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One of MY core values and one of the core values of Crossroads World Outreach Center (CWOC) is SIGNIFICANCE. When it comes to SIGNIFICANCE we have to be able to recognize it in OURSELVES and also in OTHERS.

First, each of us has to be able to grasp the fact of our PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE. We were fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalms 139). God spoke to Jeremiah these words: “Before you were formed in your mother’s womb I knew you and I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5).

Yet there is another aspect of the SIGNIFICANCE factor: we have to be able to recognize it in others.

The LAW of “sowing and reaping” is as real as gravity. If you jump off the roof of your house then gravity will pull you down to the earth; without fail. “Sowing and reaping” is pivotal in every person’s life, but often unknown or unrecognized. “Sowing and reaping” could also be called “planting and harvesting”. We don’t need to get caught up on the semantics of terms. These all mean the same thing. You plant beans – beans will grow. The Bible says that whatsoever a man plants – that very thing he will also harvest (Galatians 6:7 – Tim Hodge Paraphrase). If you want people to be kind to you then try “planting” some kindness into others. Guess what you will harvest?

Many people in our generation are walking frustration factories. They so want people to recognize them for their abilities, strengths, and giftings. They realize there is more in them than they are being recognized for. They feel stifled in their marriages, relationships, jobs, careers, etc. They feel they would be so much more fulfilled if they would only be identified as being important. This identification of importance is what I call the recognition of significance.

If this LAW of “sowing and reaping” is a fact then those who are frustrated in not being recognized as significant should try PLANTING that into someone else by making them feel important.

CWOC just had a five day event emphasizing this very reality. We had 5 men to come in to minister – one each night. We didn’t pick big-ticket preachers who you would see on TBN or in the pages of Christian periodicals. We chose 5 men whose voices have not been heard on a national level. We brought in 5 men who our church had never heard or even heard of. Yet, I recognized greatness in them. And, we took the time to recognize their significance.

We planted that into them. We will receive a harvest of multitudes recognizing our significance.

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