You Reap After You Sow

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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this

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episode is You Reap After You Sow. A lot
of the material for this week’s episode

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was inspired by Craig Groechel’s book The Power
to Change Mastering the Habits that Matter Most.

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Note: I will talk a lot about mental health, but
please note this is not a substitute for therapy

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or mental health care I am not a counselor or
a physician if you need help with mental health

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challenges please find a qualified mental health
professional. The title of this episode is You Reap

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After You Sow. Just to kind of summarize like we
are now kind of heading into the last section of

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this book or this particular week’s message is the
last in section four, and I think there’s a section

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five of the power to change we’ve been talking
about this concept of sewing and reaping. So in

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the last episode we talked about You Reap More
than You Sow, And the week prior we an episode

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prior to that we talked about You Reap What You
Sow. And so this is the last kind of in the series

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or this section and we’re talking about You Reap
After You Sow. And we’re looking at this all right

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we’re looking at habits from the metaphor of
sowing seeds and reaping um and uh a concept

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that would have been you know really well known
to people in biblical days is the idea of sewing

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and reaping and Farmers know that you not only
reap what you sow but you also reap after you sow

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you plant in one season and then you have to wait
until another season for the Harvest and the same

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as thing is true in life but we often miss this
and that’s why we get discouraged that’s why we

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wrongly conclude that small decisions don’t
matter it’s why we’re tempted to quit and so

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you know you may think that it’s silly to think
if you think of planting a crop no matter what it

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is it would be silly to think that you’re going
to plant some seeds and then stare at the ground

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waiting for them to come up right away I I mean
it sounds kind of goofy and I think you know Craig

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Rochelle used this in the book this illustration
of you know a farmer wouldn’t take some seeds

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plant them in the ground water them right away
and then expect them just to start producing fruit

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right away it sounds you know that sounds kind
of silly that example but far too often in our

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life we do that that’s exactly what we do and so
when we’re starting habits we start a habit and we

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do that habit or that routine for a week and we
expect all of this fruit to come uh out of that

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one week and that is much like a farmer you know
planting the seeds watering and expecting it to

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sprout right away so I I thought that illustration
was kind of good and making that clear and how we

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need to adjust our expectations when we’re going
about making change in our life Craig Rochelle

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gave some examples in the book he said we get
started doing something whether it’s going to

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the gym whether it’s going to marriage counseling
that to improve our marriage we start eating right

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we start saving money by not eating out maybe
we make all our meals at home and you know after

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say a month we get discouraged because we aren’t
meeting our goals you know maybe we still fight

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with our spouse uh maybe we only lost one pound
after going to the gym you know week after week

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uh maybe we only save 300 from you know making
all our Meals by comparing this metaphor of sowing

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seeds and raping we as you know people trying
to make positive changes in our life can see how

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you know somewhat silly it is for us to start a
habit or something new we’re trying to improve

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and expect results so quickly quote here it
says remember getting the life that getting

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the life you want will be the result of countless
seemingly small decisions done consistently over

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time they will feel insignificant but with
every action you are choosing a Direction

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that’s Craig Rochelle I have a scripture
Galatians 6 9 it says let us not become

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weary and doing good for at the proper time
will reap a harvest if we do not give up so

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we’re deep into starting habits and trying to stop
things that are unhealthy unhealthy habits and

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you know it it seems like we’re going really
in depth on on all of this but I think it’s

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really important because you know unless you’ve
just successfully been able to start new habits

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and not had any problems uh somewhere we’re
getting it wrong and so we need some wisdom

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speaking into our lives to help us realize why
this is important and why often people quit

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uh it says when your marriage or health or
finances or spiritual impact are struggling

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you think it’s bad and it will never be better
you grow weary of trying to make things better

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you tried to change but it didn’t work and that
confirmed your belief that you are pathetic and

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will always be stuck those are lies next
thing is your hard work your discipline

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your sacrifices and your faithfulness are never
wasted your efforts are just being stored up

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James Clear calls the waiting between sewing
and reaping the plateau of latent potential

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or the valley of disappointment the valley
of disappointment we we feel like all of our

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trying has been worthless no this work was
not wasted clear rights it was simply being

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stored so if we think of this idea of all of our
hard work being stored up uh and we’re going to

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reap the fruits of all of our hard work in a later
season he gives the example of one day you wake up

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this is from Craig Rochelle and your marriage
is better than ever you’re leading a Bible study

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your skinny jeans fit again I don’t have
skinny jeans but I guess that’s the thing

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uh you’re debt free you’ve been doing all
of these small habits week after week and

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eventually you see results these people around
you uh that are in your life they they didn’t

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see you getting up early working out praying
fasting going to your support group saying

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no when you wanted to say yes training
confessing sweating holding your tongue

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writing encouraging notes putting your phone
down getting counseling he says don’t give up

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so people around you are not seeing all these
little things that you are doing to make changes

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in your life all of the hard things they don’t see
they see the start maybe they see the end but they

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don’t see all the hard Parts in the middle is
encouraging us not to don’t give up believing

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don’t give up praying sharing your faith fighting
to stay pure getting up early saying I love you

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asking walking forward having faith that God
will free you from addiction studying forgiving

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climbing out of debt sacrificing choosing what you
want most over what you want now don’t give up you

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won’t see the results you want today be patient
you planted the right seeds the Harvest will come

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it won’t be because you have the best intentions
or High Hopes but because your actions determine

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your direction or exercise for this week and
first question it says where have you given

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up and need God’s help to get started again I
think we’ve all identified areas that we want

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to improve we’ve Maybe started some new habits uh
maybe some of them you stuck with maybe some of

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them just fell away you know where have you given
up and you need God’s help to get started again

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uh number two where are you struggling and being
tempted to give up and need God’s help to endure

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you know by now in our study going through all
this making all these changes you know we’ve been

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at this for a while and it’s important that we
reflect on those areas that we’re struggling with

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maybe we’ve been pushing through doing all these
things these positive things in our life we’re

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just really struggling it’s really easy right now
to give up uh where are you experiencing a harvest

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and reaping more than you assume maybe you’re
seeing the benefits of all of your hard work

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our principle for this section is you’ll
reap a harvest if you don’t give up

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Psalms 1 3 of the New Living Translation says
they are like trees planted along the riverbank

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riverbank bearing fruit each season their leaves
never wither and they prosper in all they do

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so in this section this is just really
the push to not give up you’re doing so

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good at what you’re doing the hard work
that you’re doing is going to pay off

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if you don’t give up that’s all for this episode
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