Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Oluboye Emmanuel Week 45, Day 5, Thursday, 7th November 2024 TOPIC: GOD'S COMPENSATION: Sowing Back The Seed (5)
TOPIC: GOD'S COMPENSATION: Sowing Back The Seed (5)
MEMORY VERSE:
Joel 2:25.
"25. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you."
BIBLE READING:
1 Samuel 1:24-28.
"24. And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."
"25. And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli."
"26. And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD."
"27. For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:"
"28. Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there."
Thinking Point:
Complete faithfulness of your vows is a trigger for God's compensation. Doing what you promise even when it isn't easy.
Every hindrance to God's compensation in our lives will be made known to us in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.
Brethren, many received little from God and pitched their tent over there. Many would have enjoyed God's compensation but they cleave unto the seed in their hand without sowing it back to God. Let me repeat myself this morning, God doesn't give anyone fruit, He gives us seed to sow to nurture in order to get the fruit we desire. He won't give us money but the seed of an idea to make money. He won't give you a grown up man or woman as a child but a sperm to nurture to become a man. Likewise, every of our requests to God come in a form of seed, we are to do the needful to get the fruit thereafter.
Hannah asked God for a son, a son she got. It was left for her to nurture the son Samuel in order to get children. She made a vow to God of giving back Samuel to Him, the place of nurture for Samuel is in God's hands not her hands or home. Samuel was a fruit of vow not the real children she needed. She needs to sow back the fruit from the seed of vow in order to get the fruit of Samuel, I want to believe someone is with me. Jesus said, in John 12:24
"24. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.
Compensation is the release of that seed, that Samuel, given to you to nurture, which can only be nurtured in God. Hannah returned the Samuel, the fruit from the seed of vow, back to God and she walked into God's compensation of multiple children. Did you notice, she never asked for a child any more ? But she had other children. They scripture says in 1 Samuel 2:5,
"5. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: SO THAT THE BARREN HATH BORN SEVEN; AND SHE THAT HATH MANY CHILDREN IS WAXED FEEBLE."
Hannah recognised that Samuel was a seed to fruitfulness not a fruit of fruitfulness so, thereabout, she entered into God's compensation. Many believers held onto the seed as a fruit, they refused to sow it back to God. You asked Him for a job but you used it as a weapon on others. You asked Him for a spouse, you become a weapon against that same spouse. You received wealth from Him then you see men of God as robbers coming after you, remember, every seed not sown rightly finishes without replacement (which is compensation). Until you sow back to God, to men, to your home and less privileges, you will finish that seed as a fruit and go back to God for another. When you recognise what you have as God's own, He compensates you with fruitfulness.
Good Morning and God bless you.
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