RUN TO THE FIELDS!

“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no” EXODUS 16:3-4

“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest” JOHN 4:35

 

To get what you’ve never had, you must be prepared to do what you’ve never done. You will never know how high you can fly until you spread your wings and fly. Sometimes the solution is in the going. Sometimes the road becomes clear as you get up and move forward. Imagine yourself in your car on a foggy day. It is always difficult to see what is ahead of you, even things few meters away cannot be recognized but as you begin to move, you begin to see the immediate distance till you get to your destination. God is an awesome God and a dynamic One. He always does something new, things beyond human imagination, above all we can ever ask or think according to His power that works in us (EPHESIANS 3:20).Like I wrote the last time, God is all about more. Sometimes you think you know it all and have seen it all and then comes the surprise from God. God has it all planned out. He’s worked it all out, all we need is faith and trust in Him in times of crisis. We complain about everything and murmur about things we don’t even understand. Like the children of Israel, the slightest change in the way we see and do things seem to alarm us. They were used to sitting down by flesh pots and eating bread of affliction in their slavery. God saved them from their bondage with His Mighty Arm and took them unto the wilderness to teach them new things, things neither they nor their fathers knew ” And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.” DEUTERONOMY 8:3. I believe God wants to show us something we’ve never known, something we’ve never seen before. But before that, we must be prepared to change our attitudes and do things we are not used to doing. We must be used to sitting down by flesh pots but it is time to rise and run to the fields. Our ways are not His ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways (ISAIAH 55:9). They sat by the flesh pots in their bondage but with God it was all change. Run to the fields, go out and gather He said. People would rather die in their bondage, in their stubborness than try something new from God. By our traditions and way of seeing things we make The Word of God of none effect (MARK 7:13). Your willingness to obey will reap immense blessings “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” ISAIAH 1:19.

Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then comest harvest, Jesus asked His disciples? Our disposition to seeing things and doing things must be changed and be conformed to God’s way for only then will we see the miraculous in our lives. The fields are white  and ready to harvest. Arise, run to the fields and begin to gather what God has for you. You don’t sit down doing nothing and expect something, you just don’t sit by the fleshy pots and stink in your misery. Rise and run to the fields, lift up your eyes and see. The fields of God are ripe for harvest. May God grant us to walk His way, and give us the courage to do what we’ve never done to reap what we’ve never reaped. In The Name that is above all names, Jesus Christ, Son of The Living God. Amen and Amen!

THE BELIEVER PUT TO WORK

“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” GENESIS 2:15

“Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great” GENESIS 26:12-13

 

Work and it’s ethics are in God’s nature and it’s something He instilled in man right from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. He is a worker Himself “But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” JOHN 5:17. God has been working from the beginning and still works as revealed by Jesus to the Jews. Jesus Christ The Son of The Living God Himself worked during His time here on earth. His ministry on earth began at the age of thirty but before He embarked on His spiritual work, He had a secular job, He was a carpenter “Is not this the carpenter…?” MARK 6:3. He was a diligent worker also when He started full time ministry “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” JOHN 9:4. Work is a responsibility and charge by God, again it is a privilege given us by God and as long as we are fit and well able to work, we must work with all our might. A time will come when this blessing and privilege will be there no more. What ever your hands finds to do, scripture says to do with all your might “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest” ECCLESIASTES 9:10. Paul the Apostle was a tent maker before his calling and still wrought the same to support himself in ministry, so was Priscilla and Aquila “After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tent makers” ACTS 18:1-3. God has a strict way of looking at and dealing with the sluggard. He commands the sluggard not to eat “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat” 2 THESSALONIANS 3:10.God never condones the sluggard, the first thing He does when He calls a man is to put him to work. In one of Jesus’ parable on the Kingdom we find out how God moves around looking for people, hiring them and paying them. He also go about looking for those who are idle and put them to work “For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive” MATTHEW 20:1-7

God is not interested in lazy folks, He calls the idle and put him to work and then give him his wages. Everyone God called and used in the bible was a hard worker prior to his or her calling. Elisha was plowing when he was called of God, found by Elijah and anointed with oil as a prophet (1 KINGS 19:19). David was on the wilderness taking care of his fathers flock when he was called and anointed by samuel in the presence of all his brethren (1 SAMUEL 16:11), Amos the Prophet was a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit “Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit: And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel” AMOS 7:14-15. Peter, James, and John were busy fishermen (MATTHEW 4:18-22). Go through the whole bible and is hard to find God overlooking being idle. God does not hand out anything on a silver platter. The wife of the prophet who in the days of Elisha came and besought Elisha with her financial problems was not just handed the money to pay the debts, she was put to work even after the miracle of multiplying the oil “And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest” 2 KINGS 4:6-7. My Father work hitherto, and I work, Jesus said. God works even till now and we His children must work as well. We must carry the same work ethics our Father in Heaven has and be diligent in all our labours. There is this saying which goes like “there is dignity in labour”. Diligence in labour is a virtue which is not overlooked but rewarded by God. Adam in the beginning, after creation, before the fall when everything was prosperous was put to work. He was again sent out of the garden to till the earth and eat out of his sweat even after the fall. Isaac in a time of famine and drought was commanded by God not to go to Egypt but stay in Gerar. He obeyed God, he stayed and planted, and in that same year reaped hundred fold. God is always looking for something to multiply and He blesses and multiplies the works of your hands. If you don’t plant anything, you don’t reap nothing. God cannot be mocked “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” GALATIANS 6:7. It is time to arise and build for God will prosper us just as Nehemiah said. He who gives seed to the sower, and bread to the eater blesses the works of your hands as you do all things with diligence, in The Name of Jesus Christ His Son.Amen and Amen!