Keep sowing, soon your turn - Open heavens devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chron 14-16
SOON YOUR TURN Sunday, July 18, 2010
MEMORIZE: “While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Gen. 8:22) READ: 2 Kings 4:8-17 “While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Gen. 8:22). Every human being is a type of seed (Gen. 4:25). And according to Genesis 1:11, every seed will produce after its kind. Some people will agree with this but conclude that they probably married the wrong fellow.  If you have already married, then there is no coming out. Marriage is not meant for you to rush in and out. If you are already married, you are stuck! Divorce is not the answer: it only provides you temporary relief and packages the fellow for hell. Many people are in hell today because their marriage failed. This is why the unmarried must prayerfully look before leaping. Are you already going through a mini-hell in your home? Turn that marriage into a special project. Give it all it takes. Keep sowing love, prayers, everything. Study God’s Word and apply  its principles on marriage. Buy and read marriage books. Seek advice from mature Christian couples, especially your pastor or marriage counselors with a good testimony.  You must make that marriage work.  The Lord will help you. He will arise on your behalf this season. “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall” (Mal. 4:2). When you sow, God arises on your behalf.  When we were still in the old auditorium, I discovered one day that I could not hear.  When people were talking to me, I kept saying, “Speak louder”. One of my daughters - a medical doctor, examined my ears and said I had growth in them and needed an urgent operation even though she knew I would not go to a hospital. I asked her to return in seven days while I cried to God: “How can I do your work when I am deaf? I don’t want them repaired through an operation, but replaced with spare parts from Heaven’. Seven days later, when the doctor returned and examined them, there was no more growth. When I shared the testimony, a young man with low sperm count heard it and equally cried to God for new sperm. That night, he sat in his living room and dreamt. In his dream, he saw me walk into his room, smile at him and walk away.  He woke up and believed God has answered. By the time he was sharing his testimony, he was with the product of that encounter - a baby.  Keep on sowing. Whosoever continues to sow will surely reap one day.  You are inches away from your harvest.  Keep on sowing. After sowing repeatedly, finally, it was the turn of the Shunammite woman.  Soon it will be your turn. ACTION POINT: If you sow right and sustain it, your harvest is guaranteed.