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God's Word is seed

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God's Word is seed

Mark 4:2-25 In the parable of the sower, Jesus said that God's Word is seed. Notice that Jesus said that it is the seed, not you, that produces thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold -- or not at all if it is planted in bad soil. It is God's Word working in you that produces a harvest. If you don't plant the Word, you will no more get a harvest than a farmer would get a harvest without planting seed. It will help you greatly to realize that God's Word, the Bible, is not a collection of philosophical ideas. It is not the definition of a system of religion. God's Word itself is alive. Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life" (John 6:63). Hence, God's words are not mere words; they contain inherent life and spiritual power. Hebrews 4:12 says, "For the word of God is quick [alive], and powerful...." God spoke through Isaiah, "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." (Isaiah 55:10-11).

Just as a seed contains within itself the ability to grow and produce a harvest, the Word of God contains within itself the ability to produce a harvest. "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." (1 Thessalonians 3:13).

Do you have ears to hear?

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In the parable of the sower, it was up to you to have ears to hear. % The seed can either produce a hundredfold in you or get choked preachalways.tripod.com out and produce nothing in you. The difference is the ground because it's the same seed. The kind of ground you are depends upon whether or not you have ears to continue hearing the gospel.

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Paul said that you are God's husbandry (farm) in 1 Cor 3:9. You are a farm where God's precious seed is planted. How you care for that seed will determine how it will grow in your life, if at all.

Plant now for a future harvest! It is not a good time to start looking at healing Scriptures when the doctor tells you that you have three months to live. That would be like a farmer saying to his wife, "Honey, we only have two days of food left in the house. Quick, let's go out into the field and plant some seed today!" Seed takes time to grow. You plant seed

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some seed today!" Seed takes time to grow. You plant seed before you need the harvest, not when you need the harvest!

Prayer is not seed Many sick people are under the delusion that prayer is the key to healing, and the longer they pray, and the more people they get praying for their healing, the more likely it will be for them to get healed. That isn't the answer. The answer is for the sick person to go over healing Scriptures until he sees for himself that it is definitely God's will to heal him. Prayer is not a substitute for faith! The prayer of faith is extremely short and is prayed only once. You believe that you receive when you pray. Long prayers are generally wrong prayers.

Imagine if the ignorant farmer above said to his wife, "Honey, I've got a better idea. Let's just pray longer and harder and get more people to agree with us. Then corn will come out of the ground and we will have a harvest!" No, it is silly to think that a farmer would get a harvest because people prayed, when he did not plant the necessary seed to produce the harvest. When it comes down to it, the only thing capable of producing a harvest is seed!

Sowing seed into others' lives It is important to realize that the Word of God is seed when you minister the healing part of the Gospel to someone else. People desperately need to hear that healing was provided in Christ's atonement. Sharing this with them will do infinitely more good than just offering to pray with them about their condition. Prayer is good, but to get a harvest of healing, they need God's Word on the subject, since nothing else can produce faith -- not even prayer. Praying with them is like handing them a fish, while giving them God's Word on the matter is like teaching them to fish.
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