Plating the seed !

PLATING THE SEED: A seed does not produce unless you plant it. If you had one grain of wheat, you couldn't make biscuits out of it. You couldn't make gravy out of it, because it is not enough. But, if you are smart enough to plant it and make a bountiful harvest, eventually you could feed the world from the wheat that seed produced. It is simple. In fact, it is so simple it would take religion to mess it up. When you plant it, it produces a harvest. So, Jesus is saying to the disciples, "If you had faith that you were willing to plant. . . "The problem was that they did not have faith they were willing to plant. They did not have "faith as a seed." It is possible to have faith that is not planted or given to us. You could say, "Oh, yes, I believe the Bible is true. I believe it from cover to cover." Someone might say (Philippians 4:19) says, "But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." (Luke 6:38) says, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. . ." They say, "Well, yes, I know that's in the Bible." "Is it true in your life?" "Well, no, it's not true in my life." "Why isn't it true in your life?" "I guess it just isn't God's will." The Word of God is the will of God. It is God's will, but it won't happen in your life just because it's God's will. You will not be healed just because the Bible says, . . . By whose (Jesus) stripes ye were healed (1 Peter 2:24). You will not become prosperous just because the Bible says, . . . Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper (Psalms 1:3). The Word must be off the pages of the Book and inside your MOUTH so it can get in your heart (soul). You can take a Bible down to the hospital and lay it on someone to get them healed, although the Bible is full of the Word of God on healing, and yes, it is the power of God unto healing, unto soundness, unto preservation, unto deliverance. But if you can get that good news of God's Word on healing inside them, it will manifest itself. The Word produces when it is planted in the heart. FAITH SPEAKS: Jesus said to the apostles, "If You Had Faith as a Seed, you should say to the sycamine (Black Mulberry) tree. . ." this is an inanimate object lesson. Evidently, they were walking down a path, and the tree was right in the middle of the path. This tree was an obstacle in their way. So, Jesus uses the tree as an object lesson. But Jesus, "said, if you had faith as a seed, you could say to this animated object, this tree, "Be plucked up by the roots, be planted in the sea." And it--- the tree--- would obey you." Another paraphrase of His words would be, "it would obey your faith--filled words, if you had faith as a seed. Jesus tells two great faith secrets here: Faith is as a seed, or it works as a seed; and you plant it by speaking it. Someone may say, "you're not going to catch me speaking to trees and mountains and talking to things." You probably won't see those things remove either. Jesus is not talking about uprooting trees anyway, no more than He is talking about moving Mount Everest into the sea when He said, . . . Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed . . . (Mark 11:23). He's talking about problem areas in your life, about situations that you face and circumstances you don't know how to handle. Oh yeah, you may talk about your circumstances or your situation, but you don't talk to them! He tells you to say to that situation, "Be plucked up, be planted in the sea; depart, begone." Tell it what to do and where to go. DOMINION WITH WORDS: This is the way Adam was to have dominion in the beginning. It is God's method! God told Adam to have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, over everything that creeps on the earth. Now that's good news in itself, just knowing that you have dominion over creeps. How was Adam going to subdue the elephant? He would have to do it with his faith- filled words. There was not much he could do about it physically. He had to do it with his faith and the power of words. He had to operate in that dominion by his spoken words of faith. He had to operate the way God operated. He was in His likeness. Until he failed!! And so are you who has been re-created, which is born of God's Spirit. And you would have to renew your mind to the Word of God, so that you can operate in the kingdom of God that is within you!!