Praise the Lord everyone! What is on my heart this month? Well
spring has sprung, and if you take a drive to anywhere out in the coun-
try you will see farmers planting seeds diligently in their fields. It is that
time of year again...seed-time! Time to plant seeds! For others this
may involve planting vegetable seeds in their gardens, or for others
planting seeds to grow up a beautiful bed of flowers. Regardless you
will never see a crop of anything if you don’t plant your seeds! And
this is what the Lord laid on my heart hard this week….and he spoke to
me and said, “Do you have your seed in the ground?”
I knew what the Lord meant by it, and I said back to Him “You know I
do!” Now even though farmers, and gardeners are planting seeds in
the natural, the Lord was talking about spiritual seeds. And I knew the
Lord was referencing prayers that I have prayed, things I have asked
the Lord for in faith, expecting these seeds sown to grow into a crop of
life, of victory and joy! As the Lord and I were having this conversation,
He gave me this vision…
In my vision I saw people, going out to their fields; large fully plowed
and tilled fields. (I knew in the vision they were their fields) and I saw
each person looking longingly hoping that something would happen.
Some I saw in the vision as they stared at their field looked confused,
others frustrated, or saddened, wondering why it wasn’t producing
something? I could tell each person had desires, to either make money
with the sale of the crops, others were hungry and would of liked to of
eaten some garden vegetables or fruits. Regardless all that was before
them was a large open prepped and ready field...waiting...for seed!
Then the Lord began to speak to me, “This is how many in the body of
Christ act and feel, so many want the harvest, want the victory of a
bountiful reward, but never learn to plant seed. They only know since
it’s a field it should just produce, it should give them what they
want...just by hoping, praying, being desperate, or expressing their
want. They have not learned that to have a crop, (of anything good)
requires labor, work, sweat, and time, and most importantly seed. A
seed enables a crop...in due time...in a season, that is future, (or not
yet) but rather...must grow to be received in another season.
Every believer wants the victory, every believer
wants to experience the “more moments” from
God! Those moments when the abundance seems
poured out, almost of as if mana from Heaven is
raining down on you in your life.
Listen to the words of Paul…
2 Corinthians 9:6 (NKJV)
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap
sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap
bountifully.
This is a Kingdom truth...if you sow nothing...you get
nothing!
Galatians 6:7 (NKJV)
7Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for what-
ever a man sows, that he will also reap.
If you sow nothing you reap nothing...this is why
people in my vision were just staring at the
empty...fields...they had sowed nothing, yet won-
dered why the soil did not produce?
God has given us each a field in our lives, and for
some of us our field has expanded and grown into
hundreds of acres in the spirit. We have learned to
sow seed and have learned to harvest a crop in due
season. We have learned to labor, (to surrender
seed to the soil and to God) in what is required to
reap a bountiful crop of blessings and abundance.
Praise God I learned these truths when I was
young...but for others...they still stare at the dirt.
Now with this truth, I want to be direct, “we each
have our own field, it is ours to; tend, till, plow, fer-
tilize, plant, and weed and harvest.” I can’t work in
your field, and your can’t work in mine, it’s individ-
ual, the labor must be done by me, and me alone!
Over the years as a pastor I have met people who
just want me to do the work for them. To grow
them spiritually and to labor in their field so they
have can have a crop, whether faith, wisdom, under-
standing, and more of the spirit or power. I have told
them over and over, “you gotta do the work!” You
need to read “your Bible,” (the seed of the Word)
your gotta learn to pray, (seeds of trust) you gotta
learn to share your faith, (seeds of the Gospel) you
gotta learn to be still before God (seeds of intimacy
and sensitivity to His voice)...etc…”
I can’t do the work for you, you have to learn to sow
your seed in your own harvest field! If not you will
just have a field of empty dirt.
As my vision progressed, I saw some, yelling at the
dirt, “what’s wrong with you...why won’t you pro-
duce?” Another in my vision scooped up a handful of
soil and started praying over it, “Please Lord bless
this soil, let it produce a crop!” Finally the last one,
said, “It needs watered,” and proceeded to water it
over and over till it became mud. Everyone of them
seemed confused that nothing was growing? They
used energy, labored, some even took the spiritual
route. Regardless the one thing they all had in com-
mon...
A simple truth, “NO SEED!” So my word to you to-
day...is the same one the Lord spoke to me, “Do you
have your seed in the ground?” It’s seed time!!!!
Plant your field!!!
Lastly I end with the words of Paul….
Galatians 6:9 (NIV)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give
up.
Jesus loves you and so do I!
~ Pastor Doug
