FARMER ANN
I have a dear friend named ANn Osteen.
She has told me I could read this to y'all because it meant so much to me.
She calls herself a farmer.
Let me read to you what she said.
Ann said:
“Hello, my name is ann, I am a farmer, but not just in a farmer. You see, I was given a job to sow seeds, but not just any seed. The seed that I had been hired to plant is the word of God seed.
I try hard to scatter this seed everywhere, and with anyone who is interested, and sometimes even some who have no interest at all.
It really depends on what soil I am casting my seeds.
I was hired for this job by my boss, the Lord Jesus Christ, when He imputed to me my spiritual life.
And all I had to do to sign on the dotted line of my contract was to have faith alone in Christ alone, from my salvation.
Before I walked out of His office, after signing His eternal contract, He gave me my instruction manual: the Bible, and sent me to school, the church, to study in depth all the things I needed to know about how to be a farmer.
The Lord explained to me that because of my positive volition, and desire to learn about agriculture, the word of God, in a book called parables that I would fit in just fine on His farm.
He told me that it would be very important to study what types of soil would be good for planting seeds, something about positive soil was the best soil He said.
He also warned me about weeds that can grow in good crops of believers. Those are called tears, unbelievers. He said, If I wasn't careful, they could choke out the beautiful crop He is growing.
My boss has a plan, one day. He says to harvest the good crop, believers only, and put them in the barn, heaven.
He even informed me at one of my meetings, Bible class, that I was a part of the His good crop of believers only.
So I look forward to the harvest, the rapture.
The farm He assigned me to is called the kingdom.
And only people like myself get to work there, all of us had to sign the same contract to be able to work at the kingdom farm.
The boss, Jesus, told us that we need to be careful of the weeds growing into our crops, because they come from Satan.
And all of them try to tell us lies and deceive all of us farmers.
The boss says that we're not allowed to remove them from the farm. But He also tells us that they will not get to go to into the barn.
When the harvest takes place, He says they're going to be burned up and not to worry too much about them.
When I am not out in the fields working, sharing doctrine, the boss wants me in training class, Bible class, a lot.
So I can keep my skills, doctrinal information, up to par. Nothing worse than not knowing what fertilizer or doctrine to use.
I have met many other great farmers in my job, and I am a part of a very large agricultural class, the Royal Family, who are all studying, which is taking in Bible doctrine, to be the best farmers we can be.
It’s a great occupation being occupied with the Lord Jesus Christ. And the majority of us never tire of our jobs, which means we don't go into reversionism. And all of us are looking forward to the big harvest coming up, which is the rapture.
If you too are a farmer, I look forward to seeing you out there on the farm.
Let's all get ready for the great harvest to come.
The Sun, the Son is Jesus Christ, and the rain is washing of the Word of God, through His Holy Spirit, will help us all be the best farmers ever.
At that farm in heaven, we will look forward to receiving our Blue Ribbon Awards, which are our heavenly rewards.
In the meantime, in Second Peter 3:18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to Him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
And guess what farmer Ann, I just wanted to let you know that I'm a farmer too!
Love you. Bye