Some people are disillusioned and aggravated with God.

"How much more can I give?" You think you are waiting on God. You think reaping is automatic. You think once you put the money in, it's all up to Him. You just sit back and relax and think it's all going to just come on you. That is ignorance and confusion.

• I challenge you to hear the word of the Lord and make up your mind. "I am not just a good giver. I am a good reaper. I am going to get real good at reaping."

• Proverbs 10: 4-5: "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame."

• We can't sleep through our harvest or allow our harvest to stand in the field.

Harvesting Is Our Responsibility

Mark 4:26-29 (KJV) 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

• The man did the sowing, God gave the increase and the man did the reaping.

• Proverbs 6:6-8: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."

• Ecclesiastes 11:4: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."

• Galatians 6:7-9: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

• Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NLT): "For everything there is a season, a time for everyactivity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest."

How to Reap Your Harvest

1. A preacher was struggling financially. Physically, he was well and strong. He had powerful demonstrations of the spirit. The ministry was growing. The only area of trouble was in the financial realm. He took time to fast and pray, seeking the Lord to find out why. The Lord told him that he was not in faith where his finances were concerned. He told him that he had to receive his finances the same way he received his healing-by faith.

2. We call in our harvest by faith

3. Isaiah 41:15: "I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth...."

a. Teeth in the Hebrew = mouths

b. Mouths harvest whatever they speak

4. Our words of faith bring in the harvest

5. Command the angels to go get our harvest

a. Hebrews 1:14: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for

them who shall be heirs of salvation?"

b. Matthew 13:39: The reapers are the angels

c. Psalm 103:20: "Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do

His commandments, harkening unto the voice of his word."

We believe we receive....

Jobs or better jobs

Raises and bonuses

Benefits

Sales and commissions

Settlements

Estates and inheritances

Interest and income

Rebates and returns

Checks in the mail

Gifts and surprises

Lost money found

Bills paid off

Debts demolished

And royalties received.

This is my year of overflow!

I expect more out of heaven

than ever before.

I receive my harvest

by faith in Jesus' Name.