See Your Harvest
Seeing Your Harvest
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town August 2015.08.22
Discern the following phases of harvesting to access the Great Harvest for your life.
John12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.
Joh 12:21 Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, \”Sir, we wish to see Jesus.\”
Joh 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
Joh 12:23 But Jesus answered them, saying, \”The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
Joh 12:24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
Joh 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Joh 12:26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
Joh 12:27 \”Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? \’Father, save Me from this hour\’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Joh 12:28 Father, glorify Your name.\” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, \”I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.\”
Joh 12:29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, \”An angel has spoken to Him.\”
Joh 12:30 Jesus answered and said, \”This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Joh 12:32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.\”
Joh 12:33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die.
Discern the Time to Sow
Releasing versus retaining
Scattering and increasing rather than holding back and tending to poverty
Pro 11:24 There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.
Pro 11:25 The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself.
Pro 11:26 The people will curse him who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Tithing and Offerings – count your blessings
Pro 28:19 He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!
Pro 28:20 A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
God once showed us that we are a House of Bread for the Nations. We have different types of bread – French, South African, English, Portuguese – Spanish – Asian an it is in every shelf and drawer in the house!
Another person saw a Bread Factory processing the wheat of a great harvest.
Jesus is the Bread of Life for those who partake in His Word.
Take the Time to Harvest
Pro 20:4 The lazy man will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Pro 10:4 He who has a slack hand becomes poor, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Pro 10:5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son; He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.
Allow the Time to Prune
Joh 15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Access Spiritual Vision
The Holy Spirit will show you things to come.
Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
The Old King James reveals:
The Spirit of Truth, will guide you into all truth, He will speak what He hears, he will “shew you things to come.” The New King James version reads: “He will tell you things to come.”
Remember the term ‘shewbread’?
‘Shew’ carries with it a whole new sphere of activity, beyond ‘tell’.
Strong’s # 312
‘anaggello’ – To announce in detail; declare; rehearse; report; show; speak; tell
Jesus operated on this level. John 5:19,20
Access Apostolic Perspective on Harvest
Planting Out and Expanding, produces a wider circle of influence for God\’s kingdom.
Isa 9:3 You have multiplied the nation And increased its joy; They rejoice before You According to the joy of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Many times when we send out teams to go and plant churches, the home base is depleted and the people that remain forget that the nation is increased, even though some of their friends are gone. This is entirely normal and people have real emotions. The problem is that they start to think there is no growth and even negative growth, but they fail to see the exponential multiplication of the greater kingdom of God. This self-centred vision needs to shift to a global mindset and kingdom vision that realizes that the best needs to be exported during harvest and that this causes a tremendous blessing in the spiritual realm for the home church that has released its best at its own expense. Scattering abroad makes one poor so that others can become rich – but God sees that and in turn rewards the home base on an entirely new level in multiple dimensions. That is where the blessings of the Lord start to make rich and add no sorrow. God told apostle Andre while on missions in Africa where we have sown much: \”Because you do this I will bless you!\” People who help this move of God enter that promised blessing and we are seeing it already!
It is awesome how God is blessing us on multiple levels across 4 continents!
Lift Up Your Eyes
John 4
When Jesus ministered to the woman at the well with a word of knowledge she went and told her village that Jesus told her everything she ever did – this awakened such curioisityt hat the entire village came to where Jesus was, and then Jesus told his dicisples to look up and see the harvest:
Joh 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
Joh 4:29 \”Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?\”
Joh 4:30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
Joh 4:31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, \”Rabbi, eat.\”
Joh 4:32 But He said to them, \”I have food to eat of which you do not know.\”
Joh 4:33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, \”Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?\”
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, \”My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Joh 4:35 Do you not say, \’There are still four months and then comes the harvest\’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
Joh 4:36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Joh 4:37 For in this the saying is true: \’One sows and another reaps.\’
Joh 4:38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.\”
Joh 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, \”He told me all that I ever did.\”
Joh 4:40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
Joh 4:41 And many more believed because of His own word.
Joh 4:42 Then they said to the woman, \”Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.\”
May God show you your harvest and may you be encouraged to lift your vision into another dimension.