Once the tree bears fruit, we are able to partake of the harvest. The abundance of the fruit can feed other people and animals. Besides food, it also brings shelter to many other living creatures.
When we plant the seed of a fruit tree or a tomato plant, there is always an appointed time for the harvest. You cannot tell the fruit tree or tomato plant to grow any faster.
If the fruit tree does not grow fast enough, will we get angry at the fruit tree? Will you cut it down and make it into fire wood after having invested all that time and energy? No, in most cases, people will patiently wait for the tree to bear fruit so they can benefit from their labor and patience.
With much labor and investment in time, the farmer and his crop may have to go through droughts, STORMS, and battle the insects. For some crops, it may be one short season and for others it may take YEARS to produce.
If we are seeking spiritual breakthrough, we must labor and invest ourselves in the Lord. We must labor in the sense of worshiping, reading, and praying daily. We must invest our time in HIM. And as with any harvest or breakthrough, TIME IS REQUIRED. During this time as one wait, we must sometimes battle the weather elements and possibly go through many storms in life. We may feel a drought when it comes to feeling the Lord. We may be attacked by demons (insects) as we are trying to stay spiritually alive.
As we wait for our breakthrough, we must know it may take YEARS. We can patiently wait persevering and enduring the weather elements of our lives or we can QUIT and get mad at God. If we get mad and quit, we will not get to the harvest time. But if we are waiting for years and if our tree or crop does not look healthy, we must ask the Lord if we are doing things right. Remember, we must believe correctly for God's blessings and power to flow in us.
Some time ago, God told my wife and I that many of His servants quit just right before their breakthrough. He said that many of His servants were quitting because it was too hard for them. If anyone tells you this journey is a cake walk, you have my permission to throw some cake in their face. This journey will be difficult, trying, and taxing but the Lord will finish what He started as long as we continue in obedience and faith not quitting.
In the physical realm, we know the time of the harvest through our knowledge of farming. We will know the time of reaping. This gives us a measure of time and expectation. We will generally continue waiting for the physical harvest knowing the set appointed time. Faith is not really required because science has shown us when to expect the fruit and crop.
However, in the spiritual realm, we may have no ideal the appointed time for our breakthrough. It may be tomorrow, next week, next year, or in years but God keeps saying, "soon." In the spiritual realm, your FAITH is the plant food for your trees and harvest. As long as you continue praying, hoping, and faithing in HIM on His promise or promises, there is an set appointed time waiting for you.
There is a promise in God's Word. Jesus said, IF you KEEP on asking, you will receive. If you KEEP on seeking, you will find and if you KEEP on knocking, the door will be open.
Matthew 7:7-8 (AMP) Keep on asking and it will be given you; [b] keep on seeking and you will find; [c]keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you.8For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.
I know it can get very hard dear brothers and sisters. But during those moments, you must make an important choice either to continue in the Lord, quit, or compromise. It is A CHOICE! Our whole life is a Choice. Do not give up. The Lord did not give up walking toward Calvary. He got beat beyond recognition, He got whipped horribly, He got spit on, He got mocked, and He got laughed at BY HIS OWN PEOPLE for you. What have you paid compared to HIM?
He said if you are to follow HIM, you must FULLY Surrender, take up your own crosses and follow HIM. You must take it all the way even unto death if necessary. It is in death there is LIFE. Continue to ask, Continue to seek, Continue to knock, and continue OBEYING His Word running from sin living in Holiness until your breakthrough. As you persevere and endure in your journey, a day is coming. An appointed day is set that will take you higher and freer. May you all grow in His Grace moving from Glory to Glory.
Luke 14:26-27 (AMP) If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [[a]in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters--[yes] and even his own life also--he cannot be My disciple.27 Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.
Luke 14:33(AMP) So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, [a]say good-bye to) all that he has cannot be My disciple.
You must FULLY Follow HIM. God bless you all!! Fire of God!! Be Free as the Children of the Most HIGH Overcoming ALL that is placed in front of you!! Take back what the enemy has stolen by FORCE! Demand it back with your Authority, Holiness, Righteousness, His Blood, and by His NAME!
Galatians 6:9 (AMP) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.
Fire of God!! Fire of God!! Fire of God!!
Steve Yong Kim
November 21, 2011
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