Not a harvest grain lost

You will hear them preaching it on tv, but you heard it here first. You will see it happen in God's people, but you'll see it here first.

How do I know? Because I see it in the Word and I believe it in my heart and I confess it with my mouth and that is the pattern God set for how things work. That is how He operates and He is teaching His people to operate like Him.

2 Kings 8 tells the story of a woman going home. She lived amoung the Philistines for 7 years because of a famine in the land of Israel. She didn't run away, she left at the word of the Lord to her. When she came home she went to see the king about getting back what was hers.

The Lord prepared the way for this woman. As she walked into the king's presence, they were talking about her! The king was speaking with Elisha's servant about the time Elisha raised her son to life. She was going to see the king, and at that moment the king was thinking about her and talking about her. Mere coincidence? Don't think so.

God prepared the way for her request to be answered, and then some. She wanted to get back her house and land. Because the Lord prepared the way for her, the king immediately answered yes to her request. He commanded that everything that belonged to her was returned. Done.

But listen to this - here is the part that flashed out at me: In addition to her house and land, the king commanded that she be given the value of any crops that had been harvested during her absence! God cares about your harvest. The Lord has not forgotten about the seed sown, and he watches over it. He wants you to have the harvest. God is a restorer of lost harvests. He is a King who knows the value of the harvest. He is the Lord of the Harvest.

In this instance, the woman's harvest was a literal, physical harvest of crops. There was no way to give her the physical harvest. What was restored to her was money, income, the equal value of her lost harvest. One reason God uses money so much is that we can understand it. God cares about our physical harvest and wants us to understand how things work. The harvest Jesus spoke to His disciples about was of people.

We are entering a season of harvest. I am prepared to receive the restoration of my lost harvest, the value of what God gave me that I was not able to receive and enjoy. What appeared to be lost or stolen is now restored! In one day, the Shunammite woman went from homeless to owning a house and lands with seven years worth of income in the bank. Our God is a God of restoration, and He is Lord of the Harvest. He wants to restore the harvests that have been lost. If you look at the king's command, not one day's worth of harvest was lost- "from the day she left until now." I am receiving the value of my harvest, because the King has declared it so.