Genesis 26:12, “When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.”

Imagine a blessing of 100 times more than could be expected this year. 100 times more than you deserve. 100 times more than what is reasonable. How do you get that blessing?

1. You plant.
2. Allow God to bless your work.

Isaac planted his crops that year. He didn’t expect God to bless something he wasn’t willing to do. Isaac didn’t expect God to multiply something he wasn’t willing to start small with. Isaac tilled the ground that year. Isaac planted the seeds that year. Isaac pulled the weeds that year. God blessed the harvest that year.

This year, there is work for you to do. You’re at the very beginning stages of that work this year. You have goals which are the action steps towards the life you are imagining for 2026. But only God can turn that work into an abundant harvest.

You could plant all the seeds perfectly – you could pull every single weed – but if God doesn’t bring the sun, your harvest will never come. My sister, you could follow a perfect meal plan, you could go to the gym every day without fail – but God blesses your health. You are 100% dependent on the Lord for your harvest this year.

However, the harvest of this year depends on one thing first – Your work of planting the seeds. That’s your job. God can do anything, but he will not do what you’re called to do.

Listen to me, my sister. There’s work to be done in your life this year. God isn’t going to do that work for you. He’s not going to declutter that house for you. He’s not going to set your alarm for you. He’s not going to put in the application for you. He’s not going to do your homework or your workout. Those are seeds for you to plant.

The truth is, you’re standing here today with seeds in your hand. There are so many things you can do. Small steps are right in front of you. Simple beginnings are aligned for you. But every time you choose not to plant the seeds, you forfeit your harvest. You have no idea what God was willing to do for you last year if you would have just planted the seeds you had. But everything you failed to work for, work in, work on, and work through, God was denied his opportunity to bless.

If you would work through this, God could bless it.
If you would work on this, God could bless it.
But where you delay your work, you deny God’s harvest.

What could God bless in your life this year? Absolutely EVERYTHING. Everything you’re willing to get up for. Everything you’re willing to show up for. Everything you’re willing to push through for. The work of your hands is the beginning of the work God can multiply, but he won’t start it for you.

Yesterday, I took the retreat girls to the Pathways Project house in the tiny town of Galena, MO. This is a rescue house serving as a safe place for women and children rescued out of sex trafficking. We were there to open hundreds of Amazon boxes with all the furnishings for this sacred space. We put together beds and book shelves, desks and cabinets. We filled the space with welcoming furniture and decorations. The doors will open by the end of this month to begin welcoming those souls in need as a pathway to healing and restoration.

The building was given to the Patheways Project. Literally, just given to them without even asking for it. Every single item needed was ordered and delivered to their door. Then an army of BIG Life girls in matching shirts show up to put it all together. But let me tell you how it all started … it started with an ordinary woman who couldn’t turn her head the other way when she learned about sex trafficking in her area. It started with her hard work with no building, no funding and no vision for the future. It started with showing up for one girl who had been in over 30 foster homes and ended up on the streets being controlled by a trafficker, and offering to meet her for coffee. She cared about one girl and just kept caring. Then, more came.

More girls came needing help. More people came offering help. A building came. The furnishings came. The army showed up. And God is blessing the simple, faithfilled work with a 100 times kind of harvest. Is it still work – oh you better believe it!

Ask a farmer when the work ends – It never ends. When the harvest comes, the work doesn’t end. Harvest season is perhaps the hardest work. Go collect your bounty or it will rot!

Maybe you’re all about the harvest, but you’re not willing to plant the small seeds that look like nothing in the beginning. God can’t bless that.

Maybe you’re willing to plant, but you’re not willing to stick with the work. You’ll start strong, but you’ll fizzle fast. God can’t bless that.

Notice this, it says, “Isaac planted his crops that year and he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.” Underline PLANTED AND HARVESTED. Those are both really hard work. That was Isaac’s work, not God’s. Planting is the work of putting the seed in the ground. Harvesting is the work of following through and finishing what you began. And with that, GOD BLESSES.

God cannot bless what you will not begin.
God cannot bless what you will not continue.

If the woman who started Pathways Project stopped working now, the building would sit fully furnished, but the hurting souls stuck in trafficking would never get to walk through those doors. The work has started, but the work continues. God blesses that!

The work has started in your life. Will you continue the work? Will you keep showing up? Will you push through your feelings that tell you it’s not worth it or it’s not working, and demand obedience of yourself? You see, no one else can demand your obedience. That’s up to you. You have free will. And that free will can lead you to a year of giving up and forfeiting the blessing … oR your free will can lead you to the continued hard work of obedience that shows up when you don’t feel like it.

I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was for me to wake up this morning. I’ve been pouring out my best energy, my best effort, and my best ideas and sometimes it feels like there’s not a whole lot left. How do you sit down and write when you’ve got nothing? Quite simple – you obediently take the next step in front of you.

If you will obediently take the next step in front of you, it will lead you directly to the next step after that. And if you will keep stepping, keep working, keep showing up, you will have a 100 times blessing on your hands.

And let me tell you something, a hundred times blessing is a whole lot of work to receive! It’s a lot to manage. It’s a lot to be faithful with. God knows if and when he can trust you with that level of blessing, and when he sees your continued obedience in the work of planting, he will know you can be trusted with his blessing in the increased harvest!

God has a 100 times harvest for his girls who will begin the work and continue the work.

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