Our Dependence is on God!
Selected Scriptures on the Harvest and our Dependence on the Lord expounded upon.
John 4:37-38
For in this case the saying is true, one sows, and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Deuteronomy 28:1 now it shall be, if you will diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Amos 9:13 behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when the plowmen will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; when the mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will be dissolved.
Leviticus 26:5 indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
The outcome of being in God‘s will is joy and the outcome is also fruit.
The Samaritan woman that Jesus ministered to, influenced others by her testimony.
John 4:42 and they were saying to the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.
We are all like Mephibosheth who was lame in both feet. It is by God’s grace and kindness that we can sit at the King’s table. Our dependence is on God!
John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I and him, he bears much fruit; for apart for me you can do nothing.
-Submitted by Pam Burton