Seed Sowing and Sacrifice

Hi there,
I was praying one day at church during a prayer meeting and at a point, I started talking to the Holy Spirit and strangely, I asked Him a question about the difference between Seed Sowing and Sacrifice. They go hand in hand and you can hardly do one without doing the other. They seem to be coupled together in some sense.

Lets get started. Sowing a seed, very much what farmers do, is taking a seed and putting it into the ground. Actually, apart from putting the seed back to the ground, there's not much use for it. Of course they have secondary uses like making industrial chemicals and such but their primary use is that they go back into the ground to bring forth fruits later for the one who planted. As a Christian, there are times where you must sow seeds, in a form of money or time or "sacrifice"(more on this soon). Spiritually when the time comes for you to sow and you redirect that seed for something else, you have really missed something great; missed the fruits you would brought forth. Your seed gets translated into something so out of place, a secondary use and not as much fruits. Usually when seeds are used for secondary uses like making of chemicals, more seeds are required to make a unit of that secondary product.

Again, when farmers are sowing seeds, they not are exactly sacrificing anything. They are just putting the seed to its primary use. They wouldn't say they have lost anything really because the value of a seed not in the ground is close to valueless. The Seed has to enter the ground! Understand here that as a Christian, even though you can sow a seed of sacrifice, the act of sowing that seed is not sacrifice in it self.

Now Sacrifice is when you give out something that costs you to some extend. In fact the extend to which it costs you shows the depth and value of your sacrifice. As David makes us understand by stating in 1 Chronicles 21:24 that "I will not ... sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing". Or consider when God required Isaac from Abraham. In a sacrifice also, it is not exactly obvious what the sacrifice is going to do. There's a mystery to it than meets the eye. And guess what, it is also a seed. Of all the seeds that can be sown, sowing with the element of sacrifice has the greatest results. Reason? Consider what God, the Father did when He wanted to get the world back to Himself. He sowed a seed, Jesus and it was not just any seed, it had the element of Sacrifice. A Great Sacrifice Indeed! A Life! It is that sacrifice that makes it possible to be a Christian.

Do you want to want your seeds to bear much fruit? Go for the mystery of Sacrifice. You will not fully how it works behind the scenes, but it works!.

I was wondering why the Holy Spirit talked to me about Seed Sowing and Sacrifice when I was praying for the Anointing. I mean, what is the connection? Anointing will not come without the element of Sacrifice!

Thank you Holy Spirit and just saying ...  (In the Second I Typed, Thank You Holy Spirit, Bishop Dag, in a message I was listening to, in that same Second, Said Thank You Holy Spirit!)

Stay tuned for more!