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Day 19 - Planting Seeds

Writer's picture: Larry BatyLarry Baty

I like to garden and occasionally I will grow plants or fruit/vegetables from seeds. When we plant with seeds the growth is not instantaneous. It depends on the type of food or plant that is planted, the soil you are planting in, and the time of the year you plant as to how well the seed will germinate and produce the desired result.


In Matthew 13:3-8, Jesus talks about the parable of the Sower and how some seeds fell by the wayside and the birds ate them, some fell on stony places where there was not much earth, and some fell among the thorns and were choked out by the thorns. But others fell on good ground and produced an abundant crop.


When we evangelize or disciple Christians, our words, and messages to them are seeds. We can’t force them to hear what we say or do as we think they should just because we have had one or many conversations with them. Unless God puts it in their Spirit, and they accept what has been communicated the seed will likely not produce immediately, if at all. But like some seeds, the words take time to take root and become a vine that can be used by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to produce a true disciple of Christ that produces fruit.


Like Jesus, the hardest people for me to get a message across to are my own family, not those that live with me or near me daily, but my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. Friends that I grew up with fit the criteria also. They knew me when “so who am I to tell them about Jesus”. At least that’s the discerning Spirit I receive, and I know I have alienated a few on this journey.


No, we can’t force anyone to read a message, listen to a sermon, read the bible, attend church, listen to a song of praise, or attend a prayer call. All we can do is plant the seed and let God do what only God can do when God chooses to do it. We are only the Sower, planting seeds that we hope others will be able to let seep into their soul. The important thing is to not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9). Beloved, keep planting seeds!


When similar seeds are planted together in good soil it produces a crop as Jesus describes as some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. I believe the 2023 crop of seeds that are being planted in the “Seeking Humility through Fasting and Prayer” season will produce a crop like that, and many testimonies will manifest throughout the year. The best is yet to come.


“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”







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