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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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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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