{"id":14089,"date":"2016-08-18T00:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/33-reap-in-prayer-what-you-have-sown-in-the-spirit\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:22","slug":"33-reap-in-prayer-what-you-have-sown-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/33-reap-in-prayer-what-you-have-sown-in-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"33 REAP IN PRAYER WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN IN THE SPIRIT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>\u201cRemember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.\u201d And Hezekiah wept bitterly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u20142 Kings 20:2\u20133<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Confession isn\u2019t just a litany of past sins and failure. In Greek, the verb for \u201cconfess\u201d means to \u201cagree with\u201d and \u201csay the same as.\u201d In other words, we confess who we are from God\u2019s perspective. He sees both our strengths and our weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Hezekiah confessed to God his strengths. God didn\u2019t need to be reminded. So why did Hezekiah bother? Was he trying to earn God\u2019s favor? Unlikely. Did he think that God had abandoned him? Possibly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One thing was certain: <i>what Hezekiah had sown he would reap.<\/i> (Read Galatians 6:6\u201310.) What you sow in life, you can reap in prayer. Hezekiah had sown goodness, faithfulness, truthfulness and a heart full of love for God. He prayed what he had lived and he received a harvest:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: \u201cI have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u20142 Kings 20:5\u20136<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Recall in prayer what you have sown so that you can both break past curses and confess your coming harvest.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>Lord God,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><i>Bring blight and ruin to whatever I have sown to the flesh. Bring a bountiful harvest to whatever I have sown to the Spirit. Amen.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRemember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.\u201d And Hezekiah wept bitterly. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u20142 Kings 20:2\u20133 Confession isn\u2019t just a litany of past sins and failure. 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