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Leader’s lead others in a path of faith regarding their calling, testimony, and purpose in Christ. The purpose of each one’s life is harvest. Harvest is what gives life to others beyond us and because of us. Who we are in Christ empowers us to give the life of Christ to our world. Paul told Timothy that he was to endure like a good soldier, compete like a good athlete, and work hard like a good farmer. The path of a leader is meant to fulfill the purpose for which they lead. That purpose is what I call the law of harvest
A leader must think in a manner of a soldier, athlete, and farmer. A leader thinks with a purpose-focused mind. Let’s think about Biblical meditation a minute. Meditation in the world is a process of emptying our minds of everything to receive some form of serenity. Biblical meditation is to fill our thoughts with all that is of God in order to see the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God birthed within our hearts and souls. We choose to look at what God says and what He is like in order to receive a transformation by the metamorphosis of our minds. It is a principle of the law of harvest. We choose to see how it is in heaven and then we submit the lesser laws of our thoughts and lives in order to reap that heavenly harvest in our lives. Leaders must understand this principle well.
God determines the harvest before He determines the sowing. Our eyes have not seen, our ears haven’t heard, and our thoughts haven’t thought of the things God has prepared for us; but He has revealed it all to us by the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:9, 10). This is the law of harvest. We know the end in our spirits before we can even know the beginning in our minds. We must choose to submit to this greater law of harvest in everything we do. I hope that I am challenging your thoughts. I am not attempting to answer all the questions or explain all of the details of the law of harvest in this letter. I am simply seeking to provoke you to think according to a greater calling, purpose, and destiny as a leader.
God has determined an end, but we must start with a beginning. We must never despise the day of small beginnings, because great destiny requires many small beginnings. When we think small beginnings, God thinks harvest.
Isaiah 46:9, 10 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,’
The law of harvest demands that we sow seed in order to reap a crop, but we must see the crop in a spiritual realty before we can choose to labor in the natural. Leaders must see where they are going in the Spirit before they see it in the natural harvest fields of life. The labor of every leader must be towards a spiritual goal seen in heaven. Not everything that we sow is purposed by God for us to reap, but everything that God has purposed for us to reap requires us to sow. We don’t sow to reap. We sow because we see the harvest. Ishmael was a result of the law of sowing and reaping while Isaac was the result of the law of harvest. We don’t sow seed because we want to see a harvest. We see a harvest, so we sow seed. Leaders lead people to live their lives by the vision of a heavenly harvest. What God says, we can do. What God makes known in heaven, we can receive here on earth. Leaders must be men and women of faith who lead others to become the same. We see the harvest, so we sow seed. Blindly sowing seed is seed sown from unbelief. As leaders we must live for the harvest!
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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