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On Reaping <strong>Your</strong> Harvest, God Says, "GIVE It Time! and Don't<br />
Give Up!"<br />
There cannot be "cheerfulness" in giving<br />
unless you know that you know you will RECEIVE<br />
greater harvests in return. The entire law of<br />
sowing and reaping in the Word of God<br />
guarantees this if we will only grasp it and<br />
practice it out of the joy of our expecting from our<br />
God who is a good God.<br />
How the Harvest Comes<br />
I remember when I discovered Jesus' words<br />
in Luke 6:38, "Give, and it shall be given to you;<br />
good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and<br />
running over, shall men give unto your bosom..."<br />
I'd done the giving, always given first as Jesus<br />
said here in Luke 6:38. I'd dreamed of the good<br />
measure and running over that was promised.<br />
But I'd never understood the part that said, "Men<br />
shall give unto your bosom."<br />
Then it came to me. As a little boy going to<br />
town with Papa to sell our cotton and corn and<br />
other yields, it was always men who wrote him<br />
the checks.<br />
I remembered the change that would come<br />
over my father. He had worked so hard for this<br />
harvest to come, had put in the seed, tended it,<br />
and waited through good weather and bad,<br />
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