John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
God is opening the eyes of our understanding like never before, to the Truth of His Word in these last days. Through the centuries, we've been talked out of believing what God said about us and what He has done in us. God is now bringing up a people who will accept His Word as "Truth." We're beginning to understand that the Seed Principle is one of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, Jesus spoke about in Mark 4:11.
Our words and actions have been holding back the Blessing and the anointing from bringing forth fruit in our lives. Jesus was and still is THE SOWER, when He taught "The Parable of the Sower." The Seed of God's Word is still the same Seed and it still produces the same harvest. Jesus describes four different types of soil (spirits, hearts of people) in His telling of the Parable. He describes hard ground, stony ground, ground that wasn't tended and grew up with weeds and thorns, and good, well adapted soil. Jesus told us that not all of the good, well adapted soil produced a 100 fold return.
The good, well adapted soil that receives the Seed of God's Word, is in the heart of those who are born-again. The born-again person's heart or new creation spirit is good soil, but cannot decide what seed to grow or not to grow. It grows whatever we allow to be sown in it.
We didn't understand the importance of this Mystery of God's Kingdom and allowed seed to be sown into our spirit, which was contrary to God's Word and came from the the world or the enemy's kingdom of darkness. Mark 4:26-28,15 (Amplified) says, "And [Jesus] said to them, The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed upon the ground and then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases, he knows not how The earth produces, acting by itself-first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe and permits, immediately he sends forth the reapers and puts in the sickle, because the harvest stands ready."
We've limited the seed Jesus speaks about as being only the Seed or Word of God, but if you listen closely, you'll discover that Jesus says, ALL WORDS ARE SEEDS." Jesus tells us in Verse 24 why it's so important to the hearer is careful what he/she allows to be sown into their spirit. Thus, Jesus says to His followers (including His followers today), "Be careful what you are hearing, The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear."
God will only multiply His Seed in your heart and will increase virtue and knowledge to the Truth you hear. God will increase, "The measure of thought and study to the Truth you hear." The cares and anxieties of the world, come from a different source than the Kingdom of God. Verse 15 says, "The ones along the path are those who have the world sown in their hearts, but when they hear, satan comes at once and by force takes away the message which is sown in them."
Satan cannot keep the Seed of your salvation from producing in your life. Nor can he prevent your becoming a new creation child of God. Once that Seed is sown into your hearts, you're a new creation. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal, by the Ever Living and Everlasting Word of God."
The Sperm (Seed) that is Ever Living and Everlasting is the Word of God. This Word (Seed) has produced exactly what is said and was designed to produce. Jesus said, "Be careful what you are hearing." We've heard that only the Seed of God's Kingdom would produce in our lives, but that was wrong. Our hearts (spirits) have become good soil and will abundantly grow anything that we allow to be sown in them.
Looking closely at Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden, we find that satan only sowed seeds (words) into Eve's heart. Jesus said in Mark 4:26-27 (Amplified), "The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed upon the ground And then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases-he knows not how." The Word doesn't tell us that, "Eve ate of the Tree immediately," but the seed of deception had been sown in her heart. Genesis 3:6 (Amplified) says, "And when the woman saw that the tree was good and suitable (pleasant), for food and that it was delightful to look at; and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she gave some also to her husband and he ate."
Notice, the above scripture tells us that, "Eve saw that the tree was good (delightful), to look at, and the tree to be desired in order to make one wise." The seed that the enemy sowed into Eve's heart, apparently grew into something in her imagination, where it matured. She wasn't careful about what she heart and allowed the seed of satan to be sown in her heart, where it choked out God's Word and produced a harvest of death. Satan only had to wait to see if the seed would begin to produce, then he would put the sickle in and harvest his crop of disobedience.
Seeds don't grow instantly, but they require time to produce a harvest. Many incorrect teachings that we were taught over the years, didn't produce instantly, but they have grown and increased into harvests of things we didn't want. Jesus said in Mark 4:28 (Amplified), "The earth (soil or heart) produces, acting by itself." Your heart will grow whatever you allow to be sown into it. Even satan understands The Seed Principle, because he was present when the Word produced everything and when God's Word produced his downfall. Satan knows more about the ability our words have, than we have learned. His greatest weapon against the Church, is keeping us in the dark about the seeds (words) we hear. Satan tries to keep God's children speaking words of his kingdom, instead of creating God's Kingdom.
We see the Seed of God's Word produced righteousness in us, but like Eve, we continue to sow such words as, "None are righteous, not one." This produces a harvest of satan's deceitful words, that he spoke to Eve. These keep us from reaping God's favor and His Best, in our lives. Words (seeds) are one great part of the Mystery of God's Kingdom and His secret counsel. When we are careful about what we hear and are selective about what seed is sown into our hearts (spirits), then that seed will "act by itself and produce whatever we allow to be sown in them," just like Jesus taught.
We're to tend the garden of our hearts, just like Adam was called to tend the Garden of Eden. Proverbs 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life. Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you."
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