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APRIL 2025 NEWSLETTER
"JESUS" THE FOUNDATION OF SEEDTIME AND HARVEST

Dear Partners,
A few weeks from now, believers everywhere, will celebrate our Lords resurrection. Romans 1 3-4 KJV says: “Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead”. Beloved Christ Jesus sacrificed himself to reap a harvest. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” Romans 8:29 KJV.

What comes to your mind when the month of April appears? For me, it represents the newness of life! April ushers in the first fruits from seeds already sown. During the month of April, the first seeds of a future harvest is also planted. If you’re a believer, the joy of sowing seeds and reaping a harvest should rise to another level! Beloved God has appointed this special season for our benefit.

Today, somewhere a farmer is preparing his soil to receive the seed that he carefully stored away. The farmer understands God’s principle of seedtime and harvest. "Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness" 2 Corinthian 9:10 NIV. In the beginning, God established the law of seedtime and harvest. It is a perpetual law that governs the earth today, Read Genesis 8:22 NIV.

When an individual plants seeds, he can expect a harvest. He knows, if the right conditions are met…good soil, the proper amount of water and exposure to the sun…the seed will germinate and grow. It is not a matter of whether or not it will grow. There is no doubt! It is a natural law! It will grow.

A seed possesses within itself the ability to multiply. A seed multiplies in some instances one hundred-fold. All truth is parallel. Just as there is a natural harvest, there is a spiritual harvest. For as long as you live, there will be seedtime and harvest. The seeds you sow are things which you give. Your time, your love, your faithfulness and your acts of kindness are all good seeds that you sow.

However, there are also bad seeds such as hatred, unforgiveness, resentment, bitterness and rebellion, which are sown. Whatever seeds you sow, you can know beyond any doubt that you will reap a harvest. Your gifts and offerings are also seeds we sow. Beloved, what kind of harvest do you need? What are you expecting? You may be at a point of desperation, because your finances are low, and you think to yourself, there is no way I can sow a seed.

Beloved, I challenge you to take a step of faith and plant the biggest and best seed possible. Sow it into good ground, into a church or ministry where souls are being won into the Kingdom of God, where lives are being changed and healed by the Power of God. I know that the seed you sow will produce the harvest you need. God will not fail you!!

Study these scriptures:
Genesis 8:22 Genesis 26:12 Proverbs 11:24-25 Ecclesiastes 11:6
Galatians 6:7 Corinthians 9:6 Luke 8:15 2 Corinthians 9:10

Marcia and I are believing for your success and prosperity.

God Bless,
Howard Riley