My precious friend Dave Duell used to tell me frequently that anyone can see how many seeds are in an apple, but very few people can see how many apples are in a seed. Seeds are interesting when we talk about perception, because perceiving a seed means you will then sow a seed. It looks like the seed is moving away from you, but it is actually like a boomerang, it is coming back as a harvest, far greater than what it was when you sowed it.
Because the underlying truth of the New Covenant is that you will reap what you sow. Go and get a Bible and read Galatians 6.7, you need to know it is a real verse and it is in the Bible. In King James language, you will reap whatsoever you sow. There’s a lot of things included in whatsoever – your thoughts are seeds that produce harvests, your time is a seed that produces a harvest, your prayers are all seeds, your money is a seed, your mercy and kindness are seeds, your love is a seed, and your attitude is a seed. Sow it and reap it.
You have to recognize a seed or you will never be able to turn it into a harvest. Today someone gave me $150. I am currently in the US travelling and someone just put it into my hand. I asked my wife – what shall we do with this money. She said put it into the offering Sunday. Amanda has perceived that this money is seed-money. When you perceive that a certain amount of money, or an item or an attitude or whatever is a seed, you then must never ever eat it, you must sow it. Or you will miss out on power, multiplication, harvest – not to mention the rewards of being obedient to what God has showed you.
Of course, you should not even need to say that 10% of all your increase is a seed, it’s called the tithe, and you must never ever eat that, but give it to the Lord, to the storehouse that feeds you. Do not ever be so arrogant that you think you do not need to give a minimum of 10% of all your increase.
God Himself has given you the seeds so you can have the harvests so you can have a great, prosperous and glorious future. You already have what you are believing for, but in seed form, so ask God to show you the seed, then die to it, sow it, give it away (in faith, cheerfully, with a great big smile on your face) and expect a return. You need a multitude fed, that’s ok – you have loaves and fishes. Need £10000? That’s ok, you have £100. You about to die of starvation – that’s ok, you have one meal left – give it away. You do not have nothing, what you lack is the ability to perceive a seed.
In 2 Cor. 9.10, we are told God gives seed to the sower. The reason you cannot see your seed is you do not have the attitude of the sower. If you have the attitude of a sower, you will see seed. When it says God gives you seed, sometimes a person hands it to you, like with the $150 I was given today, other times, it is that you already have the money or the item, and God gives you seed by saying – hey there, sow that. If your heart is to sow, you will find something to sow. I have sowed pens, time, all sorts of things, when I had nothing. Now I mainly sow money, because it’s easier to use when the harvest comes.
I doubt that you have no seeds, I reckon you have loads of seeds, if you developed the attitude of a giver, God would show you loads of what you have and how and where to sow it. But a failure to perceive your seeds means your harvest will always be elusive, your prosperity will wander off, and you will not walk into your dreams. Take this seriously – something you already own is the key to your future. If you fail to perceive it as seed, you will keep it, and you have now set your maximum increase level, and it’s this – you will be at the level you are at now forever.
A seed of nothing is multiplied into a harvest of nothing. You need to dominate your greed and lusts, and learn how to sow. This is the only way to develop the character, faith, and increase you need for your future.
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