Field of Dreams

1. The law of harvest is that what you sow, you will reap. In addition, how much you sow is how much you will reap. (Gal. 6:6-7)

2. The law of dissimulation is that you must sow if you want to reap. If you sow love, you reap love. If you sow strife, you reap strife. 

What you sow into your children, you'll reap out of your children. Your character is the harvest of your habits.

3. The law of anticipation is that you reap later than you sow. If we persevere, we reap if we don't give up. (2 Cor. 6:9).

4. The law of multiplication is that we reap more than we sow. Sow if you want to be rich. 

Grasp if you want to be poor. If a farmer eats all his corn during the famine, he will have no crop. 

There is a risk to sow to experience the harvest. If you regard the wind, you will not sow.

The law of cultivation is that you must cultivate your own heart. We reap what others have sown. 

Your sin always comes out. Repentance connects the dots between sowing and reaping.(John 4:37-38) 

The father of an act is a thought. 

Sow a thought. 

Reap an act. 

Sow an act. 

Reap a habit. 

Sow a habit. 

Reap a character. 

Sow a character. 

Reap a destiny.

(from notes taken from Terry Herald and Jimmy Jackson)

Who's on First?

Who is really in charge of your life? To act outside of Jesus' lordship is a sin. 

Even after we surrender the lordship of our lives to Jesus, we continue to struggle with Him over the control of our lives.

We must be sure that Jesus remains Lord. Jesus willingly came to earth. 

We too must want to obey. 

Remember that forced obedience is disobedience. 

Is Jesus your Lord, really? 

That one decision settles the possessions issue.

If Jesus is Lord, He is Lord of your stuff. 

How can we ask God for provision when we disobey Him by stealing from Him. Ask what do you want done with your stuff, Lord? 

Whoever or whatever is #1 in your life is your Lord. 

Whoever is #1 determines where you go, what you read, and what you look at.

It settles the provision issue. God does not give us what we need from our prospective, but from His. 

God stretches past our comfort zone into the unknown to reach people.

We are not to focus on our provision but on our mission.

Sometimes we confuse God's will with our will.

Asking for things outside of God's plan will harm our faith when God refuses to answer.

God's will can only be discerned by what God has said in His Word and the Holy Spirit.

(notes from Jimmy Jackson)

Stepping Across the invisible line

Do you believe that God is real? 

Can you trust Him? 

Can He trust you? 

Our faith is based upon the character of God. 

It is based upon what God has told us about Himself in the Bible.

Doubting anyone questions the character and motives of the other person. 

Don't doubt God when He relates to you from what He knows is good for you.  

Don't depend on what you think is good for you from your limited vantage point.

Sin creates a barrier that hinders God's presence. If we habitually sin, God chooses not to hear us. (Is. 59:1,2) 

Sin numbs us to the Holy Spirit. (I Tim. 4:2) 

When a person denies the commands of God, he is denying the God of the commands.

Sin is to step across an invisible line, which God has drawn. 

Sin is an act of rebellion against God.

Rebellion is the same as the occult.

Rationalism does not excuse rebellion, but it just attempts to cover it up. 

Don't focus on what God is not doing, but what I am doing or not doing that is hindering God's work. 

It takes humility to admit to God that your problems are more than you can handle. (read Proverbs 3:34) 

God wants our best, and He is so wise that He knows what is best. 

That's where trust comes in. 

When we pray, our motive is to speak with God and not to impress others. 

Prayer is the surrendering of our will to God's will, so that God may act.

Persist in prayer, and keep a record of when the prayer is answered.

(notes from Jimmy Jackson)