The Mystery Harvest.

The Mystery Harvest.

Deuteronomy 16:15-17AMP

People have been celebrating harvest from the beginning of history. In 1578 The Pilgrims, a group of English settlers, held a thanksgiving feast to celebrate their first harvest in the New World.

Going farther back, God spoke to Moses in Exodus to set in motion 3 major harvest celebrations.

In Judaism, there are three major harvest festivals: pa?säKH (Passover), Shavuot, (Weeks/Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles/Booths).

Each of these festivals has its own unique customs and traditions that are followed.

But then there are the Mystery Harvests and the celebrations of the Mystery Harvests.

The Mystery Harvest?

Deuteronomy 16:15-17MSG Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. 16-17 All your men must appear before God, your God, three times each year at the place he designates: at the Feast-of-Unraised-Bread (Passover), at the Feast-of-Weeks, and at the Feast-of-Booths. No one is to show up in the Presence of God empty-handed; each man must bring as much as he can manage, giving generously in response to the blessings of God, your God.

Imagine a People celebrating a harvest that never took place, a harvest they never reaped or sowed.

Imagine a celebration of a non-existent harvest.

And imagine a people persisting in celebrating these non-existent harvest year after year for centuries.

This is one of the strangest phenomena of history- The Mystery Harvest

Who would do that? The Jewish people, God commanded them to celebrate the harvest of the promised land.

However in A.D. 70 the land of Israel was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered to the ends of the earth.

There were no more harvest, no more grain, or fruits to be gathered.

Say, Harvest.

Jesus spoke some powerful words about harvest, John 4:35-38AMP Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest. Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”

Jesus is stating a matter of fact, See the harvest. By faith, speak and proclaim the harvest, Don’t wait. Look into the fields, dream. Notice, the ripeness, The reaper and the sower gather fruit for eternal life. Still others, worked and, you shall/will reap.

I am convinced that asking little or nothing in Jesus’ name is a reproach to him. Year after year, many Christians settle for less and less. PH

However Doing God’s will starts a snowball effect it is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger and larger.

WHAT IS GOD SAYING TO US

THROUGH THE ASBURY REVIVAL?

What is happening in Kentucky right now needs to spread nationwide.

By J. Lee Grady-editor of charisma magazine.

There was nothing unusual about the 10 am chapel service held at Asbury University on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Guest speaker Zach Meerkreebs shared a message from Romans 12, about demonstrating God’s love, and the last thing he said in his closing prayer was, “Revive us by Your love.”

Whoever was videotaping the service stopped recording. Eyewitnesses say students began going to the altar to confess their sins after the sermon. Then, students who left the 1,500-seat Hughes Auditorium came back in to worship. The praise team kept singing. More students arrived. By the evening it became obvious that something out of the ordinary was happening.

Continuous prayer, worship and testimonies marked the next few days. There were no famous speakers and no celebrity worship bands. There’s nothing fancy about the building itself—it has outdated wooden seats and stained-glass windows. Yet so many people began to flock to the Asbury campus, located in Wilmore, Kentucky, that the school had to open two additional overflow auditoriums.

By Saturday, students from 21 campuses had visited the meetings because they hope to take the revival spirit back to their schools. One group of students from Mount Vernon Nazarene University arrived in a bus at midnight to attend the meetings. Later in the weekend, a pastor who visited Asbury said the carpet near the stage in Hughes Auditorium was literally damp from tears.

What is God saying to us through this unusual movement? So far the Holy Spirit has stressed three things to me: (Lee Grady)