Each month Pastor Riley writes a letter to encourage you, challenge you, and strengthen your faith.
Current Partner Letter
NOVEMBER 2024 PARTNER LETTER
“SEED TALK"
Dear Partners,
I pray that during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we would all reflect on the many blessings that we have been given. Celebrating with family and friends is a great reason to enjoy Thanksgiving. Another great reason to enjoy Thanksgiving is Christ Jesus brought us into a new family through his shed blood.
The mission of CTYS Ministry is to help our partners walk in financial freedom and success. Many of you have let me know about your financial needs, and you’re not alone. Somewhere right now, a fellow believer is praying for a financial harvest, but most fail to understand the importance of sowing seeds and tending the garden. No farmer would ever expect a harvest of corn without first planting corn. 2 Corinthians 9:10 says, “Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness". If you don’t sow, you don’t reap.
From Genesis to Revelation the Bible has a lot to say about sowing and reaping. It is one of God’s foundational laws that governs the earth. Genesis 8:22 says, “while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. A farmer sows seed “in Good Ground”, and he waters it and watches over it, because he knows it will grow and produce his desired harvest. He cannot see the beginning stages of the planted seeds growth, but he acts in faith according to the laws of sowing and reaping.
We all know the above scripture was a reestablishment of God’s original plan, that our seeds would multiply and sustain us. Please understand this, after every financial setback, and every financial mistake, or even bankruptcy God will give you a seed to restart your financial life. I believe that God is wanting to reestablish his financial covenant with you.
We are not asking you for a contribution just to be asking, however there has been a stirring in my spirit to encourage you to sow into the good ground of this ministry, $1, $2 $10, $100 or $1,000. The amount you sow is equally as important, as the ground you sow into. Beloved my desires for you, is to see you walk in financial freedom and dominion.
CTYS Ministry, will always and without reservation, encourage you to give your tithes and offering to your local church, or wherever you are being spiritually fed. But the seed that I am asking you to sow comes after your tithe and offerings.
Action Steps:
• Send us your prayer requests.
• Repent for the past mistakes you made with money (ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you those mistakes).
• Sow a financial seed.
• Give your seed an assignment.
• We will combine our faith with yours, pray over your seed and together we will expect a great harvest.
• Exercise your faith and cast down any doubt and unbelief by speaking God’s word.
• Ask God to multiply your seed and thank Him daily for the harvest.
• Scriptures to stand on: Proverbs 11:24-25, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Genesis 26:12, Acts 20:35, Luke 8:5
Marcia and I are praying for your success and prosperity.
Bless You,
Howard Riley