Today I want to share Jerry Savelle's devotional from his website. Pastor Bill Novak has been teaching for several months now on "Preparing To Prosper". This goes right along with that teaching!
LOOK FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES
This is a key the Lord shared
with me about positioning ourselves for walking in the fullness of the
blessing: Look for every opportunity that you can to sow towards it.
You can’t have a harvest without
sowing. Harvests just don’t happen. They are the results of sowing. And if you
want manifestations of the fullness of the blessing in your life, then you sow
toward that.
The entire earth revolves around
this principle. Genesis 8:22 says, “While the earth remains, seedtime
and harvest, shall not cease.” (Amplified)
The whole earth revolves around
the principle of sowing and reaping. The world calls it cause and effect. For
every action, there is a reaction.
Let’s look at Genesis 12, God
told Abraham that He would bless him. God said, “I will bless you. I will make
you a blessing. I will make your name great. I will make a nation out of you
and that through you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
This is what God promised Abraham
when He first introduced Himself to him. But did Abraham wait until all of the
promises of God for his life were manifested before he started sowing? No. He
did not.
God is talking about these
promises in Genesis 12, 13, and 14. By chapter 15, for the first time
mentioned in the Bible, the Bible says that Abraham gave Melchizedek tithes of
all. Once again, the promises that God gave Abraham haven’t been fulfilled yet.
What was Abraham doing? He was
not only giving God tithes of all, but he is also sowing towards the
fulfillment of the promises that God had given him.
Over the years, I have learned to
follow that example. And if you want to live in the fullness of the blessing,
then let me encourage you to begin to look for every opportunity that you can
to sow towards the fulfillment of it. If you do, you won’t be disappointed. I
can tell you without any reservations that God has never let me down and He’ll
do the same for you!
AMEN! And this same principle works in every area of life! If you want to have friends, you MUST sow friendship into others! If you want God to have people praying for you, YOU must be praying for others.What you SOW is what you shall reap! So, begin, if you haven't already, to sow into those areas of life that you are believing and expecting God to move powerfully. If you want a new house, start taking better care of the one you now have, and then get involved in making someone else's dream come true! Jerry Savelle called it looking for opportunities. Let's GO! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!
