Flourishing By The Seed

 Mark 4:26-33

Plants are products of seeds.

Plants are the best example we can use to describe what it means to flourish.

Seeds defy odds, they grow, evolve, and flourish into useful plants that benefit humanity.

The uniqueness of seeds is that they do not look the same when they germinate or become fully grown.

They "die" and germinate and grow into what is the opposite of the seed that was put into the soil.

Seeds have tremendous potential.

Seeds bring about continuity and sustainability.

We are likened to spiritual plants in scripture.

Our lives are very much like seeds in this imperfect world, we are conceived in the womb through fertilization from the seed of our fathers, we defy odds to be born, we grow and evolve in every area of life to become adults who are useful to our families, our community and the world.

As seeds flourish to become beneficial to the world, God wants us to flourish too and be beneficial to Him and humanity.

This is how God is glorified in our lives.

The concept of seeds are God's idea, God's wisdom in the earth.

Seeds are the beginning of most things.

Seed sowing and harvest is a law that is here to stay.

The beginning of every garden started with a seed.

The genesis of every farm land or plantation is seeds.

We are likened to gardens, farmlands, God's plantation.

Isaiah 58:11

We are seed-like and created full of seeds.

Your ideas are seeds.

Your words are seeds.

Your imagination are seeds.

Your time is a seed.

Your love is a seed.

Your prayer is a seed.

Your finances are seeds.

Your praise is a seed.

Your faith is a seed.

Your gifts and talents are seeds.

Your intelligence is a seed.

Your uniqueness is a seed.

Jesus Christ is the seed of God planted into the world.

John 3:16

Your seed is that which you can give.

God respects the law of the seed, for seed time and harvest will not fail as long as the earth remains.

Genesis 8:22

It is a fact that if a seed is sown into good ground, watered, and tended to, in due time it will flourish and produce harvests.

This is what God wants for you.

John 15:1-5

The words of God are seeds sown into our hearts which are meant to germinate, grow, and bring forth (flourish).

Matthew 13:8

Through our seeds we can flourish and prevail.

The divine nature in the followers of Jesus is a product of God's Seed in us.

2 Peter 1:4

Jesus (the seed of God) came into the world at a strategic time and was strategically positioned by God in the nation of Israel at a unique season.

If Jesus came at a different time and was born into a different nation the impact of His dead would have been different.

God the Father is wise and strategic.

His timing is perfect and His process can be trusted.

May we be wise like God our Father.

May we be strategic with where we invest our seeds.

The kingdom of God is likened to a seed.

Mark 4:26-33

The kingdom of God starts small but grows into the biggest.

It becomes a force to be reckoned with.

Faith functions the same way, it is the way of the kingdom of God.

 Matthew 17:20,21

Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shares this teaching message