[image: Purpose Driven Connection - Daily Devotional] April 26, 2009
The Harvest Principle: God Alone
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by Rick Warren
In our Devotionals series, Pastor Rick Warren discusses the Bible passages
that inspire him the most. Today's Devotional is based on this passage: "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 Corinthians 9:10 NIV).
You must decide you will look to God only as your source of supply. You
need to tell God that you're going to look to Him alone to provide for your
needs and that you won't look anywhere else.
We get ourselves in trouble when we confuse the channel with the source. God
may use your paycheck from work as the channel to supply your needs, but
your employer is just the channel for God's provision—and God can shift to
another channel anytime he wants.
When you start to look to something or someone else to meet you needs, when
you begin to confuse the channel with the source, there is a clear warning
sign: Worry!
Say you've started looking to your job as the source, instead of the
channel. You may start worrying, "What if I lose my job?" You know what?
That channel may close, but the source of your every need is still active
and providing for you. When God turns off one channel, he can turn on
another one.
Once you know what you're lacking, you need to give God the right to choose
whatever channel He decides to fulfill the need. It may be a channel
different from one you would choose; in fact, God may deliberately choose a
different channel in order to teach you to keep looking to him for all your
needs.
I have learned, as a Christian for nearly forty years, that it's exciting to
just let God be God. It's exciting to watch God meet a need in a way that
you never thought possible or could have never thought up on your own.
God alone is the source of your supply.
Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest,
Calif., one of America’s largest and best-known churches. In addition, Rick
is author of the New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life and The
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