Now that a foundation is set and you are yielding to act on God’s principles, releasing your faith for a financial breakthrough, let’s learn more about the principles of sowing and reaping:
1. Who is a sower?
You don’t call me a teacher if I take a student class one day. But I am a teacher, when I teach everyday. Remember sowing is not a one-time job, it’s a lifestyle! When was the last time God ‘accused’ of being a sower? He is seeking sowers whom He can trust with the wealth needed for end-time harvest. Look at God, His very nature is that of a sower; He sowed his very best, His only Son. The financial increase that God has in store is much more than you imagined but you cannot get it unless you begin to sow as a style.
2. Help, I don’t have a seed!
God gives seed to the sower (2 Corinthians 9:10). If you saying, you don’t have a seed, there are two possibilities: a) You are not a sower: God doesn’t scatter seed to every Christian, but to the sower, the one God finds continually on his knees, looking for places to sow. b) You are eating your seed: Don’t eat your seed, live off your harvest.
Your seed can be anything. Check your wallet, your bank account, your closet. How about your new dress, your watch, your shoes? Shake yourself and say, “Hey, wait a minute! Lord, everything I have is Yours anyway, so I’ll give whatever You tell me to.” And God promises to multiply it, even if you start with a little seed, He’ll find a way to get you more.
Should I sow everything I have? No, but be willing to give whatever God asks you to, because if you don’t, He can’t get more to you! Or you may say, I am broke, I have a need. Gods answer is simple: Plant a seed, my child. I already put My laws on the earth, so start operating in those laws. Be a sower, for from a seed unplanted your only harvest will be a seed.
3. The seed needs a good ground
A seed contains enormous power and potential, but it never exercises it unless planted in the ground. (John 12:24). Then again, you can’t sow your seed on any ground and expect a harvest. The ground has to be good! A ministry that’s good ground is where God’s word is fully taught and people are getting saved, healed, delivered and set free. Spend time with the Holy Spirit learning to listen to His voice and as you do, he will tell you exactly where to sow.
4. You will always reap with the measure you sow
If you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly. (2 Corinthians 9:6). If you are sowing in 100s, you will reap the harvest in 100s; if you are sowing in 1000, the harvest will be in 1000s; if you are sowing your old clothes, the harvest will be old clothes! You will always reap in the measure that you sow, so sow your best.
5. Don’t wait for a surplus to begin sowing
Don’t wait for a harvest or surplus before you start to sow—that’s not how God’s principles work. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. (Ecclesiastes 11:4). Those who say, I will give once I get all my finances together miss Gods timing. Because they wait too long to sow, they never reap the harvest that’s somewhere down the road. Also God wants to use us as channels of blessings for someone else’s needs, which don’t arise at our convenience. By faith begin to sow when God asks you to do so.
1 Kings 17: 7-24 speaks of the widow who had only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug, but because she was willing to sow that seed for Elijah, God gave her a harvest, verse 16 says that the jar of her flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry. God could have easily sent more ravens to feed Elijah. But God said, even though you have little, use it to plant seed into my kingdom.
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6. You will always reap in a different season
The harvest doesn’t come when we want it (we want everything NOW), but in due season you will reap the harvest. (Gal 6:9). As you are faithful to sow, you will see the harvest, because it is God’s law. A farmer doesn’t plant seed and then come back two days later and say, “Sowing doesn’t work; nothing is coming from the ground.” Farmers know better than to say that, but a lot of Christians don’t!
7. Walk by faith
Genesis 26 speaks of famine in the land of Gerar. But look at what Issac did in verse 12, in obedience to God, He sows in the land and in the same year he reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him
God is your Jehovah Jireh. Learning to live by the law of seedtime and harvest is really a matter of getting to know your heavenly father. When you know Him, you realize His might arms of protection and provision around you all the time.
Remember no matter what the world says, there is no recession or inflation for God’s children!
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This blog post is a compilation of excerpts from Dr. Nasir Siddiki’s book ‘Kingdom Principles of Financial Increase’.