We thank God for this day, and I want to speak to you today about the power of your seed.
Remember that the seed in your hands is the repository of life and potential. Whatever you can be is in the potential of the seed in your hand and that is time. We are not going to be here forever, but whatever we can become is determined by how we use our time; hence the need to redeem the time because the days are evil.
It is important to remember that today is the fruit of what seeds you sowed yesterday; in fact, tomorrow will be determined by what you sow today. Today is a seed for tomorrow! If you fail to do what is expected of you today, you will never get what you expect of tomorrow.
Time is a seed and I want to exhort you to sow it well. Invest it well and don’t allow anything to distract you. If you want the best of your seed,
Sow it when it is most viable:
This is why you need to remember your creator in your youth before the evil days come. That is why you must seek the Lord early. That is why I want you to connect morning by morning.
Sow it in the most appropriate environment or soil!
Every seed is made for certain soils; the right seed in the wrong soil will not yield in its strength. You must put the right seed in the right soil.
Sow even when it hurts to sow:
“He that goes forth bearing precious seeds shall surely return bearing shelves.” “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and die, it abides alone.” Your life must be sown and offered to a cause. You must stand for something or you will fall for anything. You must make your seed count.
Sacrifice for something eternal and reap eternal things. Sowing is painful but the rewards are sweet. Sow even when it hurts, it’s worth it! Sow your seed in the morning and forget not to sow at night. Take your time and read Ecclesiastes 11!
Sow with an expectation to reap some day:
As the Lord lives and as the earth remains; seedtime and harvest time shall not cease. Once you sow your seed, you must harvest. We must sow our seeds with an expectation to harvest! God has a covenant with his creation that those who sow shall reap. The sacrifice of Noah was sweet and fragrant.
[Genesis 8:21-22 KJV] “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Sow with the wisdom and patience of a farmer:
You must be patient enough to cultivate the seed waiting for both the early and the latter rain. Until the spirit be poured, your seed will wither!
[Isaiah 32:13-15 KJV] “Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left;”
“the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.”
We must not just wait for the rains but we must have long patience. We are waiting for a fresh outpouring and we have long patience.
[James 5:7 KJV]“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”
I pray that you will reap eternal things as you sow your seed. As we pray, may God answer with an outpouring of the Spirit. May you not miss any season of rain!
