Jeremiah Ogedegbe
"When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."(John 6:12).
The war against poverty is the war against waste. Poverty goes beyond a state of lack, to a lifestyle and leadership of waste. Waste of precious time, waste of resources, wastes of talents and potentials and so on. This wasting spirit or attitude denies people from a lots of benefits and opportunities. Man has been the biggest loser in life by yielding to the deception of the Devil. The Devil is always determine to waste the fruitful years of your life and to leave you fruitless and helpless. Satan always will not tell you the bad effect of doing what is wrong, instead he keeps reminding you of those who are prospering in wrong doing. One thing for sure is that in everything in life there's a cause and there is a result.
Jesus came to teach the disciples how to gather and increase what they have. How to sow in the right place (as in the parable of the sower, we will come to that.) How to reap the harvest without much labor. All these we're going to look at. But you need to have it in you that God wants you to prosper, and He creates you to prosper.
How To Gather And Increase What You Have
Gathering is not just all about accumulating but also guarding your possessions (your gift, your potentials, your resources etc.). You protect what you have, don't be careless about it (especially your spiritual gifts hold on to it, don't neglect it). "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. " (1 Timothy 14:4).
Also, in John 10:10 Jesus spake of the thief: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. "
We gat to work on our gifts, potentials and talents instead of following vain people (people without vision). Proverbs 12:11 says, "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." So you increase by developing your gift or potentials. Take for example, Jesus from age 12 to age 30 developed his potentials before fulfilling the prophecies of his ministry within three and half years. You don't need to be in hurry, you need to develop your full potential before launching in order to remain at the top.
How To Sow In The Right Place
In the parable of the sower Jesus highlighted four types of ground or place people sow.
(1)The Wayside
(2)The Stony Ground
(3)The Thorny Ground
(4)The Good Ground
Unfortunately, only the good ground produces fruits for return. The good ground is where life is easy, achievable and thrivable. Where you meet the right people for your gift. Where you can become great in what you are doing- producing and reproducing excellence. A lots of countries in africa are stony ground for talents. Someone have to go through hard and meaningless struggle to survive which might kill their faith, courage and zeal to achieve their dream. A stony ground is a place where no better opportunity to spring up. Then talking about the way side, the way side is not your talented area or gift, but some other field that you think will bring gains and reward to you, but waste and demands too much of you. You follow others in doing what you don't understand. The way side is full of followers of vain persons. They are the group that waste all their time and earnings on bet, gambling and click-to-pay sites only making themselves a road for such gamers. These way siders don't have talent to development or don't care about it. The last of the place people sow is one of the core causes of poverty which is sowing among thorns. What are thorns? According to Christ's explanation of the parable of the sower, the thorns are those who are greedy. When you work with a greedy man or a greedy woman, it will be hard for you to prosper. A greedy man does not even want to pay his staff his or her due wages. A greedy man wants the whole world given to him, yet he's still not satisfied. Run away from such a person, or as Jesus said in Luke 12:15 "Beware of covetousness" .
How to Reap The Harvest
The harvest can mean different things. From one point it can mean the ripe fruits or blessings that are ready for claim. Or from another point can mean the hungry souls waiting for salvation to come to them. Either of these can be the harvest, but we are taking the first one for what i'm going to explain.
God has a lot of blessings for us as his children, but it will only drop when we can see it. In John 4:35 Jesus told his disciples:"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." When your spiritual eyes are opened it will not be hard to reap the benefits of his promises (take note: His blessings are his promises for us). When there is vision you don't labour in vain as Satan wanted you to.
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