Renewal: where results take place

Those who read their Bibles long enough soon find out that there is a formula running throughout: what we sow we reap. It works for walking righteously and also for walking away from God.

Israel will not get away with their idolatry. They will get their results from it.

“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour.
Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.” (Hosea 8 v 7)

Quite simply when we turn away from God then the results are opposite to when we turn towards God. Blessings flow from relationship with Him. The kind of results that you get is determined by your walk with Him. That’s not legalistic and work-based. It is just how it is and it makes sense as we partner with the Holy Spirit. Any farmer knows this. Bad sowing produces bad reaping.

The Churches that see the good results from their mission activities are those who are pursuing Him and are walking with Him. The Churches that have “Emptied-out belief lead to empty pews” https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/29-september/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-emptied-out-belief-leads-to-empty-pews

God’s people had false expectations in their idolatry. They truly thought it would bring results. The sad thing is that it is still happening today. We reach out for successes, money, positions of power, anything other than Him and we have the stupidity to think we will get great results. And it leads to nothing.