Today's Confession:
“I am the farmer for my own life; what I want to harvest, that’s what I have to plant.”
If you are not happy with your life, you have no one to blame but yourself. Let me say that again, “If you are not happy with your life, you have no one to blame but yourself.” Your life today consists of what you sowed in the past. If you don't like your crop, dig it up and plant something else. If you don't want crab grass in your yard, you dig it up and plant Bermuda grass there. Do the same thing in your life.
You were not born to be poor any more than the earth was created to bring forth weeds, thorns and thistles. Like the earth itself, you were created to produce a good harvest of fine fruit–for yourself and for many others. If you are not enjoying "the fruits of your labor," then check your seed. Replace your old, bad seed with new, good seed.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
Remember: what you sow today is what you will reap tomorrow.
I am a close friend of Charles Capps, one of the most dynamic teachers of our time. We have been friends for a number of years now. He and I used to preach together a lot, particularly all over Arkansas where Charles lives. I have stayed in his home on several occasions.
Charles lives on a large farm out in the country, not far from Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been a farmer most of his life. Every time I would go to his home, I noticed that he had cotton growing everywhere. In fact, the narrow piece of ground where we landed our airplane lay right down the middle of a cotton patch. Whenever we landed or took off, there was cotton growing on both sides of the airstrip.
One time I went home with Charles and the first thing I noticed was that there was no cotton. Instead, the entire place was covered with soybeans. So I asked Charles, "What happened to the cotton?"
"I didn't plant any" was his simple answer. End of conversation. Charles is a man of few words.
One year there was cotton, the next year there wasn't. When I asked why there was no cotton, he told me all the truth I needed to know: there was no cotton because he hadn't planted cotton that year! And obviously, if you don't plant cotton seed, you don't raise cotton. Even I could figure that out.
I could have asked him where all the soybeans had come from, but I already knew what he would say: "I planted them." Sure. You want soybeans, you plant soybeans; simple.
The same is true in your life and mine. What we plant is what we get. What we sow, that shall we also reap. That's a basic spiritual principle.
A farmer's success depends entirely upon his sowing good seed and reaping good crops. In the very same way, the harvest in our lives depends totally upon what we sow. That's why Satan fights so hard against the preaching of this message. He knows it links you to God's system of prosperity.
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