Open Up for Multiplication by Sara Whitten
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By Sara Whitten
The past week the Lord has been pressing on me a simple but profound image. It being fall with harvest themes all around, He showed me a farmer who, instead of planting and watering seeds, was watering his picked baskets of fruit. It seemed silly until He told me, "Don't keep watering past harvests." We are always somewhere in this growth cycle, and we can tell by our lives. Are we seeing lots of fruit or progress? It's harvest time! Are we sowing a lot of ourselves into callings? It's planting time! Are we pressing through the waiting season? That's growing time! Sometimes these seasons even overlap.
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The past week the Lord has been pressing on me a simple but profound image. It being fall with harvest themes all around, He showed me a farmer who, instead of planting and watering seeds, was watering his picked baskets of fruit. It seemed silly until He told me, "Don't keep watering past harvests."
We are always somewhere in this growth cycle, and we can tell by our lives. Are we seeing lots of fruit or progress? It's harvest time! Are we sowing a lot of ourselves into callings? It's planting time! Are we pressing through the waiting season? That's growing time! Sometimes these seasons even overlap.
The word for now, however, is to OPEN UP for MULTIPLICATION. Jesus used soil as an analogy our hearts when he spoke of the rocky soil, the weed-filled ground, and the good soil (Matthew 13). To be good soil to grow His seeds, we must OPEN UP DEEPER to Him. Let Him turn up the soils of our hearts which may come in the form of shaking our circumstances, calling us to break new spiritual ground, or actually working and tilling our very hearts. It's not easy work- just as being refined by fire- but it is GOOD because it prepares us to receive seeds well. If this is happening, EMBRACE it with joy. Say yes to the process, and take HOPE that it is preparing you to be unbelievably fruitful!
What We See Now is not Reflective of What is Coming
God has planted seeds through you in the past, and you have seen a harvest. For each seed He planted, you harvest multiple pieces of fruit, each containing many seeds. It's an exponential MULTIPLICATION. You can't expect the same size harvest. Dream bigger!
Sometimes after a harvest season things can feel slow or stagnant, and the temptation is to circle back to the last time you felt progress. To water that basket of picked fruit hoping to grow more.
"No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead" Philippians 3:13.
Tend to your current seeds though you may not yet SEE the fruit forming. Pick the weeds of worry and lies that choke out the sun from your crop. What you are growing is the answers to prayers- yours and the prayers of others. Watch it come to fruition. Do not continue to water past harvests, but enjoy the fruits of the past, plant the seeds unto the Lord, and expect a multiplication next season!
Sara Whitten
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The word "memory" has been populating the news headlines, and the Lord has drawn my attention to it. A memory card was credited in flipping an election. A report came out about attempts to try to rewrite different events that happened during 2020 and 2021, but those who remember will know the truth. A study made the headlines about the connection between rest and memories. All of these became examples of how memory is an active informant rather than a passive recollection, and it makes sense why the Lord commands us so many times to "remember."
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Recently, God gave me an image of a big tree growing atop a very narrow, tall hill. "How can this tree grow bigger?" the Lord asked me. I replied, "I guess it would need to be transplanted. It can only grow so big with that narrow piece of land." There are some right now that God is doing a transplant work in. As I read about transplanting trees in the natural, some of the process surprised me. In the natural, trees must be prepared for transplanting for anywhere from six months to a year before the transplant even happens! It begins with pruning the roots. You do it months in advance so that the tree has time to heal before the transplant.
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As we've watched current events unfold, there is a temptation to feel powerless. The truth is, behind every negative headline and evil agenda is a redemption plan of the Lord. Recently the Lord has been highlighting five responses or postures for the church that partner with the "working all things for good" that He is doing behind the scenes. As we've watched inflation soar, the Lord has reminded me how, in the natural, inflation is caused by deviating too much from the gold standard.
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