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Obey The Law And Harvest | Nancy Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2024 | Sunday PM Offering
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Turn with me, if you would. Let's go to Genesis chapter eight. We're just going to receive the expense offering for the meetings tonight. And Genesis chapter 8 and verse 22, you'll be well acquainted with this passage. Hallelujah. Genesis chapter 8. And verse 22, it reads, while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night. Look at this. Shall not cease. So couldn't we just say, read it this way and still be correct? While the earth remaineth, seed, time and harvest shall not cease. Seed, time and harvest. Notice it doesn't say seed time will not cease. It says, seed, time and harvest. We have no right. We have no right disconnecting what God connected. God joined harvest with seed time. It's not just seed time. It's seed time and harvest. And if I could say it this way, we call it this, the law of sowing and reaping. Know this. It's a law. Why it will not cease. It's God's law. And if I would say this, it's to be good at sowing, we have to be good at reaping. Because the law is not complete with just one aspect. And we have to realize to resist reaping or to. If I could say this, when it's time to receive and people say, oh, I have a hard time receiving, don't break the law. Don't break the law. The law is sowing and reaping. Sowing and reaping. Amen. When God says reaping, it's because he's after your increase. He's not just after your seed, he's after your increase. Because the reaping comes after the sowing. And he wants you to trust him enough to sow. Because on the other end of sowing is reaping. Amen. Does anybody remember teeter totters? Do they have teeter totters today or Playground's so padded up today nobody has all that. Okay, I remember in Olustee, maybe a couple hundred people in the town before I lived in Altus and we had a teeter totter at the Olustee elementary school. One would get on the other end, one on the other, if the other one jumped off. Anybody remember the one jumping off? You crashed hard. And then they'd laugh, right? They would jump off and just laugh. Leave you to crash. God does not leave you to crash. He balances out your seed time with your harvest so that there's no financial imbalance. Amen. God doesn't want you falling to the ground hard. Why he said, you sow and I guarantee you on the other end of that is reaping for us. Amen. And so if we resist the receiving side, we're resisting the law of God and that's disobedience. And God can't bless disobedience. Amen. It won't bless us to be law breakers. Amen. To be good at sowing but not to be good at receiving is still a mentality of poverty. There are some people who love to give. They're generous. And I would dare to say most people that I ever get to meet in the body of Christ, they're ready to give. They've been taught they're generous at sowing. But I have met many who said, you know what, I don't mind sowing, but I just have a hard time. I just have a hard time when somebody wants to give me something. Receiving that, well, that's still poverty. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. No matter how good we are at giving, if we're not just as good at harvesting, at receiving, it's a poverty mentality. And God doesn't just want us good. We don't want to come in here and just talk to you about sowing. We want you to receive on the other end of what belongs to you. Amen. It's a law. And not only that, it's God's law. My dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. Every time he sowed a seed, he sowed it because he expected something to happen on the other end of that sowing. Amen. He intended to reap. He never intended just to sow. So many times people just say, I want to be a blessing. Yes, be a blessing, but reap the harvest off of being a blessing. Because it's a two sided blessing. Faith is to go two directions in the sowing and in the receiving. Amen. My dad never went out to his field and saw a huge harvest and said, you know what, that's just too much for me. That's just too much money. That's just too much cotton, that's just too much wheat. That's just too much. He never walked out and said, that's just too much. And you know what? When he saw that big harvest, he never said, you know, I haven't read my Bible enough to receive this harvest. I haven't prayed enough to receive this big harvest or I haven't done enough good things to receive this harvest. No, no, no. He never judged his harvest based on works.
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Come on.
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Amen.
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A farmer would never, never think, you know, I just want to be a blessing to the ground, so I'm going to sow some seed, but I can't receive. I can't receive. I just can't. You know, I just can't. No one has ever heard me say, I have a problem receiving. From the time I was little, there has never been something in me that thought somebody else should have it, but not me. My thought was, if somebody else can have it, I can have it too.
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Amen. Let's just honest about it. I like stuff. I like stuff. No one has ever given me something. I go, oh, I shouldn't receive that. I go, oh, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Not a mooch mentality, but I am fluent at receiving, just like I'm fluent at giving. I'm quick to give and I'm quick to receive because God blesses us through the hands of men. And it's not. Not a handout, it's a harvest. Amen. Praise the Lord. So let's say this. We want this week complete the cycle of God's law. Sowing and reaping, sowing and reaping. God knows nothing about sowing without reaping. The word knows and talks of nothing of sowing without reaping. Amen. Don't abort the cycle by refusing when God wants to bless you. You got that microphone there, Morgan, Where's David? Where are. Come up here. I want you to tell. Would you mind telling about your dad? How God tried to. Yeah, wherever you want to do it. How God. You looked back at the things God tried to get to your dad.
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When my dad was pastoring, what I remember, I was born in 61, so pretty much my earliest memories are, you know, I guess around 66, maybe. With that five, six, seven years old, we grew up Church of God. Anybody else? Church of God. You're not ashamed of it? Just pretty much old line Pentecostal, you know, Church of God, assembly of God. That kind of background, particularly in that day, preachers were considered more spiritual. The poorer they were.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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In our denomination. I love them dearly. I'm so thankful for so many good things I got from them. They can't spell prosperity back then. Decades ago. And they sure didn't practice it. Here's what Pastor Nancy was referring to time and time again. The Lord was trying to give my dad stuff, and he Wouldn't take it. He'd say, oh no, I can't do that. I'll give you a couple quick examples. Oh yes, it would have been, I remember the, it was 66 because we had a 1964 green Rambler Station wagon without air conditioning power, nothing. And you know, the shade of green. All green cars were the same. Plastic seats, no air condition, power, power, nothing. And so a lady in our church, Sister Beulah Cook, I'll never forget it, she had a white four door Lincoln Continental.
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Now those are. If I say suicide doors, do y' all know what I'm talking about? Where the, the hinges? I love these guys. Okay, so Sister Beulah Cook said, pastor Ellis, the Lord wants me to give you my Lincoln. I'll take your Rambler. Now I'm not going to keep your Rambler. I don't blame her. But I'm going to take your Rambler and I'm going to trade it in on a new Lincoln. But what he say? I didn't catch what he said. My Jesus, I know it was Jesus all day long. And I wish I could tell you we rode in a Lincoln, but we did not. Because my dad said, I can't, I can't.
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He broke the law.
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I can't receive that. I can't receive that from you. What would the people think? I'm like, you know, I'm five years old. But believe it or not, I was such a car guy for, you know, I used to take windshield wipers in the shower with me and put the shower head on the wall and do this. I could go a car stor stories for days. They couldn't drag me out of the shower because I took my windshield wipers in there with me. And so I, I. There was property that the Lord tried to give my dad. It started with cars, then a few years later became property. I can't. And he never could take it all the way to, let's see, what church was he pastoring about? 70, 78, 79. And there's a man called from central Florida and he was. Those were the days where full gospel businessmen's meetings were just hot on fire, you know. And you had very prosperity minded businessmen that wanted to support the ministry. And they liked my dad, they liked his music and they liked my uncle Vet Bellis and you know, heard about blah blah blah. And so he said, I have a piece of property and I want to build you a television studio and I want to put you on tv. What do you think? My dad said so the point of it, he was trying to get him to start with a car.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because television was coming, because the more was coming. So the gentleman was very nice. He said, are you sure you can't take it? My dad said, what? I'm just the pastor of this church. I'm just the. He could not. He could not get a hold that there was so much more for him. And if I'm being honest, which of course I would be, he considered it almost above him, beyond him. And it would be a lack of humility to take something of that magnitude. And so the guy called. Anybody ever heard of Rex Humbard? So he called brother Rex Humbard in Akron, Ohio, and said, would you like to start a branch down here? Well, what do you think? Brother Humbard did not have a problem receiving. The point of it is that God was trying to give him things over and over and over again and he just couldn't receive it.
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He wouldn't.
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He wouldn't. Better said he went, I sure wish he had, but praise the Lord, I've decided to reap whatever harvest he left on the table. So if you have a 1966 Lincoln that you want to get off your hands with suicide doors, I will meet you in the foyer after service.
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Can I tell you this? When we sow, there's a harvest, and can I tell you this, a spiritual harvest doesn't rot. My dad, if he left a crop in the field too long, it would ruin a spiritual harvest doesn't rot. And I have lineage on both sides of preachers that no doubt had much of the same mentality that David talks about with his dad, because that was prevalently talked about and thought, a way of thinking. And I've said to God, God, all those generations of Methodist circuit rider preachers that sowed their lives, sowed so much into the body of Christ and into this earth and never more knew how to receive. I said, their harvest has not rotted. And your word says we can reap where we have not sown. So I choose to reap the harvest that's left in the field of their abundance. Amen. Call it in. I don't care that the people are debt collected are long gone in heaven. The reward, the harvest is still available. To what? To faith. To faith. Amen. So when I'm talking tonight, ministering about your giving, I don't want to just focus tonight especially on the giving. We know about giving. I want us to walk out with a mentality that agrees with God's blessing plan. Don't Just think, God's going to jump off the teeter totter and let you fall to financial ruin. He's not. Amen. He's balanced out our sowing with our reaping. Now we sow in faith. And I know this, that my dad on purpose had to sow that cottonseed, that wheat into the field. But at harvest time, it just did not show up back in his barn because he sowed it. He had to have faith to sow it, but he also had to have faith to reap it. When you sow, you sow in faith. But can I tell you this? You have to use your faith to reap. It won't just automatically show back up in your barn. You use your faith and you say, father, I've sowed and I've obeyed God. Now, what's the Word say in Galatians 6, 9? I'll just read it to you. You know this verse? It says, let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap. Not God, we shall reap. How are we going to reap? By faith, in due season we shall reap. What's this? If we faint not. How many of you know saying, I can't receive that? That's fainting. Your faith is fainting. What is due season? It says we'll reap in due season. When is due season? When the harvest is ripe. Well, how do we know when our harvest is ripe? We don't, but the Holy Ghost does. If you will follow his leading, he'll tell you when to reap it by faith. Amen. Let me give you an illustration I want to read to you. First, Mark 4:28. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself. First the blade, then the ear. After that, the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in his sickle, because the harvest is come. What's this talking about the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. It shows this, that it's a process. Once you sow, let your seed go through the process. That process can be so accelerated and so different from the ordinary course of nature. Jesus went to a wedding, remember that? And they said, they've run out of wine. That's bad news, that the wine ran out at the wedding. And so he said, mary comes and says, whatsoever he says to you, do it. He tells them, fill up the water pots with water. And what happens from the time they fill up the water pots with water till the time it's taken to the governor of the feast. Something divine happened. Molecular structure changed. Nobody planted a grape seed, Nobody watered it, watched it grow. Nobody harvested the grapes, Nobody fermented the grapes. This faith process bypass the laws of nature.
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Amen. So how did he know to do that? By the leading of the Spirit. The Spirit of God told him what to do. How are you going to know when it's due season? By the leading of the Spirit. So what's that mean? Sow a seed and pray in the Holy Ghost. Sow a seed and pray in the Holy Ghost. Sow a seed and pray in the Holy Ghost. Because it will make you sensitive to the Spirit's leading of saying, now it's time to read and you release your faith. There's a pastor friend of mine and he was believing for an airplane. He had his eye on a particular airplane and he had enough money in the account to purchase it. And I think it was around maybe 300, $350,000. And it was a small, I don't know if it was a single engine or what, but it was a smaller aircraft and he had the money for it. He got ready to purchase it. And as he's getting ready to go purchase it, the. The spirit of God said, don't reap it when it's just a blade. That's good. That's good. Wait for the full ear in the corn. The full corn, the whole thing. In other words, what happens first the blade. What's that mean? You start seeing. You start seeing movement. You start sensing something's close. Something's close. You can sense when God has a new business for you, a new home for you. You can sense when things are breaking ground, that blade is breaking ground. First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. And God said to him, you're ready to harvest when it's only a blade and you're going to cheat your harvest if you take it. Now, in other words, don't become impatient. If the Holy Ghost says, hang on, hang on. Don't just take the first thing you see. Go by in the spirit. Go by what your spirit is leading you to do. I mean, the day he was getting ready to sign the contract, and the spirit of God said, if you sign that, you're going to be cheating your harvest and reaping a blade. So he said, don't do anything yet. Now see, it looked like he's getting. He's bypassing what he wanted. It looks like he's giving up something. He's not giving up something. God's telling him, wait the process out. Due season, due season. Don't do it prematurely before due season. How do you know when it's due season? The spirit of God will let you know. You have to follow the spirit. And so one day he got a call several months later, and a man in his church said, pastor, I have a gift to give to the aviation department. And he brought in a check for half a million dollars, not even touching the pastor's money he had set aside. Brought in a check for half a million dollars, and he went and bought a better plane because he waited for due season. The full corn in the ear. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Amen. If we practice not receiving, we're not going to be skillful. When God has a greater harvest down the road for us at receiving. Just as you have to practice walking by faith, you practice living in peace, you practice walking in love, you have to practice receiving. Why? Because the devil will always tell you why. You don't deserve it. This is not about what we deserve. This is about what Jesus provided. And he says that our seed will produce a harvest for us. Amen. So let's get rid of words like, I shouldn't. I can't receive that, because that is still poverty. Don't break the law. It's the law of sowing and reaping. If we haven't reaped, we're breaking the law. Because it's sowing and reaping. It's not so. Sow, sow, sow, sow. And then feel bad that someone blessed you with something. Come on, man. And sometimes God will have you. You know, I've been in 40 years of ministry now. And over the years, people have given me wonderful things, precious things. And when they've given it to me, I thought, oh, this is my harvest. And the Holy Ghost said, no, that's your seed. Are you sure? Because have you looked at this? Have you seen this on my hand? I remember Ed and I first, we hadn't been married very long, and Lindsay Roberts walked up to me in a meeting and said, God told me to give you this. And she gave me her diamond anniversary ring that Brother Richard had just bought her. And I look at that thing and I go, jesus loves me. This I know for this ring. It tells me so. And she walked off. And within three minutes, God said, that's not for keeping. That's for sowing. And I go, oh, I love you, Jesus. And a few weeks later, he and I waited. Who do I give it To. I'm listening. And he told me who to sew it to the other day. Oh, I love. I'm telling you, ever since I saw Pastor's World Series ring, I mean, it's just been a hook in me. I mean, I like big. And I'm not talking about your ring. I'm just saying it stirred me. It stirred me. Okay. Yeah. I'm not okay. So, Bear, my grandson. I was at Southwest Believers. I preached on a Tuesday and a Thursday. The Thursday I was to preach. He came to my hotel room and he said, nanny, he said, have you seen what ring, Bear? What ring? The Rams World Series ring. I said, no, baby, Super Bowl. Excuse me? He said, have you seen the Rams super bowl ring? And I said, no. And he starts trying to describe it. And I said, well, let's pull it up. I mean, on the Internet. Let's look at this thing. He said, nanny, it opens, you know, and it opens, and there's a stadium inside. And I said, I looked at that. And that thing, it's got sparkle all over it. And it's a man's. If a man can have that.
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Really doesn't like sparkle. So I said to Bear, I said, bear, that's it. We need a Super bowl ring. We just need a Super bowl ring. And I said, they had to work for theirs. Let's buy one for us. We can buy one. We can buy. I just meant something big and gaudy. Something big and knuckle. To knuckle, you know, like weaponry. You know, some people like guns. That's great. But some people like sparkle. That's great. So I said, we need a Super bowl ring. So that day I preached that afternoon service, and they had me doing a book signing. And this precious lady came up and she pulled out of her pocket and she handed me something, and she said, pastor Nancy, this is for you. She said, I designed this. And I looked at that, and Bear was standing there. He said, nanny, it's your super bowl ring. It was a Super bowl ring. I mean, not literal the size. It went over three fingers from here to here. Solid, larger diamonds, not chips like faceted. And I looked at that and go, harvest. Harvest. I know this is my harvest. I know this is my harvest. Because some things are seed and some things are a harvest. And I called it harvest. I called it. I called it harvest. So I'm going to go preach about two weeks later, and I thought, I'm going to tell them the testimony. And the thing is, I have no doubt when Bear said, he talked about that super bowl rings. See, God had something in mind for you, but he's got to get your words. He'll do things to get you saying. Remember what Jesus said, said to blind Bartimaeus. He knew he's blind. He said, what do you want? What do you want? And he said that I might receive my sight. It's not because Jesus didn't know it. It's because he had to get his words to get his permission. He got him saying words. So when Bear came to my room, we said words, super bowl ring. And within just a couple hours, super bowl ring, baby. Super bowl ring. So I'm telling the. I'm going to take it to a particular church. I always tell everything, you know, personal stories, all that. And so I go there and I'm getting ready. You were there, Pastor, weren't you there? Yes, I was. And so I'm getting ready. I'm figuring out how I'm going to just share the story. And right before, while they're introducing me, the spirit of God said, when you get up there, give that ring to such and such Pastor. I go, I could have left it in the hotel. That's my harvest. I thought it was my harvest. But see, due season. Due season. How do you know what's due season? The spirit of God will tell you. See, I was telling the spirit of God this is harvest. But he's got to say it. Precious, precious. Pastor friends of mine in that service and they had a great tragedy that happened two years ago. It was the anniversary of that tragedy. I walked over and God said, tell him I'm thinking about him. And there's that ring. She cried, he cried. And I mean, it's just massive. I talked to her the other day. She said, I wear it every day. I wouldn't have worn it every day. She wore it every day. And I said, God, that was my super bowl ring. So I'm telling you a testimony about sowing and sowing and reaping, sowing and reaping, that what we think is our harvest. God calls it a seed. And sometimes people don't recognize their harvest and they bypass their harvest. They decline it. So just this last week we were with, we were had our ladies conference before we came here. And Reba Rambeau, I don't know if you know who she is, she was there and in the back room, she said, nancy, I wanted to bring you something. She said, you know my mom, Dottie. I said, yes. She said, I wanted to bring you something that was hers. And she brought me this, this little sparkle thing, she said she wore it all the time. I said, father, there's my harvest. It has a history to it. Amen. God never sees a seed that he doesn't see a harvest. Every time you sow a seed, see a harvest in that seed. But what happens if you say, I can't, that house is too nice, that business is too big, that's too many customers. No, no. Practice receiving. Because if we're not skilled at receiving, no telling what we won't be ready to grab hold. Dad Hagin talks about how the car of his dreams and people say, well, you're just talking about stuff. No, I'm not. I'm talking about a mindset. I'm talking about a renewed mind in the direction of sowing and reaping. Because this is God's law and I'm using the things we can see to illustrate it. But dad Hagin, for years he drove these used cars that weren't always reliable and he always wanted a Cadillac. The first time he ever got a brand new Cadillac not used, about three weeks later, he said his ministry hit a hard place financially and he was sitting at home lamenting the fact that he had put so much money out to buy this brand new Cadillac. And he said, I was sitting in my den thinking, I'll just call the dealership and ask them if they'll take it back. And when he's thinking that Jesus appeared to him and stood in front of him and Jesus asked him a question and said, do you know what kind of car I want you to have? And he said, no, what kind of car do you want me to have? He says, I want you to have the kind of car you want. And you say, you mean Jesus appeared to dad Hagin over a car? No, he appeared to him over a way of thinking. Because dad Hagin's voice has been spoken into this generation and many generations and he needed him thinking, right, because the way we're taught is the way we'll respond. Amen. So let's not pass on a depression era mentality. Let's not pass on, we might have struggled when we were young. Don't pass that on because that season's over for faith. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Sowing and reaping, it's God's law. And to only take the sowing and not have faith for the reaping is to break the law. Amen. Amen. And we can't be blessed breaking God's laws. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. What am I saying, release your faith tonight. Once you give your seed, release your faith and be bold to receive. And say, of course I expect to receive. I expect to receive. Amen. It's not a struggle for me. I expect to receive because that's the way I please God when I fulfill his laws. Amen. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.