Today’s Reading:
John 4
Matthew 13
Psalm 126
As the crowds emerged from the village, Jesus said to his disciples, “Why would you say, ‘The harvest is another four months away’? Look at all the people coming—now is harvest time! Their hearts are like vast fields of ripened grain—ready for a harvest. Everyone who reaps these souls for eternal life will receive a reward. Both those who plant spiritual seeds and those who reap the spiritual harvest will celebrate together with great joy!”
John 4:35-36 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
You are in the midst of the beginning of the harvest, and here My grace does much more abound. You will see My grace operate in ways you have never seen or expected. Transformation in an instant will accompany this harvest. Total personality change will accompany this harvest by those whose lives and souls have been overrun with demonic oppression. You will see the real ones who I created, not the facades put up in partnership with demons.
Those who sow their tears as seeds will reap a harvest with joyful shouts of glee. They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow, but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing!
Psalms 126:5-6 TPT
Transition is here. Change is here. And the work of great harvest is here. Find your place. Pick up your tool and get out into the field of your planting. It’s time to reap an abundant harvest. This harvest will touch every aspect of your life. This is a harvest of souls, and it is also a harvest of reaping what you have planted in diligence, in faithfulness, in perseverance and at great cost. This is the time where you go out into the field not with your seeds and tears, but with your tools, the tools of your trade, and with great joy. Your tears in this time will be tears of great joy and rejoicing and thanksgiving. You will sing songs. You will praise Me and sing, Great is Thy Faithfulness. You will see that which the locusts have eaten restored and returned in greater measure. You will see the recovery of all that was stolen, broken, killed and delayed. This is the time of the 100-fold harvest. You’ll reap a 100-fold reward. Great is My faithfulness. I have seen your faithfulness, and Mine greatly exceeds it.
He taught them many things by using stories, parables to illustrate spiritual truths, saying: “Consider this: There was a farmer who went out to sow seeds. As he cast his seeds, some fell along the beaten path and the birds came and ate them. Others fell onto gravel that had no topsoil. They quickly shot up, but when the days grew hot, they were scorched and withered because they had insufficient roots. Others fell among the thorns, so when they sprouted, the thorns choked them. But other seeds fell on good, rich soil that kept producing a good harvest. Some yielded thirty, some sixty, and some even one hundred times as much as he planted!
Matthew 13:3-8 TPT
I will reward your great faithfulness and overwhelm you with My goodness. You will see abundant fruit that you had no idea existed, that you didn’t realize you’d planted. Some of what returns to you in this season you will cause you to marvel, because you didn’t realize what you’d planted. You had no idea the quality of soil in which you were planting nor the did you understand or perceive the nature or variety of your seed. You planted in obedience, and that will reap a great reward. These seeds planted in obedience rather than understanding will reap surprise rewards. They will reap surprise fruits and varieties you’d never imagined.
Great is My faithfulness. It is an acknowledgement of your faithfulness, obedience and diligence, but My faithfulness far exceeds and overshadows, outstretches and outpaces anything you could do, dream or imagine. You are about to see a wild, surprising and abundant harvest, and you will marvel — yes at the harvest — but much more so at the vastness, the depth, the specificity and the greatness of My outstretched faithfulness.
How to Respond
- Worship the Lord and praise Him with thanksgiving for His faithfulness.
- Pray, Holy Spirit open my eyes to see the great harvest. Show me what tools You have put at my disposal to go out into the fields and use for reaping. Thank You for being so faithful, so good, so accessible to me.
- Declare, It was like a dream come true when you freed us from our bondage and brought us back to Zion! We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness. We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise. All the nations saw it and joined in, saying, “The Lord has done great miracles for them!” Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!
Psalms 126:1-3 TPT - Decree, This is the time of a great harvest of souls and a great harvest that reveals the incredible faithfulness of the Lord in my life. I will see full restoration of all that the locusts have eaten. I will see full recovery of all that was lost, stolen, destroyed and delayed. And I will reap a 100-fold reward.
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