THE TIME OF HARVEST:
ARE YOU STILL WAITING?©
Perhaps you’ve prayed prayers that were never answered. You prayed them
in faith, believing you received, and now have been waiting for those divine answers; but they still haven’t come. Those
prayers never yielded any fruits or favorable results. You may be still in your waiting season and you may have been waiting
for a long time. By now, you’re either strong in faith or weak in faith. As your waiting season lengthens, your faith
[to see those prayers answered] may begin to wane, that you end up having weak faith, and ultimately no
faith. If not careful, in process of time, you’ll have no more faith for what you’ve asked God for.
If you’re
still in your waiting season—still believing to see the glorious manifestation of God in your life in light of answering
your prayers—then I challenge you to begin seeing your unanswered prayers as “sown seeds.” Having sown them
in faith, now expect to reap a “harvest” of divine answers. Look forward with joy to the TIME OF HARVEST in your
life!
“While the earth remaineth, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST…shall not cease”
(Genesis 8:22).
Between “seed” and “harvest” is “time.” You sow seed then wait
(time) for the harvest. But the issue is that you’ve been waiting a long time for your “harvest.” The question,
then, is: Why haven’t you received your harvest? Let’s look at another key scripture to shed some light on this
question.
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman [farmer] waiteth
for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, UNTIL HE RECEIVE THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN” (James
5:7).
You have to wait until you receive “rain.” You may be still waiting because you haven’t received
“rain.” As a natural fact, without rain there can be no harvest. The spiritual application is also true. You must
wait until you receive “the early and latter rain.” The “early rain” represents God moving in
your behalf when you first prayed. The “latter rain” represents God manifesting His blessings in your
life in due time.
You’ve been in a drought (a long period with no rain). You’ve been
experiencing a “drought” of unanswered prayers because you haven’t received “rain” or manifestation
of God’s blessings in your life. You cannot reap what hasn’t manifested yet. Question: Is there something
in your life that’s holding up “the latter rain” you haven’t received yet? The Bible says of
God:
“…no good thing will he withhold from them THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY” (Psalm
84:11).
Can you see it? God doesn’t withhold “the latter rain” or the
manifestation of His blessings from them that walk uprightly. So what you need to do is check your “walk.” If
you’re walking in disobedience to God in any area of your life, that may be causing “the latter
rain” to be withheld from you, and that would explain why your time of harvest hasn’t come yet. If this is the
case, then you must identify that life area of disobedience to correct it. You cannot reap until you receive “the latter
rain,” so you must walk in obedience to God in that suspect life area.
When you
let go of what offends God in your life, He’ll let go of what’s in His hand that He wants to give you. You cannot
“have your cake and eat it too.” His will—not yours—be done. Perhaps you have some immoral practice
in your life that gives you pleasure and you may be unwilling to give it up. Until you give it up, God won’t give up
what’s in His hand. As long as you work iniquity, you’ll wait for the time of harvest in your life. Obedience
is the door through which your harvest time will come. God’s not the hold-up on the time of your harvest—YOU
ARE! So if you’re serious about getting your unanswered prayers answered, follow these simple
steps: - Realize
what life area you’re walking in disobedience to God
- Repent (confess and forsake whatever it is)
- Receive
“the latter rain” or God’s manifested blessings in your life
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