2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Sadly, few believers understand that we are God's children, who are already Blessed with every Spiritual Blessing and that the old things have truly passed away. If we don't spend time in God's Word like we should, then we will fail to understand that Jesus bought and paid for our complete deliverance on the cross.
James1:2-4(Amp) says, "Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith brings out endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be people perfectly and fully developed with no defects, lacking in nothing."
Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower," in Mark4:15,27-29(Amp), saying, "The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown in their hearts, but when they hear, satan comes at once and by force takes away the Message which is sown in them." 2Tim.2:6(Amp) says, "It is the hard working farmer who labors to produce who must be the first partaker of the fruits." Jesus continued His Parable in Verses27-29, saying, "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."
Jesus said that, "The Word is like Seed sown in the ground." The Seed is God's Word and the ground or soil, is the spirit of man. It takes times for the seed to produce a harvest in a natural garden. We plant many seeds like corn, beans, squash, knowing that it takes time for the seeds to produce a harvest. We continue "sleeping and rising night and day, while the seed sprouts and grows and increases, knowing not how."
James writes about the patience of sleeping and rising, while the seed brings forth it's fruit, in the above scripture. In the natural, many gardeners put fences around our gardens, because animals and birds try to eat the seeds we've planted. In the Spirit, we have an adversary who "comes at once, and by force takes away the Message sown into people's hearts." Satan tries to steal the Seed, before we put faith in God's Word and receive the fruit of our labor. Timothy writes about the hard working farmer who labors to produce and must be the first partaker of the fruits.
We too easily give up on the Seed of God's Word, which produces after kind. 1Pet.1:23(Amp) 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 Lasting Word of God." Is.61:11(Amp) says, "For as surely as the earth brings forth it's shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so surely the Lord God will cause Righteousness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations through the self-fulfilling Power of His Word."
Nothing can stop the Seed of God's Word from bringing forth whatever the Word says. The same "self-fulfilling Power" that brings forth the Seed or Word of salvation, will bring forth the Seed or Word of healing. The hard working farmer can sow whatever Seed is needed, into our born-again hearts (spirits) and it will bring forth a harvest.
The Apostles James and Mark both write about how the enemy tries to dig up the Seed of God's Word, before it brings forth a harvest. Many think that, "It must not work for me," but Mark says that we "sow, sleep, and rise day and night, while the seed produces, while we know not how." The same "self-fulfilling Power" that holds the universe in it's place, is working in us today.
The Seeds of healing, peace, righteousness, and fellowship with the Father, all "produce after kind," according to the Law of Genesis. The Holy Spirit inspires Paul to write in 1Cor.3:9(Amp), saying, "For we are fellow workers (joint promoters, laborers), together with and for God; you are God's garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, you are God's building." The Seed that God planted through Jesus, is now the family God Planned in the beginning. It's the self-fulfilling Power in that Seed (Jesus, the Word) that has brought forth and is still providing the harvest today.
Satan comes immediately to try to steal the Seed sown in our hearts, because if he can't take it away, then the Seed will produce by it's self-fulfilling Power. Once we've received the Seed and keep it in our hearts, then we can "Count it all joy." Why would we do that? Because we know that if the enemy is out to stop it, then we know he's fearful of the harvest coming to the hard working farmer. When we know that nothing can stop the Seed and harvest, then satan knows he's defeated in our lives. Satan is the Seed eater, so we must stand firmly in faith, with the Seed of God's Word in our lives.
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