"I Didn't Sow For This"

Matt 13:24-30

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' 29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
NKJV

I felt prompted by the Lord to write this for somebody out there in the blog world who needs a little encouragement.

There are many out there that over the course of this year you have expereinced things in your life such as difficulty, adversity, broken relationships, betrayal of a staff member, financial upheaval that you have asked yourself did I sow for this. Though I do believe in the law of sowing and reaping and that there are many things that we face in life that our the consequence of a action sown this parable reveals that there are times in our lives that we expereince things that were not a harvest of a seed sown but the result of a seed that the enemy has sown.

Let me summarize it. While he was sleeping the enemy snuck in and sowed a bad seed. He wakes up to find that there is mess in his life and he is not sure how it got there. The servant comes and says, sir, did you not sow good seed (pray, fast, give, do right, love your enemies, turn the other cheek, admitted you were wrong). You did all the right things, you have been faithful, you have worked harder... The man replies the enemy has done this.

Some of you have searched, prayed, fasted, and confessed till the cows have gone home but you still see the same mess. Why? Because you didn't sow for this, it was the enemies doing. It is a sabotage, plot, scheme, takeover attempt, suprise attack by the devil himself. So you say this still doesn't make it go away, it doesn't solve my problem. Hold yourr horses.

Here is the good news, if you sowed it, then you have to fix it, but if the devil sowed it, then God says leave it alone (don't pull up the tares but leave them alone till the harvest...) Don't react to that person in your life that is tying to destroy you, don't yell and cuss at that rebellious teenager, don't go into a defensive mode over that unfair accusation. When we react, we destroy the good in the attempt to remove the bad. Don't try to run off negative boyfriend (of your daughter)... Instead of getting into a shouting match why don't you go to their room when they are asleep and slap some Holy Ghost oil on that door and say devil you will not influence my children...

If the devil did it, the God will deal with it, and when God deals with it, He does a better job than you (ask the Pharoah and the Egyptians who drowned in thr Red Sea). You may be between a rock and a hard place with the Red Sea in front of you, and the Egyptians hot on your trail, But God will make a way where there is no way, keep your peace, and stand still and having done all to stand...

God is about to clean up that mess and restore you to your rightful place. Lastly, there is a interesting verse in the bible in Exodus chapter one, that says the more that Pharoah afflicted the people of Isreal the more God multiplied them. Could it be that God allowed the trouble you didn't sow for because he is going to use it as an instrument to multiply you. God has put enough Dunamis power inside of you to turn your city upside down and inside out and the way He gets it out is through pressure. I was outside filling up my kids waterpool when I noticed that the more pressure I put on the hose the more powerful the squirt that comes out. God is applying pressure to get the greatness that is in you unseen to come out. If there is no pressure applied, there is no great power released. Jesus said I can handle the pressure (Garden), because after you nail me to the cross, I am coming out...!

1) You didn't sow for it!
2) It is the enemies doing!
3) God has to deal with it!
4) Trouble is a multiplier!
6) God is announcing your coming out party!

Blessings,
Craig

PS - I had to get that out.