Your Harvest Is Coming - Daily Hope with Rick Warren - September 14, 2025

Daily Hope with Rick Warren

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Your Harvest Is Coming
By Rick Warren

“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will.” Ecclesiastes 11:6 (CEV)

Everything in your life starts as a seed. There are many kinds of seeds—beautiful seeds like kindness, love, faith, and integrity. And then there are uglier seeds, like gossip and violence and greed. But there are two things all seeds have in common. First, all seeds need time to grow. And second, you reap whatever you have sown.

Think about literal, physical seeds. When you plant a seed in the ground, there is always a waiting time between planting and harvesting. You sow in one season, and you reap in another season. You don’t plant tomato seeds and pick a tomato an hour later. You have to wait.

It’s the same way in your life. Maybe you’ve planted seeds of kindness in a relationship. You don’t necessarily reap kindness immediately. You have to plant the seeds, trust God to grow them, and then wait.

Ecclesiastes says, “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. . . . A time to plant and a time to harvest . . . A time to scatter . . . and a time to gather” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 5 NLT).

Once the seeds have grown and are ready to harvest, you can trust that you will reap what you have sown.

If you plant seeds of anger, you will eventually experience anger from those around you. If you plant seeds of gossip, the people in your life will likely gossip about you too.

On the other hand, if you plant seeds of kindness, people will be kind to you in return. If you plant seeds of faith, you will experience faithfulness.

So what do you do while you’re waiting on God—after you’ve planted seeds and are waiting on them to be ready to harvest? You keep sowing the kind of seeds you want to reap.

The Living Bible paraphrase says, “Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will” (Ecclesiastes 11:6).

Have you been waiting a long time for the harvest in your life? Let me give you a verse to encourage you. In Habakkuk 2, God says, “At the time I have decided, my words will come true. You can trust what I say about the future. It may take a long time, but keep on waiting— it will happen!” (Habakkuk 2:3 CEV).

The harvest may be slow in coming, but God says that, at the right time, it will. Keep waiting, trusting God, and sowing good seeds in your life. God will grow your seeds, and one day you will reap a harvest.

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Rick Warren is an innovative pastor, renowned author, and global influencer known for founding Saddleback Church, the Purpose Driven Network, the PEACE Plan, and Hope for Mental Health. He has written several best-selling books, including The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 35 million copies in 200 languages. Time magazine named Warren the most influential spiritual leader in America and one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Since stepping down from the lead pastor role at Saddleback in 2022, Warren has continued to inspire people through his Daily Hope Devotional and podcast Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope. His first book in a decade, Created to Dream, was released in April 2023.

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