-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘HARVEST’ (Part 10)
Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. Welcome to Morning Glow, a time to be refreshed in the presence of the Lord, to be renewed, to be challenged, for the Spirit of the Lord to be open to us, to minister to us, to touch our lives so we can start the day with God, enjoy the weekend with God and complete this month of July with God.
Let’s lift up our God and our Saviour. Heavenly Father, great Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We make great Your name today, from the rising of the sun to the going down of it. Your name shall forever be great. We come before You this morning, we receive Your renewal, Your refreshing, we receive Your word in season for us. Father minister to us upon this platform. Church Gist. Let somebody be encouraged, let there be a prophetic word that will minister to every situations. We give You praise in Jesus name.
Amen.
For the benefit of those of you who are just joining us, probably for the first time or for the first time in a long time, this past two weeks, we’ve been prophesying a season of harvest into our lives. As a matter of fact, that also is the Word of the Lord for the whole house called KICC, that this month is a month of a ‘ready harvest’. John 4:35-36 says; “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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.” I love to quote those two verses which was mandatory for me in 1976, when I was leaving Bible College. That I must know it by heart, because it was my graduating class’s Scripture.
To enjoy bountiful harvest, the Bible tells us about a man who enjoyed bountiful harvest and that was Isaac in Genesis 26:1-5, 12-18. In verses 1-5, God gave him a very clear and specific instruction because there was a crisis, it was a global crisis; there was famine and everyone was packing their loads to run. Church Gist. Survival is the first thing people think of when there is a crisis. Isaac too began to pack his bag and God said, hey, where are you going? You are a man under covenant and this covenant protects you and because of covenant, you can’t move. Stay where you are. I am about to show you that in the moment of crisis, it isn’t movement of the people that works for you but staying under the canopy of Jehovah.
Then from verse 12-18, we see God also speaking to him and bringing blessings to him. So if you want to enjoy bountiful harvest;
- Recognise your appointed place. God told him to stay there, don’t move. In a few years that I have been a believer and I have been on earth, I have seen people uproot themselves from Nations, from Churches, from places and their lives has ended, it has been miserable because they planted themselves possibly where God did not want them to be at all and because you are alive does not mean you are doing well.
In front of my house in Africa, my house is practically in front of the lagoon, less than 100 metres to the lagoon. So in front of the lagoon are planted seven plantain trees, the ones farthest away from water, as I speak to you, one of them is still one metre tall now that it has grown. Second one is one metre and maybe 20cm tall, now that it has grown. The three that are closest to the water are 3m tall, are already carrying bunches of fruits and they already surround themselves with trees.
So an appointed place is where you prosper, where you do well, where you increase. Don’t go to Church because it is near your house. You have to have a spiritual connection. God told Elijah, go to the brook Cherith, for there, I have commanded a raven to feed you. Wow! He didn’t say, go to the river Jordan, He said brook. A brook is a stream that is so tiny, it can dry up anytime and that one actually dried up. But God was getting this man of God to know the importance of obedience and been at the appointed place for your harvest.
If you stay too long where God have said, bye-bye, you are on your own. In Deuteronomy 2:3, God told the children of Israel, why are you camping around a mountain? Because they saw fire, they heard the voice of God, they saw smoke by the mount Horeb and they felt, this is safe. Let’s stay here. God said, No! This is not where I told you I’m taking you too. I’m taking you to the promised land, you’ve got to move.
Jesus recognised the importance of been at the right place in John 4:4. The Bible says, He must need go to Samaria. In other words, there was a necessity for Him to go to Samaria.
You cannot receive the favour scheduled for a geographical place if you are not there. Joseph stood before Pharaoh, God showed him in the back waters of Canaan land that one day, the sun, the moon, the eleven stars will bow to him. God had to arrange, I love the fact that he too saw that, his brothers who sold him, meant for evil but he said, God meant it for good. So God arranged this, shall we call it ‘arrangee’s slavery’, for him to be sold to ‘arrangee’s slavery’, to find his destiny. When he got there, he took over. Glory to God. He was in the right geographical place.
Ruth stood before Boaz, to marry Boaz. If her husband had not died in the land of Moab, or if her husband had not come to Moab, she would not have known that, in the destiny and purpose God planned for her, she was going to marry a man called Boaz, she was going to give birth to a son Obed and he will give birth to a son called Jesse. Jesse will give birth to a boy called David, David will become a universal testimony, from whom Jesus will come.
- You will not miss your appointed place.
So your harvest is in your appointed place. I have missed people in the journey of my life, I have found a disconnection in the journey of life that was arranged by God. One time I went to the place where my brother used to be as a soldier, it’s a ten hour journey and I told you of the woman who gave me money to go there. I was hoping, when I get there, I will probably go to some college there. When I got there, my brother had travelled to where I was coming from. I believe it was a divine arrangement. In fact, while I got there, I even went to the college, inside the place to go look, so I can see the college I am coming to. I am coming to this college. God arranged that I should not go there, it was the following year I ended working in the Church.
So if you are somewhere else, you could miss God. If Abraham was somewhere else, he could have missed God, because God told him, get out of your kindred, out of your people, to a land that I will show you. Someone is connected this morning, there is a land God will show you. Where you will go, you will prosper, you will flourish, you will blossom. Destiny will come out of you. They’ve known you to be a person with a poor background, failure, but greatness will come out of you, you will meet the right man, the right woman, sons and daughters who will be giving to you and your journey of life will be beautiful.
Jesus instructed five hundred people to meet Him in the Upper room. He said stay there until the day of Pentecost. They were there waiting, but only 120 stayed there. 380 had an excuse; we need to go to the market, we need to go to this. Church Gist. Oftentimes, silly reasons have made people miss their appointed place. Because you see, where you are influences how you behave. Where you are controls the flow of your life. Where you are determines if you’ll come in contact with those who will show you favour and when you are with the right people, good things happen to you. The best things happen to you.
If you are with those who tolerate you, you will never maximize life. If you don’t go where God anointed you to be, you will miss what you are scheduled for. You will be in a place of no blessing and some people find themselves in a place of some blessings, some people find themselves in the land of much but God’s desire is for you to be in the land of more than enough. Somebody is about to enter his harvest.
- You need to know and recognise anointed people. This is the protocol of the kingdom of God, that the key to your future is often locked up in the hand of someone. Anointed people have an assignment to destroy yokes in your life, to remove burdens from your life. Anointed people help you to maximize the harvest of your life. Anointed people help you to find your direction. An anointed man, called Samuel, came into the life of a young man called Saul. He was the son of a businessman. Church Gist. They lost their donkey. Saul was shy, tall but doesn’t like the public attention, he would rather hide. But he was ordained to be the first king of Israel.
It was that connection when a servant said, look, this donkey that was lost, let’s take a seed to a man of God and that anointed man unlocked the destiny of Saul.
- I pray for you, may everything you carry be fully unlocked.
My sons in ministry will always testify of the amazing connection and it is true, they were just one small, struggling, tiny Church in Paris, when God brought me into their lives. Church Gist. They were like 90 something people, worshiping in a basement, neighbors were giving them assaults and they came to London to look for me and said God has instructed them to come and submit to me, as their father and I felt a leading truly to connect with them and began to train them, help them. They adopted a different name from what they used to be and now bear ICC while we are KICC. They chose Impact Christian Centre, ICC. Glory to God.
That is the power of knowing your anointed person. Today, they are in about 26-30 French Nations. They have like almost a hundred branches and some of the branches, young men that were sent from Paris are pastoring big Churches. That’s the power of connecting to grace. I provoke you today, that you will work in the grace of God.
- Recognise your appointed time. So appointed place, appointed people, appointed time. Because if you don’t know your time, you can miss it. Your appointed time means the season for you to be favoured. When crisis come, people fail to sow a seed, intimidated by the chance that the seed might not bear fruit, they don’t even know that in this Kingdom, crisis time is your chance to change the crisis with the seed in your hand.
In the moment of pain, it is difficult to see how the pain will go. We wish we slept and woke up and it was not there. During tough time, it is difficult to think straight. The bully called the devil also like us to be intimidated.
During crisis time, you must always act contrary to what satan is suggesting because crisis time should become your seed sowing time. Church Gist. The passage we started with, there was famine in the land. People are carrying their load, they are leaving in fear. In that crisis, God told Isaac, sow now. Don’t look at the rain. Glory to God.
The atmosphere of battle is the breeding ground of breakthroughs. God wants to breath breakthrough in your life. So I believe, somebody, you’ve got to know the time.
Famine times are the time to provoke the heavens to open for you.
There is an appointed time, do not miss it. Ecclesiastes 3:1, to everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. There is a baby scheduled for an appointed time, receive in the name of Jesus.
Genesis 18:14, the angel of the Lord said to Sarah, is there anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed, I will return unto thee according to the time of life and Sarah shall have a son. So all this years that Abraham had been following God everyday, he didn’t know that there is an appointed time, there is an appointment? The appointment book, he was hurrying the appointment. He didn’t know that early arrival does not change the appointment. I believe somebody is about to keep appointment with destiny this morning. God is about to make something happen for you. God is about to make glory happen for you.
- I declare and decree that in this season of your life, you will not miss your appointed time.
Your visions happen at appointed time (Habakkuk 2:3). Your fruitfulness manifest at an appointed time (Psalm 1:3).
- You will not miss your appointed time.
An appropriate word come to you at the appointed time (Proverbs 24:23). How good it is when there is right word for the right season. Church gist.wtherey is a scheduled latter rain in due season for you (Jeremiah 5:24). God will give you your meat in due season (Psalm 104:27, Psalm 145:15, Matthew 24:5). Due season means when the alarm rang.
- Somebody’s time is here. Your time of promotion had come ( 1 Peter 5:6).
Harvest come because you recognize one, your appointed place to sow your seed. Two, you recognize your appointed person to connect with, who carries the fertilizer for your dream. Three, you recognize your appointed time. Somethings cannot be hurried. If you hurry it, you are wasting your time. If you hurry it, you are making it look like it must happen and it cannot.
- Recognize your appointed seedtime and harvest. Your seed time is not always the most convenient, it is the time you sow a seed. Your seed is whatever wipes your tears and bring back joy into your life. Your seed contains your future, you cannot abort it and you can only wait for the Lord.
Great harvest begins with what is in your hand, which has the capacity to release what has been promised you. When you release what you have, God will release what He has, what has been stored for you, it is just the way it works. It’s like a pressure pump that requires you pour water into it. If you don’t pump the water, no pressure, no water comes out.
So what happens during the harvest? You already have some harvest now, you may not recognize it. Any person who is a blessing to you is a harvest. Your husband is a harvest, your wife is a harvest, your children are harvest. Church Gist. The boss that is putting food on your table, even though, you’ve been bad mouthing him and back bitting him, may be your harvest, there are people looking for your job. Your encouragers are a harvest, your correctors, those who strengthen and improve your life are a harvest.
The idea that was dropped into your spirit by the Holy Ghost to carry out for your prosperity is a harvest. The opportunity you have to be born again, to know God, not many wise get it, it’s a harvest. The door God has opened in your life is a harvest. The pronouncement made upon you everytime a prophetic word comes to you is a harvest. Do you know how many people go into the day with bad words spoken into their lives?
When teachings to provoke you are spoken into your life, darkness is driven back for you, that is a harvest. Everytime we come together, programs of the enemies are frustrated, that is a harvest. So your harvest is coming, no one will be able to stop it.
Genesis 8:23
- Good harvest will not cease in your life. The heaven will open up for you and fill your life with good harvest in the name of Jesus.
Matthew 9:37
- I pray into your life, may you have a plentiful harvest; barley, wheat, fruit of the vine, mental harvest, financial harvest, spiritual harvest, physical harvest, victory over the enemy, protection over your life, emotional harvest – plentiful harvest in Jesus name.
Leviticus 26:5
- I rebuke lack in your life. I rebuke scarcity. Victory over scarcity in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 67:6
- I prophesy into your life today, the earth will yield her produce. Everything you put your hands on will yield great produce in the name of Jesus. The earth will confirm the blessings of God in your life today in Jesus name.
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