White For Harvest • Daily Devo #411
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. - John 4:32-35 KJV
The Message For Today (December 25, 2025):
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Harvest season is expected at a certain time of year. It’s expected in a certain season, and we often wait for that time. We often pray for that time. Back then when Jesus shared this parable, harvest season in an agricultural society was very much known as a certain season. Using this analogy, the Lord spoke to his disciples to encourage them that there was a work to be done that had nothing to do with food.
This harvest that the Lord spoke of was a harvest of souls. Jesus was sent that we may have life and have it more abundantly. The scripture that shares that with us is in John 10:10 in the King James Version, when it states:
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
There is a grace that came with the life of Jesus to bear the weight of governance on his shoulders. Dominion and authority are inherent in Jesus. He was not just a prophet. He was not just a teacher. He was the Messiah, the Son of God, and the Son of Man. He came for you and I, and He came for there was a fresh harvest to be had, a harvest amongst the Gentile and the Jew. This harvest went beyond anything we could imagine.
He said with his very life that we could go forth and speak to all men, regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of anything, that we could go to all men bearing the weight of glory. This is what he did with the woman at the well. When we go to this cornerstone scripture, we see that this is given after having a short but powerful discussion in John 4. In John 4, he meets a woman who was a Samaritan, meaning she is not a Jew. She is not of the city of believers. She is what is considered an outsider.
So much so that when he starts speaking to her, there is a clear delineation that she is not someone that Jewish people would normally talk to. In verse number nine of said chapter, it says:
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. - John 4:9 KJV
That’s how strange his actions were. To speak to someone who was a Samaritan was so against what the Jews had done in that season that the woman made remark of it. This was not just her feeling like a strange man is talking to me. A Jewish man was talking to her. That made all the difference; that Jesus came bearing the weight of glory and speaking to whoever he would about the glory of God, about a well that would not run dry.
He harvested a soul. So this cornerstone* scripture, which ends with, for they are white already to harvest, is an indication that there wouldn’t be a season in the future where Jesus would come and that the children of the Lord will go forth and begin to change the hearts of men. He was evidence that that season was now. While He was in the earth, that they had an assignment that far exceeded food, far exceeded drink, and far exceeded meat for the bones of Jesus.
It was His life poured out. It was His life that was essentially the sign that harvest season was now. The fields were white for harvest. They were ready. People were hungry for the glory of the Lord, regardless of how they were born. Regardless of the religious dictates and the societal limitations of one not speaking to another. Jesus exceeded that societal limitation. He defied the societal limitation, and he became evidence of the power of harvest.
This woman, who was not a Jew, was so far outside of being Jewish that Jewish people didn’t even speak to her. He bore the evidence when she left Jesus at the well that she carried the glory, that she was qualified, equipped, and empowered by the spirit of the Lord to speak, and that many would believe just on her words.
Jesus is not limited to a season.
The power of Jesus is not limited to a culture. Jesus goes beyond. He is here for each and every one of us. Every man, whether Jew or Gentile. Every man, whether of a certain faith or denomination, it doesn’t matter. The fields are ripe and ready for the glory of the Lord to be made manifest. It says here, verse 38:
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. - John 4:38-19 KJV
This woman, who was a Samaritan, who was rejected even among Samaritans, went forth into the city and talked about Jesus, testified of the glory, and many believed in Jesus because of her words. We always say that she was the first evangelist, but how many of us really truly understand the power of Jesus speaking to a woman and lighting a fire in her so much so, that she was able to go into a city of people that believers in Jesus, those who waited for the Messiah, didn’t even speak to and talk about Jesus so with such glory and such conviction that many believed on him because of her words.
This is the season to stop feeling as if your testimony isn’t sufficient and to stop believing that your life isn’t a demonstration. That someway, somehow, you need something more, something deeper, something more profound when the Lord has called you right where you are to testify of his goodness, to speak to whoever may come on your longer journey, to whoever may come along your way of the glory of God.
To speak of His goodness, to speak of the healing that He has brought you through, to speak of the situations that He has delivered you from, to speak of the power of Jesus. That His life, his death, burial, and resurrection will be known to those who have never known Him, and by those who may have heard of Him, but did not hear the testimony that would turn their hearts towards Him.
There is something inherently powerful about Christmas. It shows us that God is God and that he sent his son for the singular purpose to be the reconciliation between us and God. In bearing that assignment, Jesus walked the earth, defying limitations, crossing boundaries, breaking rules, but fulfilling the law. There’s a difference between the law and a rule, and Jesus showed us that rules were made to be broken, but that the word of the law was meant to be fulfilled. It says in Matthew 5:17:
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. - Matthew 5:17 KJV
Verse 18:
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - Matthew 5:18 KJV
Glory to God for his word. There’s more in store. This Christmas, as we celebrate with our families, as we give glory unto the Lord, as we grab our presents from under the tree, remember that this is harvest season. His life is all that we needed to be reconciled, to be reconnected, to have an open door to all of heaven. It is finished, it is done, and now it’s time to walk into the battlefield of harvest because there are souls to be won.
There are hearts to be changed. There are people who want to worship. They need something to worship, and we can simply be the light on the hill that points them to Jesus.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you, God, for the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And thank you more so, God, for his life, for the demonstration that he was in the earth. We know in scripture that it says that he is the author and the finisher of our faith.
Thank you, Lord God, for the birth, O God. Thank you, God, for ushering in an entirely new timeline with the birth of Jesus, who was born in a manger, O God, and bore the weight of a king; the governance of the nations on his shoulders. Lord, I thank you, God, for what he endured, for how his life panned out, for every scripture that we see in the gospels that show us how he walked, that show us how he lived, and they give us a demonstration of how we can live, too.
I thank you, Lord God, that this Christmas will be like none other, that it’ll be the beginning of the mighty woman of God, knowing who she is in you, O God. That she is a mother, she is a wife, she’s a daughter, she’s a friend, but God, she’s also a voice carrying the testimony of Jesus in the earth. Like the woman at the well, I’m praying that she goes forth in the heavenly assignment to share what you have done through her life.
Someway, somehow, that her life will be the light, O God, the way you designed her to be, not the way the world demands or requires, but the way you desire, O God. What is it that you have for the mighty woman of God? What is it that you want for her, God? How do you want her to be that light on a hill, shining like a beacon, O God, full of fire and grace, right back to you? God, how?
How, God, can this mighty woman of God walk this thing out fulfilled, on fire, in love with you, O God? Thank you, God, that there’s nothing missing and nothing broken this holiday, and no matter how the holiday went, O God, it is here that God, she will find, O God, a fresh fire, a fresh passion, God, a new awareness, God. Bring back the mighty woman of God’s joy, like you did for the woman at the well, Lord, bring back her joy, bring back her fire, God.
Remind her that regardless of what she is facing, whatever she is dealt with, whatever she’s carrying secretly, O God, that you are the King of kings, and that, Lord God, you’ve already paid the cost, and that you already have the victory. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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