Today’s devotion is from 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, In the same way, He will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
God supplies our needs through seeds…
The Passion Translation says, ‘This generous God who supplies abundant seed for the farmer, which becomes bread for our meals…’ Our seed becomes our bread! When a believer gets a revelation that God gives seed to sow for the harvest we need, that believer, will never lack! God has ALREADY given us everything that we need for life and godliness – in seed form, now we need to sow that seed into the good ground that the Spirit leads us to sow into. That seed that we sow will become the harvest that we reap that will meet our every need.
Sow what you need…
Seed produces a harvest after it’s own kind. In God’s kingdom you sow money seeds to reap a money harvest, love seeds for a love harvest, favor seeds for a favor harvest and such. There is always a period of time between sowing and reaping, therefor today’s seed is not for today’s need. Today’s seed is seed for a future need. If you did not plant seed by faith in the past and you have a need right now, you need a miracle that is totally unrelated to your sowing – praise the Lord, He is a miracle working God!
The manna and the quail that the Lord provided in the wilderness were miracle provisions… miracle provisions are for wilderness times for those who do not know about sowing and reaping. Miracle provision is good, but you do not want to live like that, you want to cross over into your promised land, plant seed according to your need, and then live from your harvest by faith.
Notice that in the miracles of the manna and the quail, God gave the children of Israel a limited supply without any variety… it was survival food. In the Promised Land, the Lord provided them with a great variety of seeds for many different kinds of harvests. Don’t live from one miracle to the next, don’t stay in the wilderness, cross over into your Promised Land in the New Covenant and begin to sow for your future harvest by faith and forever say goodbye to lack - Selah
