Open Heavens 2014: Wednesday December 3, daily devotion by Pastor E. A. Adeboye - Wait For Your Harvest II

Topic: Wait For Your Harvest II [Wednesday December 3, 2014]

Memorise: But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. - James 1:4

Read: Hebrews 6:11-15

6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 

6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 

6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 

6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 

6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

MESSAGE:

I learnt a valuable lesson some years ago. When the crowd of participants at our monthly Holy Ghost service began to increase, I decided to select seven elders to help in the area of ministering to people.

I gave each of them neckties that I had used during previous ministrations. “Put on these neckties; they are already soaked with God’s anointing during my previous ministrations” I told them.

Whenever they wore those neckties and ministered, supernatural miracles always occurred. As signs and wonders happened in the area of ministration, something else happened in my own life. I was showered with gifts of neckties.

Each time my close acquaintances travelled, they came back with just one type of gift - neckties.

Wherever they travelled to, the only gifts they brought to me were neckties. Then I asked God, “Why are these people just giving me neckties? Can’t they come up with some other gifts beside neckties?” God gave me insight into what was happening. He said, “Son, if you sow ties, you will reap ties.” I quickly got the message and decided to start sowing shoes. I located pastors who wore my shoe size and I gave them a good number of my shoes, among which were some of my best shoes. I expected a harvest of new shoes in the first month following my act of giving, but there was no gift of shoes for me. When another month rolled by and there was still no gift of shoes for me, I went to God and said, “Daddy, you told me that if I sow, I would reap.” It was then the Lord taught me another lesson, He said, “Son, if you plant maize, you can harvest it within three months, but if you plant yam, you will wait a little longer”. The Almighty God said to me, “Shoes are of greater value than ties, the greater the quality of the seed sown, the more time you will have to spend in waiting for the harvest. You have planted shoes and you will have to wait a little longer; but the moment the harvest starts, there will be no stopping it”. Later, I was showered with shoes of all sizes and colours: big, small, white, green, black and all kinds of sophisticated shoes. When the harvest eventually came in full, I was pleasantly surprised. James 5:7 says,

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”

If you have sown any seed, your harvest will soon come. Just wait a little while and your harvest will locate you in the Jesus’ Name.

Prayer Point: Father, please let my harvest come speedily and help me not to be weary in well-doing.

Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 29:3-30:27

Open Heavens Daily Devotional written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.

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