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When I was at Rhema in 1984 Kenneth Hagin told us that he used to teach the hundredfold return until God corrected him on it. The passage isn't talking about money. It's talking about the family of God being multiplied back to you in this life ... houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields ... He talked about this in his book The Midas Touch.
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When I was at Rhema in 1984 Kenneth Hagin told us that he used to teach the hundredfold return until God corrected him on it. The passage isn't talking about money. It's talking about the family of God being multiplied back to you in this life ... houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields ... He talked about this in his book The Midas Touch.
The same term is used here :
Mat 13:8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
The numbers represent the maximum yield that the Jews expected on different types of crops. On one type 100 times the seed sown would be fantastic, on an other type 30 would be. So a hundredfold return when used outside of an agricultural context isn't meant to be taken literally rather it represents a fantastically good result.
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Colonel
The same term is used here :
Mat 13:8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
The numbers represent the maximum yield that the Jews expected on different types of crops. On one type 100 times the seed sown would be fantastic, on an other type 30 would be. So a hundredfold return when used outside of an agricultural context isn't meant to be taken literally rather it represents a fantastically good result.
In other words 100 fold means maximum yield for that particular crop, land, etc
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In other words 100 fold means maximum yield for that particular crop, land, etc
Crop yields varied a lot more than they do today. Also compare to this verse :
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure - pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.
That's a description of a good measure given a certain size of container. That's Gods kind of measure and very different to when they used false weights and measures, gave you low quality goods, didn't fill up the container properly etc. Quality control was very different to the certification standards of today.
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Colonel
Crop yields varied a lot more than they do today. Also compare to this verse :
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure - pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.
That's a description of a good measure given a certain size of container. That's Gods kind of measure and very different to when they used false weights and measures, gave you low quality goods, didn't fill up the container properly etc. Quality control was very different to the certification standards of today.
Let's say a job or business endeavor is our 'field'. 100 fold would be maximum return for that field. If you want a larger harvest, then you have to increase the size of your field.
For instance, there is nothing wrong with working at McDonald's, but that field will only yield so much harvest. You can be blessed 100 fold at McDonald's, but it's such a small field that the harvest still isn't going to be great. I mean what would maximum harvest be at McDonald's? At most a manager position, which I assume is the highest pay. But the point is, as long as you work at McDonald's you can only have so much harvest, or money.
So, I need to increase the size of my field. An example of an unlimited filed may be a certain type of sales job, or investing in or actively trading stocks or commodities, etc. That is a much bigger field for God to give a 100 fold return to. So as we give generously, use our faith for finances, etc, we have to take into consideration the field we are laboring in. We might need to change fields, or at least add other fields where a 100 fold yield would be a much greater harvest.
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fuego
Let's say a job or business endeavor is our 'field'. 100 fold would be maximum return for that field. If you want a larger harvest, then you have to increase the size of your field.
For instance, there is nothing wrong with working at McDonald's, but that field will only yield so much harvest. You can be blessed 100 fold at McDonald's, but it's such a small field that the harvest still isn't going to be great. I mean what would maximum harvest be at McDonald's? At most a manager position, which I assume is the highest pay. But the point is, as long as you work at McDonald's you can only have so much harvest, or money.
So, I need to increase the size of my field. An example of an unlimited filed may be a certain type of sales job, or investing in or actively trading stocks or commodities, etc. That is a much bigger field for God to give a 100 fold return to. So as we give generously, use our faith for finances, etc, we have to take into consideration the field we are laboring in. We might need to change fields, or at least add other fields where a 100 fold yield would be a much greater harvest.
But is the term hundredfold ever used in a context that definitely relates finances ?
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I’d like the hundredfold anointing
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I’d like the hundredfold anointing
I'd like to do greater works than Jesus.
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