Exodus chapter 33 and in the sessions that I've been privileged to share with you this week we've been talking about the glory of the Lord Lord show me your glory the next is chapter 33 we find that phrase spoken by Moses and he says I beseech thee show me thy glory and in verse 19 God says and I will make all my goodness pass before thee and we've dealt with this in every session you can't separate the glory of God from the goodness of God and of course it also includes the manifested presence of God and the manifested power of God but once again we want to talk about the goodness of God tonight and I want you to notice also this phrase I beseech thee I beseech thee it means to implore with a sense of urgency it means to ask in a way that shows how extremely important this is to you you could also say that it demonstrates desperation you say Moses had experienced the glory of God when he said I beseech thee show me your glory it's not because he'd never experienced it before it's because he had and he realized how important it was I don't think the body of Christ realizes how important the presence of God the power of God and the goodness of God are in our lives today I don't know about you but I need it every day of my life like Moses could not fulfill what God had called him to do without the glory of God I can't fulfill what I'm called to do either without manifest manifestations of God's presence God's power and God's goodness so notice here once again this word or this phrase I beseech thee show me your glory once again representing a sense of urgency look at your neighbor say a sense of urgency now I want to look at some other scriptures real quick that used this same phrase and I'll just read them to you may want to just make a notation of them I'm not gonna ask you to turn to them maybe but in second Kings chapter 19 and verse 19 it says now therefore O Lord our God I beseech thee save thou us out of his hand that all the kingdom of the earth may no kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God even thou only now here we find the Assyrian army was about to besiege and to overtake the inhabitants of Jerusalem they had already left them under great distress but now out of desperation and a sense of urgency Hezekiah calls on God and uses the same words Moses did I beseech thee in other words this is urgent this is a must you might say we're desperate to see your glory you manifested presence manifested power and manifested goodness in our behalf and then in Nehemiah chapter 1 in verses 5 through 6 and he said I beseech thee O Lord God of heaven let thine ear now be attentive and then eyes open that thou may us hear the prayer of that servant once again we see the phrase I beseech thee so here we find Nehemiah has received a report of how many of God's people were still held in captivity and they were experiencing great affliction and how the Jerusalem's walls were broken down and its gates were on fire and he calls on God and uses the phrase once again I beseech thee a sense of urgency this is a must we need this to happen right away so to use he used the words I beseech thee and then in Psalm 1 118 verse 25 it says save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee sin now prosperity now that's probably the one I want to deal with the most I beseech thee O Lord sin now prosperity how many of you could use some more prosperity how many of you have an urgency boy you know over the last several months in various churches I've been in and and and and individuals I've talked to but especially ministers pastors I've heard if I've heard it once I've heard it a dozen times at least brother Gerry I need my harvest I need my harvest how many of you feel the same way I need my harvest now let me make it very clear if you're not a sower you're not entitled to a harvest but I believe everybody in here for the most part anyway everybody in here your souls and let me make it very clear that a sower is not someone who gives occasionally just because you change the spark plugs in your daughter's car does not make you a mechanic just because you read a law book at the library does not make you an attorney just because you have a beanie with a propeller on it does not make you an astronaut they meant and I think a lot of people are confused going around saying their sewers but they're not really soars according to the Bible because sewing means consistency it's not an experiment it's not a hobby it's not occasionally it's a lifestyle I'm a sower my wife is a sower Jerry Savelle Ministries International it's a so earth her church heritage Faith Christian Center is a so earth we don't do it occasionally we do it every day every day we live to give amen we live to soul the Bible we discovered many years ago in Galatians that it said be mindful to be a blessing a blessing is a sower and it doesn't always require sowing money you know sometimes it's just a kind word a helping hand but you're always mindful to be a sower get up every day asking the Lord direct me today on where and how I can sow into another person's life or a ministry I can sow into or a neighbor I can sow into you know once again it doesn't always require money but it does require something that you possess and you're willing to give it so it can you say Amen so make make the determination that you're going to be a sower it's lifestyle with you amen I've had people say well brother Jerry I've I've been tithing now for three weeks am I at either no not yet I've had him say well I've been coming to church down for about a month and my faithful not yet it requires a little longer than a month tithing required being a tither requires more than just three or four weeks Amen tither represents consistency Amen you you it's part of your life amen you know you have the attitude you wouldn't even think of going to church without bringing a tithe thank you for your enthusiasm you wouldn't even come to a believers convention without bringing seed that's your attitude amen I tell people you know you need at least three things when you come to church when you come to a meeting a Christian meeting then one bring your Bible number two bring something to take notes on and number three bring a seed I didn't get as many yeah one that last part you need three things every time you come to church or you come to a Christian meeting or a believers convention number one you need to bring your Bible bring the Word of God with you number two bring something to take notes amen and then number three bring a seed thank you thank you thank you your day that time I thought maybe my mic went off bring seed so notice once again here in psalm 118 it says save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee sinned now prosperity how many of you could use once again I'm asking the question how many of you could use some more prosperity [Applause] how many of you could would would thoroughly enjoy seeing your harvest manifest soon on the seeds that you've sown amen sin now I beseech thee sin now prosperity well prosperity is actually a manifestation of the goodness of God and therefore it's part of the glory of God I will show you all my goodness so prosperity is a part of experiencing the glory of God so lift hands right now and say Lord show me your glory and then add this Sanel prosperity and emphasize say it again but it says this time the word now sin man prosperity hallelujah you believe God could send you prosperity now you know I'm sowed seed in meetings and got my harvest before I left the building many times many times hallelujah I remember back in 1981 brother Copeland had three different conventions back then here in Fort Worth Anaheim California and in Charlotte North Carolina and we were in Charlotte in 1981 and I had I had preached up until Thursday afternoon and I shared a part of this in one of the earlier services this week but when we got back to our hotel we were tired I was tired from preaching and so forth and and and we went to all the services and and so Carolyn said are you gonna lay down and take a nap before we go the evening service she said I don't know if I can stay awake while brother Copeland's preaching if I don't take a nap and I said no you go ahead and take a nap and I'm just gonna sit here in the living room and I'm just gonna relax and until time for the surge I'll come and wake you up when it's time to get dressed and so forth so I sit there in the living room I took my suit off put my robe on and I'm just sitting in the living room of this hotel suite that we had and I prop my feet up on the coffee table in front of the sofa and I put my hands behind my head and just closed my eyes and the moment I did I didn't know this was going to happen I didn't ask for it I wasn't expecting it I thought I was just gonna have a little rest and the Lord appeared in my room and the the Shekinah glory of God absolutely filled that room to the point that I couldn't even see the furniture in him and he said these words he said my people are experiencing financial famine and I want to reveal to you the keys that will bring them out so there was a legal pad sitting on the table next to the sofa I grabbed that legal pad and a pen and I started writing as fast as Jesus was talking to me and you would have thought he would have been there for hours and hours because I filled up that legal pad but it happened so quick it was like moments which led me to realize Jesus can say more in moments than most preachers can in a lifetime amen and he began to talk to me and teach me about how to come out of financial famine and and I I wrote down at the top of that legal pad sowing and famine is what he emphasized sowing in famine and Carolyn woke up and she came in the room and she said what's going on in here I said I just had a an appearance to the Lord and and there were still a residue of that glory in that room and she got caught up in it and we both just sit there on the sofa and couldn't say a word again until it just lifted and and she said are you gonna tell brother Copeland bout this and I said no I'm not and I were brother Copeland long enough now I knew he'd pick it up in the spirit if it was needful for me to say anything about it and so we got dressed and we went over to the meeting and so we took our seat on the front row I was sitting next to glory and then Carolyn and the Charles and Peggy Capps and then Norvel Hayes were the speakers and brother Copeland got up and he did a few songs and so forth and did his preliminaries and all that and then he got his Bible and he laid it on the podium like he does he said let's open our Bibles tonight so we're all sitting there waiting and he didn't tell us where he just did their like this kept looking at his Bible then he tried it again let's open our Bibles tonight he didn't tell us where and he just looked down at his again finally he closed his closed a notebook said Jerry God visited you today come tell us what he said so I got up and I walked up to the podium or the platform and he he had his assistant Billy I believe was you at that time Billy rash right over there and he said Billy bring me a chair and and he put the chair just a few feet from the podium and I'm walking up toward the podium and brother Copeland grab my suit pants and said boy don't you leave out of thing you hear me I said yes sir and so I begin teaching that night on what Jesus said to me about sowing and famine and I'm telling you have known and God hid that place it was absolutely amazing absolutely amazing now my ministry at that time was experiencing a great financial attack and not only that but we were we were endeavoring to do some major things and it's going to take some major money and one thing was I had sown my airplane into another ministry and now I was in need of another airplane and I learned from brother Copeland you know that's how I saw him operate when I was working on staff with him every time he needed another airplane he sold an airplane because that's the law Genesis every seed produces after its own kind you own apples you plan apples you want oranges you plant orange seeds you don't plant cotton and get pears amen and so I learned that from him and I sold my airplane and I'm believing for my next one but I don't have any I don't have any money in that account really to speak up and so I needed this airplane not only that my missions outreaches I was building churches over in Africa I needed money for that my television ministry needed money every every department of my ministry needed more money anybody ever been there so I had ten major divisions of our ministry at that time and so I've sat down and wrote a check before I went over to the service and I thought I was going to do it in the speaker's room after the service but when brother Copeland called me up then I realized that the anointing was there to do it right then and I challenged the people to if they were in famine follow the example and so I had written checks out of each department of my minister each division a one thousand dollar check out of each division and in some cases as the last thousand dollars I had in that in that account for that division and then Carol and I were building our home and we needed more money to finish the home and so I sold a thousand dollars out of our personal account so I went over to that meeting that night with ten one thousand dollar checks and another thousand out of our personal account okay so I went over there and after I got through preaching I called brother Copeland up to the platform and I said brother Copeland I'm going to act on what the Lord said to me in that visitation and I'm sowing in family now I got that the Lord pointed that out to me from Genesis 26 where Isaac sowed in famine and reaped a hundredfold in the same year they say the same year now this is October and the Lord said if I would be obedient to do it I would receive the blessing that Isaac received I'm thinking okay hundredfold in the same year Lord you got from October to December 31st I'm just taking the Lord at his word amen and so I said brother Copeland here's a thousand dollars out of my aviation department here's a thousand dollars out of my television depart here's a thousand dollars out of my missions outreach here's a town and I went through all ten of those divisions and then I said and here's a thousand dollars out of mine and Carolyn's personal account we're believing God for harvest to finish building our home and and then I challenged the people as I said to if they were in experiencing financial famine do the same because there was an anointing on this I'm not just trying to raise an offering there was an anointing on this and so it was a it was a fabulous service and and the people responded so generously it was an amazing night to say the least and the next week when I left Charlotte I was to be with Kenneth Hagin in Tulsa and that night in Tulsa that opening night brother Hagin was preaching Carol and I were just setting a few rows back you know and right in the middle of each service brother Hagin said Jerry brother Jerry stand up I stood up didn't have a clue what he's gonna do he said I'm about to sow the biggest seed of every song he said I'm giving you my airplane now the airplane was was worth at that time that particular airplane was worth a quarter of a million dollars at least so a thousand dollars sewn into brother Copeland from my Aviation Department and I reaped a quarter of a million dollar airplane I'd call that hundredfold in the same year wouldn't you agree now the next night in that same meeting after the service Carol now we're about to walk out and a couple walked up to us and said brother Jared God spoke to us last week and told us to bring you a hundred thousand dollars for your television ministry let's see I sold a thousand out of that television Department and I got a hundred thousand that sounds like a hundredfold in the same year before December the 31st we had reaped a hundredfold on every check wheat sown amen so anybody that doesn't believe in the hundredfold you've come too late for the Savelle household amen now I've said in one of the previous services this week that when Carolina first started and in you'd have to ask brother köppen and Gloria the condition we were in when they first met us and we learned not only from brother Copeland but at that same time back in 1969 Richard I believe your daddy came out with the seed faith book the miracle of seed faith and when I was watching all Robert's on television this is 1969 I believe Richard edited that book and so brother Robert said if you'll write to me I'll send you this book absolutely free I said Carolyn get the address write it down ordered here's one we can afford and it wasn't but a few days later we got that book in the mail the miracle of seed faith and I absorbed it I consumed it and between brother Copeland and Oral Roberts I got a revelation of seed time and harvest amen and we started living that way now when we first started because I was deep in debt in the business I don't and deep in debt personally when we first started we didn't have a lot of seed to soul in fact I remember when brother Copeland left from the first meeting he was in there and and I didn't go until the very last night and Carolyn begged me to go she promised me he was not like all the other preachers that she drugged me to here and I didn't want to hear any more preachers and she said if you don't like him then I'll never ask you to go to another meeting I thought that's the deal I've been waiting on I'm going and I thought and I don't like him already she said he hadn't even heard him yet I say well I know I'm not gonna like him cuz I know he's he's like all the rest she said no he's not she said I've been in this all my life and I've never heard anybody preach the gospel like this man and so I went that night you know thinking that I probably wouldn't like him and I'd never have to go again but it turned out I liked him in fact I'll never forget he walked up to the podium like he was mounting a harley-davidson you know and he preached on mark 11:23 and 24 and when he got through he took his notebook and his Bible he said if you believe it it'll work if you don't it won't good night I thought John Wayne has finally come to the pulpit all him other preachers she drugged me to hear where Wally Cox as far as I was concerned but John Wayne is in the pulpit now you know and and boy I didn't I didn't surrender my life that night but shortly after that I couldn't run from God anymore and a lady brought me all the tapes of those services that he had been there preaching and I started listening those reel-to-reel tapes and so I'm hooked I mean once once I get into something I go all out I'm not gonna play Church with this I've been running from God all this time now I've heard the truth and the truth has set me free and I'm going all out I'm going all the way we're gonna do this we're gonna do it all the way we're gonna live by faith we're not gonna play games we're gonna live by faith amen that's just my attitude I've always been that way you know and you know III I used to drag race and my daddy would tell me growing up he'd say son if I catch you drag racing in the streets I'm gonna take the keys away from you well it's more fun in the streets and I went caroling I first married she'd want me to go to church with her and she had she had a little car that has six-cylinder engine I said I am NOT gonna get caught in this car she said why not I said I have a reputation I am NOT going to church or anywhere with you and a falcon with a 6-cylinder engine if you go with me you're gonna ride in my GTO she said no you'll race all the way I said you better believe it there's not a woman in a Volkswagen will beat me to the next light so I just I just I just wired for speed you know not drugs fast I don't know what you think about their mother drug you'd have to ask Jesse about that I don't know anything about that but I know speed I know fast hallelujah and so and my attitude was if we go if we go race let's race until we blow the engine up let's race until we until we knocked the gears out of it you know I mean that was just the way I was just all out so that's the way I approach this life of faith and and somebody asks me years ago what's the greatest spiritual law you've ever learned I didn't even hesitate the law of seedtime and harvest the law of seedtime and harvest so we began living that way even when we didn't have much seed to soul and I remember writing a letter to brother Copeland after I'm listening to those tapes and I said dear brother Copeland if I had $1,000 I would sew it into your ministries your ministry because I know there are other Jerry Savelle just like me who need to hear what you preach and I'd love to help you reach them I said but sir I don't have $1,000 I said sir I don't have $100 I said sir I don't have $10 furthermore I don't have $1 to send you I said but I'm not without seed now here's an important point Jesus taught me or the Lord taught me in those early days he said if you decide to become a sower you will never be without seed I said well Lord what seed do I have he said right now prayer time get on your knees every morning at 6 o'clock to spend the first time of your day praying for brother coppens ministry so that's what I wrote in that letter I said sir I don't have any money to send you but I'm not without seed and I will I will get up every morning at 6 o'clock and I'll devote the first hour of my day praying for your ministry that's all the seed I've got amen and you know it wouldn't it wasn't a a long time I mean it didn't happen overnight but it wasn't a long time before I got blessed with a thousand dollars and the Lord said you remember what you wrote in that letter I said yes I do and so the next time brother Copeland came I said sir I wrote you a letter I don't know if you remembered or not but I said if I had a thousand dollars I'd sew it into your ministry I said well the Lord's blessed me with a thousand and I handed it to him and I thought that'd be the end of it I I didn't expect what came out of my mouth next I didn't premeditate it never crossed my mind and when I handed him the thousand I said and next time it'll be ten thousand I grabbed my mouth and walked away and I was out there good where would I ever get $10,000 but I remember the time there wasn't a lifetime just down the road you know progressing keep on sewing don't ever quit and I remember the time I walked up to him and said sir I said I'd sew it I'd sew ten thousand dollars into your ministry and here it is and I was shocked what came out my mouth next I said and never come a day it'll be a hundred thousand I said dear God you have you have gone off the deep end now Jerry Savelle I remember the day I said I remember the day I sold a hundred thousand hallelujah and then I couldn't hardly wait to hear what came out of my mouth next I said don't come a day we'll put a million dollars in your ministry and I did balk at it I did didn't frighten me you know and and I preached a message out in Anaheim about smite your debt the message the Lord gave me and I preached that message and when we got back home it made such an impact on brother Copeland he wrote all these partners and he said in the letter Jerry Savelle preached this message out in Anaheim and I want every partner amount to get this message and if you'll just wait to me I'll send it to you absolutely free and he sent that message out to everybody that wrote to him now I didn't even know until I got my partner letter you know that that he was going to do that and so he's everybody that that asked for it he sent it to him free but they sent back 1.3 million dollars I just put a million dollars in brother Copeland's ministry amen hallelujah don't don't not so because you think it's little you got to start to process some time so I said well as soon as my ship comes in most people that say that never sent a ship out the Mammal says in the book of Proverbs don't wait for the conditions to be perfect start where you are now when I preach that message brother Copeland told Terry his daughter Terry were you at ray back there in the back Terry Pearson's he she was running the television ministry at that time he told her get this message on our television broadcast as quick as you can so it came out and I didn't realize it at the time but when it came out on a Sunday broadcast aural and evelyn roberts were watching it at home and brother roberts had his secretary ruth rooks call my office and say brother Roberts wants you in his office today well who tells Oral Roberts no I'm busy you know so I flew to Tulsa and went to Oral Roberts office he said I saw you preaching that message own sowing and famine that I believe what you called it on brother Copeland's broadcast yesterday he said and I want you to preach it to me again just like you preached it on that broadcast I said okay he handed me a piece of chalk he had it he had a chalkboard in his office remember that Richard I did that he handed me a piece of chalk a chalkboard he said now write all the scriptures you used in that sermon and write your three main points and then he said this and you're gonna preach it to me just like you did on that broadcast and when you get through I'll let you know if you had a visitation from the Lord Wow I thought I did the never Roberts is gonna determine whether I heard from God and he said and not only that anything I don't understand I'll stop you and make you repeat it he kept me for six hours six hours when I got through hi worn out he's that I said I can't go now he said you've heard from God he said that's a great message are you gonna put it in a book I said well I've planned to he said well you better hurry up if you don't I am he said and I'm not telling him by where I got it I said that's okay brother Roberts I've been doing you that way for years how they do you hey and I got home I was supposed to come home that night I was so I felt like my brain was on fire I felt like when I walked out his office smoke was coming out of my ears and I said I called Carol I said I can't come home I'm drained I spent six hours preaching to him and I went across the road to the hotel and got a room and went to bed and flew home the next morning and when I got home I told my publication Department I said I want you to get that message I preached in Charlotte in book form and I want you to get it out as quick as you can that was the fastest book we ever printed because all Robert said if you don't get it out I'm on to it and I got mine out and I called it sowing and famine and right behind it he Creek he put his out called attack your lack and they're right attack your leg and you added to that one Lindsay did yeah amen I left there and I went to South Africa and the Lord told me to preach it in South Africa and we had in that meeting ray Macaulay Rehman South Africa his father told me after that service that I preached that they said they had the greatest financial breakthroughs they'd ever had in the history of that church up to that time Amen people learned not to withhold their seed just because you're in a famine if you're an effeminate nu can do is hold you see so you seed amen like Charles Capps you to say don't eat you see if you're down to your last dollar don't dare spend it so it Amen now I want you to listen to this I got a lot to cover and short time to do it I want you to listen to this a sower once again is not someone who does this occasionally it's someone who lives this way it's lifestyle to that they understand the spiritual law of sowing and reaping and they apply it appropriated every day of their lives in some way now Galatians 6:7 from the Phillips translation says a man's harvest in life depends entirely upon that which he sews no one else can determine your harvest only you in fact God's given you that privilege to determine your own financial outcome did you hear that you know I have a board of directors that have served on our ministry for many many years and we have a board meeting every year and we go over all of our progress we go over everything that we've accomplished we go over everything we're believing to do and so forth and then when all that's taken care of then they have a compensation meeting and they determine not Carol or not they determine our salary I don't have any input in it I'm not even in the room when they do it I don't tell them what to do I don't I don't have yes-men on the board I trust them and they have been very gracious to us in fact they love us how they do you because they've taken very good care of us and so when they call us back in and they expect it now because I've done this the majority have been serving on that board for 25-30 years or longer and there they they expect this now out of me when they when they set the compensation the first thing they'll hear me say is thank you gentlemen that's very kind of you I appreciate you gentle rusty even though this will be my salary it will not be my income they'll smile they expect me to say that I say it every year even though this will be my salary it will not be my income my income will far exceed this because I'm a sober say my my check from Jerry Savelle ministries is much smaller than my income because I determine my income they determined my salary but they don't determine my income I determined my income by the seeds I saw how they do you can you say Amen yeah I remember years ago I was preaching and and this was in the early seventies I was preaching in Meridian Mississippi that's where Mack and Lynne Hammond heard me for the first time before they Mack was still flying airplanes charter service and and they heard me for the first time there in that meeting he and after that a couple of services a lady came up to me and she said brother Jerry I want to be your partner I said well thank you very much I appreciate that very kind of me she said now about my husband passed away and she said and I live on a pension from the many years that he worked for this company and and and I just live on a pension and I'm going to sew into your ministry one dollar a month and I said was a ma'am I appreciate that that is very kind of you but I said I feel bad about taking your one dollar she put her hands on her hip little woman stood up there in front of me and she said you don't practice what you preach do you boy I said yes ma'am I do she said no you don't I'm trying to get off this fixed income and you're rebut robbing me of my harvest I said give me your dollar lady I wouldn't do that to you and and she sewed $1 a month every month until she passed away years later now many years later I'm preaching in Jackson Mississippi and this younger lady came up to me and she said you don't know me but I know you and I said well how do you know me she said well my mother was your partner and she said she started sewing into your ministry $1 a month I said oh you mean miss so-and-so and she said that was my mother and I watched her take that $1 and sew it every month into your ministry she said now I just want you to know that $1 month has made me a wealthy woman I said how's that she said well when when mom passed away I was the only child and I inherited the farm and we had a lot of acreage and it came to a place to where the city of Jackson and the surrounding communities decided they just couldn't live without my property and they come in there and offered me a ton of money and I believe that that $1 a month that my mother sent you every month that's the reason why I'm a wealthy woman today how did a men see one dollar amount that doesn't sound like much but look what God did with one dollar though you have that same testimony of your daddy I remember him doing that you know and you understand that Paul said a man's harvest in life depends entirely upon that which he sews so you are in charge of your financial destiny I was with brother Copeland and in Bournemouth England in 1992 and I was preaching with him and Gloria the and one night while brother Copeland was preaching he's getting ready to preach the Lord said to me what were the first two gifts I gave man after creating him well I've never thought of it in those terms I said well Lord what do you mean by gifts what were the first two gifts you gave to man he said well doesn't it say in Genesis chapter one that I gave man Dominion and authority I said yes sir he said well what was gift number two I said well Lord I had never thought of it in those terms he said go read Genesis 1 again and the next thing God gave man after Dominion and authority was seed behold I give you see every herb bearing seed so God gave man Dominion and authority and God gave man seed and he went on to say and it shall be under the meat in II et or me-80 he said it shall be meat under thee if you look in other translations it'll say provision or food so what is God saying the first two things he gave Adam was this number one Authority number two seed he's saying son I give you the authority through the seed you sow to determine your own future amen you determine the government can't determine it IRS can't determine it you determine your own financial destiny by the seeds you sow can you say men that's the reason when I learned this I became a sower not part time not occasionally not not you know if I had a bunch of money too so I became a sower and been living that way all these years praise God my income always far exceeds my salary God's honored his own laws the law of seed time and harvest can you say Amen now I want you to to look at this Tony bring me that Apple the Bible says every seed produces after its own kind every seed produces after its own kind here's an apple everybody see that Apple if we cut this Apple in half on both sides you're gonna find seed and most apples the average seed in one Apple it can vary but it will go from anywhere from five to ten seeds sometimes even lower than that so if we were to cut this Apple over which I'm gonna have Tony do if you were to cut this Apple open there would be anywhere between two four possibly as many as ten seeds in here so my point is you can count the seeds in an apple but you cannot count the apples that are in a seed it's impossible you work on that Tony and let me know how many seeds are in there now let's say that the average Apple contains five seeds that's a that's a good figure the average Apple containing five seeds one apple tree an average apple tree will produce 300 apples in a growing season one apple seed will produce approximately 300 apples from those 300 apples you now have 1500 seeds from those 1500 seeds it will produce 450,000 apples from those 450,000 apples will come to million 250,000 seeds and from those 2,250,000 seeds I can't count any higher net so it's impossible to count the number of apples in a seed even though I can count the number of seeds in an Ethel that's the long seed time and harvest if all you could expect was one Apple if you plant seeds what would be the point in planting the seed can you say men now folks I'm not reading from first Jerry I'm reading from Genesis right well Roberts didn't invent this Kenneth Copeland didn't invent this it's not some strange doctrine God is the author of seed time and harvest and even after Adam and Eve blew it Genesis 822 says as long as the earth remains seedtime and harvest shall not cease that was the way God intended from man to have his life sustained and the beginning and it's still the way God intends for you and I to have our life sustained today and you say Amen now seeds are amazing because the last thing when God created seeds before he presented them to Adam the last thing God said to a seed was this growth that's the only thing a seed knows to do grow how many seeds were in there there were six seeds in that Apple okay do you remember the figures that that will produce so you count the seeds in an apple but you can't count how many apples are in that seed amen so the last thing God said to a seed was growth that's all a seed knows to do in fact it always amazes me I do a lot of motorcycle tours and I love riding through Colorado particularly because I love the mountains and so forth and and it always amazes me when we're going through Colorado to see trees growing out of rocks anybody ever seen that before I got some photos here I want to show you put those photos up look at that look at those seeds growing out of rocks show that other one look at that right on the side of that mount look at that bottom one on the far right look at that right at the top of that mountain a tree growing out of it how can a tree grow out of a rock I don't know all the answers to that but I do know this the last thing a seed heard from the mouth of God grow and I don't care where you plant a seed it'll do its best to grow it'll set turn stretch and do all it has to do to try to grow because that's what God designed it to do now I don't know maybe maybe a bird flew over and landed on that mountain but before he went there he was off somewhere in Kansas and picked up some seed and dropped it on that mountain and a little rainfall came and there was a crack in the mountain and the seed said aha now we can grow that's all the seed knows to do is grow that's all a seed knows to do is grow can you say Amen and the wonderful thing is the Bible teaches us that not only are words seeds thoughts or seeds actions are seeds deeds or seeds but the Bible also teaches us that our money our finances our seed Paul teaches this in 1st Corinthians chapter second Corinthians chapter 9 he teaches it in galatians chapter 6 that our finances are a form of seed and he say men now I know many of you probably most of you know this but but but it's always good to rehearse it Peter said as long as I'm in this earthly tabernacle I will not be negligent to remind you of these things because a lot of people are in desperation financially and a lot of people are desperate for their harvest anybody needs your harvest now I need mine now I gave a report here recently in our staff meeting that over the last several months our ministry has sown 2.9 million dollars into other ministries and two missions into orphanages into people in need 2.9 million dollars now I don't want I don't want to clap for that it's not I'm not saying that to do for your admiration I'm just pointing out something if God only matched me dollar for dollar then I would be looking at a 2.9 million dollar harvest right but that's not God that's not the way God operates he does exceeding abundant above all we can ask her thing not only that that would violate the laws of seedtime and harvest can you say amen to that so if God only multiplied my seed let's say ten times ten times that wouldn't it be a bad harvest and be twenty nine million dollars I could do something with twenty nine million dollars if God only multiplied it ten times what about if he did it a hundred times that'd be two hundred and ninety million dollars oh Jesus we could do a lot with that amen well don't expect God to do that well why not well where's God gonna get two hundred and ninety million dollars if you can't do that you don't get to be called God I need to say to you what God said to Sarah is anything too hard for the Lord now you may not be able to believe for that don't limit God even if you limit yourself amen you know yeah I'm I'm not saying I've already reaped a 290 million dollar harvest it's like somebody said to me one time with brother Jerry don't you believe when Jesus talked about the hundredfold that that was just you know a figure of speech no I don't think Jesus talks that way I believe he means what he says amen and he said be it unto thee according to thy faith so you or no one else has a right to determine what my harvests will be and you and no one else can determine what I'm allowed to believe for if I can believe for tenfold harvests then it's according to my faith not your doubt now the media's doubt not the world's doubt amen if you can believe for a hundredfold then go for it but if not then let's just say if it'll register better in your thinking go for maximum harvest maximum harvest what would maximum harvest be amen are you still here now I want to point out something to you here and I got so much on this side not gonna be able to cover it all tonight second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 6 says he which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully so right there and it goes right before that it said let every man purpose in his heart what he will sow so we're you are the determining factor I'm the determining factor it's what I purpose in my heart too so now if I decide to suppose a so sparingly then I can expect to reap a harvest that is sparingly but if I decide to sow bountifully then who is that person who has the right to tell me I can't have a bountiful harvest because God said I could God said I could like to never say God said we can he says if you sow bountifully you will reap bountifully the message translation says a lavish planter gets a lavish crop I like lavish I like lavish what's that little character you ever seen that commercial where that guy has that little pet Catlin that little giraffe a little giraffe it says opulence I has it he's got a little pet giraffe about this tall he just carries around with him opulence I has it lavish sewing entitles a person to a lavish harvest and if Jesse's sowing lavishly then who are you or anybody else to determine what kind of harvest you can have because God said he can have a lavish honors amen let the word be final authority not what somebody else thinks can you say men you are the one who's determining your own financial destiny the Amplified Bible says he who sews graciously will also reap gracious they are generously rather he sews generously he will also reap generously can you say Amen now go with me to James chapter 5 here's maybe the most important part of this besides all the rest years ago when when I felt first launched out into my own ministry I was driving everywhere I had a Ford LTD station wagon and Carolina and the girls and everything we owned was in the back of that thing we drove all over the country I'd be in liberal Kansas one night and somewhere else another you know and just we drove everywhere and one week I was invited to come to Kansas to preach up in Kansas and I have relatives in Oklahoma City so I told Carol mo I'm gonna go a day early and I'm gonna drive to Oklahoma City visit some relatives spend the night and then drive the rest away to Kansas now to get to Kansas where I was going it's just a straight shot right out here on interstate 35 going north you know it goes straight to Oklahoma City straight up to Kansas and so after I left Oklahoma City I'm driving to Kansas to do that meeting that night and on the way up there just in the late afternoon I saw these wheat fields it's a lot of wheat in Kansas I saw these beautiful wheat fields there's just a slight breeze and the wheat was just blowing it looked like waves on the ocean out there you know and it was just beautiful and it was on both sides of interstate 35 and so I got up to where I was preaching and I told the pastor I said after the service I'm going back to Oklahoma City to spend the night and so they they wanted me to join them in a meal and I got out of there and so I'm driving back to Oklahoma City and now it's it's nearly one o'clock in the morning by the time I passed by that same wheat fields and I'm driving by there and it's night and I got the highway to myself but off in the distance I saw these headlights on this huge combat and he was out there in the field harvesting nobody else was out there just as one farmer was out there one o'clock in the morning on that combine harvesting and the Lord spoke to me he said that is an aggressive harvester he said you've been an aggressive sower but you hadn't been an aggressive harvester he said in most of my people of that way if they sow it all but most of them once they get the revelation of it they become aggressive in their sewing but they're not as aggressive in their harvesting he said everybody else is asleep they're comfortable in their beds they're sleeping you know thinking we got plenty of time to harvest well wait until tomorrow and so forth but this guy he's out there one o'clock and I morning harvesting and even though it's hard work harvest time is hard work I was born on a farm in Mississippi I remember harvest time with my grandfather and but I always remember my grandfather having a smile on his face even though it's hard work because it's harvest time and and the Lord said to me he said if you could reach that man I guarantee you he'd have a smile on his face he don't he did not think about how hard this is he's thinking about that harvest it's harvest time amen and so that that took root in me that I need to become more aggressive in my harvesting and not let it spoil on the vine don't let it spoil in the field you know like I said I was born on a farm I'm a country boy I grew up around cattle and horses and all that and and when I moved to Fort Worth I was predominately in areas worth it was city city life communities subdivisions you know and I'm just I'm just not made that way I need some space amen and so Carolyn I found some property on the south side of Fort Worth called Crowley Texas and we found just some acreage a small little farmhouse with some acreage and and we bought that place and and it needed everything you know the guy built it 1946 he was 80 years old he's ready to move to the city couldn't couldn't take care of it anymore so we bought it and and Carolyn's dead always liked to have a garden he loves gardening so when he came to visit us he said Jerry you need a garden I said well you got a garden I'll just come to Shreveport when it's harvest time yeah he said no you need your own garden here so he took a tiller and went out there and tilled you know a large space and planted and then harvest time came some time later now my girls are not country girls my girls are city girls and I told him I said no girls when that harvest comes in we got to go gather it up they wouldn't looking forward to that I said come on when we got there and we got to get in the beans we got to get in tomatoes we got to get in the corn we you know I mean we had it we have some good crops and so they I said when they come home from school I said girls we got to go out there and gather this up they didn't want to do it they didn't like doing it it a mess up our fingernails we don't want dirt under our nails daddy this is not fun and they thought when it got dark we'll probably quit and go in the house now I rigged up lights when cuz we got to get this harvest in you know and I travel all the time I can't be going a week and come back and all this harvest is full I said no I'm rigging up light so we're gonna keep doing this until we get it done oh they hated country living where are we going nuts back to the city you know but that's aggressive harvesting you know you do what you got to do if you want to harvest a mint now I heard Traci hairs Traci raise your hand right there I heard Traci say this one time and and I had taught along these line but he said it in such a way that it really got my attention to another level look at James chapter 5 how many of you need you harvest now James chapter 5 and look at verse 4 behold the higher of the laborers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud now get a picture this this this man has hired laborers to reap his fields ok after they do it he holds back their wages and he said by fraud deception in other words they're entitled to wages and he's not giving it to them he's holding it back by fraud by deception he goes on to say the higher of the laborers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crying underline or highlight the word cry out and let me ask you a question who's doing the crying here the wages the wages that belong to the laborers the wages are crying they're crying to get into the hands of their rightful owners but it's being kept back by fraud by deception so there they they have done their job the laborers but they're not getting paid for it and now the wages are crying what are they crying let us go and be in the hands of our rightful owner I Got News for You your harvest is crying out to you right now you sowed the seed you're entitled to a harvest it belongs to you because God's Word said it lose to you and the one who's holding it back by deception is not God it's Satan he does not want you to get your hands on your harvest why because more than likely if you reap your harvest you'll start sewing again and if you sew again that means more harvest and if you get more harvest you'll start sewing again and if you start sewing again there'll be more harvest he does not want you to have your harvest he's the thief thieves don't own anything that they have they stole it amen and notice here the wages are crying out for their rightful owners I like to do it this way I like to walk around and put my hand on my ear and I'll say - karellen sometimes I'll say to one of my staff members or something I said you hear that that's my harvest crying out for me everybody put your hand up over here like this and say lean over a little bit so you hear that that's my harvest crying out for me oh brother Jerry that's silly well you're just gone and be without a harvest it's working for me praise God the harvest is crying out for you because it belongs to you amen it belongs to but notice here there's not just one cry going on here it says continue with me the wages are crying and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Cibola that's not Sabbath Sabbath and Sabo Athene's hosts the Lord of Hosts angels on assignment what are they assigned to do Minister under those who are heirs of salvation there are harvesting angels that are assigned by God to help you get your hands on your harvest but what does the Bible say angels hearken to the voice of God's Word if you and I are not speaking the word over our harvest then their hands are tied see we're talking about aggressive harvesting it's one thing to sow the buter is gonna walk away and never think about your harvest again never never never cry out for your harvest then Satan to hold it back by fraud he'll hold it back through deception and he say amen so there are two crys going on here let me read it from the amplified the wages that you have fraudulently withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out against you for vengeance and the cries of the harvesters have come up to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth so once again there are two crimes taking place in this verse first of all the wages are your harvest is crying out and secondly the person in whom it belongs to that is entitled to it should be crying as well and we're not talking about tears of sorrow let me let me define for you what it means here to cry it's a loud utterance in protest or opposition demanding immediate action hallelujah let me say it again it is a loud utterance and don't tell me you don't know how to get loud it is a loud utterance in protest or opposition demanding immediate action how I do you in other words your harvest is crying out for you what are you crying out for you are you demanding immediate action and when I talk about demanding God God's not the problem here he's the one who gave us the promise if you reap your soul if you if you so lavishly you'll reap lavishly so God's not the one holding it back it's the thief he's holding it back through deception and how does this deception come into play because he convinces you that you're not gonna get a harvest you're not entitled to a harvest you'll never see that harvest you know want people thinking ugly things about you if you receive a harvest you know you got to remember that when Jesus talked about if a man is willing to give up mothers fathers Brethren's lands for my sake or the Gospels he shall receive a hundredfold wait a minute with persecutions I wish he hadn't added the persecution part but he did with persecutions you know Jesse and I have talked about it brother Copeland I'm talking about it several people nobody criticized us when we didn't have anything nobody nobody jumped my case when I was driving a car that was on his last legs and living in a house that needed to be condemned nobody criticized me is when the harvest started coming the harvest started coming there's a there's a guy that moved in not too far from us well they started building some new houses and he had an old pickup and he'd drive by my house and he'd roll his window down and just shout you know if I was out I like fooling with cars that's my hobby motorcycles hobbies you know I love I used to I used to be in the business of restoring classic automobiles give me a break I still like to do it and I have some rare very very very nice classic cars and sometimes when I'm home one of my favorite pastimes if I'm not preaching somewhere is do someone an old car so I'll have it out there and maybe clean it up or waxing it or something and he drives by Rosa winter down hey preacher did you get that by stealing the offerings then he rose he's winded up real fast and drives by never gives me a chance to say anything you know nobody did that when I was living in that old dump of a house and driving a dump of the car nobody drove by said did you steal that car if I was gonna steal a card I've never been that one Hey do you buy that with the offerings I don't steal offerings and one time his old truck started sputtering a little bit and he didn't get away soon and I hollered back at him and said no it's called hard work and sewing try it hey how many of you need you harvest could you agree with the prayer that we found in psalms word it says save now O Lord O Lord I beseech thee sin now prosperity what are you actually saying Lord show me your glory show me a glory show me your glory I need I need prosperity I need my harvest most everybody in here that sewers would agree if you had your harvest can you just can you just let your mind run wild a little bit now what you could do with your harvesters praise God and you could you could you could you yourself could build the next wing known to the church for expansion you yourselves could build that orphanage in Africa you yourself what all could you do with your harvest and I know majority of you are not stingy people you're not you know people that would hoard it up if you had your harvest man what could you do for the kingdom of God what could you do to bless humanity their chance right now again and say Lord showed me your glory and then add this to it and let me see my harvest now I want to challenge you and you leave here tonight don't wait until the morning when you leave here tonight I want you to cry out for your harvest not with tears of sorrow no with authority with authority demanding justice amen because that's the only kind of talk Satan understands Authority and you have authority over do you not you have authority over here and praise God the Word of God in you coming out of your mouth is Authority carries Authority praise God so I want to challenge you tonight and not just tonight but continue to cry out for your harvest put it on the devil I'm him for one time a brother Hagins camp-meeting buddy Harrison got a song in the spirit he started dancing and he was singing put it on him put it on him and brother Hagin joined in put it on he put it on him and everybody everybody out and at the camp me put it on him put it on it weights all putting it on something was putting on the devil hey hey men put it on him amen stand to your feet if you are right now hallelujah somebody shout I want my harvest then I need my harvest and I demand justice hallelujah hallelujah come on come on give the Lord your best shout right now praise God hallelujah God says in Deuteronomy 32:35 to me belongeth vengeance and recompense for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that should come upon them make haste haste means quick God's wanting to do something real quick if we'll get with the program Jesse said the Lord said to him this is not a year of Prayer even though we do pray about things he said it's a year of manifestations well your harvest coming would be a manifestation wouldn't it hallelujah so God says to me belongeth vengeance and recompense for the for the day of their and I wrote in my notes Satan and his cohorts my battles not with you with flesh and blood but the day of their referring to Satan and his cohorts calamity is at hand and the things that should come upon them will make haste hallelujah the quicker we begin crying out for our harvest the quicker we'll see the manifestation hallelujah can you agree with that give the Lord a good shout if you believe it it says in verse 36 from the amplified for the Lord will vindicate his people the Lord will vindicate his people our rightful claim is to our harvest and God will vindicate his people but hallelujah we got to give him something to work with we can't be silent folks in this case silence is not golden amen are you crying out for your harvest but you an up there on your ear again and listen yes listen listen somebody shout that's my harvest so that's my harvest crying out for me they'll say this in the name of Jesus I cry out for my harvest it belongs to me God said it below Sonny and I will not put up with Satan holding it back through deception through fraud any longer Satan in the name of Jesus let go of my harvest take your hands off my in Jesus name my God my God will repay vengeance as his recompense as his Saint you're in big trouble and in the name of Jesus I receive my heart and give the Lord your best shout hallelujah Luna glory to God glory to God glory to God how they do you when you go back home go to work just walk around for a little bit we had on year like this and people ask me what is that about well you should have been to believers Commission that's my harvest cry now it's my harvest crying out of and I'm not doing this to covet any something that belongs to anybody else but I've sown airplanes and I'd land somewhere and see an airplane like what I was believing for if I had the opportunity I'd walk up to it I don't really belong soon I put my ear right up on the nose I'd say are you crying for me are you my hardest you know what twice it turned out to be my harvest how they do it amen glory to God let's get our harvest folks so we can get some things done for the kingdom of God and the quicker we get our harvests get some more things done for the kingdom of God the sooner we can hear those words come up here through hallelujah get the souls saved that need to be saved get the buildings built that need to be built get the equipment in the hands of the people that need it and and and get the finances into your hands so you can bless your family and humanity the way God really wants you to do it hallelujah give the Lord another shout of praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you
