If you’re not receiving maximum results in your sowing, then you need to pray and search your heart and find out what could be preventing your harvest from coming in.
The Holy Spirit will reveal it to you. It could be that you were offended by someone. It doesn’t matter who is right or who is wrong, you simply cannot allow offenses in your life. It will deeply affect your harvest. Bitterness, animosity, resentment, and unforgiveness are like weeds choking your seeds.
Sometimes it’s very difficult to forgive but then you have to ask yourself, “How desperate am I for maximum results?” Even if you’re not in the wrong, as long as you harbor unforgiveness and bitterness inside you, it will deeply affect your harvest. It’s not a matter of who’s right and who’s wrong; it’s doing the right thing.
Remove The Roadblocks
I’m not going to let unforgiveness stop me from reaching maximum results. If you want maximum results, you’ve got to remove the weeds. In Ephesians 4, Paul talks about our conduct and how it affects our outcome. Unforgiveness, strife, or speaking evil against another gives Satan an opportunity to postpone your harvest.
I realize that what I’m sharing here is going to take some discipline on our part. Any time you have contact with two or more people, there’s an opportunity to be offended. Whether it be a fellow staff member, a fellow church member, or someone in your home, there’s an opportunity for weeds to grow.
God wants you to have maximum results. When you get the weeds off your seed, then you’re going to sow much and reap much. That’s God’s best! Make sure that your conduct, your behavior, your course of action, your methods, and your manners are not hindering, postponing, or delaying your harvest. If you’re offended or resentful, it will choke your seed.
Remember, there’s nothing wrong with your seed, your seed is doing its best to grow, but you need to search your heart and dig up all those weeds that are trying to suffocate your seeds.
Guard Your Heart
This is the time for maximum results. Don’t yield to the flesh. Don’t allow things to offend you. Don’t allow things to cause animosity to rise up within you. It’s not going to stop the person’s harvest that you’re resentful against, it’s going to stop your harvest.
God says that we are to forgive one another, and to love one another even as God for Christ sake has forgiven us. Do you realize that within each of us is the potential to love others regardless of who they are – regardless of their race, regardless of their background, regardless of what they’ve done to us? You and I have the potential to love them just like God does. We have the potential of forgiving one another just like God does.
Most human beings, including Christians, operate in a love that is conditional, “I’ll love you if you don’t cross me…. I’ll love you if you don’t make me mad…. I’ll love you if you do everything I say.” But Agape love (which is the Godkind of love) is simply, “I love you regardless.”
I want to encourage you to pray about your ways. Do as God has instructed us: consider your ways. If you’ve been offended or hurt by someone, as an act of your will, allow agape love to flow inside of you as you release all unforgiveness from your life.
If it seems too hard at this point, then pray in the Spirit. God will help you. Don’t go another day without digging up those weeds. There is too much at stake. I urge you to make this your year for increase, restoration and maximum results in every area of your life. Start looking ahead, because your harvest is coming!
Excerpt permission granted by Jerry Savelle Ministries
Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God's help. While he considered himself a "nobody," when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God's faithfulness and Dr. Savelle's "no quit" attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago.
Since 1969, Dr. Savelle traveled the world teaching people how to win in life. Dr. Savelle ministered in more than three thousand churches and in twenty-six nations, and has overseas offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
God used Dr. Savelle to impact people who are burned out on religion and who have backslidden in their walk with God, as well as Christians who have a need to hear the Word of God presented in terms applicable to their lives, dreams, and destinies. He hosted the Jerry Savelle Ministries television broadcast which airs in two hundred countries worldwide.
Dr. Savelle authored more than forty books, including his bestsellers, If Satan Can't Steal Your Joy, He Can't Keep Your Goods and You're Somebody Special to God. He served as one of the founding Pastors of Heritage of Faith Christian Center in Crowley, Texas.
Jerry J. Savelle, 77, went home to be with the Lord on April 15, 2024. He spent his last day on earth fulfilling his purpose teaching people the Word of God