Sowing and Reaping
THE FOUNDATION OF KINGDOM BUILDING
A pril 12, 2024
SOWING AND REAPING
Proverbs 11:18 (NIV)
Proverbs 11:18 (NIV) SOWING AND REAPING
INTRODUCTION:
God is an organized God.
TEXT:
Proverbs 11:18 (NIV) A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Highlight:
is important! But it’s not more important than to God’s Word.
TEN PRACTICES WITH MY WEALTH:
1. START WITH
Genesis 1:11 (NIV) God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) Do not despise the day of small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin…
Job 8:7 (NLT) Though you started with little, you will end with much.
2. PLANT THE
John 12:24 (NIV) Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
3. I WHAT I SOW
Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25. Each is to reproduce after its own kind.
Galatians 6:7 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Proverbs 26:27 (NIV) says, Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
Hosea 10:13 (NIV) You planted wickedness and now you have reaped evil.
4. THERE ARE MANY
John 4:38 (NIV) “I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
5. REAPING COMES IN A DIFFERENT
Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 (NIV) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…
6. I WILL MORE
Mark 4:8 (NIV) “Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
7. TO HAVE MORE INCREASE I HAVE TO
2 Corinthians 9:6-7 (NIV) says this: Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 11:24 (MSG) The world of the generous gets larger and larger; but the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
8. THE BEST TIME TO START IS
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NLT) Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NLT) Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.
2 Corinthians 9:10 (NLT) For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
1 Corinthians 9:11 (GNT) We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
9. BE PATIENT AND
Mark 4:26-28 (NIV) “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.”
Galatians 6:9 (NIV) So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
10. COMMIT IT
Proverbs 16:3 (NLT) Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
Psalm 126:5-6 (NLT) Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go out to plant their seed but they sing as they return with the harvest.
CONCLUSION:
PRAYER