Sow Righteousness - Reap Love

Hosea 10:12 Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the Lord, until He comes to pour out righteousness for you.

Cleanse your heart from all corrupt affections and lusts, and be a broken and contrite spirit. The ground of your heart can only be broken up by the Word of God ministered in the energy of the Holy Spirit.Proverbs 11:18 evil people earn deceptive wages, but those who plant righteousness are truly rewarded.

Eccl 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

Isa 32:20 How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely.

James 3:17-18 the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

James 1:2-4 consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. but you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.