I never tire of what God teaches me and reminds me of during planting season.
One day, I was preparing some Kennebec potatoes to put in the garden. I sat down, cutting them in quarters or halves, making sure there were several eyes present on each cutting. That is what the farmers who came before me in my family taught me, so that is what I do.
Breanne and Brailee were sitting near me, watching me.
Breanne said, “I don’t understand, why do you use whole potatoes that you can eat to grow potatoes?” I responded, “that’s just the way it works.” She asked, “but where’s the seed?”
I laughed and said, “In the potatoes.”
The seed is in the potatoes, the seed is in the harvest, and the harvest is the seed.
God is so awesome, and the way He designed things to work never ceases to amaze me.
The seed is in the potatoes. We plant the potatoes, they grow, and harvest comes. We harvest them, and then there is more seed. Oh, my word! When I think about that, I see how God designed us to have a perpetual harvest in every area of our lives.
He gives us seed. We plant the seed; we water it. He brings the increase. We harvest it. Once it is harvested, there are more seeds to plant, and we do it all over again. There is never a reason for us to go without harvest, if we are continuing to plant seed from every harvest.
I hope that makes as much sense to you as it does to me. Sometimes it is difficult to put what I am seeing in words.
Have you sown seed? If so, you have harvest in the ground. But you must water it. And you must speak His Word over it, declaring He is bringing increase. And He will. He will not fail to bring His Word to pass in your life.
Have you harvested? If so, more seed is in your harvest. Be sure to continue planting more seeds. Why? So, you will continue to harvest.
It is my prayer for you this year, not that you will enter a season of harvest, but that you will enter a time of perpetual harvest—an unending circle of seedtime and harvest. Such a dynamic time will be as the Word speaks of in Amos 9:13: “The time will come,” says the LORD, “when the grain and grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested.”
The King James Version says, “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord…” I love that! It reverberates in my spirit today – I hear the Lord saying to me, to you, to us….
“Behold, the days are coming where you will sow, and the harvest will come in faster than you can bring it in…”
I believe we are entering that time. I am excited!
God, help us recognize the seed for our harvest and the harvest in our seed. This I ask for each of us in Jesus’ mighty name.
