In Yielding, we yield a harvest.
I want to share a moment that happened last week while meeting with some of our leaders. The topic came up of surrender to the Lord, and the word, “Yield,” came forward. Then someone prayed that our seeds are to yield a harvest. At that exact moment, I heard, “Yield to the Lord and Yield from the Lord His harvest.” Of course, yielding seed into the ground and the seed in the ground yields a harvest. Yield is used for both death and resurrection, sowing and reaping, losing, and winning.
I have been meditating on this since that moment.
When we surrender and yield ourselves to His will, when we yield our tithe to Him when we yield our tongue in praise, He is glorified, and we are guaranteed a harvest. When we lose what was our gain, we win Christ. When we fall into the ground and die, we bear much fruit. Death proceeds resurrection, defeat victory, humility exaltation, sowing reaping, and all kingdom promises are giving into receiving.
It’s time to receive what we have yielded to the Lord.
God does only perfect work, but there is an in-between time from answered prayer to fulfilled prayer. It may be in a moment or a lifetime. But what if we stop? The promises remain. What if we were to remember all our giving and the Lord completing all His promises? What if we chose again to praise Him for His wonderful works in Christ? What if we let go of our demands and received His glory? What if we praised Him for His goodness, mercy, and faithfulness?
All that He began to do, He will bring completion. He will perfect what concerns us, He will do a perfectly complete work.
I believe that Jesus yielded Himself to the Father’s will unto death, believing the Father would raise Him from the dead. Now we share His faith, and so we have been given the faith to believe in the Father’s resurrection of His Son and of ourselves.
The resurrection harvest.
Before leaving this moment, take time to praise God. See what you have sown over your lifetime as coming into the Father’s resurrection harvest. All is in Jesus Christ. There is nothing that has been lost that has not been to gain Christ.
