RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Bible in one year: Isaiah 64-66

Memorise: Then Isaac sowed in the land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Genesis 26:12

Read: Genesis 26:12-14

If there is one lesson we ought to learn from Isaac’s experience with sowing, it is that even when God’s promise has gone ahead of you, sowing is still necessary to expedite action on the promise. In Genesis 26:1-6, God gave Isaac fantastic promises and asked him to stay in Gerar and not go down to Egypt. He promised to bless him in Gerar. Yet, when the famine was biting hard, Isaac sowed in the land.

It was after he sowed that God blessed him. The reason some people do not sow today is because God gave them solid promises. Some may tell you,

”Because I have great and powerful promises concerning this business, whether I do something or not, God will bring His Word to pass in my life.” It does not always work like that! There are some people God gave even bigger promises but they never realised them. At the end, they saw God as a covenant breaker. They were waiting for God to do something but God had already done something by giving them His promises. God was waiting for them to take a step before the blessings will follow but they never did.

Do you know that if Isaac had not sowed the seed, he would either have waited a longer time to see the fulfilment of the promises or would never have realised them at all? The one who really wants to be blessed will give God no excuse for not blessing him or her. That is, he or she will do everything possible including sowing to provoke the miracle. From Isaac’s experience, it is glaring that your seed can hasten the fulfilment of God’s promises in your life. The blessing that should come in one, two or more year’s time can be delivered to you now if you sow the right seed. How soon do you want your blessing? In addition, sowing a seed is a sure way of breaking the effects of a famine. Are you going through a famine? What steps have you taken to arrest the situation?

Promise is not enough. A provoking action must follow the promise to convert it into reality.