A Good Return
Week 01: Give it Away

(Genesis 8:22 NLT) As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.

The Law of Sowing and Reaping

 1. Everything starts as a .

(Genesis 1:11) Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.

2. Nothing happens to the seed until it’s .

(John 12:24) I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.

(Mark 4:26-27) Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.

• Planting takes  
• Planting takes

3. Whatever I is what I will .

(Galatians 6:7 )Don’t be misled … You will always harvest what you plant.

(Galatians 6:7 MSG) What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

• We only reap you sow.
• We only reap you sow.

 4. I will always reap in a different  than I sow. 

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 NLT) For everything there is a season,  a time for every activity under heaven. 2  A time to be born and a time to die.  A time to plant and a time to harvest.

(Galatians 6:9 NLT) So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.

 5. I will always reap than I sow.

(Mark 4:8 NLT) Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

 6. I will always reap in to what I sow.

(2 Corinthians 9:6-7 NLT) Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. 7 You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”

(Proverbs 11:24 NLT) Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.

• You get to decide .

7. The more I , the more seed God will . 

(2 Corinthians 9:10) For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.

(Psalm 126:5-6) Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. 6 They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.

• God is looking for .  

8. The time to plant is .

(Ecclesiastes 11:4) Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

• Plant by not by .