I was reading this morning in Luke chapter 1 and saw something that I have looked at and even looked into many times, but saw in a different light this morning. Often times in the place of prayer I remind myself that God is a God who sees, and hears. Not only do I think about these realities but I speak them out loud so that I hear them with my ears and they become part of my emotional make up. I have talked to some people about the things I do as far as speaking different things over my life, and they say that’s new age and you need to be careful. All that I am doing is another form of reading the word or rather getting the word into my head, so that my heart can connect with it and release change into my physical body. What we are to do is agree with what the Word says concerning our life in Christ and then declare that over our selves changing our emotional makeup so that we live out what the Bible says we can live out.
So in speaking things over my life, I daily in the place of prayer remind myself that God is a God who is not disconnected from His people. I would say something like “I thank You that You always hear me”. “I thank You that You are a God who neither sleeps nor slumbers.” Even now as I am praying before You, You are seated on the throne, and You have eyes, and ears and a heart”. “Your real”!! These are some of the phrases that I use in reminding myself that He sees and hears me. So often I think you and I lose heart in the place of prayer because we forget that He is listening and cares about our prayers. We forget that our weak prayers, and the weak movements of our heart move His heart. In Revelations Chapter 2 and verse’s 1-5 it says that He is the One who walks in and out of the golden lamp stands. What that means is that His complaint with the loveless Church was a complaint that He complied from His own experience with this group of people. There’s powerful truths in that. The powerful truth is that He is not a God who is disconnected from His people, but rather a God who has been acquainted with the ways of man and sees us up close and personal and has something to say from that vantage point. We must remind ourselves of this reality.
So back to what I was reading this morning and how all this is connected. In Luke Chapter 1 and Verse Number 13 the Bible says this:
Recently while spending time with God speaking in tongues and communing with The Holy Spirit I was quickened to a scripture in Galatians chapter 6 and verse eight. It reads like this
“For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap
corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
This is a powerful scripture that is used in many different areas of the Christian walk, but I want to zero in on a specific area today. You may say I don’t sow anything, that’s for farmers, and people with a green thumb. I would beg to differ. The truth is we all sow to either one thing or another. To make it simple just like the verse we read, we are either sowing to the flesh or the sprit. We are either sowing to the carnal side of our bodies the flesh, or the spiritual side which is the Spirit inside us, everlasting life. And the result of sowing to those is this; death or life. You are sowing to one or the other. Not sowing to the spirit is sowing to the flesh. I often hear people say, I don’t have time for the God thing, or I don’t have time to read my Bible, or I don’t have time to pray. Listen to this scripture in Ecclesiastes Chapter nine and verse eleven.
“…..the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong……but time and chance happened to them all.”
The Bible says in this passage that time and chance happens to all of us. Each of us have time and many chances every day and the question is what do we do with that time and those chances. A Pastor friend told me recently that he would like to go into a low income community and tell them that he might have received 100 opportunities in his life because of where he grew up, and those of you in the low income community may have had only 30 opportunities to get ahead in life. So the question is no longer did you have an opportunity, but rather what did you do with that opportunies that you were given. The same thing is true with time. Its not that we don’t have enough time, it’s what we do with the time that we have? With the choices we make we are deciding what we are sowing into, either life or death. The problem is, when the harvest shows itself from what we have been sowing, and we are unhappy with the fruit, not realizing that it wasn’t the field that was wrong or the time of year but rather what we sowed into the felid. Making time for God, is something that you have to do. It doesn’t just happen. It takes time, and after time sowing the Bible says that we will reap a harvest of goodness if we won’t loss heart in the process. Ask God for forgiveness, and redeem the time that you have from now on. Be serious about building your relationship with God. Go after this thing and reap a harvest of goodness.
