Mark 4: 26-29; Psalm 126:5-6

Recurrent Thought

• The Law of Seedtime and Harvest is a cycle of repetition. Thus, to get a great harvest of anything there must be regularity of sowing and managing the seed
  • The essence of  any harvest is determined by the seed and the management of its growth. What we harvest relates to how we work with the Seed. We refer to two forms of Harvest: Personal Harvest and Kingdom Harvest. With the Personal Harvest we refer to ways we envision dreams, work with basic building blocks until get the results we seek. While with Kingdom Harvest, we speak to the reality of sowing the Word of the Lord into the lives of others until people come to know Christ and get rooted and grow in him.
  • Being cognizant of the Series, the Culture of Great Harvest, in this message we desire to reference the culture around Seedtime or the sowing of the Seeds.
  • Every form of harvest is Seed dependent.  Seeds are important. Seeds are small organisms with biotic Potential. Their potential is the ability to produce populations after their kind. The power to produce populations is within the seed. (Mark 4:26-29) Seeds sustained by its environment produces by itself more of its kind. This the ability to increase. Seeds are germ source, the beginning. Seed also refers to anything that we do with definite consequences whether we know it or not.
  • The quality of every Harvest is dependent on the quality of the Seed and how it is managed when sown. This is Seed time; the is time when we plant and work with the Seed. When the seed is sown and its growth managed right, it grows naturally. It is not the farmer that gives it life. The life is within it, what the farmer does is to prepare the soil and plant it within the Seed Time, the season of sowing.

Three lifestyles that sustains a Culture of Great Harvest

1. Culture of Sacrifice: Seedtime Demands Paying the Cost
   • Sowing of seed is a work of sacrificing Precious seeds they could have used for consumption
   • Sowing is burdensome to a farmer such that he weeps while planting
   • In most geographical location of the world seed time is when food has finished. It is time of hunger. Therefore, Farmers sow as a form of sacrifice.
   • Sowing the seed that should have been food. However, they endure hunger in order to have a harvest
   • Sacrificing is letting go of good thing in exchange for something of a higher and greater value. We plant precious seed which we expected to use differently. We sacrifice resources for the harvest. We sacrifice financial resources for the harvest.
   • Great dreams (harvests) come out of the sufferings for others. Great dreams usually are a solution to humanity’s challenges. Today’s enjoyments came out of the sorrows and tears of the men of past generations. Seed time is Tears time
2. Culture of Continuous Work: Recognize the Investment of Your Effort
   • He goes forth or goes out is also interpreted as one who continuously goes out to sow
   • Dreamers understand that hard work (Smart Work) and longtime efforts are necessary
   • Seed time is trying time, when the real dreams are still in embryonic stage and you don’t see the harvest
   • Genuine work for others, however painful, prospers (verse 6). The sowing of these seeds is often very painful. “Sow in tears.”
   • Continually means also that there is determination. It is not one time, but continually
   • Personal cost is part of visionary achievements. Whenever any great evil has been averted, or any achievement acquired, it has ever been at vast personal cost.
   • The seed of cheerful self-denial and  patient perseverance.
   • Continuously without interruption; Continually means regularly
3. Culture of Confidence: Developing Faith in the Harvest
   • The two verses have the verb shall which is formal and literary that is used for certainty,
   • The harvest is certain: Those who sow, shall reap.
   • The harvest may be sometimes late but it shall come in due time
   • Seed time is a season of applied Faith. Despite all the hard work, the farmer has to have Faith that the Seed shall eventually grow and produce a great harvest. 
   • The Sower has Faith in the power of multiplication of the Seed; hence they sacrifice the precious seed.

Conclusion

• The Culture of believing for Great Harvest must be created deliberately. In this message we identify three of these. We must hold on to beliefs, values, and practice specific habits to sustain mindsets for Great Harvest

Altar Time

• Lord I present and dedicate to you the Seeds of my dreams.
• Lord I pray for Your Word in my mouth to be powerful to all hearers