WORD OF HARVEST
Hi, it’s my first time posting on our CG’s blog (:
Warning: Lengthy wordy post!
Hi, it’s my first time posting on our CG’s blog (:
Warning: Lengthy wordy post!
Here to share a Word from God today. I’m so excited!! Coz truthfully speaking, this is like the first time i’ve really felt that God spoke to me. Perhaps it’s because of Camp Believe, which i feel has really grown me as a Christian.
So this afternoon, i was supposed to be studying but i suddenly felt an urge to pray, so i did. And while praying in tongues, my mind was in a blank when God suddenly spoke these two words “Bread” and “Waters” into me. Random words which didn’t make sense at all to me at first. But still i felt something in me so i decided to check it out in the Bible.
This led me to Ecclesiastes 11:1-6.
Cast your bread upon the waters,
For you will find it after many days.
2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight,
For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
They empty themselves upon the earth;
And if a tree falls to the south or the north,
In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind,
Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.
For you will find it after many days.
2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight,
For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
They empty themselves upon the earth;
And if a tree falls to the south or the north,
In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind,
Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.
I prayed for further revelation and i got kind of a vague one about something like sowing, risking and receiving abundantly. A voice in me told me to go check the verses out on the internet, thus i did.
And GUESS WHAT!!
According to ChristNotes,
The commentary on Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 is:
Solomon presses the rich to do good to others. Give freely, though it may seem thrown away and lost. Give to many. Excuse not thyself with the good thou hast done, from the good thou hast further to do. It is not lost, but well laid out. We have reason to expect evil, for we are born to trouble; it is wisdom to do good in the day of prosperity.
Riches cannot profit us, if we do not benefit others. Every man must labour to be a blessing to that place where the providence of God casts him. Wherever we are, we may find good work to do, if we have but hearts to do it.
If we magnify every little difficulty, start objections, and fancy hardships, we shall never go on, much less go through with our work. Winds and clouds of tribulation are, in God's hands, designed to try us. God's work shall agree with his word, whether we see it or not. And we may well trust God to provide for us, without our anxious, disquieting cares. Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season, in God's time, you shall reap,Galatians 6:9.
Riches cannot profit us, if we do not benefit others. Every man must labour to be a blessing to that place where the providence of God casts him. Wherever we are, we may find good work to do, if we have but hearts to do it.
If we magnify every little difficulty, start objections, and fancy hardships, we shall never go on, much less go through with our work. Winds and clouds of tribulation are, in God's hands, designed to try us. God's work shall agree with his word, whether we see it or not. And we may well trust God to provide for us, without our anxious, disquieting cares. Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season, in God's time, you shall reap,Galatians 6:9.
So i tried to decipher it and started to realise what God is telling me. Before i write what i deciphered, want to tell everyone this, this is REALLY the time for harvest!
What i deciphered (line by line according to the commentary) :
We are the rich as we have Christ in us, thus we must do good to others by reaching out to them. Getting them saved eternally is really doing good. Although it seems like friends are not coming, still continue to do it. Ask as many people around you as you can.
Even though you managed to get a few friends, dun be contented, but continue to be anxious about all our friends out there who are not yet saved. For everything we’re doing now is not lost, but is laying the path for our friends to Christ.
We will face troubles and obstacles and rejection, but all these are part and parcel of life, and it will be clever to reach out to others during this Christmas time, the time of harvest.
What we have now is stagnant unless we bring in new friends.
As God brought us to His church where we are well loved, we must reach out and bring others in and share His perfect love. No matter where we are, as long as we really want to do it with our hearts for God, we will be able to win souls.
If we get disheartened easily and give up after facing a few rejections from friends we try to reach out to, the harsh fact is that, you can never get any friends into the House of God.
All the rejections are designed to test our faith and our commitment to be evangelistic.
God will always keep what he promised us (like what he told Caleb) even if we do not see the fruits of our labour now. We must keep faith and trust God and continue to pray for and reach out to friends.
Do not give up, for you will surely reap what you sow into the hearts of your friends.
That’s all; Hope it’s clear, you can ask me in person if you dun really understand. (: I’m really so excited for the whole of today coz of this. Lol. What didn’t seem to make any sense to me at all turned out to make the whole world of sense to me now.
Topping it off, during the second day of Camp believe, when brother Edmund tell us to share with our neighbours our dreams. I told wendy (she’s sitting beside me ) that i want to be a good evangelist. (:
I feel that God is really telling each and every one of us to really keep faith and continue asking and asking and asking for friends this Christmas. Don’t be contented with the few friends you’ve already got to come. Keep on asking till the 25th. 9 more days of persistent asking left to go.
We can do it!! (: (:
We can do it!! (: (:
Jieren
