12 Laws Of The Harvest
1. You must plant your seed (John 12:24).
2. You must render your seed useless, leave it and never dig it back up.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat (1)falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but (2)if it dies, it produces much grain.” — John 12:24
3. You must plant seed according to what you expect to harvest.
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:12
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — Galatians 6:7
4. Your harvest size is established when your seed is sown.
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — 2. Corinthians 9:6
5. Your seed must be planted in good ground.
“But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” — Matthew 13:8
6. You must always wait a period of time between planting and harvesting.
And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.” — Mark 4:26-27
And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. — Hebrews 6:11-12
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. — Galatians 6:9
7. You must maintain your crops for proper harvest.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. — Matthew 13:7
8. You must always sow to your next harvest size, not to the previous size.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. — Genesis 26:12
9. Your expense is always highest at harvest time (Matthew 20:1-16).
10. A part of your harvest is for sowing again as seed.
11. A part of your harvest is for you to keep.
Now may He who supplies (10)seed to the sower, and (11)bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. — 2. Corinthians 9:10-11
12. Your harvest is a miracle.
... but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. — 1. Corinthians 3:6-7