"We need to grasp and understand the nature, magnitude, potential and power of a seed. Dr. Myles Monroe says, "A seed until it is released, is only a promise of a tree. The death of a seed is a burial of a forest."
We should understand and always remember that every great tree was once a seed. Therefore. if a seed is not released, it will never birth to a forest. Unreleased seed is indeed a tragedy. It steals life of its essence and robs the future of its value.
When we face life's difficulties, it is our natural tendency to focus on our problems--our pains, our sickness, our financial difficulties. If we are focused the way to get what you need is to release what you need to others. Meaning....If you have a lot of problems, take your mind off yourself and go help others solve their problems. Be the solution to other problems! Sow a seed in others.
God will definitely use that seed to bring solution to your problems. If you are in pain, go help somebody else ease his/her pain. If you are sick, spend time in praying for the healing of somebody else who is suffering from illness. If you are facing financial difficulties, go and help others financially. As Anne Frank says, "No one has ever become poor by giving."
When you get up in the morning, instead of thinking of what you will receive for the day, pray to God for other people's blessings. Your life will be full of blessings that you won't have enough room to contain it.
"There are three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, and sharing with others." - William A. Ward
We discovered that if we help someone meet his/her needs, then God will meet our needs. When God sees you selflessly praying for others first before yourself, being good to somebody even though you are facing challenges in life, cheering up someone even though you have been through many failures, praying for somebody else's healing even if you don't feel well, He will surely bless you. God will use these selfless acts he sees in you and He will bring a harvest into your own life.
"The measure of life is not in its duration but in its donation. Everyone can be great because everyone can serve." - Peter Marshall.
I would like to share a story about this man praying to God to bless him with a wife. For many years, since he started working, he started saving money to prepare him for family life. What was interesting was God did not send him a wife immediately. God rather send him a need to meet.
One day, while he was attending a church service, the Lord impressed in his heart a burden to be a part of the construction of a prayer mountain. He was greatly moved that day and decided to donate the entire amount in his savings account for the prayer mountain project.
Years later, he amazingly reaped his harvest. He became one of the managers of a manufacturing company and was promoted six times in a span of two years. One day, he attended a leadership seminar where his company invited a resource speaker. He never realized that the lady resource speaker was the answer to his prayer. Almost a year after that seminar, they got married.
I really believe that this man's willingness to give to the church's need was one of the seeds God used to cause their paths to cross. They are now happily married for more than 20 years with four children. Prior to this, years ago, God blessed him with one promotion after another.
Today, together with his wife, God has entrusted to them a company whose mission is to unleash the highest potential in people for the glory of God.
When that man prayed for a wife, he didn't get a favorable answer right away. God gave him a burden instead, to help the church. Just like the case of this man, when we pray to God, He may seem to be unresponsive. His ways are not our ways. It is, in fact, higher than ours. Amazing things happen when we respond and obey to His promptings.
I thank God that I'm married to that man who sowed a seed and reaped a great harvest. Our family is so blessed because of the seed he sowed many years ago. To God be the glory! He has continually encouraged our children and me to apply in our lives what is written in the Bible.
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9
Remember, when we reach out and give our time, energy and resources, we encourage, and we share our finances, then that seed that holds the solution to our problems is being nurtured. When we pray to God for other people's needs, God will bring harvest back to you.
If you are lonely, don't just pray to God to send somebody to make you happy. Instead, go and ease the loneliness of others by praying for them. The same seed that God will use to bring a harvest of joy in your own life. Charles Dicken says, "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
If you are unemployed, it is not enough to pray to God to give you a job. While you are waiting for your own opportunity to come, help a friend be promoted, or help someone find a job.
"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."- Booker T. Washington
In our more than twenty years of marriage, we learned that even expressing gratitude to people God used to bless us is also the seed that brought harvest into our lives. As what G.B. Stern said, "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
"If you want your life to turn around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."- Gerard Good
"God gave you a gift if 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, "Thank you?"
Gratitude can transform common days into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William A. Ward.
Most of the time, we pray for God to answer our prayer.. However, He will send a need for us to meet. That need then, is the seed that holds the answer.
The book of Proverbs says when you refresh others, God will refresh you, He who satisfies others will be satisfied.
"Give, and it will be given back to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into you lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." -Luke 6:38
Be seed-minded, not need minded.
Sow a seed in times of need!
Vic & Avelynn Garcia
Unleash Your Highest Potential
p. 63-68
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