7.     Harvest Produces Incredible Joy

Psalm 126:6

⁶ He who continually goes forth weeping, Bearing seed for sowing, Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, Bringing his sheaves with him.

8.     Call for Generosity

Leviticus 19:9-10

⁹ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. ¹⁰ And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

                        Deuteronomy 24:19

¹⁹ “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

III.             DECREES FOR HARVEST

Father, I thank you for this harvest season. I decree that my time is now. I recognize it's my season and I will experience my full harvest. Thank you for removing the tares in my life. Thank you that no weapon formed against me will prosper in this season.

I decree that I am creative. I have good ideas and witty inventions. I thank you, God that you'll show me exactly what I need to do for my harvest. And I will do it!

Inconveniences will not stop me. Nothing will slow me down. I will pay the price. I will overcome slumber. Lord grant me diligence in this season in Jesus name.

Give me a spirit of prayer. Help me to constantly commune with you Holy Spirit. I decree that my mind will be stayed on you this entire harvest season in Jesus name.

Thank you for removing long-standing problems. I decree in the name of Jesus that every hindrance that affected me in past seasons can’t touch me in this season. I declare in the name of Jesus that everything trying to choke out my blessing and increase will be destroyed by the grace of God and the power of Jesus.

I thank you that what's mine is mine! And nothing can stop it!

I embrace incredible joy in this season. I rebuke depression and despondency.

I am generous. I will obey God when he tells me to give. Thank you for giving me a heart like yours in the name of Jesus.

I thank you for my harvest season. I declare that I am blessed.

Harvest IV

Power To Get Wealth

Deuteronomy 8:1-18

“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. ⁴ Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ⁵ You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. ⁶ “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷ For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. ¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, ¹² lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; ¹⁵ who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—¹⁷ then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

I.  What Is Wealth?

1.          Purpose

“And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18

2.          Continual supply

⁷ For the Lord, your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills. Deuteronomy 8:7

3.          Fruitfulness

⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey Deuteronomy 8:8

4.          No Scarceness

A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity…Deuteronomy 8:9a

5.          No lack

A land in which…you will lack nothing Deuteronomy 8:9b

6.          Satisfaction

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land, which He has given you. Deuteronomy 8:10

7.          Ability to have what Pleases You

¹² lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; Deuteronomy 8:12

8.          Experiencing  Double

¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied. Deuteronomy 8:13

9.          Humility

“13b …and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 8:13,14

10.      Gratitude

¹⁷ then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth. Deuteronomy 8:17

II.               God’s Desire For Us Is To Be Wealthy

                ¹⁰ The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. Psalm 34:10

            ¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10

            ^“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.” Proverbs 13:22

            ^“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22

            ¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴ They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing. Psalm 92:12-14

            “Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one He is mighty in strength of understanding.  He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the oppressed. He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, and they are exalted. ⁸ And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction, ⁹Then He tells them their work and their transgressions— That they have acted defiantly. ¹⁰ He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn from iniquity. ¹¹ If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. Job 36:5-11

            The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. ³ He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. ⁴           Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. ⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever. Psalm 23:1-6

III.            Conditions For Wealth

1.     Pass the training.

² And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2

2.     Good Memory

And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not   ¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today. Deuteronomy 8:2,11.

3.     Learn to Live for Something More than Money

³ So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3

4.     Obedience

Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply and go and possess the land of which you’re the Lord swore to your fathers ⁶ “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. Deuteronomy 8:1,6.

5.     Process

⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. Deuteronomy 8:8-9

a.     Know it’s God’s Will

b.     Start with what you have

c.      Gain knowledge and Wisdom

d.     Cultivate Diligence

e.      Maintain Business Character

f.       Save

g.     Remain Generous

h.     Never forget Covenant Purpose

COVENANT OF PROVISION

Increase Revival

I.                   THE POWER OF COVENANT

1.     Covenant Breeds Confidence

Hebrews 6:16

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. NKJV

a.       In Abram’s day, the blood covenant signified an absolute and unbreakable guarantee of a man’s word.

b.      When two families made a covenant together, they gave to one another everything they had and all they represented.

c.       They were no longer two, but one.

d.      Families bound themselves together in blood agreements in order to fill in the gaps created by each other’s

e.       Weaknesses and needs were met by the stronger one

·        At least three large animals were sacrificed.

·        Their carcasses were split down the spine, and the halves were placed on the ground opposite each other

·        This left a trail of blood between the halves. This path was called “the way of blood.”

·        Exchange of coats – Mutual exchange of authority.  (“All that I do, all that I have is now yours.”)

·        Exchange of Weapons – My strength is now your strength, my enemies your enemies

·        Walk of blood - Twice the representatives walked through “the way of blood,” stopping in the center. There they pronounced their pledges of loyalty, making promises to each other that could never be broken. This pronouncement was called “the blessing of the covenant.”

·        Swore by their god

·        Pronounced curses for disobedience

·        Cut the Covenant – Cut wrist and mingled blood together (becoming one)

Ate Covenant Meal (bread and wine) – Symbolized all they were and willingness to lay down their lives for each other

2.     Abraham’s Covenant

Genesis 12:1-3

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. ² I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. ³ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

a.     Land as an Eternal Inheritance

b.     Great Nation

c.      Great Name

d.     Be a Blessing

e.      All Families Blessed

f.       He and seed blessed

Genesis 12:10-20

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land…¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh also saw her (Sarai) and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels ¹⁷ But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now, therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” ²⁰ So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

Genesis 13:1-14

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. ² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold…Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. 3 And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord. 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶ Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together. ⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.” ¹⁰ And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. ¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; ¹⁵ for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. ¹⁶ And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

Genesis 14:14

¹⁴ Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan… ¹⁵ He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.¹⁶ So he brought back all the goods and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people. ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet…¹⁸ Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. ¹⁹ And he blessed him…And he (Abraham) gave him (Melchizedek) a tithe of all. ²⁰ And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

And he gave him a tithe of all. ²¹ Now the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the goods for yourself.” ²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth, ²³ that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich”

3.     Abraham’s Unbelief

Genesis 15:1-8

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” ² But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” ³ Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!” ⁴ And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.” ⁵ Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” ⁶ And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. ⁷ Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.” ⁸ And he said, “Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?”

4.     God Cut’s Covenant with Abraham

Genesis 15:9-18

⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. ¹² Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward, they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation, they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” ¹⁷ And it came to pass when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants, I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

5.     Abraham’s Transformation

Romans 4:18-21

¹⁸ (Abraham) who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰ He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

 Genesis 22

Hebrew 11:17-19

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” ¹⁹ concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

II. OUR BETTER COVENANT

Hebrew 8:6

⁶ But now He (Jesus) has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

Galatians 3:16

¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.

·        As God was binding Himself in Covenant with Abraham, He was also binding himself in Covenant with Jesus in Heaven.

·        God made Covenant with someone He knew would keep it thereby removing the need for curse

Galatians 3:29

²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 8:17

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

·        Through the new covenant, God has promised to care for us the same way He would love and care for Jesus.

II.                DAVID AND COVENANT

1 Samuel 17:26,37

²⁶ Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” ³⁷ Moreover, David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”

·        We have a better Covenant than David had

Matthew 6:25-34

²⁵ “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸ “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.