12 LAWS OF THE HARVEST
by Dr. John Avanzini
1 – Your seed must be planted.
John 12:24, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”
2 – You must render your seed useless.
John 12:24, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”
3 – You must plant what you expect to harvest.
Genesis 1:12, “The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”
4 – Your harvest size is established when your seed is sown.
II Corinthians 9:6, “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
5 – Your seed must be planted in good ground.
Matthew 13:8, “Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop — a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
6 – You always wait a period of time between planting and harvesting.
Mark 4:26-27, “He also said, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.'”
7 – You must maintain your crops for a proper harvest.
Matthew 13:7, “Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.”
8 – Always sow to your harvest size, not from your harvest size.
Genesis 26:12, “Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundred-fold, because the Lord blessed him.”
9 – Your expense is always highest at harvest time.
Matthew 20:1, “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.”
10 – A part of your harvest is for sowing again.
II Corinthians 9:10, “Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.”
11 – A part of your harvest is for you to keep.
I Corinthians 9:7, “Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk?”
12 – Your harvest is a miracle.
I Corinthians 3:6, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.”
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