Breaking Deceit: Ep4: Sowing Righteousness, Reaping Truth

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Hello, and welcome back to the Diary of a Black Corneland podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and today we're diving into the final episode

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in our series, Breaking the Deceit, Walking in Spiritual Vigilance.

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This episode is called Sowing Righteousness and Reaping Truth.

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We'll explore the biblical principle of sowing and reaping and how the seeds

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we plant in our spiritual lives directly impact our walk with God.

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The principle of sowing and reaping.

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Let's start with this powerful scripture from Galatians 6, 7 through 8. Do not be deceived.

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God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

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Whoever sows to please the flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction.

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Whoever sows to please the spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

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This verse is a sobering reminder that our actions have consequences.

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If we sow seeds of righteousness, obedience, faithfulness, and love,

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we will reap the blessings of God's promises.

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But if we sow to the flesh selfishness, sin, and deceit, we will face spiritual decay.

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Sowing is a daily act. Every thought, word, and deed is a seed planted in the soil of our life.

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Sowing righteousness is in a world of deception.

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So how do you continue? Like here in Galatians 6, 7, it says,

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If you sow in the flesh, you reap corruption.

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But if you sow in the spirit, you reap eternal life. So everything that we do

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has a reaction, whether it's a positive or a negative.

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So I will say, don't get it twisted.

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Understanding that everything you do, you're sowing something in the flesh or

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you're sowing something in the spirit.

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And so we live in a world where rewards, shortcuts, and compromises.

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But God calls us to sow seeds of righteousness even when it is hard.

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Hosea 10, 12 reads, sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing

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love, and break up your unplowed ground.

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For it's time to seek the Lord until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

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So righteousness for yourself, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up

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your unplowed ground for it's time to seek the Lord until he comes and showers

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his righteousness on you.

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It says until he comes. So it might not be automatic, folks.

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Right. You seek the Lord until he comes. Hosea 10, 12.

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It says, So righteousness means to live in alignment with God's will.

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Even when it feels inconvenient, it means breaking up the hard,

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unplowed ground in our lives, areas where we've grown complacent or resistant to God's leading.

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Take a pause on that. Where have we just kind of stopped believing or just grown complacent?

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Like we just got stuck. We're just not going to, God hasn't answered our prayer,

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so we're not going to ask anymore.

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We're just grown complacent or lazy. We just stopped.

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We stopped. We used to have a regular routine of reading our Bible. We stopped.

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Regular routine of praying, we stop. Going to church, we just stop.

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Tithing and giving offering, we just stop.

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We also got an excuse for it, but we have grown complacent in seeking God,

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seeking his righteousness, seeking his leading in things.

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We stop even asking him, what should we do in this? We just start running ahead of him.

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So what kind of seeds are you sowing in your daily life?

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Are they pleasing to God?

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Weeping the fruit of truth. When we sow seeds of righteousness,

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we position ourselves to reap the fruit of truth, peace, joy, and spiritual growth.

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Let's look at another scripture, Galatians 6, 9.

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It tells us here, we just talked about complacency. Let's see what God feels about complacency.

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He says, let us not become weary in doing good. For at the proper time,

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we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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Wow. Let us not grow weary in doing good.

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I remember I had this, I was at this point of growing weary.

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I was in the middle of like, just kind of in this area where I'm believing God for something.

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And I know I'm praying and I have a consistent prayer life, but I'm not getting

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any answers. I'm getting a lot of dreams.

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I'm getting a lot of information. I remember one time I had this dream.

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And I remember seeing God put on a watch in my dream.

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It's a beautiful Rolex watch.

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I didn't know it was a Rolex watch until I woke up and I researched it,

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but it's called a rainbow Rolex watch.

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The watch was absolutely beautiful in my dream.

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And he put the watch on my wrist.

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And I didn't quite understand why he put that

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beautiful watch on my wrist and the watch when

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you it's a color rainbow Rolex it has all these

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beautiful diamonds on it it was just absolutely beautiful and it

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was more about God's timing like God's timing is perfect and it was more about

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him telling me that my timing is perfect and the more I got anxious about like

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want to get ahead of God or want God to move fast in certain areas.

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I'll just remember this dream that I had about this watch, about how God's timing is always perfect.

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And I didn't grow weary. That was something that really encouraged me,

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that don't become weary.

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God has perfect timing when he wants to bring about his perfect plan for your life.

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But during that time, it could be long, people.

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It can be a long time. And, but we can grow weary. We can grow complacent.

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We can give up. But here in Galatians 6, 9, it says, for at the proper time.

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We will reap if we do not give up. So there's a point where you will not reap if you give up.

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And so let's keep going. This is God's promise. If we remain faithful,

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we will see the fruit of our labor.

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It might not come immediately, but in his perfect timing, the harvest will come.

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I just believe that even as you continue to seek him,

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he gives you little crumbs along the way throughout my waiting for him to answer

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different prayers that were dreams that he gave me.

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He broke me up, singing over me in different dreams and showing me different

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strategies, just different things that was going on around me as I waited for him.

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And so never, ever stop seeking the Lord during the wait.

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Yes, it can be long. Yes, it can be long.

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But when he gave me that watch and I said, what kind of watch is that?

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And I was describing it. You know, I was like, I was trying to,

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you know, you kind of described it.

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And I just got on AI because I said, this was a watch.

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It was this and that. And there was no other watch that was created like that.

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It was a Rolex watch. It was a time piece.

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They don't create a lot of those different watches.

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So it was just beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. And I had a picture of it.

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I created on one of my covers of my devotional and made it a devotional about

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waiting for God. Each of those colors and that something just gave me a chance to just seek him for him.

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I mean, it wasn't, like God doesn't give you cheap stuff.

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Even in your dream, he's just the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

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Think about that, that he gives you in your dream a priceless watch.

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And I just, always when I think about it, I just touch my wrist and I go like,

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wow, I watch is absolutely beautiful.

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And so how do we practice steps for sowing righteousness? Some of this we know.

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And so it's just going to be just a reminder, a refresher.

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Number one, we spend time in God's word.

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Your word is a lamp unto my feet and light unto my path. You should memorize

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that. That's the scripture for this devotional.

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Psalms 119, 105.

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The word of God is a seed that grows righteousness in our heart.

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We know the word of God is a lamp. It lights us up on the inside.

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Why? It lights us up with truth, with hope, with faith.

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Live in obedience. If you love me, keep my commandments, John 14, 15.

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Obedience to God's will is an act of planting seeds that honor him.

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Obedience, speak the words of life.

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Tongue has a power of life and death, and those who love it will eat of its fruit.

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Proverbs 18, 21, words are seized, speak truth, encouragement,

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and love into your life and the lives of others. So watch what you say.

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Watch what you say, because you'll have what you say.

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You will have what you say. You speak in life or you speak in death.

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What do you want? If you see death coming, you better stop.

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God is a God of life and light. And so you want to speak truth,

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encouragement, and love.

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So let's do some decrees for sowing and reaping. Let's line our hearts with

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God's action and God's principles.

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Ready? I decree that I sow seeds

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of righteousness and reap the fruits of truth in every area of my life.

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I decree that the Spirit guides my action and I reject seeds of deception and sin.

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I decree that I will not grow weary in well-doing, for I will reap a harvest

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in God's perfect timing, in his Rolex timing.

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Take the time this week to evaluate the seeds you're sowing in your life.

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Are they leading you closer to God or pulling you away from him?

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Write down one area where you want to plant seeds of righteousness and commit it to prayer.

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Be intentional about sowing seeds that align with God's will,

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whether it's a kind word, active service, spend time in prayer,

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maybe write some decrees, you know, special time with him. Every seed matters.

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And if you've been sowing a lot of seed in the flesh, it's going to take a lot

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of seeds in the spirit to get that balanced out. So remember that.

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So let's close out in prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for teaching us the

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importance of sowing and reaping.

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Help us to plant seeds of righteousness in our thoughts, words, and actions.

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Keep us strength.

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Give us strength to persevere in doing good, even when the harvest feels far away.

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Thank you for your promise. Thank you for your promise that we will reap a harvest

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in due season in your perfect timing. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Thank you for joining me on this journey through breaking the deceit,

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walking in spiritual vigilance.

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Until next time, Sources of Righteousness. Stay vigilant and be blessed.