Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
One of the secrets of abundance is to always plant seeds. This
is because planted seeds are the seeds which multiply and compound to
abundance. Please read John Chapter 12 verse 24, Luke Chapter 6 verse 38,
Malachi Chapter 3 verses 6 to 12 and Genesis Chapter 8 verse 22.
That is why every wise farmer keeps the best of seeds for
planting so that progressively, s/he experiences bountiful harvests, increase
and abundance. The patriarch Isaac is a classic example. He planted seed in Gerar
at a time of drought because God instructed him to do so. The result was
progressive bountiful harvests which made him about the riches person in Gerar.
Please read Genesis Chapter 26 for details.
One of the ways to always plan for abundance is to always
plant seeds, quality seeds (Jeremiah Chapter 2 verse 21) so that the seeds
would grow, multiply and compound to abundant harvests. Please read Zechariah
Chapter 8 verses 9 to 13, Psalm 126 verses 5 to 6. Significantly, seed time is
the season for planting seeds while harvest time is the season for reaping the
abundant fruits from the planted harvest. It then implies that the farmer who
plants at planting season is the one who will have abundant fruits to reap at
harvest time. Beloved, the farmer who plants at planting time is a wise farmer
because he will reap bountiful harvests. But the farmer who does not plant at
planting time will have no harvest; that is zero seed on the ground and zero
harvest. That explains why the Bible talks about seeds fruiting and multiplying
only when they are planted.
Sometimes, it is not convenient, pleasant to plant as the ground
may be hard and dry (probably because of drought as in Genesis Chapter 26); it
may be in contention; the circumstances may just not be right as in Haggai
Chapters 1 and 2; the opposition may be stiff as experienced by the Apostle
Paul in 1st Corinthians Chapter 16 verse 9 and Acts Chapter 19: yet
God’s will clearly spells PLANT. Also, resources might be insufficient yet God
says to plant. What to do is plan God’s abundance because it will always come
regardless of the situation, circumstances or availability of resources.
Plant what you own, what you can access which is in your hands
and leave the rest to God to handle. He created abundance and knows how always
make it happen with what appears to be insignificant resources, hard and dry
ground, contention and strife and circumstances which appear not to be right.
The widow of Zarephath did not plan for abundance. To start
with, she did not have a vision of abundance more so when the prevailing circumstances
in which she found herself had no semblance of abundance. It was a period of
drought and famine where people were afraid to share because resources were scarce
and depleting fast. In point of fact, the food resources in the house of the
widow of Zarephath were the last; which would serve dinner for her and her son
so that thereafter, they would progressively starve to death. So there was
nothing interesting and exciting to plan for. It was eat dinner tonight and
wait for death by starvation.
Beloved, God is still God and will always be God no matter
how dire the situation appears. He reversed the plans of the widow of Zarephath
from eat dinner to await death by starvation to plan for and prepare for
abundance and life by sending the prophet Elijah to her for full board – lodging
and feeding for the entire duration of the famine. Say, how do you feed three
people with what the widow described as only a handful of flour in a bin, and a
little oil in a jar for close to two years? But that was exactly what happened
when God speaking through Prophet Elijah changed the mental paradigm shift of
the woman from insufficiency, lack and death to sufficiency, more than enough
and abundance. The supposedly insufficient and depleting food resources
multiplied and compounded and fed all three of them for the period of the
famine.
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