🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. —Ecclesiastes 11:4
🌿BELIEVE THE TRUTH🌿
Preparing the ground to sow. Planting the seeds. Processing the harvest.
Three steps of growth where we can lay down our rake and our rationalizations of how our life will turn out and surrender. In every planting endeavor however, this conflict arises: We want to be the one in charge of the growing and maturing instead of God.
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Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.
Trust God with the conditions.
We wait for perfect weather before we plant. But faith plants before perfect weather arrives.
We place the certainty to plant base on what we feel in the flesh. But faith places its assurance in the Spirit.
We place the security of when to plant base on ideal conditions we can see. But faith places its assurance in the imperceptible.
Caution. Don’t let the world distract and delay your planting plans by relying only on conditions you can see in front of you. Trust Jesus with the unseen conditions.
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Trust God with the circumstances.
If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
In the Bible, we read of characters like the prophet Elijah who face difficult circumstances. What makes his journey transformative is that his adverse circumstances didn’t cause him to abandon God’s will. On the other hand, we watch every cloud to see if God will act on our behalf. If we believe He won’t intervene, we flee.
We run from the field God calls us to cultivate.
We request deliverance from other sources like the world.
We read God’s delay as a sign of rejection, not perfection.
We refuse to trust God before the cloud arrives.
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On Mount Carmel. God calls Elijah to challenge King Ahab to a contest of faith between Elijah and the prophets of the Lord versus Queen Jezebel’s 450 prophets who worship the idol of Baal. The side whose god rains down fire upon their respective altars is the one true God. If Elijah loses, it’s likely he would also lose his life. But Elijah trusts God, and God answers by sending fire down from heaven.
After this momentous miracle, Elijah prays to God to send rain to end the famine that has devastated the land. God replies and sends: “A little cloud the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.” ( 1 Kings 18:44)
Elijah places his trust in God long before the cloud of rain ever appears.
Imperfect weather. Perfect God.
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Imperfect weather and imperfect conditions will head our way, but we have a perfect God who can bring to fruition the harvest He’s been planning for our life.
Ideal forecast is not a guarantee of ideal outcomes. Don’t position all your hope for rain in a cloud you can see. Instead, choose to prepare with faith, plant by faith, process through faith, and ultimately live by faith, not by sight.
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