Plant Your Emptiness In the Field of His Fullness

From : The God Chasers

When you collect emptiness or create emptiness by sowing what you have into the promises of God, you are living between "the already promised" and the "not yet delivered." You are "banking" on the faithfulness and compassion of God, who always responds to human emptiness with divine fullness. Collected hunger cries out for His filling, and our collective collected hunger will basically determine how much of Him we will receive (The God Catchers, p. 104).

Most people who live in agricultural areas or have some history rooted in the ancient occupation of farming understand the term, "seed corn." They know that survival demands that a farmer set aside a portion of his best corn as a "deposit" on next years crop (especially in Third World nations where it may be impossible to purchase seed from a store or agricultural supply store). I put it this way in The God Catchers:

There is another way to "collect human emptiness" so you can receive divine fullness. It is rooted in God's law of seedtime and harvest. When a farmer prepares to plant seed in the ground, he must take seed corn off the storage shelf to invest it in the field of faith. In other words, he creates emptiness on his shelf to create fullness in the field for harvest. For a while, it looks like there is only emptiness in both places . The temporary emptiness created when you sow "what you have in your house" by faith produces an incredible filling. It is the law of the harvest, of sowing and reaping, in open display (p. 103).

What emptiness do you have in your house that you can sow in the field of faith? Is there an emptiness in your neighbor's house or life that you can sow as seed corn on his or her behalf? Gather all of the lack you can to sow into His abundance and remember that the volume of your harvest depends on the volume or your collective collected emptiness and lack!

I'm convinced that an unprecedented harvest is coming to the kingdom of God, a harvest so prolific that the harvesters will even overtake the sowers!6 However, the church in its present condition is too small in its thinking and too rigid in its ways and expectations to contain or properly care for such rapid growth. The church must change to provide biblical training and nurture for so many new Christians.

God wants to break outside of our centuries-old religious box. That means our hunger has to get bigger than the box. We literally must have an uncontainable hunger for Him if we ever hope to accommodate and entertain His presence.

Have you felt "stretched" and challenged by the Holy Spirit to change since you began chasing God's presence? Has it birthed a new excitement for the harvest in your heart? Are you willing to pay the personal price for such radical change?


What Do You Think?

People who aren't really hungry, especially those who enter His presence fresh from the bless-me church smorgasbord, tend to sample a little here and snack a little there with extended pinkies in mock discernment. They appear to be looking for "just the right feeling" or "just the right song" to get in the mood for communion with God. God is looking for really hungry people. He hopes to find them in the Church, but if necessary He will bypass an entire temple filled with dainty casual nibblers just to find a few really hungry people on the street, in a bar, or on the wrong side of town