Sown Not Stolen
I remember my initial reaction when my nephew Branson passed away at 2 years old.
I felt like someone punched me in the stomach and ripped my heart out at the same time. Then, almost immediately, the feeling of knowing that so many people were depending on my reaction and response sent me into a deep place of prayer. I needed a direct word from Heaven on how to not only walk through this, but also on how to lead others through it.
The Lord, in His constant faithfulness, gave me a word that day that strengthened not only me, but my entire family during what was the greatest loss that we had ever experienced.
That day, Holy Spirt said to me: “Satan cannot take anyone or anything from you that you are willing to sow into me.”
From that moment on, I became determined to not allow the enemy to get one ounce of glory from my nephew’s death or from my family’s sorrow. I had a word from God that would change the way that I saw death entirely. I sowed Branson into heaven that day and have called in the harvest from that seed every single day since.
One by one, I’ve seen it! Restoration in my family, the salvation of those who were lost that I was believing for, and so much more. And it’s still coming!
I’m thankful that Heaven is not that far away as it seems and that this life that I’m living is but a vapor. I’ll do all that I can for Jesus here on earth, and then I will rejoice with Branson again soon and very soon!
The reality of this truth is that what you are willing to sow into the kingdom cannot be stolen from a powerless enemy! So whatever you are facing, whatever and whoever you feel like you’ve lost to the attacks and lies of the enemy, determine in your heart from this day forward to sow it all into the kingdom and turn up your level of expectation for the harvest that is coming!
Galatians 6:6-9 (AMPC)
6 Let him who receives instruction in the Word [of God] share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his support].
7 Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.
8 For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.