In the kingdom we
cannot build a life, a business or a ministry. We cannot build the kingdom of
God. Everything of the kingdom of God must grow
from a seed from God through a heavenly natural growth process. We must
receive good seed in good soil and let the earth grow it. Indeed, this is a
great mystery.
We will become what
we hear and believe (receive) in our hearts.
“As you believe, so be it unto you.” “Your faith has made you
well.” “If you can believe, all things
are possible to him who believes.” “With God all things are possible.” “As a man thinks in his heart, so is
he.”
Natural things are
often pictures that can be used to show us spiritual things. Consider the
natural growth process of a stalk of wheat that begins with a dormant seed. The
seed placed in good soil sprouts and soon grows roots below ground and a small
green blade breaks through above ground. The green blade grows and becomes a
stalk. Then, a head begins to form on top. Next, the grain begins to grow in
the head. The mature seeds in the head are seeds like the one that was planted.
The seeds left alone will dry and eventually fall upon the ground and begin the
process over again except there are a multiplied number of seeds.
A seed (word, thought, vision) planted in our
heart-soil becomes a belief as it
sprouts. The belief becomes a conviction
as it grows a blade. A conviction becomes our attitude
as it grows a head. Our attitudes become our actions
as the full grain in the head becomes seeds (words & actions) sown from our
lives into the world to sprout and grow into the natural world.
This is the
supernatural natural process of bringing the desires and plans of God from
heaven into the natural world. By this process, spiritual seed/word/vision from
heaven becomes natural reality in the world. Through this growth process the
world can be changed to become as it is in heaven.
Mark 4:26-32: And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should
scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the
seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields
crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in
the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because
the harvest has come.”
And He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is
like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all
the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than
all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air can nest
under its shade.”
1 Corinthians 3:6: I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
