The Power of a Seed

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The power of a seed
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that
which is planted;

Amo 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the ploughman shall overtake the
reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop
sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth
to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.
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Give
a serving to seven, and also to eight, For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
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If
the clouds are full of rain, They empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls o the
south or the north, In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
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He who observes the
wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening do not withhold your hand; For
you do not know which will prosper, Either this or that, Or whether both alike will be good.

Most of the time when someone says seeds, all we think of is that time during the service when we
are told to plant a seed. Also we think of the time when we are told to sow into the Man of God. It
is true we must sow seeds in church and also minister to Gods servants. The problem arises when
the issue of sowing seeds is spoken out of balance and seemingly made to sound like a fund raising
campaign for Men of God.
The kingdom of God operates by the principle of a seed
This is because everything in life exists in a continuum. One thing always leads to another.
In the kingdom of God there is always an action which produces a result.
The Lord Himself operates on this principle.
The Word is like a seed .Once God has said it will accomplish what He sends it to do.
The image the Bible gives is the image of the seed.
All things starts as a seed and then become the full thing God wants or what the seed wants
All trees start off as a seed.
All men are conceived from a seed
All things contain seed and will produce a harvest.
The working of a seed
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The seed contains in it the full DNA of the crop or product you want.
The seed may be one but will produce a fruit beyond itself both in size and number.
All seeds have to fall to the ground and die so that they produce plants or fruit.
The ground doesnt choose the seed. Once the ground is fertile any seed will grow.
Each seed obeys Genesis 1:11. Whether good or bad seeds.
A seed lies dormant as long as it doesnt fall to the ground.
Every seed has a season it will be activated. As long as the seed has fallen it will wait for its
right season to germinate.
Every seed will produce a plant which will bear fruit in season without fall all the time.
The fruit always reveals the nature of the seed.
In every fruit is a seed, in every seed is many fruits.
Seed in operation
Isaac was given unto Abraham as a seed of a great nation
God commanded Abraham that the ground upon whom the seed was to be sowed was
Sarah
Ishmael too had to become a nation because a seed of Abraham was planted in Hagar.
Jesus was sown as a seed of the new covenant.
Actions are seeds always.
Money is a seed.
Understanding of seeds
1) Seeds are sown in time
i) This is because as people we live in time.
ii) Gen 8:22 reminds us there is seed time. Meaning as long as we are on earth and bound
by time, we are sowing seeds.
iii) Even Jesus entered the world as a seed in the fullness of time.
2) You may sow one seed but have perpetual harvests for eternity
i) Unless the tree is uprooted, harvest will never cease.
ii) This must make us remember always to plant well.
3) There is a season to sow and a season to reap
i) We must always understand that it is possible that we may be in a season of sowing.
ii) We must also understand that it is possible that we are reaping from what we have
sown.
4) God gives seeds and the enemy does the same too
i) The master sent servants to sow wheat, the enemy also sowed weeds.
5) All seeds will fall on 4 types of ground
Our hearts and lives are the places where seeds are grown.
The societies we live are the grounds where seeds are sown.
Our churches and the body of Christ are the places where we sow seed.
(a) Wayside these are seeds which are immediately taken away
Good seeds taken by the enemy
Bad seeds taken by reason of the Holy Spirit and the Word
Sometimes even good things we do, do not take root. This is because the
person or people we sow into fail to value the seed and it is lost in the
immediate subconscious.
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Also, this is where even the wrong things we do are lost because the people
we are doing it to, brush it aside because of the Work of the Holy Spirit in
their lives.
(b) Rocky these seeds do have effect but they lack the ability to take root.
This is when the seed sown does seem to have an effect to the people, the
society, and the situation.
The only problem is the lack of depth in the soil to bring a result.
This is like a powerful sermon well understood, but the people have no
capacity to grow the sermon into a fruit.
This is where even when you hurt people; the people have no capacity to
cause your hurt to be rewarded.
This is where the Holy Spirit comes in a person and prevents the person
from causing your actions to take root.
This also maybe a person with no capacity to release a blessing, anointing,
and grace the seed given to them needs. They may want to bless you but
have no root to do so.
(c) Thorny the seed takes root but the cares of the person choke the seed so
there is no fruit.
This is where good seeds which are sown are choked by selfish concerns in
people.
Even bad seeds may fail to bear fruit as a self preservation approach chokes
the seed.
An example is a person hurt by an employer. The seed fails to produce fruit
as the person accepts a job from the employer and enters into a new
relationship.
(d) Fertile ground the seed grows until the season for bearing fruits comes.
Its real nature is revealed upon the fruit coming out.
Bad seeds will grow and produce their fruit.
Good seeds also will reach full maturity.
6) All seeds will be contained in the fruit
(a) In the process of harvesting, the fruit contains the seed in it.
(b) The manner which you partake of the fruit determines the prospects of future
harvests.
(c) If you enjoy the fruits and fail to collect seeds and plant, you may be eating fruit
today but there is no more harvest for the future.
7) All seeds will have to contend with many other seeds. The survival of a seed is based on the
deliberate efforts of cultivation by the sower.
(a) God can give you seeds to plant but the ground you want to plant already has
generational seeds which you have to contend with.
(b) The reason many of our seeds do not grow well is because we ignore to remove
other seeds.
(c) You can sow and sow but still not harvest much.
(d) Good seed will grow, yet the fullness of the harvest will be determined by the
removal of weeds which choke the seed from bearing fruit.
8) All people will have a season where they will reap something always.
(i) What you reap is always affected by what you plant. BUT, how much you
reap is affected by your cultivation.
(ii) Your life today is a reflection of all the seeds you have sown or allowed to
grow.
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(iii) What we call generational curses, iniquities unless we deal with them; these
will grow and produce fruit.
(iv) The good things we want to see in our lives, we may plant them but if we do
not act against the weeds, we will produce little fruit from the good seeds.
9) Everything from eternity enters time as a seed.
(a) Jesus came as a seed.
(b) Genesis contains all doctrines of the bible completely.
(c) Our destinies are produced from little actions we do as seeds.
(d) Small decisions determine our lives.
(e) Even the small prophecies we receive, they are seeds. The word may be small,
e.g. Go to Nineveh, but if followed shapes your destiny.
10) All seeds have to die so that they produce an eternal harvest.
(a) In every part of your life where you havent died, there is no fruit from that area.
(b) Unless a seed dies, it dwells by itself.
(c) We may all talk well. We may possess in our hands the knowledge of seeds. Yet
there has to be a deliberate action of planting, sacrifice, time for the seeds to
produce.
(d) Even evil seeds, they are sown in an atmosphere of choice, pain and death.
11) The ploughman over takes the reaper.
(a) This means the plowman, the sower overtakes the harvester and converts the
harvest into a seed before the harvester comes.
(b) This means we need to get to a place where the instinct to eat is destroyed and
superseded by the mind to sow in us.
(c) While todays church is emphasising prosperity and harvest. The real season of
Amos 9:13 says the sower must run ahead of the harvester and take the crop
and make seeds out of it before the harvester and eater comes nearby.
(d) This means all harvest but be seen as a seed as the sower overtakes the
harvester.
12) Grapes are not sown. Vineyards once planted they are maintained.
This means the route to the overflow of the anointing in our lives is when :
i. The sower overtakes harvester (reaper).
ii. The grapes threader overtakes the sower.
iii. The threader produces wine.
Gideon was seen in the winepress threshing wheat.
This is where because there is challenges and the enemy, one attempts to harvest by reason
of the anointing.
Coming to church expecting a harvest by reason of the anointing!
Ahab wanted to turn the vineyard of Naboth into a vegetable garden. For generations in
Naboths family, the order was the threader over took the sower.
A sower sows cheerfully because he knows God multiplies His seed.
13) The eater crushes his seed and produces food and satisfies himself with it.
The eater is he who always sees an opportunity to reap and make bread.
Bread also passes through the oven, the seed is crushed and grounded.
Hard work also is put into making the bread.
Both seed and bread encounter water to be ready.
Both seed and bread have to face heat. Either in oven or the sun to grow.
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The testimony of an eater and a sower sounds the same because both involve hard
work, sacrifice, challenges but one will reap in future. The other reaps immediately,
the other later.
14) The eater casts bread on the waters and may receive it. Eccl.11:1
There is a certain sowing where one doesnt pay the full price of planting, digging and
putting seed to the ground.
This is like casting bread, a finished product on water.
He who casts bread will find bread.
If you cast one loaf, you will find one loaf of bread!
15) The sower sows during all seasons both the good (morning) and the bad (evening). Eccl 11:6
The real sower sows in all seasons.
He sows when there is light.
He sows when there is darkness.
He doesnt withhold because the season looks gloomy.
16) The sower must not look at the wind to sow
The sower is always affected by the desire to sow at the right time.
God is saying sow anyway do not look at the time or seeming convenience and
probability. Yet sow anyways; for seed will produce without fail in due season.

17) The sower is overtaken by the producer of wine.
The wine always flows when one has overtaken in his life the propensity to harvest.
As a church we will experience the refreshing flow of the Moves of God; the flow of
sweet wine of the Holy Spirit, because we have become sowers.
The presence of an endless supply of wine is testimony of the presence of sowers.
Sowers attract treaders of grapes.
Anointed people and anointed ministers will connect and minister wine to those who
are sowers.
People who sow will attract the anointing of the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek
ministered wine to Abraham; then Abraham gave the tithe. In other words, in
recognition of the rank of Melchizedek, Abraham the sower, sowed.
David received the Anointing of the Order of Melchizedek because he refused to be
given a field for free. He opted to sow something to receive the field! He says, I will not
offer, I will not render to the Lord that which has no cost, or that which costs me
nothing!!
18) All seeds produce their kind.
Never be fooled, you reap what you sow.
All seeds will have a season of harvest.
Even if the seed takes 20 years to mature, when harvest time comes, fruit will be there
without fail.
Bad seeds also have their time to mature.
If you sow confessions, you will not reap a business.
If you sow love you will reap love. The love may be expressed in the form of a car.
If you sow envy, you will reap the envy but it may be in the form of being denied a car.
If you sow hard work and commitment, you will reap its results.
19) All leaders produce after their kind.
The people around you are a reflection of yourself. They are your fruits.
When you see something bad in your disciples, your associates, it is the fruits of your seeds.
If you gossip, your disciples will gossip. Even when you have stopped gossiping, unless you
act in their lives, the seed you have sown will continue to bear fruit.