In 2 Kings, we find a widow woman who is struggling during a time of famine. The prophet comes to her house and asks her a question; what do you have in your house? The woman says she has a bottle of oil and that is all she has. He tells her to get the bottle of oil. when she obeys her and her family are sustained for the entire time of famine. Wow!
I know of a Pastor who sat down and figured up what that seed yielded and found it to be a thousand-fold return. Not too long ago, one of our partners and I were talking about this very thing. She shared with me how she once sowed a seed and received a thousand-fold return. She said her pastor asked God about it and God took him to this scripture as well as to one in Deuteronomy.
After our conversation, I asked the Lord one question; what is in my house that I can sow. I really didn’t think much more about it. A few days later while I was in prayer, the Lord led me to sow a seed of eBooks to our partners – which I did. Later this same friend called and said, “When you sowed that seed, I knew it was the what was in your house seed.” I said, “Wow, I didn’t even put the two together.” Then she reminded me that it was the what is in your house seed that yielded a thousand-fold return.
It jumped in my spirit and my faith for a thousand-fold return was activated. A couple hours later I checked my email, and I had an email from another partner. He was saying thank you for the gifts of the books, and then he said, “I declare a thousand-fold return over this seed.”
I have already seen the harvest begin to come in off this seed. Praise the Lord! You see, God says He will give seed to the sower. He gave me a seed, it was something already in my hand and it was a powerful seed. The Lord has not allowed me to stop thinking about this and I can’t even begin to tell you how many times He has confirmed it.
During the midst of this my daughter has an AKC dog that she had for sell. All her dogs sell quickly, but this one just didn’t. It has been a few weeks. A couple times I thought about telling her to sow her dog. But it is her dog, and she could use the money, so I didn’t want to interfere.
But God had this what is in your house so big in my spirit that when she called and said someone had called about the dog. She shared that they said they were coming to get it and then changed their mind. I began to share with her about the what is in your house teaching. I said you can sell the dog, but it seems that is not working well, so why not sow it? Sowing it will yield a bigger result than selling it. I said to her, sow what is in your house and give God something to work with. And she did. God blessed her seed.
I don’t know if this teaching speaks to you or not, but it certainly did to me. I simply asked God what is in my house that I can sow into your Kingdom? He showed me and I obeyed. I expect a thousand-fold return.
Today, as I was preparing the prayer call for the partners, the Lord led to pray a thousand-fold return over every seed sown our partners have sown into this ministry. I am excited to see what He does with that prayer. I simply believe that is the season we are in. According to Deuteronomy 1:11; May our God bless you a thousand times more…just as He has promised.
