WHAT or WHOSE SEED ARE YOU SOWING
Greetings All!
May this day be one of excitement and wondrous confirmation of seeds sown. May we continue to rejoice and be glad in it.
This message came to me some days ago because I have noticed how very often people forfeit memory of the seed <-> sower properties. I have seen folk scurrying about attempting to make things happen for themselves after petitioning the Lord for the very things, I, too am guilty.
It dawned on me: ….
“It doesn’t compute nor does it align with faith”
How can we ask God for things or cast HIM our cares then without notice renege on it?
If we believe HIS WORD to be the actual Truth, which it is, then shouldn’t we align everything with the measure of faith seeds given us. I think this is why I relate to life as living in faith everyday. How wonderful it is… that His Word supports the idea of cultivating or growing in grace from faith to faith, hence plenteous seed.
To embrace this fact; constitutes that since the metaphoric mustard seed is so tiny it simply justifies for me that coupled within our individual hands, we can hold many. That is a whole lot of planting.
Since we can only increase our faith through the hearing of His Word, it just makes sense to study abroad. I do not know what or how the scriptures manifest towards others but each time I read them they come alive more and more with differing meaning for various occasions or situations. HE speaks volumes to me through the inerrant WORD. There is always something there which defines, resembles, or ministers love, chastisement, peace, joy, health, strength, hope, help, more.
I’ve found the truth of how the trying of our faith works patience as well. GOD is so awesome! He answers us in yes and amen and His timing. That time through patience is where we adapt to waiting on HIM via staying power of trust and confidence. When we let go or walk away from that confidence, then we prolong the already answered yes and amen.
Therefore, I am learning to pay more attention to the faith seeds I have been gifted and praying earnestly to nourish them in love, deed, and word. God is infallible and when we opt to allow Him to move in our life issues, they are thus perfected through Him. (Phil 4:7-13)
TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOREVER & EVER ∞
Shalom & Blessings!
Word for today is SOWING
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knows not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity”
(Ecclesiastes 11:6-8 KJV).
Sowing is planting.
Actually, this can be either beneficial or detrimental given the seed (crop), time (ground. weathering & cultivation) and harvest (the yield). While this earth still revolves, throughout the seasons and as nights greet the dawn of day, the sowing is perpetual.
There is no way for us to circumvent it, except perhaps to make sure the crops are good, fruitful towards the multiplication a good or a bountiful harvest in LOVE (GOD) and not thru vanities (what looks good on the shelves of the farmers’ markets).
Yes… I think is a nice perspective on it.
Shall we begin…
“While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22 KJV).
→Any good farmer, horticulturist or botanist can attest to the importance of good soil, fertilization, weathering, and rotation.
They may even be able to supply data on fermentation as well. This concept of sowing is metaphorically similar in that it takes all of these methods to cultivate our faith seeds.
Jesus said it only requires a small seed of faith…
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Fertilized with CONFIDENCE
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Planted in good soil (GOD’s GROUND of TRUTH)
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Weathered by the storms (AFFLICTIONS)
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Rotated (via PRAYER/PETITION) in BELIEF
…to ferment (INCITE BY FIRE TRIALS) the removal of mountains and trees.
◊ I’m going somewhere with this ◊
“And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you”
(Luke 17: 6 KJV).
“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you”
(Matthew 17:20 KJV)
WHERE DO THE SEEDS COME FROM?
Good question with a simple reply. GOD supplies the seeds liberally unto all and we need only reap the abundance (harvest) through cultivating our prayer, praise, gratitude, and reverence.
“Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God. For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you” (2 Corinthians 9:10-14 KJV).
HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE WHERE EACH SEED GOES?
Again it is easy but first you have to KNOW WHERE TO PICK UP YOUR SEEDS. You pick up your seeds of faith via daily meditation and study from the WORD of GOD. Once obtained, the vision of hope [where the seeds go] becomes clearer in view via spiritual specs (EYES of UNDERSTANDING).
#SOWING
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17)
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all” (Ephesians 1:18-23 KJV).
We must remember to monitor our pastures, fields, or gardens of dreams, hope, and petitions BE CAREFUL of CANKER WORMS (serpent workers) trying to devour our crops. Please search these scriptures for varying strengths of proper PESTICIDES…Sometimes we have to let the tares grow alongside our good crop but in due season bind them up and HE casts them away.
WATCH & PRAY
Romans 12:19 | Proverbs 18:21 | Isaiah 54:17 | 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 | Matthew 6:1-4 | Psalm 23:2; 27, & 145 | 1 Samuel 18:9 | Matthew 4:10 & 16:23 | Joshua 1:8 | 2 Timothy 2:15-19 | Hebrews 10:30 | Deuteronomy 32:35 | Ephesians 6 | 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 | Matthew 13:25 | Matthew 13:30;16:19 & 18:18
…for more just refer to GARDENER’S manual.
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”
(Joshua 1:8 KJV).
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babbling’s: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity”
( 2 Timothy 2:15-19 KJV).
Now that we know
- who provides the seeds;
- where to pick them up,
- where to plant them and
- how to protect them…
We can CULTIVATE (INCREASE) them by allowing them to stand still in the soil or good ground (GOD) especially during difficult WEATHER, which assists us in ROTATION (turn the not so good ground over –HALLOWING or SANCTIFYING IT), FERMENTING (proper warming) & NOURISHING (proper care, water, pruning, etc) our seeds towards the exceeding abundant HARVEST (the expected end, evidentiary unseen substances of hope via blessings, favor, mercy, grace, joy, peace, health and prosperity).
Mark 4:8-13 | Romans 10:17 | Hebrews 11:1 | James 2:14-26 | Lamentations 3:22-23 | Psalm 27; 36:5; 89:1-33; 92:2 | Isaiah 11:5 & 25:1 | Hosea 2:20 | Luke 8
“And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables”
(Mark 4:8-13 KJV)?
WHAT SEED(S) ARE WE SOWING?
The process involves knowing the seed (WORD) and and ourselves (the sower). When we make time to get to know the SEED we have all the equipment, necessary towards cultivation of…
THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT of GRACE FROM FAITH TO FAITH.
Luke 8 | James 5:16 | Matthew 4:4; 7:7-8 & 21:22 | Hebrews 11:6 | 1 Thessalonians 5:18 | 2 Corinthians 9:9-15 | 1 Timothy 6:12 | Romans 1:17 | Deuteronomy 8:3 |
“And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God” ( Luke 8:10-11 KJV).
SHALOM & BLESSINGS! May we continue GROWING in our SOWING!
Never Retire L.I.F.E. ~Living In Faith EverydaySOWING = “SANCTIFYING OUR WORSHIP IMMENSELY in the NURTURE of GOD”
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17 KJV).
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