At this time of year, I am blessed to partake of the vegetables I planted beginning to produce harvest. While I didn’t plant much this year, I have been overwhelmed with the harvest of the things I did plant – especially the cucumbers.
Now, I love cucumbers, but a person can only eat so many. When my cucumbers began coming in, I was getting 3-4 cucumbers each day, that’s a lot to eat for one person. Then it rained. I started getting 12-20 cucumbers a day. I was sharing them with everyone I could think of, which is hard because most of my family are farmers and have their own gardens. One morning I thought, “What am I going to do with all these cucumbers?” A thought came to me, and I headed to my local back with dozens of cucumbers. I took them inside the bank and began to give them to the ladies there. They were thrilled. Now, I have taken bags of cucumbers to the bank, to friends and anyone I can think of.
One day while I was driving around giving away the fruit of my labor – I began to think about the power of a seed and the wonder of harvest. In years past, I planted 5-6 cucumber plants. This year, I didn’t do that. I planted two. Two small plants that came from two small seeds.
Those two small seeds have produced a tremendous harvest and it has only begun. Those two small seeds produced enough cucumbers for me, my family, and my friends. It makes me think about Jesus when He told Simon Peter to cast his net one more time. The story goes on to show that he had to call all his friends to help bring in the haul.
There is enough power in a seed, any seed, to reproduce itself in tremendous ways – just like with the cucumbers. God is speaking to me through this and telling me to expect an unlimited harvest this year – to call it forth and believe for it. To believe there will be enough for us, our family and possibly our friends! Isn’t that amazing.
Why am I sharing this with you today? I believe we have stepped into a time of divine multiplication! I truly do. Not only because of what God is showing me with the cucumbers – but He has also confirmed this truth even more. (More about that in a different writing)
I believe many of us may feel much like Simon Peter. He fished all night long and caught absolutely nothing – neither did his friends. However, at the word of our Lord, he cast his net one more time and brought in the haul of his life.
Perhaps you too feel you have sown and sown and confessed and believed and have still not seen the ‘haul’ you know in your spirit belongs to you. Maybe you haven’t seen the harvest from all the seeds you have sown, whether they are financial seeds, relationship seed, healing seeds – it doesn’t matter what seed you have sown or what harvest you are believing for. I believe we have stepped into a time of multiplication. A time where we WILL SEE our harvest manifest right before our eyes.
Galatians 6:9 says, And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
The Passion Translation says it like this.
And don’t allow yourselves to be weary in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming!
My friend, make no mistake about it. God is not a man that He should lie. He said in His Word we shall reap what we sow, and we will. The wonderful harvest you have planted for is coming! It is upon us. May we lay hold of all that belongs to us in Christ Jesus.
One of my favorite scriptures is found in Psalm 27:13.
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
My friend do not lose heart! BELIEVE the goodness of God is being poured out into your life this very moment. Refuse to believe anything different. Your seed is in the ground. You have watered it. Believe your harvest is coming! Expect it to be abundantly above all you could ask or think. After all, that is what God has promised each of us. He is raining on our seed today and our harvest is springing forth. We are in the season of reaping – those who have seed in the ground will reap – expect and rejoice…our God is faithful.
