Harvest: 7 Uplifting Prophetic Insights About the Harvest

Here are some uplifting prophetic words about the harvest.  These can be used for meditation and prayer. As you reflect on them, remember that every person’s journey is unique. For example, even in a harvest season, there will be those experiencing personal times of sowing or watering. [1]

1. The Harvest You Have Sown into

‘Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.’ (Gal 6:9)

(A harvest is the result of a year of careful preparation and hard work. This includes tilling the ground, sowing seeds, and nurturing the growing plants.)

The Lord is saying, ‘This is a season in which you shall see things come to fruition. There are areas in which the seed you have sown. The seed has been your prayers, along with your declarations of faith, giving, service, and unswerving devotion. There are circumstances and people that you have not given up on because you know I have not given up.’

2. Where Others Have Sown Into

“Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” (John 4:37-38)

‘As you have had a heart of faithfulness, as I have trusted you to build upon the foundations of others, I have appointed a harvest for you that you have not labored for.

There is a field or a person, that others have sown into and tended—in prayer, in love, in words, acts and tears, in service, sometimes privately and unsung.

There is also a generational harvest for many of you. Those who have gone before have prepared the ground and sown the seed—and this is the time to rise and reap. And as you do, honor those who have gone before.’

3. A Harvest of People Drawn to Faith

“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest [Pentecost] with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.’ (Ex 23:16)

(The Biblical feast of Pentecost is a celebration of the harvest. And on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) as the Jews celebrated the physical harvest, a harvest of 3,000 people were born into God’s Kingdom.)

‘There is a harvest of people coming to faith in 2014 and it is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, that this will be accomplished. (Zech 4:6)

Enter this year expectantly.

Look with the eyes of faith and see, not what people are doing, but look for that which I am doing. As you partner with Me, keys will become visible—keys of prayers, words, strategies, and actions that will unlock people’s hearts and draw them into My Kingdom.’

4. The One that is Already There

“Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” (John 4:35)

‘There is a harvest that has already been around you, but not easily discernible. Now, I am calling you to lift your eyes and see what I see.

I am anointing your eyes, to see what I see, and your heart, to feel what I feel.

I am imparting courage to you by My Spirit, as you step beyond your comfort zone to receive this harvest.’

5. The Grace Harvest

‘The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us. May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.’

‘While every harvest is sourced in My grace, this one is characterized by grace in that there is nothing you have done or can do to bring it to pass. This is the harvest of Divine intervention—the surprise harvest; the one you were not expecting.’

6. The Harvest of Weeping

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. (Ps 126:5-6)

‘There is a harvest where you have sown in tears, in times of trial, and pain. And in those very areas that have caused you pain, I am bringing the harvest. You will see the results of your travail. This is when I am overturning the works of the enemy and bringing the fruitfulness you have dreamed of.’

7. The Fruitfulness of Character

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. (Heb 12:11)

‘This is the harvest that comes from your walk before Me. You have allowed Me to put My finger on things in your life. You have responded to My discipline and made adjustments—an attitude here, a habit, an action there.

And these things may have seemed small, significant, and unseen, but now is the time that the harvest will emerge. A harvest of righteousness, of peace, and the harvest that I can entrust you with because you have been faithful in those things that seem small, but are large in My sight.’

Notes:

[1] ‘Just as a word that we bring to a church is not for every individual hearing it in the pews, so a word for a season is not for everyone as an individual, due to the uniqueness of that which God wants to achieve with them in particular…. But it is still Father’s intention for the church as a whole… And therefore, vital!’ – David McCracken

• This was originally published as a “prophetic word for 2014”. I’ve since adapted it for general purposes, as I believe it contains insights relevant to every season.

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Helen Calder is a prophetic minister and writer, and founder of Enliven Ministries. Helen has a unique gift of equipping in prophetic ministry and prayer. She is known for Enliven Blog (est. 2009), an online resource that reaches thousands of people globally.