GIVING AND RECEIVING: A UNIVERSAL LAW OF SUCCESS

Life is governed by principles or Laws. Act in accordance with these laws and you can only benefit.

Violate these laws and death in some form or other, results (and manifests as disease, poverty, lack, misery, relationship breakdown, etc,  or actual, physical, death).

Ignorance is not ever a virtue, friends.

Discover these Laws and act on them. One of my works in progress deals with 7 of such Laws (watch this space...)

Take the Law of Sowing and Reaping for instance:

- This could also be called the Law of Giving and Receiving.


- You exist because a sperm was given and was received by an egg. You are the harvest of that process. GIVING preceded RECEIVING. Sowing and reaping, giving and receiving.

- The moment you were born, you had to FIRST GIVE out a breath before you could receive your first breath of life. You FIRST gave out a yelp (probably with the assitance of the midwife or doctor smacking your bottom!), and THEN you received air to fully inflate your little lungs. Sowing and reaping started right the instant you were born, and you really were meant to apply this principle in all areas of your life from then on...if you had not FIRST GIVEN out a breath, you'd be dead before you knew it...


- All the food you eat exists because someone planted a seed into something. Your food is the harvest. But FIRST someone had to give seed to something.

- When you have an exam to take, you FIRST GIVE time and effort into the work before you RECEIVE your harvest of success.

- When you want to enjoy electric light, you have to GIVE the switch a flick. This sets in motion the FLOW of current through the cables that cause you to RECEIVE light.

There are many other examples of this law which I'm sure you can think of but without belabouring the point, here's what I want you to know:

There's nothing you can do to change the fact that Law is Law. God put Law in place not to bind or restrict you, but rather to free you to enjoy your stay here on planet Earth in fullness and abundance.

So you've gotta acknowlege the Laws that govern our Universe, because whether or not you believe they exist, they do exist and are affecting you right now.

Gravity for instance, is in operation right now regardless of who believes it or not. Some folks have tried to defy it but have not lived to narrate their experience.

Sowing and Reaping is a Law.
Sowing ALWAYS COMES FIRST before Reaping.

Giving ALWAYS COMES FIRST before Receiving.

Sowing and Giving trigger the FLOW of your harvest to you.

It is not your responsibility to understand how a seed becomes a harvest.
The HOW is not your problem - it's God's job so let Him figure it out, cos He's the only one Who can - it's futile for you to stay up late at night trying to figure out how your harvest will come so don't do it!


How To Act In Accordance To This Law:
Learn from the farmer
- Determine your desired harvest: Be specific now. Farmer doesn't say 'I want a tree'. He says 'I want an Apple Tree'. Then he goes and plants apple seed. Until you are clear on your desired harvest, you cant plant the right seed.

- Acknowledge and BELIEVE that God is the Source of ALL your harvest. This way, when you've for instance, sown a financial seed by giving to someone in need, you don't expect your harvest from that person, rather you fully expect it from God - let Him decide the channel He'll use to bring it to pass, while you happily and expectantly go about your normal business.

- Plant a seed that matches your desired harvest

- Do all things with GRATITUDE that your harvest is here. RECEIVE it with gratitude, BY FAITH, in your heart, NOW, and express daily gratitude for it until it manifests physically. The farmer doesn't plant a seed one day and spend the rest of the days agitating over when it's going to bring him his harvest.  He rather works to ensure that weeds are out of the soil, and that the soil is in perfect condition for the seed to grow, which brings me to the next step:

- TAKE ACTION! Sometimes planting the seed IS taking action, but on other occasions you plant your seed then you start taking action, but do this with FAITH AND GRATITUDE that your harvest is here now (because it is, only not in tangible form. But as surely as The Law of Perpertual Transmutation of Energy is real, your harvest is BEING transmuted from intangible to tangible...your action, taken with faith and gratitude, hasten this process though.)

- EXPECT your harvest. Speak of it only in terms that express your faith and expectation. Don't negate your efforts by speaking negative or contrary words about this.

- RECEIVE your harvest. With thanksgiving.

- SOW from your harvest: keeps the cycle of life going. When you receive breath, you give out breath also, then you receive another one and give out another one. The nature of life and its cycles, teach us that giving and receiving should continue throughout life - as long as you have breath in you.  In blessing others you also shall be blessed.



"He who waters shall himself be watered; There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty" King Solomon the Wise


He who has ears to hear, let him hear!