(Singing) I know my God
has made the way for me. I know my God has
made the way for me. ANNOUNCER: Join Gloria Copeland
and Pastor George Pearsons today on the Believer's Voice
of Victory as they share the Biblical process of sowing
and reaping that's available to every believer. When you sow
God's way, you reap His results. GLORIA: Hello, everybody.
Welcome to the Believer's Voice of Victory.
Pastor George is back with me today, and we're
having a "Rules of Reaping" message here. GEORGE: That's
right. GLORIA: Oh. You sow but you want to reap, too, don't
you? I do. I like to reap. GEORGE: I do. Gloria, we
are--we're in a time where so much is going on-- GLORIA: Yes.
GEORGE: --so much is happening in this ministry that we need to
get aggressive about reaping our harvest. GLORIA: I agree,
George. I've been thinking--feeling that myself.
GEORGE: You gave--you gave that word at this year's board
meeting. Because I was listing out all of the different things
that we have to do, and all of the different--not just the
things around here, the equipment, the repairs, all of
that that needs to be done, but as well as the vision. And we
have come to a place where we believe that we can accomplish
whatever has to be done, infrastructure and the vision at
the same time. And that's the way you have to be. GLORIA:
Yeah. GEORGE: You're probably thinking, "Well, we need to
repair this" or "We need to get that." You need to reap your
harvest. You need to call in the harvest that you have. If you've
sown seed and you're a tither, then you qualify. GLORIA: Yeah.
GEORGE: You qualify for a harvest. And, Gloria, people
don't realize how important the harvest is and the fact that we
are the ones to harvest. GLORIA: Yes, that's right. GEORGE: We
have to do that. That's our job. We sow the seed, God gives the
increase, and we're the ones that put the sickle in-- GLORIA:
That's right. GEORGE: --and we reap the harvest. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: So that's what Gloria and I are talking about
over these two weeks. All of the notes are available to you,
kcm.org. Just click onto the picture of Gloria and me and you
can receive not only the notes for these two weeks, but you can
receive all of the notes for all of the teachings that we've done
since 2000--we started this in 2006, I believe it was. And so
we've been teaching on prosperity here for a long time
and-- GLORIA: Think of how valuable it is--would be to
teach this to your--not just your children, but your
grandchildren. GEORGE: To pass that along to them. GLORIA:
Yeah. Don't you wish--my-- (Both Laugh) Don't I wish my
grandfather had taught me? GEORGE: "A good man leaves an
inheritance to his children's children." GLORIA: Yes. Mm-hmm.
GEORGE: So, yes, we have to teach that. The laws that govern
supernatural abundance and prosperity belong to us. And as
we found out yesterday, Keith Moore had given us a word from
the Lord many years ago. This was 1999, during the 30 Days of
Glory meetings that we had. And so the Lord was displeased. He
said, "You're good at sowing, but you have not been good at
reaping." And He said, "I want you to get real--" GLORIA: Is
that in this word? GEORGE: "--good at reaping." That's in
yesterday's. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: That--this is today.
GLORIA: I want to be sure and get that. GEORGE: Yeah. That
was--I've got it here somewhere. GLORIA: This--is it this one?
GEORGE: But, anyway, that's what--that's what the Lord said
to us through that word. And so what I did--here's what I did,
Gloria. As a result of that, Brother Keith had a series that
he taught back then called "Rules of Reaping," "Rules of
Reaping." So I went--back then, they were on tape, so I ordered
the tapes through Brother Keith. Now, you can just go to Moore
Life Ministries and look up their archive. And all of his
teaching is on there. So if you look up his archive and you look
up "Rules of Reaping," or anything, really, that has to do
with harvest, you can get the same teaching as well. And what
we're going to do today is I'm taking the essence of what he
taught, rules of reaping, and we're going to cover it here in
this one day. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: So there are rules of
reaping that we need to know about and that we need to abide
by. And, first of all, if you look at the top of the page
there, Gloria, in Proverbs 10:5, the first rule of reaping is,
reaping is not automatic. It's not automatic. And I like--I
like what Brother Keith said some years ago. He said, "To a
farmer, the harvest is not going to jump from the field into the
barn." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: It's not going to work
that way. With Pop and the peaches-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE:
--those peaches are not going to jump off the tree. GLORIA: Oh,
they rot. They just rot. GEORGE: Oh, no, they'll just stay there.
GLORIA: Fall on the ground. GEORGE: So reaping is
not automatic. "A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one
who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace." There are several
things in this scripture, Gloria, that need to be pointed
out. First of all, "a wise youth harvests in the summer." That's
wisdom. Wisdom says, "Harvest what you have sown." That's
wise. It is wise to do that. It will produce the results for
those who are wise to harvest. "But one who sleeps during
harvest is a disgrace." GLORIA: Amen. That very wise woman,
Gloria Copeland-- GEORGE: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. GLORIA: --she
said, "You can't sleep and harvest--" TOGETHER: "--at the
same time." GEORGE: (Laughs) That's right. GLORIA: It can't
be done. GEORGE: You can't--you can't do that. GLORIA: No.
GEORGE: You can't do that. And what-- GLORIA: You've got to
reap it. GEORGE: --when it's talking about sleeping there,
it's talking about not acting on the Word. GLORIA: Not--yeah. Not
active. GEORGE: Not being a doer of the Word. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: We have to be a doer of the Word. And there are
certain things that we are responsible for. We are
responsible for sowing the seed. That's what we do. We do that in
church every Sunday, Wednesday. We do it with other ministries
and entities. We sow. But we have to realize that the harvest
part of it is not automatic. It's not going to happen like
that. There are some things that we have to do. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: The Message Translation of that scripture
said, "Go fishing during harvest--that's stupid." That's
what The Message says. GLORIA: Oh, I see, I was looking at the
wrong place. GEORGE: (Laughs) "Go fishing during harvest--that
is stupid." Harvesting takes effort on our part. GLORIA: Yes,
it does. GEORGE: You cannot sleep through your harvest. And
what you just quoted there from yourself, you can't sleep and
harvest at the same time. So reaping is not automatic.
GLORIA: No. GEORGE: It's not something that just happens. And
that's why people get frustrated, Gloria. That's how
they--that's how they get into a place where they say, "Well, I
guess it's not working for me. I guess my seed is not producing
for me." GLORIA: We want our car to be automatic. We want our
washer to be automatic-- GEORGE: Mm-hmm. GLORIA: --our dryer to
be automatic, our dishwasher to be automatic, and I like that,
too. But reaping-- GEORGE: Is not automatic. GLORIA: --you're
going to have to put some faith in it. GEORGE: Yes, it--well,
you said it right there. We have to reap the same way we get
anything in the kingdom of God, and that is by faith. GLORIA: By
faith. GEORGE: We do it by faith. GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: And we call in the harvest by faith. Of course, as
we get--go along in this series, we'll go into more detail about
exactly how to do that. GLORIA: Good. GEORGE: And we'll even
talk about harvesting angels and sending our angels out there--
GLORIA: Yes, that's right. GEORGE: --to reap in the
harvest. But you have-- GLORIA: Don't miss any of the broadcasts
coming up. GEORGE: Oh, these are all important. So reaping is not
automatic. And do you see that, Proverbs 6:6-8 there? GLORIA:
Yes. GEORGE: Read that, Gloria, from The Message. GLORIA: "You
lazy fool--" GEORGE: Oh! (Laughs) GLORIA: "--look at
the--look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a
thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it
stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions." And then
Galatians 6:7 says, "Don't be deceived; God's not mocked: for
whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."
GEORGE: That shall he reap. We read--first of all, that first
one you read about, "Look at an ant. Watch it closely--" GLORIA:
Mm-hmm, they're busy. GEORGE: Yeah, they are busy. And they
store up food in the summertime, and "at harvest, it stockpiles
provisions." GLORIA: Mm-hmm. Yeah. GEORGE: So God is telling
us there, "You need to study the ant." The ant harvests. We are
responsible for doing the same thing. And I-- GLORIA:
That's right. GEORGE: I just so appreciate the word that Gloria
gave to us earlier this year about, "We need to get real
aggressive--" GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: "--at
harvesting." You know, there's a difference when you add the
element of the word "aggressive." It just really
says something differently, doesn't it? It steps-- GLORIA:
Everything steps up. GEORGE: Yes, it steps up-- GLORIA: Steps
up. GEORGE: --the pace. Things are moving quicker. GLORIA:
Yeah. GEORGE: You're applying your faith not in a passive
way-- GLORIA: We're not sluggards. GEORGE: We're--
GLORIA: The Bible talks about sluggards. GEORGE: No, we're not
sluggards about this. GLORIA: They sleep. A sluggard--doesn't
it say a sluggard sleeps during harvest? GEORGE: Mm-hmm. GLORIA:
We are not sluggards. GEORGE: We're not sluggards. GLORIA:
Hmm-mm. GEORGE: So we are--we are actively and aggressively
reaping our harvest. That's why, around here, and as I've shared
before, we have so many things that we're believing for.
There's a lot that we're believing for. GLORIA: Amen.
GEORGE: When you have a ministry for 50 years, there are
some things that need to be replaced-- GLORIA: Yes, there
are. GEORGE: --some things that need to be painted, carpet that
needs to be replaced-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
--wallpaper and so forth. So I'm just going through the whole
place, every place. GLORIA: Good. GEORGE: And we're bringing
it up to speed. I'll be talking to you soon about decor because
there is some decor that needs to be-- GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE:
--needs to be changed around this place. But then on top of
that, we have the vision. And we're believing for the
Gulfstream 550. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: We're believing for
being on every available voice-- GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: --believing
for the revival capital of the world, 10 million souls, a
million dollars a day. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: We're believing
for a million dollars a day. And, by the way, just before we
began this broadcast, Dale Mock, our lighting director for many
years, came up to me. He had his phone in his hand. He said,
"Pastor George," he said--he said, "You need to break down a
million dollars a day like this." He said, "That breaks
down to $12 a second." GLORIA: $12 a second. GEORGE: So--
(Laughs) GLORIA: Here's $12. GEORGE: $12 a second. GLORIA:
All right. GEORGE: So that's what it takes. But all of these
things that we're believing for, Gloria, for a 10,000-seat
facility here and a healing and miracle center-- GLORIA: Yes.
GEORGE: --and everything, all of the vision-- GLORIA: And the
reason things are so critical is I believe the time is short.
GEORGE: You are right. GLORIA: We've got to-- GEORGE: You're
right. GLORIA: We have to get the crop in-- GEORGE: Yep. You
know something? GLORIA: --before the rains come. GEORGE: You
are--I believe you are so right about that. I sense that on the
inside of me. Of course, I've been here--this is my 41st year
with you. GLORIA: You're too young to be here 41 years.
GEORGE: (Laughs) I was very young when I came and--but I
have--in all--in all of my born years--in all of my years here--
GLORIA: Born days. GEORGE: Born days. GLORIA: See, he's a
Yankee. He doesn't know how to say these things. GEORGE:
(Laughs) That's right. Anyway, I had-- GLORIA: But he's catching
on real quick. GEORGE: I am. I'm a--I'm a fast learner. I see
such an acceleration, not only here, but in the Body of Christ
in general. GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: I mean, things are
moving on-- GLORIA: Well, that's encouraging. GEORGE: --really,
really fast. And I believe you're right. I believe the time
is short and I believe that we have to reap in this harvest
quickly to get everything done that needs to be done. You need
to reap the harvest. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: There are things
that you need, things that you're believing for. Get
aggressive about it. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: Lay hold of it.
Take it. Take it--take--that word "receive," in Mark 11,
was--we all know-- GLORIA: "Believe you receive when you
pray." GEORGE: "Believe you receive when you pray" is to
take it with a grip that cannot be shaken off-- GLORIA: Praise
God. GEORGE: --to literally reach out and possess it and
take it. Well, we have to do the same thing about harvesting.
GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: And that is what the Lord has led me to
do here, is taking the word that you gave us and get real
aggressive about harvesting. GLORIA: Praise God. I want to
hear that. GEORGE: Because there is much that we need. But
harvesting--reaping is not automatic. We learned that first
point from Brother Keith. And then the second point is,
reaping is our responsibility. Reaping is your responsibility.
And in Mark 4:26, and I can read this to you, Gloria. GLORIA:
Okay. GEORGE: In Mark 4:26, it says, "So is the kingdom of God,
as if a man should cast seed into the ground." See, Jesus
used the analogy between a farmer and spiritual seed and
the Word seed. He used those together. So there's so much we
can learn about--even we've talked about Pop's peaches.
GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: And so much--how that applies to a
spiritual application of this. Well, "So is the kingdom of God,
as if a man should cast seed into the ground," or in present
time--present-day time, we could say, "You remember when Pop
would put seed in the ground." Well, there you go. "And he
should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring
and grow up, he doesn't know how." That seed is working,
though. And I really believe that there are things that we
can do, which I have a teaching next week that we'll do, on how
to maximize your harvest-- GLORIA: Good. That sounds good.
GEORGE: --how to get more out of your harvest. I'll bet you that
Pop knew that. GLORIA: Oh, yeah. GEORGE: I'll bet you that he
knew-- GLORIA: Oh, yeah. Absolutely. GEORGE: --what it
took to get a good peach harvest. GLORIA: He did good.
GEORGE: I don't know who taught him. I never thought about that.
GLORIA: Well... GEORGE: I don't know where he learned that.
GLORIA: I don't know either, to tell you the truth. GEORGE: But
somehow, some way, he learned about this. And he--I would say
that he was very good-- GLORIA: He was very good. GEORGE: --with
peaches. GLORIA: Yes, he was. GEORGE: There were things
that he did. GLORIA: You can't imagine how good those peaches
were-- GEORGE: Mmm. GLORIA: --right off the tree.
Hallelujah. GEORGE: Well, with--let me ask you this
question: Would they taste--would one peach taste
differently than, say, another guy down the street who would
grow peaches? GLORIA: Hmm. GEORGE: Did they have the same
taste? GLORIA: Well, one peach could have worms in it, and
another peach could have brown rot, and another peach could be
perfect. GEORGE: Oh. So Pop would protect the-- GLORIA: Pop
knew how to make them perfect. GEORGE: He would protect the
harvest. He'd make them perfect. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: He would
make them perfect. GLORIA: Of course, you could have things
like hail that would ruin you crop and different things.
GEORGE: Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: But they were--and then they'd grade
them. When they brought them to the shed, there would be number
ones and number twos and then over-ripes. (Laughs) GEORGE: So
what we're looking for is number one harvest. GLORIA: We want a
number one. GEORGE: We want a number one-- GLORIA: Yeah,
that's right. GEORGE: --bumper crop harvest. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: That's what we're looking for. GLORIA: That's
good. GEORGE: And in this--the earth--it said, "And he should
sleep, and rise up night and day, and the seed should spring
and grow up, he doesn't know how. For the earth brings forth
fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, and the
full corn in the ear. When the fruit is brought forth," or in
other words, when the fruit is ripe, "immediately he puts in
the sickle--" GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: "--because the harvest
is come." GLORIA: Amen. It's time. GEORGE: He's the one.
GLORIA: It's time to reap. GEORGE: He's the one. So reaping
is-- GLORIA: And peaches, it'd be a time to pick. GEORGE: A
time to pick, there you go. GLORIA: Oh, good. GEORGE: In the
peach orchard--which I learned that this week-- GLORIA: Yeah.
GEORGE: --that it's a peach orchard, and not a peach field--
GLORIA: You're doing very well-- GEORGE: Thank you. GLORIA:
--with your Southern learning. GEORGE: Ha-ha. I'm learning
fast. Here's what Keith did. In his teaching on "Rules of
Reaping," he asked these questions. He said--he did a
little test. He said, "Who did the sowing?" And the answer was
the man. He said, "Who did the growing?" And the answer was
God. God gives the increase. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: Then he
said, "Who reaped the harvest?" The man was the one that reaped
the harvest. GLORIA: That's good. GEORGE: In Verse 29 in The
Message Translation, it says, "When the grain is fully formed,
he reaps." GLORIA: At the right time. GEORGE: He reaps. GLORIA:
Mm-hmm. GEORGE: "And a farmer does not sit around at harvest
time expecting his crops to march out of the field and into
the barn all by themselves." GLORIA: Oh, no. Hmm-mm. GEORGE:
It doesn't work that way. GLORIA: At harvest time, things
get moving. GEORGE: Things get moving. And the thing about
this, too--I'll mention this, Gloria. Harvest time, I'm
reaping every day. Every day, there's harvest-- GLORIA: That's
good. GEORGE: --because there is--there is so much seed that's
out there that we are on a continual-- GLORIA: You know, I
need to say that myself every day. GEORGE: Every day. Every
day, I'm calling in the harvest. GLORIA: I'm reaping every day.
GEORGE: And we sow seed every day. We reap harvest. So it
is--it's continual. In any given day, there's a sowing of
seed, but there's a reaping of harvest. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE:
There's a sowing of seed and there's a reaping of harvest.
So in the "Rules of Reaping," number one, reaping is not
automatic. Number two, reaping is our responsibility. GLORIA:
What happens to the peaches if nobody goes and picks them when
they're ripe and ready to go? GEORGE: They'll drop from the
tree into the field. GLORIA: They will fall into the ground.
They'll fall off the tree, they'll rot, and nobody got to
eat it. GEORGE: Nobody got to eat it. Nope. Like Gloria
Copeland says, if you don't harvest it, you won't taste it.
GLORIA: Did I say that? GEORGE: You said that. (Laughs) GLORIA:
That's good. I like that. GEORGE: So reaping--number
three, reaping requires faith. It requires faith. In
Ecclesiastes 11:4--that's point C. Ecclesiastes 11:4 in the
Amplified, "He who observes the wind and waits for all
conditions to be favorable will not sow, and he who regards the
clouds will not reap." In other words, this is a person who's
looking at the outward circumstance situation. And it
reminds me of Isaac in Genesis 26. Isaac was in the midst of a
famine. And he sowed during that famine. GLORIA: Famine, yeah.
GEORGE: It was a bad time. But he was supposed to stay there.
And he sowed, and what did he do? He reaped the hundredfold.
GLORIA: He didn't wait until everything was perfect. GEORGE:
He didn't wait, no. GLORIA: He sowed at the-- GEORGE: No.
GLORIA: --proper time. GEORGE: Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't--he
wasn't, "Well, you know, when we--when we get this much, then
we'll begin to tithe." Uh-uh, no. You tithe now. GLORIA: Oh,
that would be bad. GEORGE: Or, "When we get this much, we'll
begin to sow." No. You sow right now. GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: And you reap right now. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
And where Isaac was concerned, Gloria, I thought about this,
that in--and I've done a study of this before, but in the area
that he was in, which was Gerar, the yield of a harvest--a good
yield was maybe thirtyfold, 50 at the most. During a time of
famine-- GLORIA: Mm-hmm? GEORGE: --in this kind of ground--
GLORIA: When it wasn't as good as it was before. GEORGE: --when
it wasn't as good, he reaped a hundredfold return, hundredfold
return. GLORIA: That just lets you know that the rules and laws
of abundance overcome the natural rules and laws of the
world. Overcome, they--the-- GEORGE: That's-- GLORIA: --the
abundance overcomes the lack. GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: Even if
it-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: Everybody says, "Well, you know,
we're not going to have a good crop this year." The guy right
next door just may have a bumper crop because he stayed on his
feet and he did what it took. So we say-- GEORGE: Oh, that's
good. GLORIA: --what we want to come to pass. GEORGE: We say
what we--yeah, we say what we want. GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: We say what we want. GLORIA: And we don't say what we
don't want. GEORGE: Wow. Boy, that's--you summed it up right
there. GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: In Ecclesiastes 11:4 in
the New Living Translation, "Farmers who wait for perfect
weather will never plant." GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: "If they
watch every cloud, they will never harvest." So at harvest
time-- GLORIA: That says it. GEORGE: Yeah. At harvest time,
if they're looking and they see there are storm clouds coming,
they won't go out there. They won't--they won't do that.
But we harvest no matter what's going on. GLORIA: That's right.
Praise God. GEORGE: You harvest no matter what-- GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: No matter what is taking place in your life, we
harvest. So we find, from the Rules of Reaping," reaping is
not automatic. Reaping is our responsibility, and reaping
requires faith. GLORIA: Read number three, George, of people
who continually-- GEORGE: Oh, yeah. GLORIA: Say that. GEORGE:
Go ahead--well, people-- GLORIA: Go ahead. (Both Laugh) One, two,
three, go, George. GEORGE: Okay. "People who continually look
at negative conditions become discouraged and will fail to sow
and reap." GLORIA: That is very, very important not to do.
GEORGE: Yeah, not to do. GLORIA: Yeah, yeah. GEORGE: Not to do.
GLORIA: Glory to God. GEORGE: To look--I have seen you and
Kenneth. I--again, 41 years I've been here. I've watched this
ministry go through all kinds of situations. GLORIA: Abundance
and lack. GEORGE: Abundance and lack. GLORIA: Not just lack, but
minus lack. GEORGE: And you have never--you guys have never
stopped sowing. GLORIA: You can't quit sowing-- GEORGE:
Hmm-mm. GLORIA: --you can't quit saying, you can't quit believing
or you're doomed. GEORGE: You can't quit sowing-- GLORIA: And
don't let the devil talk you out of your harvest. GEORGE: You
can't quit sowing, you can't quit saying, you can't quit
believing, and you can't quit harvesting. GLORIA: That's
right. We don't quit. GEORGE: I added a--I got--I made a
Gloria-ism. (Laughs) GLORIA: Somebody said--I think it was
Ken. He said, "We play till we win." GEORGE: We play till we
win. We play till we win. GLORIA: Hallelujah. GEORGE:
We continually harvest even during--even during the toughest
of times. GLORIA: Yeah. That's right. GEORGE: I'll see if I can
do this really quick. I've been given--I've been given about 30
seconds here. And in Jeremiah 17--let me read this scripture
to you Gloria. It says, "Thus saith the Lord," in Verse 5,
"Cursed is the man that trusts in man, that makes flesh his
arm, whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like
the heath in the desert--" GLORIA: Mm-hmm. GEORGE: "--and
shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit parched places
in the wilderness, in the salt land and not inhabited. Blessed
is the man that trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord.
For he shall be like a tree--" GLORIA: Yes, yes, yes. GEORGE:
"--planted by the waters, that spreads out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when the heat comes, but her leaf
shall be green--" GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: "--and shall not be
anxious or worried in the year of drought, neither shall cease
from yielding fruit." GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: So it does
not matter what the conditions are. GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: You sow and you reap. GLORIA: Don't quit. GEORGE:
Don't quit. GLORIA: Don't quit. GEORGE: Don't give up. You--as
Gloria said, keep sowing, keep saying-- GLORIA: Yeah.
GEORGE: --keep believing, and keep harvesting.
GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: Woo! GLORIA: Hallelujah. George
and I'll be right back.
