The Market is up and the Market is down! Oil is up and oil is down! The Banks offer little return of your savings and Real Estate is so unpredictable! If you have a financial advisor who is helping make money in this climate of volatility, you are blessed! Have you noticed that when the bank account gets low the blood pressure get high? Life is never on an even keel! What you build up over here is torn down over there! We spend our health trying to make wealth and then we spend our wealth trying to get our health back!!! For the Christian, the Bible has the best investment advise! Read Galatians 6:6-10. We are given the "Laws for Spiritual Investment". Paul uses the metaphor of the harvest to illustrate the attitude and actions each Christian should mirror in making wise choices in the investment of our lives. The Four Laws are as follows: 1) We reap what we sow. If we sow to the flesh we will reap the flesh. If we sow in Spirit we will reap the Spirit's blessing. Are you sowing anger, doubt, bitterness, selfishness, and discouragement? These ugly weeds of the soul will bring forth! Don't be surprised! If we sow blessing, love, forgiveness, patience, encouragement, hope and faith, then the fruits of blessing will spring forth! Do you give the Lord of your time, talent and treasure? Who are you blessing and encouraging for Jesus' sake? WE REAP WHAT WE SOW! 2) We reap more than we sow. When we plant one tomato plant, if all goes well, we receive back several tomatoes! When we sin, it always yields more consequences that imagined. When we sow in the Spirit, He takes our seed blesses it ways we could have never imagine! God always balances the book! Are you blessed? Could your lack of blessing be your are not sowing the right seed? I believe we should be more concerned about being a blessing instead of how can we be blessed! I have found the Lord will always take care of the latter if I am willing to fulfill the former! WE REAP MORE THAN WE SOW! 3) We reap later than we sow. No gardener expects for the seed to mature into a plant overnight! Are you patient? Are you easily discouraged when you don't see immediate results and blessings? This "microwave" generation needs to learn to rest in the Faithfulness of the Lord! There is a harvest coming! Keep sowing! Have you become complacent? Are you too casual in your attitude to the things of the Lord? Every farmer has faith! Every Christian should walk by faith in the promises of God! He keeps His Word. There are no crop failures in the Kingdom of God!!!! I think of all those country churches that encouraged me as a young preacher boy. To be frank, I was not a very good preacher, but they loved me and encourage me. They made an investment in me for the sake of the Lord! Today, I am a better preacher 35 years later and every time I preach they share in the harvest of souls because they believed and practiced the Scriptures! Have you ever heard of the famous Evangelist D.L. Moody? He was won to the Lord a Sunday school teacher named Mr. Kimball. Thousands upon thousands were saved in Moody's ministry; A Boston Sunday school teacher had no idea how God would use his faithfulness to lead a young man to the Lord that blessed two continents. Mr. Kimball's reward in Heaven is great! WE REAP LATER THAN WE SOW! 4) Now is the time to sow. Don't wait! we are to take advantage of the opportunities the Lord brings into our lives each day! They are present. Can't you see them? Ask the Lord for discernment because now is the time to serve the Lord! Today not tomorrow! Do you what a harvest? Start sowing the seed today! Start praying, witnessing, serving, encouraging, trusting and encouraging today in the Name of Jesus Christ! Ask the Lord to send someone to you to bless or to spring into your heart someone you know to bless! Don't be a "Dead Sea" Christian! A "Dead Sea" Christian is like the Dead Sea in that much flows in but none flows out! You will become a stagnate pool of pity and you will whine about how you are not blessed. The key to blessing is blessing someone else in the Name of Jesus! As the poet said, " Only one life to live and all will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last"!
"Lost", not the ABC hit from a few years ago, but the word used by Jesus in Luke 15 describing the person who has not repented of their sins. The scripture is very clear that God's demographic study of people is far different from that of the sociologist and the advertisement agents because He sees only two categories of people, "lost or saved"! I believe one of the reasons the church experiences little of the joy of witnessing people being saved is because we do not see people as being lost! Do we really believe in Hell? Are we really convinced Jesus is the only way? Do we really understand that the greatest need of people is a Savior to rescue them from their sins and that the Cross of Jesus is the way of rescue? All around us are people on the Highway to Hell! The church today appears to have embrace the attitude of the world concerning the claims of the Bible and Jesus Christ concerning the need of Salvation - It is not relevant for out time! On the authority of the Word of God, I tell you it is always relevant because the Bible is the timeless Word of God, not used to be the Word, and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, Praise His Holy name! We need to be heartbroken by the Holy Spirit! We need to be shake-up out of our complacency! Hell is real and it has a big flashing "Vacancy Sign, it is not full and it is not air conditioned!!!
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