Podcasts about Sowing

We're celebrating our 10th anniversary all year by digging in the vaults to re-present classic episodes with fresh commentary. Today, we're revisiting our 2022 conversation with Roland Orzabal. ABOUT ROLAND ORZABAL AND TEARS FOR FEARS:Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears for Fears in Bath, England, in 1981 and have gone on to sell 30 million albums worldwide. Their major breakthrough in the UK came in 1982 with the Top 5 single “Mad World” and the subsequent platinum-selling album The Hurting. They gained major steam in the US with their sophomore album Songs From the Big Chair, which included the hit singles “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” and “Head Over Heels.” Featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, Songs From the Big Chair reached #1 and was certified five times Platinum by the RIAA. Tears for Fears' follow-up single “Sowing the Seeds of Love” was another massive hit, but Curt departed the group not long after. Following a couple of albums with Orzabal at the helm, the duo reunited for the Everybody Loves a Happy Ending album in 2004. Now, after a long wait of 17 years, Roland and Curt have just released their seventh studio album The Tipping Point, and are embarking on a major tour. Even as they bring us new music, their legacy is well-established as one of the most unique and influential British groups to emerge in the last few decades. Their songs have been covered or sampled by Gary Jules, Adam Lambert, Lorde, Kanye West, Drake, and many others. And, in 2021, the band was honored with the Outstanding Song Collection honor at the Ivor Novello Awards in London.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Do you feel like you're in a dry season? Pastor Steve shares a word from Psalm 84. In these times ... Read More

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

Sowing and reaping. There is such a long gap, often between those too, have you noticed how long it takes to reap that harvest? And sometimes, frankly, we get sick of the wait. It's a bit like a farmer becoming impatient and walking off the land, the week before his crop springs out of the ground.   Seed Time and Harvest Over the last few weeks on Christianityworks we've been looking at "Reaping God's Harvest in my life" and in your life. How, when, why should we sow seeds? How do we get God's harvest? What does God's harvest look like anyway? God's harvest is awesome – God's harvest is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. That's what Paul writes in Romans chapter 14 and verse 17. He says,“Look, it's not about food or drink. It's not about all the physical things and sure, God is in our physical needs; God wants to supply and provide and He does do that, but at the end of the day, the Kingdom of God isn't about food or drink but it‘s about righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. And I don't know a single person on this planet who doesn't want that sort of a harvest; of goodness and peace and joy in their lives. And sometimes we go through life and it's a big drought. We feel dry, we feel like we're in a wilderness, – not always, but more often than not – it's because in some area of our lives we have rebelled against God. And God's a good Dad, it's like being a parent to a teenager, you know, when you're bringing up kids and you want to see them grow up and have a wonderful life, but when they rebel, some times you have to withdraw some of the blessings, some of the privileges from their lives to bring them to a point where they learn. God's like that too. God loves to rain His blessing down in our lives but when we rebel; when we turn against Him, when we turn our back on Him – maybe not in our whole life, maybe just in one little bit of our lives – God says: “Well, you know, it's time for some pruning; it's time for some teaching.” And so, sometimes, when we are going through a drought in our lives, when it's all dry and that blessing isn't flowing the way it should be, we need to ask ourselves: “What's this drought about?” Maybe I have a problem with a relationship, maybe I'm not giving God my top priorities, maybe there's some area of my life. And when we figure that out, we say, “God is speaking to me in this drought”. That's the first step. That's admitting that we have a need and then the Holy Spirit – the Holy Spirit ends up calling us to plant a seed somewhere. You know, when we have a need; when we are struggling with something, we want to feed that need. We want to say, “Ok God, if you want me to plant some seeds somewhere; if I have financial problems, maybe I have to hoard all my money to deal with my financial problems and God says, “No, I actually don't want you to feed your need right now. I want you to sow some seed in another field.” And it's a really weird thing because often you say to God, “Hang on a minute, God, my problem is over here yet you want me to sow a seed in the ground over there? What are you doing? What's going on? It doesn't make sense – the two don't even add up!” So that's what we have been looking at over the last few weeks and if you haven't been with us the whole time, I really would encourage you - this is one of those teaching series that will just make a huge difference to your life as we learn what it's about – to sow and to reap – because it's a Spiritual principle that occurs right through the Scriptures, from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Sowing and reaping and why God sometimes calls us to sow in a different field because it's counter-intuitive; it's a step of faith. I remember when I first met my wife, Jacqui, gee, it's twelve years ago now and she just came to our church one Sunday morning and I was preaching. I wasn't feeling very well and I was only going to be preaching that morning and she was only going to be in church that morning because she was visiting from a different city and she had really wanted to go down to some markets that were near the church. She had a few hundred dollars in her pocket and she really wanted to go and spend this money down at the markets but somehow her mum dragged her, kicking and screaming, to church that morning and I was in the middle of preaching a message and I looked out and I didn't know who this woman was and I just felt God saying to me, “That woman is going to be your wife.” And it turns out God was saying that to her about me while she was sitting there. But in the middle of the service, when the offering came around, she felt God calling her to take all the money that she had in her pocket, a few hundred dollars – which is a lot of money to her – and put it into the offering. God was calling her to sow a seed and she obeyed Him and I believe that if she hadn't done that - if she hadn't honoured God's call just to do that; to be obedient to Him – I just don't believe that she and I would be husband and wife and we would not have the wonderful marriage that we do. Sometimes God calls us to do things that are counter-intuitive, that don't make sense, and so we decide against our better judgment sometimes to plant that seed and we put the seed in the ground and we wait and we wait and we wait and we wait and in this Mc-world where we live in with the hamburgers and instant access by mobile phones and the internet – we expect everything instantly. We think, “Ok God, I've planted the seed, I want it now! Ok, I'll wait another five minutes – tick, tick, tick, tick. Ok, ten minutes – tick, tick, tick – that's it, I've had enough, I'm out of here, it's taking too long!” We're like that, aren't we? We are pretty impatient. You know, the seed that Jacqui sowed that day that we met, it took months before we became a couple and ultimately, got married. I mean, it didn't happen instantly. When you think about it, you plant a seed into the ground and that seed doesn't instantly sprout and give a harvest that same day – it takes time. Yet we do that and we say, “It's too long, I'm out of here. I know this stupid idea of planting seeds in different fields was never going to work, aw!” And we storm off – but hidden away under the ground, that seed is doing something amazing – it's germinating; life is sprouting out of it. The Bible talks about ‘seed time and harvest' and yet we miss the time bit. You plant a seed and there's time before the harvest. We get impatient and we get bored and we walk off in disgust and we leave the land just as the little green shoot is about to break through the soil. I remember the first time I went to Disney Land, in Orange County in Los Angeles. The Americans do queues much better than we Australians because there are more of them and they're used to standing in queues longer than we are. We Australians get quite impatient with queues and what I noticed, some of the best rides at Disney Land – at the time, Star Wars ride was there – it was like an hour or an hour and a half wait. And they were really clever with the queues; firstly, they went around bends and corners so you couldn't see how many people were in the queue or how long you had to wait. But the second thing they did was they put entertainment along the queue, so you were entertained the whole time, so you didn't really realise you were waiting quite as long as you were waiting. Well, God is like that too. God has got a sense of humour and God knows that we get impatient and God knows that when we plant a seed and nothing happens for a while and we are waiting for the harvest, He doesn't want us to get bored and He has some things for us to do. What are they?   Weed and Feed Well, sowing and reaping is one of the Spiritual principles that God has throughout His Word, right from beginning to end and when you think about it – when a farmer sows seed into the ground, the farmer just doesn't sit there for the next few months and do nothing, there's a bit of work that has to go on. A bit like a garden – there's nothing like a beautiful garden but its hard work too – just doesn't happen. Planting, in a sense, is the easy bit but we need to feed and weed and water sometimes. It's amazing how weeds grow about five times faster than any of the plants that we paid a fortune for! You know the thistles and the rubbish in the garden; they can take over the garden, just in a few weeks. I remember mum and dad when I was a kid, had a compost heap out in the back of the yard and we had pumpkins and watermelon and they'd throw the rubbish onto the compost heap, but invariably, the pumpkin seed and the watermelon seed would end up not dying and would germinate in the garden and all of a sudden this wonderful garden they had would be taken over by a pumpkin and watermelon. Jesus talked a bit about weeds -–He talked about weeds in the context of a church and said in a church there are good plants and there are weeds and He talked about weeds and thorns in terms of faith. He said: Look, the thorns can rise up and choke our faith. So as much as seed time and harvest, reaping and sowing are godly principles, so is weed and feed. You sow a seed and you believe for a harvest, the enemy is sure to come along and put some weeds in that to try and choke it all up. Have you ever experienced that? You go out on a limb, you believe God, you follow Him, you plant the seed – it's a risk, it's a sacrifice, you think, "it's going to go well" – and all of a sudden you do that – you take that step of faith – and all of a sudden it all turns to custard; it all gets hard. So we need to become vigilant, alert gardeners. God wants us to be involved in the process. Maybe we've been walking through a time of drought in our lives; we've strayed in some area and we come to the realisation that God is calling us home again. And so He takes us through this time of drought and we plant the seed, which is a step of faith – it might be forgiving someone or it might be giving some money away, it might be any sort of obedience and sacrifice that God is calling us to do – and He wants us to be stronger at the end of that. But along the way there's a lesson, there's a journey and that journey is the important bit. Isn't it amazing how when we are going through a time of drought, all we want to do is grumble and complain about the fact that there's a drought and we're all waiting for the rains to come? But there's a journey happening there, I mean, the drought's the drought, there's nothing we can do about it. Today is the journey; tomorrow is the journey and that journey – where we do the learning – is important. If you have a Bible, open it at the Book of Galatians, in the New Testament, chapter 6 verses 7 to 10 and this is about sowing and reaping and it's about the journey, and it's about what we do on that journey. Let's have a read: Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. if you sow to your own flesh, you'll reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you'll reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right for we will reap a harvest at harvest time if we do not give up. Ain't that the truth? Let's get a revelation – we plants seeds whatever we do. We can either plant them into our flesh, into our human nature, our selfish nature, or we can plant them where the Spirit of God tells us to plant them. And so we do that; we get a revelation, we plant a seed in the Spirit where God is calling us to plant that seed, and we believe and we wait and we wait and we wait. But it takes a long time for the harvest to come and we wait and we wait and we wait, but it takes a long time for the harvest to come and we wait and we wait and we wait and then we lose heart and then we give up and before we know it, we're back sowing to the flesh again. Sowing a seed where the Spirit tells us to, is an act of faith. Maybe your marriage isn't going well and the Holy Spirit whispers to you, “So, um, how's your time with God going? How's your prayer time going?” And we come to conviction and the realisation that we've just let our relationship with God go to the wind. And so we go, “You know something, I think the Holy Spirit is calling me to really get close to God,” and that's the seed we sow; we say, “You know, that's my step of obedience. That's what God is doing here. I can't change what is happening in my marriage right now but what I can change is my relationship with God and I'm going to spend some time with Him. I'm going to do that, I'm going to believe in that,” and so we do that. And we set a time aside and the days go by and the weeks go by and time goes by and we don't see any change in the marriage and the seed's germinating but we don't see the harvest and then all of a sudden we say, “This isn't working and I'm getting up every morning and I'm praying and nothing's happening. God where are you?” and we give up. All along God is sorting out our priorities, all along God wants us to exalt Him above all. All along He's ready to make the changes in that husband and wife and that marriage that need to be made; that only He can make, but at the end He gets the glory. Ever felt that way? You know God's called you to some act of faith, some seed to plant and it just doesn't happen quickly enough and we want to give up. Maybe right here, right now, there's a word from God for you – in season for you. "Let us not grow weary of doing what is right, for we will reap a harvest at harvest time if we don't give up." You plant that Spiritual seed and you wait and you just keep doing what's right and you reap the harvest. That's God's way; that's God's promise. When we plant those seeds in the field, we have to keep doing what is right. I call that ‘weed and feed'. Pulling out the weeds and nurturing His Word, nurturing His call, nurturing the thing that He whispered in our heart through the Holy Spirit, that we felt to be obedient to. That has to be nurtured and we are going to look at some practical ways of doing exactly that, next.   Our Eyes on Heavenly Things Well, we've been going through a wilderness experience; a drought, and we know that God has called us in the middle of that drought to plant a seed – to plant a seed, not in our field; not to feed my need but to plant a seed in God's field – and we do that as an act of faith; as an act of obedience. I have mentioned that sometimes God is pointing out, through difficulties in relationships that we are having, that maybe we have let our relationship with Him slide. It's really interesting – the Holy Spirit comes along when we are suffering through a drought and He'll speak to us and He'll tell us exactly what the problem is. So we plant that seed and we're waiting and we're waiting and we're waiting for the harvest and we're waiting for the harvest and nothing happens and we get disheartened. You know, we're human and sometimes it's just so hard. What are some practical things that we can do when we're in that space; when we've honoured God, when we have obeyed Him but we feel like we are losing heart? The first one we will find in Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 to 3. I love this; this is one of my favourite verses. Colossians 3:1-3 says this: So if you have been raised with Christ seek the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds of the things that are above not on the things that are on earth for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. I call this "feeding". You know, when we take a step of faith, it's inevitably counter-intuitive. Faith always is because faith is a choice between what God is calling us to do in the Spirit and what we want to do in the flesh. And so when we listen to God and we go and follow Him in the Spirit, the flesh says: “You shouldn't be doing that, that does not make sense, that is not going to work.” And so when we take a step of faith and go and plant God's seed where He has called us to plant it, our flesh is going to rise up and say: “Give me a break – that is not going to work.” Here Paul is writing to the Colossians and he is saying: Set your mind on heavenly things, not on the stuff you can see, not on the things on earth but on heavenly things. Keep your eye on the ball, keep your eyes and your hearts on God, your prayer life, the time you spend in God's Word, the time you spend worshipping God, this is your Spiritual nourishment you need to feed yourself. You need to feed your spirit with the Holy Spirit. And that's what you are doing right now. That's why I'd like you to get the Study Guide for this series and we're making it available at no cost because I just believe the more we spend time in God's Word, listening to Him, we are fed, we are made whole, we are growing strong. Pick up a good Christian book, sing Christian songs, be filled with the Holy Spirit, set your minds on heavenly things, let the word of Christ dwell richly in you. The closer we get to Jesus, the more we are changed, and the shorter the drought and the closer the harvest because the purpose of what God is doing when we're going through drought and the purpose of what God is calling us to do – to plant the seed in the middle of a drought – is to change us. So let me encourage you, when you are in that space  when you have stepped out in faith, when you've planted the seed, when you're waiting in faith for God's harvest, set your mind on the things that are above - set your mind on heavenly things, spend time in prayer, spend time in God's Word. Don't let those things slide because those are the very things that we need to get us through the drought – being close to Jesus. The second thing is to crucify the flesh. The Spirit is life, the flesh is death. That's what Paul says here in Galatians: “Don't be deceived; God isn't mocked, you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit,” and right now there is a battle going on. If you are in this place of drought and you've planted a seed in faith and you've taken a stand to be obedient to God, you are on a spiritual battlefield and the flesh; the carnate, the old man inside us is going to act up; is going to get irritable and complain or get impatient or something else in our lives will flair up. Maybe a conflict at the office, maybe we are sowing seed in a particular area and we end up in a deep argument with someone over there. These things are the weeds; this is the enemy coming along to try and rob us of God's harvest and the only thing to do with weeds is to pull them out. We don't want to pander to the flesh. Paul writes this in Romans chapter 13:11-13, He says: Lay aside the works of the darkness and put on the armour of light. Let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. Instead put on the Lord Jesus Christ and wait for this, make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. You've got weeds coming up, your flesh is acting up against your step of spiritual faith to plant that seed, do not make any provisions for the flesh. The one thing to do with weeds is to pull them up and throw them into the fire. That is the only thing that we should be doing with that. But we want to pander to the flesh as it whimpers; as it is dying. The flesh always whimpers when it's dying, it doesn't want to die but God wants us to live in the Spirit, not in the flesh. God wants us to walk in the Spirit, not in the flesh. Is God's harvest a priority in your life? Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit? Then make no provision for the flesh. Pull out the weeds. Don't let them choke the harvest. Don't let the devil or your flesh rob you of that harvest of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. That peace is awesome, that joy is awesome! Look at this passage again. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh but if you sow to the Spirit you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right. Let us not grow weary in doing what is right for we will reap at harvest time if we do not give up. We will reap – that's God's promise – we will reap at harvest time, at God's time and part of that harvest – a big part of that harvest – is a changed me and a changed you. As God works on us inside in a way that He couldn't do if we weren't in the middle of that drought, in a way that we couldn't do if He hadn't called us to plant a seed in His field in faith. If you're struggling through drought, could I ask you to find out what the drought is about? To go to God and say, “Lord, what's going on in my life? Why am I struggling here?” And as the Holy Spirit answers you and speaks His Word into your life and says, “You know something, the reason you're going through this at the moment is because this area in your life, you've rebelled, or this area in your life is broken. I want to fix that.” And we go and plant that seed where God is calling us to plant it and we nurture it and we feed it. That's God's plan that we should live through that, that we should be changed through that, that we should rejoice in that, that we should experience His harvest of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. That's it; that's God's plan; that's the process of becoming more like Jesus. It's exciting; it's awesome; it's part of what is ahead of us in our lives. Let me encourage you to sow into the Spirit; to sow a seed into the field that God is calling you to sow in and then to live and walk and breathe in faith, in the presence of the Holy Spirit and you will reap a harvest at harvest time. That's God's plan!

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Sowing and reaping. Humph! It takes such a long time to reap the harvest ?" sometimes we get sick of the wait. I mean ?" really! Join Berni on Christianityworks as he looks at what we can do while we wait for the harvest.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/cw/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Summary: Season 3 kicks off with a heartfelt farewell to Jen and a warm welcome to Hannah as our new co-host. We jump into spring gardening with cucumbers, kawakawa tea, and homemade fertiliser hacks using weed, manure, and compost teas. Plus, we explore the history behind The Apothecaries' Garden at the Chelsea Physic Garden, highlight seed libraries, and reflect on the Spring Equinox.   Timestamps: 00:10 - Introduction 00:37 - Farewell to Jen 02:10 – Introducing Hannah 04:55 - Tea of the Week: Kawakawa 07:44 - Sowing & Planting 10:55 - Seasonal Jobs 15:03 – Vegetable of the Week 15:38 – Plant History 16:50 – Book Review 22:03 – This Week's Garden Hacks 27:07 – September Round-Up 27:50 - Pumpkin Power Competition 29:06 – Wrap Up  Links mentioned in this episode: In this episode, we discussed the Chelsea Physic Garden, London's oldest botanic garden - home to over 4,500 medicinal, edible, and useful plants www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk  Ali couldn't leave the gift shop until she'd bought a copy of: Sue Minter's Book – The Apothecaries' Garden A New History of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Sue Minter examines its history and many notable achievements.  Available to order at Next Chapter Bookshop, Wanaka  Next Episode:....  Beth Chatto: Ali shares observations from her visit to this Essex, UK garden  Support the show You can contact us with your questions and topic requests at coach@yourgardencoach.nz  Follow us on Instagram @yourgardencoach_nz and Facebook, Your Garden Coach  where we regularly upload interesting gardening tips and share our podcast community's successes And don't forget to head to our website www.yourgardencoach.nz for more in-depth gardening advice, to book a personal garden consult, and to search topics in the podcast archives.  Happy Gardening!  Support the showYou can contact us at coach@yourgardencoach.nz Please follow our Instagram page @yourgardencoach_nz where we regularly upload interesting gardening tips Our website is under construction, as you know good things take time.Keep a lookout for http://yourgardencoach.nz We hope you enjoy our podcast, designed for gardeners in the Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand - but not exclusively. Join us from wherever you happen to be and simply check the title of the podcast. e.g. Spring Ep1. to fit in with the season in your location.

The New Yorker contributing writer Dhruv Khullar joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump is transforming the nation's approach to vaccines and immunization during his second term. They talk about the repopulating of federal agencies and advisory panels with skeptics, the politicization of once technical debates under the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, and what happens when people distrustful of the medical establishment end up running American public-health policy. They also examine how states are stepping in to fill the vacuum left by Washington, creating a patchwork of approaches to vaccines across the country.This week's reading: “A New Era of Vaccine Federalism,” by Dhruv Khullar “Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party?,” by Bill McKibben “Donald Trump's Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines,” by Ruth Marcus “What Trump Wants from a TikTok Deal with China,” by Clare Malone “Can Liberalism Be Saved?,” by Isaac Chotiner Tune in to The Political Scene wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pastor Nelms brings this biblical teaching about God's principles of supernatural grace for prospering, and how to lay hold of our answers to prayer and the promises of God by faith.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/renaissance-school-of-the-spirit--3241606/support

Today's message is entitled,How Tithers Activatethe Laws of Sowing and Reaping preach by Pastor Daniel Abaidoo

Are you tired of knowing what's right but constantly doing what's wrong? Do you find yourself stuck in patterns where good intentions repeatedly crash into poor choices? This powerful message tackles the universal struggle of wanting to make good decisions but feeling powerless to follow through. Discover why a life coach isn't enough - you need a heart surgeon. Learn the difference between checking boxes on a spiritual to-do list and experiencing real transformation through falling deeper in love with Jesus Christ.

In Part 4 of A Hundred Fold in the Same Year, Bishop Omar shares a convicting message titled Hindrances of Sowing with a focus on laziness. Drawing wisdom from Proverbs, he revealed how slothfulness stifles growth and blocks blessings. Laziness is more than inactivity—it's an unwillingness to use the energy God has given us. Bishop reminded us that even Jesus told us to consider the ant and look at its ways. This message challenges us to step up, work with excellence, and represent Christ in all we do.

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Today's focus is on the reality of spiritual warfare, not just with external enemies like Satan and the brokenness of the world, but with the enemy within—our own flesh. Every follower of Jesus faces this internal battle, a struggle with the sin nature that pulls us away from God's best. This isn't just a philosophical or theological idea; it's a daily, lived experience. The enemy outside, Satan, is not omnipotent or omniscient, but he is crafty and studies our weaknesses, seeking to exploit the tendencies and brokenness already present in us. The real danger is not just in the obvious temptations, but in the subtle ways our good desires become disordered, taking the place of God in our lives.The flesh, as Paul describes, is not just our physical body, but our inward bent toward sin—a self-centered, rebellious nature that opposes God. This is a universal human condition, and it manifests in countless ways: repeated failures, cycles of shame, and the frustration of wanting to do good but falling short. The gospel, however, is not just about forgiveness and a future in heaven; it's about transformation and freedom today. Jesus died not only to secure our eternity, but to bring heaven into our present reality, empowering us to live differently through the Holy Spirit.The battle between flesh and Spirit is relentless, but it is not hopeless. The Holy Spirit, God Himself, dwells within every believer, offering power to resist the flesh and live in freedom. Yet, this victory is not achieved through willpower or striving, but through daily surrender—admitting our need, humbling ourselves, and taking decisive action. What we sow today, whether to the flesh or the Spirit, will bear fruit in our lives tomorrow. The stakes are high: our relationships, our peace, our witness, and the future version of ourselves God desires us to become.Freedom is possible, but it requires honesty, humility, and practical steps—sometimes even seeking help through community, recovery groups, or spiritual practices. There is no condemnation for those in Christ; only an invitation to walk in the Spirit, to crucify the flesh daily, and to experience the rich, satisfying life Jesus promises. The call is to stop believing the lie that change is impossible, and instead, to trust in the transforming power of God's grace, available right now.Youtube Chapters[00:00] - Welcome[01:10] - Series Introduction: Stand Firm[03:00] - Understanding Our Spiritual Enemies[06:44] - Interview with Coach John Abensham[10:14] - The Enemy Studies Our Weaknesses[12:27] - The Cycle of Defeat and Shame[14:53] - The Lie of “You Can Never Change”[17:55] - What's at Stake: The Future You[20:23] - The Gospel: Heaven Into You[23:29] - Defining the Flesh and the Human Condition[26:52] - Good Desires, Disordered Loves[29:50] - How Sin Corrupts Good Things[31:24] - Idolatry: Loving Right Things in the Wrong Order[33:43] - Sowing and Reaping: The Consequences of Choices[36:14] - The Battle Between Flesh and Spirit[45:00] - The Power of the Holy Spirit Within[53:00] - Breaking the Cycle: No Condemnation in Christ[61:15] - Taking Decisive Action and Walking in the Spirit[65:00] - Prayer and Invitation to Freedom

When you think about it, sowing seed and then reaping a harvest is all about multiplication. You sow one seed, you reap a hundred. But the extent, the quantum of the multiplication factor, has an awful lot to do with the way that we sow the seed in the first place.   Lord of the Harvest Over the last few weeks we have been working our way through a series called, “Reaping God's Harvest in My Life”. A couple of weeks ago we looked at how Isaac sowed seed in the middle of a drought and reaped a harvest. And again last week we looked at figuring out exactly what the drought is about because sometimes we go through seasons of drought; seasons where we're not experiencing God's blessing the way we should be and we think, “God what's going on? Why am I going through this? And sometimes Dad is trying to get our attention. Sometimes God knows there's something wrong in our lives; we've rebelled in this area, maybe with our finances or maybe we're living in un-forgiveness or maybe we are living in some sort of rebellion. Maybe we are not spending the time with God that we need to be and God thinks, “I love my child so much, it's time to get his attention; it's time to get her attention,” and so we start going through this drought thing and … “God, what's going on?" And we need to figure out what that drought is about. Those seasons of drought are very important times because there's power in sowing seeds of faith during the drought. The power comes from the faith that we place in God and His desire to bless us. So if you've missed those couple of programs, you can actually purchase this series on CD, because it's one of those teaching series that I believe all need to experience so that we know what it is to live with the Lord of the harvest; so we know what it is to reap God's harvest in my life. This week we are going to take a closer look at two things. The first one is – what exactly is God's harvest? I mean, how do we know when we are in harvest time? What does God's harvest look like? Good question! And the second one is the importance of not only sowing seeds of faith but looking at how we sow those seeds. I'm really excited about being together today because when we speak about God's harvest, we're talking about His grace and His power and I hope you're excited too, so stick with me over the next twenty minutes or so. Jesus called God "The Lord of the Harvest" and the notion of sowing and reaping, is one of those consistent principles that we find right through the Scriptures; Old Testament and New Testament – it's a pretty straightforward proposition. You buy some seed, you put it in the ground, you wait for the rain and the sun and it grows into a plant that gives you more seeds. You don't sow, you don't reap the harvest! The question is: is it worth sowing in the first place? I mean, why should we bother? Going out and buying seed – it costs money. Sowing seed in the ground is hard work. You know, it's not always convenient to sow seeds. When God says to us: “Go and forgive that person,” it's not always convenient. We don't always want to do it. Invariably, when God says: “Sow seed", it involves some form of sacrifice. It involves something that we really don't want to do. And so it's not unreasonable to say, “Well, do I really want to sow seed? Maybe this drought thing isn't so bad. Maybe I can just survive it on my own. Cor … sowing seed, taking a risk, spending money, spending emotional energy and then God has this crazy idea, instead of feeding my need, He wants me to plant His seed somewhere else. Oh, I don't know.” So when we are making a decision as to whether we should plant this seed; whether we should experience seed time and harvest, we have to weigh these things up. On the one hand we look at the cost of the seed, the effort of sowing, the risk of loss and on the other hand, we look at the value of the harvest. We balance those two things and we think: is it worth it? So what does God's harvest look like? Is God's harvest about money and a big house and a nice car? We all have physical needs – there's not doubt – and you may be listening; you may be someone who has really acute, physical needs. This program goes all over the world. This program is listened to by wealthy people and people who don't have enough food to eat. God is in those physical things. God wants to meet our needs but we all know that when the physical provision – the food, the shelter, the security, the money – when it gets to a certain level, to meet our need, after that all the other luxuries, all the other things are lovely and nice and they're wonderful icing on the cake, but they're not the things that ultimately satisfy us. They're not the things that fill us up. So what does God's harvest look like? Well, Paul, the Apostle, in Romans chapter 14, verse 17, he wrote this; he said, “The Kingdom of God is not about food or drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Now remember, Jesus taught that we should ask God for our daily bread. God is into our physical needs, but what Paul is saying here is: Beyond all of that, come on, let's get it straight – the Kingdom of God, the reign of God in our lives, is not ultimately about physical things. It's not ultimately about food or drink, even though God's heart is to provide for us and God does provide for us. The main game,” says Paul “is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Righteousness is that sense of completion and goodness that we have when we know, we know, we know that what Jesus did for us on the cross has made us whole, has given us forgiveness, has given us a clean slate and when we live out that goodness and that righteousness as God's Word calls us, we experience a peace and a joy in the Holy Spirit that words can't, can't describe. I mean, peace – who doesn‘t want that? Who doesn't want the deep, powerful, wonderful peace; the peace of knowing no matter what happens in life, I'm going to be ok? Who doesn't want that? Who doesn't want joy; the free gift that God puts in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit? Now that's a harvest! Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If we were all reaping that sort of harvest in every part of our lives, the rest wouldn't matter, would it? Let me ask you: righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit – is your harvest abundant in those areas? Are you full, overflowing type of harvest or do you want to come up higher in the harvest? Do you want more righteousness; do you want more peace; do you want more joy; do you want to experience God's goodness more and more? I know that I want that! In a sense, I can't have more righteousness than I already have because it's all done for me on the cross. I'm free – I've got eternal life but, we want to live that out too, don't we? We want to see our lives change to be like that; to experience the peace. So, food and drink; the physical stuff is fine but that's not really the main game. Its righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit – that's life. How do we get that? How do we experience that?   Give and It Will be Given Well, we are talking today about reaping God's harvest and we saw before, that the main game in the Kingdom of God is not food and drink; it's not physical things, even though God wants to provide for us, its righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, fabulous; now that is a harvest worth having! The question is, exactly how do we sow in order to reap that sort of a harvest – of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit? It's a good question and it's a question that Jesus answered directly. If you have a Bible, open it at Luke chapter 6, verses 37 and 38. Let's have a read. This is what Jesus said. He said: Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap, for the measure with which you give, will be the measure with which you get back. Now, often you hear the second verse; the bit about "the good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap", you hear that in terms of God's financial blessing. I've often heard it used that way. Now, do I believe God blesses a giver? Absolutely, yes I do! And we'll look at that later in this program. But that's not what Jesus is talking about here. He's talking about three things – He says, “Do not judge and you will not be judged, don't condemn and you won't be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven. Give like this and it will be given to you, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be put into your lap. With whatever measure you give that's the measure with which you will receive." Judgment, condemnation and forgiveness - if we give these in the right way then we'll get back in the same way. Isn't it interesting? He's talking about some really interesting concepts here – judgement, well that's criticism and bitterness. That's when I judge you and I demand recompense because you have wronged me. I judge you because you've got some weakness and I think, “You just have to fix this, you owe me buddy.” You know, I need my pound of flesh from you – that's judgement and when I judge you it hurts and when you judge me, it hurts. Question: do you like being around judgmental people? Are they your first choice to be close friends? Well, obviously not, but we all love to judge and what we do is we focus on people's failings and ignore all their good points. That's what judgement is and Jesus said: “Do not judge and you will not be judged.” How is it, that we stop judging? Well, the only way I figured out is to let people's weaknesses and failures wash by me; go right through to the keeper. It doesn't mean that I'm not aware of the strengths and weaknesses of people, but instead of getting all tied up in knots about someone's weaknesses and getting all tied up in knots about their failings and getting all tied up in knots about things that are never going to change – because that's the way they are – we can compensate for those weaknesses. We can lift them up; we can bless them, right? Now that is hard sometimes, it is really, really hard but we've got to stop judging. You want righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit? Well, righteousness and peace and joy don't happen when we are out busy doing something Jesus said, “Don't do”. Righteousness and peace and joy don't happen when we are busy doing things that ruin the peace and "judgement" ruins the peace. The second thing Jesus says, "don't do" is, “Don't condemn.” It's the next step after judgement. Condemnation is when we write them off, “that's it, I've had enough. I'm not dealing with that person any more.” And we shut ourselves off, don't we? We do that; we write them off and we condemn them. It's like a death sentence to the relationship. “Instead,” said Jesus, “forgive and you will be forgiven.” Forgiveness is giving up our right of anger and retribution and getting even and condemnations. Forgiveness is wiping the slate clean, forgiveness is making peace. Forgiveness says, “That person who wronged me has exactly the same standing with me as though they had never done what they did.” Does that sound vaguely familiar? Because that's what Jesus purchased for us on the cross with His life and He's calling us to exactly the same thing. Judgement and condemnation are enemies of the harvest of righteousness and peace and joy. They are in direct opposition and Jesus is saying, “Instead forgive, instead sow good seed; faith-seed into the harvest field,” and that is hard some days, right? It is hard to forgive, it is hard to let people's weaknesses wash by, it is hard not to criticise them, it hurts not to condemn them – do it anyway, ‘cause Jesus asks us to, ‘cause Jesus did it with His life. We are going to talk more about exactly that this next week. Let's look at it again. Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Imagine a good measure of forgiveness, a good measure of peace, a good measure of joy, will be given to you, pressed down, shaken up, flowing over will be put into your lap and it depends on whether we sow seeds of judgment and condemnation because if that's what we sow, that's what we'll get. That's what Jesus is saying. You sow those things and that's what you will get back. You sow forgiveness and that's what you'll get back – seeds of righteousness and goodness and forgiveness, but it turns out that how we sow, how we give, the intention of our hearts, counts too.   God's Multiplication Factor When you think about it, sowing and reaping is about multiplication. You take one grain of wheat, you put it in the ground, you plant it, you water it, the sun shines on it and that head of wheat has fifty or a hundred grains of wheat on it. But how we give; the heart with which we give, impacts on God's multiplication factor. Again, if you have a Bible, flick it open to Second Corinthians chapter 9, verses 6 to 10. This is what the Apostle Paul writes. He says: The point is this, the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and the one who sows bountifully will also read bountifully. Now, let me just say that this is the context – he's going around and he's talking to the church in Corinth about raising money for the church in Jerusalem because there's a famine happening in Jerusalem and they're all starving. And so Paul is going around to the different churches that he was involved in – that he either planted or that he had ministered at – raising money for Christians in Jerusalem who are starving in the famine. Which is amazing in itself, because these are the people who ultimately end up locking him up and sending him to Rome where he was killed. Anyway, that's the context he is talking about it in. He's talking about giving money. The point is this – “the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly, not under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing, in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written, He scatters abroad, He gives to the poor, His righteousness endures forever. He, who supplies the seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” Powerful stuff! Look at it! Let's just break it down for a minute. Verse 6, he says: If you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly and if you sow bountifully, you will reap bountifully. In other words, if you sow one seed, you might reap a hundred, you sow fifty seeds, you might reap five thousand, you sow a hundred seeds, and you'll reap then thousand. The more we sow, the more we reap. How much should I sow, how? And he says, “I'm not going to put a guilt trip on you. Make up your mind – make up your mind with God as to how much you should sow. And I always encourage people, you know, when they are giving to God's work, when they are giving to the poor, get with the Holy Spirit, get with God and say, “God, I just feel you calling me to give to this particular work that you are doing in someone's life right now. How much do you want me to give?” Because that is between God and His child – God and the giver – God and the sower. It's God that gives, so we need to get with God and say, “God what do you want me to give?” But how? How should we sow? Look at verse 7 of chapter 9 of Second Corinthians: Each of you must give as you have made up your mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. God loves a cheerful giver! When someone come to you and gives you something begrudgingly, do you enjoy that? Is that great fun? No! It's awful, isn't it, when someone gives grudgingly, it's really awful? God wants us to give out of the abundance of our hearts – God wants us to give out of joy and peace and wanting to be there willingly. God's like that. Now look again at the harvest, verse 8, it says that: God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you will always have enough; so that you'll always be able to give out of your abundance. Not just money but righteousness, peace and joy and look at verse 10 – I love this bit: For he who supplies the seed to the sower and the bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. So Paul is making a link here between – I'm calling you, I'm asking you to give to the people who are starving in Jerusalem, but in doing that; in planting that Spiritual seed, the money for the starving; the money for his ministry – maybe in our lives, the money to help someone poor or someone at church or someone who's struggling – a friend or family – you sow a seed like that and you're not just giving money, you're sowing a seed that will bear a harvest of righteousness. God will take that – you're sowing one field where God calls you to sow and He, all of a sudden, brings harvest to all these other parts of our lives. And the same is true in other areas. If God says, “I am calling you to forgive this person,” and we struggle and we finally forgive and we obey God, God brings a harvest of blessing into a whole bunch of other parts of our lives. Why wouldn't He? He's God, He can do that. He loves us – He's busting to bless us. That's why He does this stuff and He calls us to sow our seed in His field, rather than feed our need, because He wants us to put Him first and He wants us to put our faith into the God who is the God of blessing. And Paul goes on in verses 11 and 12. He says: You will be enriched every way for your great generosity which will produce thanksgiving to God through us, for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God through the testing of this ministry, you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them in Jerusalem and all the others while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that He has given you. Thanks be to God for His indescribable blessing. In other words when we give it unlocks thanksgiving, it unlocks blessing, unlocks God's grace and He just pours it out of heaven because He just delights when we give in faith, the way He's calling us to give. Whether it be money or whether it be anything else that He is calling us to be obedient to in our lives. And sometimes we don't see it as sowing seed but it's exactly what it is. When we are obedient to God, we are sowing a Spiritual seed; we're putting it in the ground. God does something amazing with it, the plant grows and there's a harvest of a hundred fold. It's God's way. Can I encourage you? I just really feel the talk about forgiveness, right now - maybe you're listening and you are holding onto some un-forgiveness in your heart, I encourage you to listen to God's Word and to plant a Spiritual seed and forgive that person and God will take that and use that and give the most amazing harvest out of that. Then how do we do it? Two ways – not sparingly but bountifully and it's up to us and God. You know, when we forgive someone, we can go the whole hog and we can really forgive them but if we forgive them sparingly, well, it's not really forgiveness, is it? And the second way is cheerfully – not grumbling, not whinging, not complaining – go the whole hog, lash out, do it cheerfully and joyfully, with a smile on our faces, even though planting seed is always about sacrifice. The Kingdom of God is not about food or drink but about righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. What a harvest! What an amazing notion, that we can go and plant seed into God's Spiritual field, simply by being obedient to what He's calling us to do – even when it's not convenient, even when it's tough, even when we don't feel like it, even when the flesh says, “No, no, I don't want to do it,” just do it. Because when we plant that seed in God's field, His plan is to bless it and to grow a harvest that we can scarcely even imagine, so sow the seed in the field that God is calling you to plant it in and with everything that is in me, let me say, that the God of righteousness, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, is just busting to bless you with the most amazing harvest, because that's who He is. Go on, sow the seed!

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Everything in our lives rises and falls on our capacity to know that God is good, and that we can learn to receive His love, more and more! There is no limit to the amount of His love that you can receive! On this Father's Day, Maria brings a key message about learning to receive the Father's love.However, receiving love can feel very complicated, especially God's love, as it is unconditional and requires nothing in return. Maria shares two key weapons in not being deterred from your deeper journey with the Father- our righteousness in Him and our sonship with Him.  We are qualified to receive all the benefits of His glorious love when we activate these keys.Nothing can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8). It's all yours, and He wants to teach you again and again how to be great at receiving it! Letting the deep love of the Father in, will displace three core lies that the devil works with: I am unworthy, I am not loved, and I am not enough! The perfect love of God is designed to displace each of these lies over and over - not just once! Friends, there is more! Not only do you get the benefits of love, but you also get five keys of life: identity, purpose, passion, security and singular vision! This is gold, and it's all for free as you press into the glorious love of the Father! His Hesed love is for us and will carry us to deeper love!

"But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." 2 Corinthians 9:6-8

This week on the Red Dirt Agronomy Podcast, we bring you a wheat-packed episode from High Plains Journal Live in Wichita with Aaron Harries of Kansas Wheat. Aaron takes us on an incredible journey through the world of wheat in Kansas, including how railroads and immigrant farmers have shaped today's production, and how cutting-edge research is transforming breeding programs. He explains how tools like double haploids and gene editing are speeding up wheat variety development—and why the next decade may be the “golden age” of wheat research.We also dive into Kansas Wheat's education and outreach programs. From the targeted insights of Wheat Rx to the economic arguments behind “Beyond the Value of the Grain,” Aaron outlines a comprehensive strategy to support producers and inform decision-makers. Add in the pressing threat of wheat streak mosaic virus and how “Fight the Mite” is helping growers combat it, and you've got an episode that's as informative as it is essential for wheat growers across the Southern Plains.Key TakeawaysKansas Wheat is at the forefront of modern wheat research, embracing tech like double haploids and gene editing.The Wheat Rx program is transforming how growers receive agronomic prescriptions for varieties.“Beyond the Value of the Grain” highlights the agronomic benefits of wheat in rotations.The “Fight the Mite” campaign is helping fight wheat streak mosaic virus via strategic management.Kansas Wheat's checkoff program funds research based on farmer priorities.Grazing systems and volunteer wheat require a balance of economic opportunity and disease management.There's growing collaboration between Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado wheat researchers.GMO wheat could soon help address viral diseases, but market readiness remains an issue.Educating consumers on the health value of wheat is an ongoing challenge, particularly in light of social media myths.Wheat is still vital to food systems—and its importance must be championed through research, outreach, and innovation. Timestamps00:01:58 – Live from High Plains Journal Live in Wichita00:02:54 – What's on Your Mind podcast and wheat history00:06:02 – Aaron's role with Kansas Wheat and wheat research funding00:07:38 – Double haploids and advances in wheat breeding00:12:11 – Wheat Rx program and future of precision agronomy00:14:16 – “Beyond the Value of the Grain” campaign00:18:43 – “Fight the Mite” and wheat streak mosaic virus education00:24:09 – Changes in Kansas Wheat and grower attitudes00:27:02 – Collaboration across states and universities00:33:08 – GMO wheat, new markets, and trade outlook00:36:15 – Educating the public and combating misinformation00:40:46 – The impact of social media and future outreach RedDirtAgronomy.com

Let's face it – we all want to get the most out of life. We want to reap a harvest. And in fact, that's exactly what God wants for our lives, too. He promises us an abundant harvest. And yet so often, life feels more like a drought than anything else.  In those times, we're left asking ourselves … So, where's my harvest? Generational Sin Well, welcome to Christianityworks again this week and we are starting a new series called, "Reaping God's Harvest in My Life". What is it that you want out of your life? Health, happiness, family, a job, career, a reasonable level of comfort, joy and peace, we want our kids to grow up and be happy, we want to have a happy fulfilling marriage, we want to have friends, we want to have balance, we want to have a good life, don't we? We have different variations, we have different permutations; the things that you are going to enjoy in your life, well, maybe I won't enjoy in mine and vice versa, because we are different people, we come from different backgrounds, in different circumstances and different outcomes will satisfy us. But there are the basics aren't there; the things that I spoke about before that we all want in our life? We want a life of significance, we want a life where we're part of a family, we're part of a group, we've got friends, we've got joy and peace. Those things are important to us and we expect to put in the effort and to reap the reward. We expect to reap some sort of harvest from all the hard work. What sort of harvest, is a different question, sometimes we get our expectations and our desires and our needs out of whack. You know, I spent a lot of my time before I became a Christian, chasing money and success and career. All of those things are good things, but when we get them out of balance, when they become the main thing; when they dominate above all the other good things in life, well, then we can end up looking for the wrong things, striving for the wrong things, hurting other people to get there and we reap a harvest, that frankly, is the harvest of our own selfishness. On the other hand, if we do good, if we get up every day and say, “Well, you know something, God, I know I'm not perfect, I know I am going to make some mistakes but my heart, Lord, my heart is to follow you today. My heart is just to do good things for other people and for myself.” Well, we get up and do that every day and we are going to reap, by and large, a good harvest. Well, over these next four weeks, today and the following three weeks, we are going to take a balanced look at "reaping God's harvest in our lives". The problem is that most people can't really describe what that harvest looks like; exactly what do we want? Let's just take a look at our own lives today. The bits where we don't have a harvest, you know, normally look across our lives and there are some areas where we are getting a great harvest – the results are good, they're satisfying, they're fulfilling – but so often there are one or two areas in our lives and we look at them and we go, “Wow! You know, I'm not getting a harvest here, in fact, I'm nowhere near to getting a harvest and I've made such a mess of my life. I'm never going to reap God's harvest in that area. Why would God ever even bother with me? No, God's harvest isn't for me. No! Harvest? No. it's a drought, it‘s parched, it's hopeless, it's devastating. The dam is empty, the crops are dead.” We can have such deeply entrenched patterns of behaviour that they rob us of the harvest. Sometimes we take on the weaknesses of our parents. We might have generational sin. A man, whose father was a gambler, may well end up being a gambler. A person, whose parent was alcoholic, could end up being an alcoholic. We take on the good traits and the bad traits of our parents and sometimes we look at our circumstances and we look at our failures and we think, “Aw, it can never work.” We are going to look today at the story of Isaac in Genesis chapter 26. If you've got a Bible, grab it, open it. It's right at the front of the Bible; the 26th chapter of the first book of the Bible and it's a story about Isaac, the son of Abraham and what he did in the middle of such a drought, this is what it says: Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines. And God appeared to Isaac and said, “Look, don't go on down to Egypt; settle in this land that I'll show you. Stay here as an alien and I'll be with you and I'll bless you because to you and your descendants I'll give these lands and I'll fulfill the promise that I made to your father, Abraham. I'll make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and I'll give your offspring all these lands and all the nations of the earth will gain blessing for themselves through your offspring, because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge and my commandments, my statutes and my laws. So Isaac settled in Gerar and when the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She's my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She's my wife,” thinking, “Well, she is so good looking, the man of the place might kill me because of Rebecca, because she is so good looking.” When Isaac had been there for a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked out of his window and saw Isaac cuddling his wife Rebecca and Abimelech called Isaac in and said, “She's your wife, isn't she; why did you say that she is my sister?” and Isaac said to him, “Well, you know, I thought I might get killed because of her,” and Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with you're wife and you would have put guilt on us all.” So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Who ever touches this man or his wife will be put to death.” Well, Isaac sowed some seed in the land and that same year, he reaped a hundred fold. So here's Isaac, he's in a land that's not his own; he wants to run off to Egypt because Egypt seems to be much more prosperous and God comes to him and says, “No, stay here, I've got a promise on your life and this is your land, stay here as an alien”. So Isaac makes the decision to stay. It can't have been an easy decision; there was a drought, there was a famine and he stays in this land. But then he makes a huge blunder. He puts his wife out there and what a dangerous thing to do, this is something that his father, Abraham, did twice to his Mum. Unbelievable! Imagine, putting your wife out there, saying, “She's my sister.” Someone else could have taken her and slept with her. We man are supposed to protect our wives and he blows it, completely; he just repeats the generational sin of his father. He is in a land that's got a drought that's not his own, life is an absolute mess and then it says, “Isaac sowed seed in that land.” That's amazing! We are going to look at what happened when Isaac sowed the seed.   Sow the Seed We all want the most out of life, don't we? And sometimes the odds are stacked against us. Like that story we were looking at – the story of Isaac. Here was Isaac in a land that wasn't his own and his dad had made some serious mistakes and Isaac was just reliving those; that same pattern of generational sin that so often happens in our lives. We seem as though we can't control it, so dad has made a mess of his life, in a sense, and the drought is causing a famine. There's no harvest, there's no … How can there possibly be a blessing for Isaac, yet God promised him a blessing? God appeared to him and said: Look, don't go down to Egypt, stay here; stay here as an alien and I'll be with you and I'll bless you because to you and your descendants, I will give these lands and I'll fill it and you'll be blessed. When you look at that, you know you see God making a promise to bless you on the one hand and then you look at your own circumstances; the circumstances of where we live, our own failures and we think: there's no harvest, there can never be a harvest. Isaac was in the middle of a drought and a famine. He deceived the King, he hung his wife out to dry, he made a big mistake. I don't know what he was thinking, but he did something radical, in the middle of that mess. It says in Genesis 26, verse 12: Isaac sowed seed in that land and in that same year he reaped a hundred fold. Now farmers don't sow seeds when there's a drought. You know, when there's a drought, they look and they wait for rains and they wait for rains, because if you just put seed in dry land and there's a drought, not only won't you get a crop but you've wasted all the money that you've spent on the seed. So we think about that – it was a radical thing. I don't know how much the seed cost but in a famine, in a drought, you can bet your life it would have been really expensive. So here's this reckless thing, where he just takes the seed which cost him a lot of money and he puts it in the ground. The business risk, well, if you or I were doing it, would we have done it? Probably not; and the drought is so depressing. I mean, I have never been part of a farming community, but I know from what I've read and spoken to people who have lived in farming communities – when there's a drought going on, it's really depressing on the whole community and here it wasn't just a drought, it was a famine. People were starving and Isaac was planning to go somewhere else; to run away – to Egypt. It's not unreasonable he wanted to run away from the drought, but God said, “No, I've got a plan for you here, stay in the famine, stay in the drought,” and sometimes God calls us to stay. The thing that Isaac got right is he obeyed God. That tug in his heart; that word from God – he'd made a key decision to stay – probably against his better judgement. Ok, great – he stays. I've got a promise – “I'll bless you here”, says God and then what? Well, he makes this huge blunder; he lies to the King about his wife and she could have been taken to bed by someone else, frankly. So you've got the drought, you've got "I want to run away", you've got "God says stay", you've got this blunder, probably because of what dad handed down to me. You reckon he was confused? He should have failed; he blew it but God had made him a promise. God had said, “Stay here and I will bless you.” So Isaac – we see it in verse 12 – Isaac sowed his seed in the land. Takes a lot of faith to put seed in the ground when there's a drought. Even if there wasn't a drought, it's still an act of faith. You know, a farmer puts seed in the ground, there could be locusts, there could be drought, there could be flood, there could be fire, there could be disease. It takes faith to put seed in the ground, especially in a drought, and even when you've blown it. So what happens? Isaac sows the seed in that land and in that same year he reaps a hundred fold – the Lord blessed him and he became rich – he prospered more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with the earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Get away from us. You've just become too powerful for us.” So what happens? He takes one seed, he plants it in a drought and he gets a hundred back. He takes two seeds, he plants them in a drought, he gets two hundred back. He takes a hundred thousand seeds and plants them in a drought and he gets a hundred times a hundred thousand back. And you read the rest of that chapter, chapter 26 – God just kept blessing him – He blessed his socks off and his son Jacob as well. Sometimes we think, “You know, I'm carrying sin around, I'm carrying this thing around, it might be sexual, it might be gambling, it might be any sort of other addiction and we know that it's been handed down from our parents – it's sad but true. And we think, “Oh, God can never bless me. I can never break this and I look around and I see this famine and this drought and things around me are going badly.” God's promise is to bless us! God is a God of blessing. But the promise didn't grow a harvest until Isaac planted the seed during the drought. Let me say that again. The promise didn't grow a harvest until Isaac planted the seed during the drought. So what's in that for us? Maybe you are looking around at a situation of drought and famine and failure and sin? What's in this story for us?   What's in it for Us? Well, we have been looking at this story of young Isaac, who was living in a drought and a famine and he made a mess of his own circumstances and he should have had failure written all over him. He wanted to run away from it all and now God says, "stay". Someone today is listening, maybe it's you, and today you want to run away from your circumstances and every now and then God does call us onto something new. Every now and then God says, “It's time to leave this church and go to another; it's time to sell this house and move on to another but most of the time God wants us to bloom where He has planted us. If God is calling you to go - go! But if He is telling you to stay – stay! And if your "go" is maybe leaving your wife or your husband or your children, let me tell you, God is not calling you to do that. There are some very extreme circumstances and I say this with all compassion because I have traveled the road of divorce; that's where I came to meet Christ. There are some very extreme circumstances of violence and abuse and God's plan isn't for us to be in those – I'm not talking about those. But so often we replace the ‘until death us do part' with ‘until something better comes along.' And we think, “Oh, well maybe God means for me to move on?” No, God does not! God wants us, most of the time, to stay where we are and to be a blessing to those people around us. And so, here we saw Isaac stayed where God wanted him, even though there was a drought; even though he went on to make a huge blunder with his wife. And there are so many circumstances in our marriages, in our jobs, in our church or in anything, where we would look at them through human eyes and we think, “They're never going to change - this is never going to get better,” but we see things in the natural but God's not natural – God is supernatural and supernatural literally means "above natural". He is so far beyond natural and He sees – He sees our circumstances, not from the natural perspective, not from the human perspective but from God's perspective; from the supernatural perspective. And God is a God of the harvest; God is a God of blessing and sometimes we have to do what Isaac did and stay in that place even through there's a drought and a famine and stay in that place even though we go on to make mistakes, and just plant some seed. One that is absolutely, one hundred percent for certain - if we do it God's way, whether it's to stay or to go – if we follow God's call, we will make boo-boos along the way, you know, we will make some mistakes but God honours those who honour Him. If God says, “I know you've got a famine in your land. I know your circumstances are just rotten and awful, but I want you to stay there, amidst that drought and famine and if we stay we honour God. God sees that, God honours what's in our hearts and He forgives what we do with our hands. God is a good God. Ok, so we stay, we do it God's way, then what? Then we plant seed in the drought, in the face of our own failure. Boy, is that counter intuitive or what? We want to give up by now but God says, “Plant seed.” Seed? What is seed like? Well, maybe you're in a job; in your work situation and you just hate your boss. I know that's a strong word but some people do. The boss is so oppressive, so unfair; promoting other people around you, victimising you and all we want to do is run away and God says, "No, actually, I'd like you to stay here. This is where I've planted you.” How can we plant good seed? Well, we can excel, we can say, “You know, I'm going to work hard anyway; I'm going to bless that person anyway. I'm going to do so well at this job, in the face of what this boss is doing to me, people are going to sit up and notice.” We can sow good seed into bad situations. Or in a marriage; maybe your husband or your wife is driving you nuts. There's pain and there's tears and there's anguish and we can say, “Well, I'm just going to ditch them,” but God's calling us to say, “No, stay here and sow good seed.” We can try and run away or we can stay and sow good seed. We can be the best husband or the best wife that we can possibly be. We can choose to bless and to honour and to love our husbands and wives. We can just be such wonderful people amidst the most difficult circumstances. Sowing seed is always a step of faith because we can't see the harvest when we sow the seed. Maybe your finances are a mess – your credit cards are up to the limit, the overdraft is up to the limit - and we just hear God saying, “Just stay there and become a good steward; cut back and become a good steward; cut back, manage your finances, give to the poor,” and I bet you that God will ask you to sow. Now sometimes when our finances are bad and we just think we have to save it all and we just have to stockpile it all and pay the debt off but I've seen it happen, time and time again – when God deals with our finances – one of the first things He does is calls us to give off the top, to Him; to the poor. It's about sowing seed and seed is a scary thing to sow because we can't see the harvest and we have to pay for the seed to sow it, before the harvest comes along – it is a step of faith. God is calling us to listen to Him; to obey Him, to take risks that He calls us to take, which aren't really risks but they look like risks, in faith. Isaac sowed seed and reaped a hundred fold. That's a lot! He couldn't control the weather. You and I can't control the outcomes, all we can do is to stay in the place that God's calling us to and sow the seed and it's God that gives the increase, it's God that brought the rains, it's God that blessed Isaac's step of obedience and faith. In our ministry – you know, in this ministry of Christianityworks - when we started taking programs to air, we had to sow seed. We had to start recording and producing programs before even one station had said, “Yes, we'll take the programs.” We had to spend money that, I'll tell you, we didn't have a lot of it, but we knew God was calling us to this. We knew that this venture was God's venture and God has blessed it so wonderfully and blessed so many lives through it but if we hadn't sown the seed, the harvest wouldn't have come. God gives the increase; it's His harvest. It might be our drought and our famine and our failure and our fear, but it is God's opportunity to be God and God's promise is to bless us. God doesn't just say, “Go out there on your own and do it,” God says, “Here's where I want you to do it and this is the sort of seed I want you to sow.” God is so personal. You know, when I pray and I ask Him, “Lord, what seed can I sow into this relationship?” Bang! He always, straightaway says, “Do this or do that,” and sometimes it doesn't make sense but we sow the seed and God blesses us. You see, it's in the middle of the drought that God wants to sow the seed, and the harvest is His. God is the God of the harvest. Is that scary to you? It is to me and I think it should be some days because faith ... we don't need faith if it's easy but the harvest that comes from faith, the blessing that comes from faith, the enormous, hundredfold increase that comes when we sow the seed that God calls us to, in the drought that God calls us to, well, that's an awesome blessing and it's God's blessing. That's God's plan!

Do you ever feel like your faithfulness in the small, unseen moments goes unnoticed?In this message Dan Harbottle, Senior Leader at Glorify Church, shares a timely prophetic word for every believer.Discover how God sees and rewards your secret faithfulness, what it means to release the "Sound of Hesed" (His steadfast love), and how you can receive a fresh anointing of joy and strength for your journey. This message is an invitation to trade weariness for His power and step into the public breakthrough that your private devotion has been building.

We all want a harvest in our lives. Who doesn’t? And in fact, that’s what God wants for our lives too. God promises an abundant life. Yet in order to reap His harvest, we have need to plant His seeds. And then nurture them. There’s a bit of work involved in that harvest. So join Berni Dymet once more, to discover God’s simple and powerful plan in this new series of Christianityworks ?" Reaping God’s Harvest in My Life.Support the show: https://christianityworks.com/channels/cw/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every choice we make plants a seed—and sooner or later, we reap the results. Dr. Tony Evans shows how sowing into the Spirit leads to an abundant harvest, and why doing good within the body of Christ carries eternal significance.

Every choice we make plants a seed—and sooner or later, we reap the results. Dr. Tony Evans shows how sowing into the Spirit leads to an abundant harvest, and why doing good within the body of Christ carries eternal significance.

Every choice we make plants a seed—and sooner or later, we reap the results. Dr. Tony Evans shows how sowing into the Spirit leads to an abundant harvest, and why doing good within the body of Christ carries eternal significance.

Every choice we make plants a seed—and sooner or later, we reap the results. Dr. Tony Evans shows how sowing into the Spirit leads to an abundant harvest, and why doing good within the body of Christ carries eternal significance.

Discount link for upcoming webinar Layer by Layer on Monday September 29 at 6 pm CDT.LUKE DAHLBERG BIOWith over twenty years of experience in propagating midwestern native plants, Luke Dahlberg turned his passionate backyard hobby into a career. Luke earned his degree majoring in Ornamental Horticulture and a minor in Business from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. After working in the commercial nursery trade for several years, Luke landed his current position as Conservation Seed Program Manager at Citizens for Conservation, an organization that he started volunteering at in 2004 and became part of the organization's staff in 2018 where he continues CFC's mission of restoring and educating others about the ecosystems of the Chicago area. Collaborating with Lake County Forest Preserves, Luke was able to use their greenhouse to propagate rare native plants and learn from germination trials the best practices to use to reintroduce them into the wild in preserved plant communities. Luke loves to share what he has learned in plant propagation with others through his Instagram page, and had had opportunities to speak at the Wild Things Conference in Chicago, teach native plant propagation classes at The Morton Arboretum, and speak at a TEDx event and posts on the Grassland Restoration Network blog. In his spare time, Luke enjoys photographing birds and wildflowers and spending time with friends and his family.You can learn more from Luke by visiting his Instagram page @seedtech_luke and Citizens for Conservation at citizensforconservation.org.THE PLANTASTIC PODCASTThe Plantastic Podcast is a monthly podcast created by Dr. Jared Barnes.  He's been gardening since he was five years old and now is an award-winning professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX.  To say hi and find the show notes, visit theplantasticpodcast.com.You can learn more about how Dr. Jared cultivates plants, minds, and life at meristemhorticulture.com.  He also shares thoughts and cutting-edge plant research each week in his newsletter plant•ed, and you can sign up at meristemhorticulture.com/subscribe.  Until next time, #keepgrowing!

Text Our Show HostsTonight, we're talking about Fall Season CropsFinally…The morning air is crisp again. The days are getting shorter. And although it's still warm, or even hot during the day, most people are winding down their gardens for the year. And why not? With Labor Day and Football just a few days from now, the summer is coming to an end. Kids are back in school. Grocery stores are already stocking up on Halloween Candy. Before ya know it, they'll be jack-o-lanterns sitting on bails of straw on front porches and coffee houses pushing Pumpkin Spice Lattes to passer byes. And yes… I'm a big fan of Autumn. I love it. But our gardens don't… Or do they…?Ya see, homesteaders know that Fall may be the end of Summer growing season, but they are keenly aware that it's just another beginning for their gardens. Cuz when one door closes, another always opens.The start of this season is important, if you want groceries in your pantry throughout Winter. It's all about planting cold-hardy greens, root vegetables that thrive underground, and cover crops that rebuild the soil, so next year's harvest is even stronger. And it's about turning challenges, like shorter days, dropping temps, and pests looking for a last meal, into opportunities for your family's resilience and abundance.If you've never planted in fall, this is your moment to start. Spinach, Kale, Carrots, Radishes, Garlic, and so many more, these aren't just crops, consider them nutritious survival insurance. And while pests may be hungry and persistent, the right strategies, like organic deterrents, companion planting, and watchful management, you'll keep your garden thriving while others are shutting theirs down.From nasty bugs to cover crops, we'll discuss everything you need to know, as Preppers, to begin Fall Season Gardening. Let's get to it…Please Visit Our Affiliate Links to Find Great Preparedness Products:Organo Republic 25 Winter Seeds Variety Pack Non-GMOOutsidePride Gardenway Cover Crop Seed Mix 5lb BagOutsidePride Gardenway Crimson Clover Seeds 5lb BagHome Grown 12 Winter Vegetable Seeds Non-GMO HeirloomSow Right Seeds Cover Crop Collection Non-GMO HeirloomFour-Season Food Gardening PaperbackThe Amish Farming & Gardening Handbook Full Color PaperbackMusic: BADLANDS by Casey ParnellSupport the show

Send us a textIn this episode, we dive into Galatians 6:7–10 (NLT) and the timeless truth that we harvest what we plant. Scripture reminds us that living to please the Spirit leads to everlasting life, and that perseverance in doing good brings a harvest of blessing at just the right time.Through reflections from my own week—learning the importance of rhythms of rest, noticing how the smallest movements in my golf game impact the results, and leaning into the ripple effects of kindness—we'll uncover practical ways God teaches us that our actions matter.This episode will encourage you to slow down, keep your eyes fixed on the follow-through, and never grow weary in doing good. The seeds you sow today are shaping tomorrow's harvest.

Send us a textLogan Duvall is a regenerative agriculture leader, metabolic health advocate, and father who turned his son's stage 4 cancer diagnosis into a relentless mission for truth. Refusing to accept conventional answers, Logan dove headfirst into mitochondrial medicine, redox biology, and electromagnetic health, uncovering how environment, food, and light determine our fate.Logan is the founder of Sowing Prosperity, a movement to decentralize health through ancestral wisdom, light-based living, and local food systems. As owner of Me & McGee Market in Arkansas, Logan puts science and soul back into the food chain.Through his podcast and platform, he fuses lived experience with insights from experts like Dr. Jack Kruse, Dr. Nasha Winters, and others, crafting a holistic path to metabolic resilience. Logan's message is simple but urgent: healing begins at home with the sun on your skin, the dirt under your feet, and real food on your plate.He is a featured panelist at the upcoming Metabolic Health Day 2025 Conference, an in-person gathering that brings together trailblazers in metabolic health, environmental medicine, and regenerative food systems.Find Logan at-https://meandmcgeemarket.com/https://www.sowingprosperity.com/Find Boundless Body at- myboundlessbody.com Book a session with us here!

In this powerful conference message, discover how to tap into God's supernatural blessing for your life, church, and finances. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 9, Pastor Rodney shares his journey from a rebuke to a revelation—that God's provision is not a one-time miracle, but a continual flow for those who sow in faith.https://TakingTheLandPodcast.comSUBSCRIBE TO PREMIUM FOR MORE:• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe for only $3/month on Supercast⁠: https://taking-the-land.supercast.com/⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe for only $3.99/month on Spotify⁠: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/taking-the-land/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠Subscribe for only $4.99/month on Apple Podcasts⁠: https://apple.co/3vy1s5b⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This sermon covers:• The law of sowing and reaping in Scripture• Why cheerful giving opens doors of grace• Practical financial wisdom: budgeting, saving, stewardship• Breaking the curse of poverty through Christ• How to believe for supernatural provision again and againIf you're hungry to see breakthrough in your life and ministry, this message will challenge and equip you to step into God's abundance.Chapters00:00 The Importance of Financial Blessings02:04 Testimonies of Supernatural Provision06:09 The Law of Sowing and Reaping15:25 Practical Aspects of Giving21:58 The Spiritual Significance of Money27:50 Wise Financial Management32:21 Tapping into God's Blessing35:44 Breaking the Curse of PovertyShow NotesALL PROCEEDS GO TO WORLD EVANGELISMLocate a CFM Church near you: https://cfmmap.orgWe need five-star reviews! Tell the world what you think about this podcast at: • Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://apple.co/3vy1s5b • Podchaser: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/taking-the-land-cfm-sermon-pod-43369

Psalms 126 - It can become challenging to sow seed in every season, especially when we do not feel like it will produce anything. Join Pastor G as he reminds the church to keep sowing in seed even if there are tears because a harvest will come to those who sow.

What if the secret to unstoppable business growth wasn't a new strategy—but how well you understand and support your people?

In our third message in the Sowing and Reaping Sunday series, Joe  reminds us of the ultimate call on a believer's life, a reframe of who Christ is looking to spend eternity with. God is preparing a bride spotless and white, for Jesus, the only one who is worthy. The price to choose Jesus is high and uncomfortable, it is an act that calls us to break ourselves to The One who broke first for us. The true essence of our walk with Jesus does not end with our mortal existence, but an opportunity to develop a deeper intimacy with Jesus, as the lady who broke the alabaster jar found out, having Jesus as the focus of our adoration and purpose, brings to surface all the noise surrounding life, ministry and faith. The question asked is do we seek Jesus for him or what he can provide? The seed of intimacy has eternity as its timeline.

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Join Eric and Kevin on this episode of Legacy Makers as they explore parenting strategies through the powerful lens of sowing and reaping. Discover how patience, long-term growth, and the shift from discipline to discipleship can transform your parenting approach. They discuss teaching delayed gratification, fostering connection before correction, and finding grace in teachable moments as children grow. Whether you’re navigating everyday challenges or striving to nurture deeper bonds, this episode offers thoughtful insights to help you parent with purpose. Tune in now for practical advice and encouragement to sow seeds that cultivate a lasting legacy for your family. Chapters 00:00 Sowing and Reaping: The Long View03:13 Patience in Parenting: The Long Game06:01 Teaching Delayed Gratification08:53 Discipline vs. Discipleship12:07 Connection Before Correction14:57 The Importance of Teachable Moments17:59 Growth and Grace in ParentingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We hope you've been blessed + encouraged today by this message from one of our missionary partners, Pierre Houssney with Horizons International, in the series "What's Good." For all updates + news, head to www.denverunited.com. For more information or to submit a prayer request, head to www.denverunited.com or email us at info@denverunited.com.

This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays from The Produce Industry Network and AgLife Media—Ross the Produce Boss and Dan the Produce Man are joined by Dick Peixoto, founder and proprietor of Lakeside Organic Gardens.You've seen the Lakeside Organic Gardens label on organic veggies all across America, from grocery stores to foodservice distributors.Hear how Dick went from being the son of a pesticide salesman to one of the largest organic powerhouses in the country.It's all right here on Fresh from the Field Fridays—so tune in and turn on!

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