Seeds of Love Soaking in Grace!!

Every year around March, I decide if I'm going to try to garden that year.. Every year I want to garden, because I love to see the spouting of new life. I love to see buds and flowers come up, that will eventually turn into fruit or veggies. I love to see how one seed can produce a plant that will bear tons of fruit.. It brings me great joy to bear fruit that I planted and watered. My son loves to run out to the garden to collect his harvest, and bring it in to eat right then. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

I was in worship yesterday and God was showing me something about planting seeds, and watering those seeds.. God was showing me about how a seed needs to be soaked in water in order for it to sprout. Sometimes this can takes weeks depending on the seed that is planted. The avocado seed can take up to 6 weeks to sprout, and I did some "googling" and have found info that some tree seeds can take years before they will sprout.. Sometimes some seeds need to be watered for along time!!

I was like WOW God.. These are the amazing places God takes me, that I wouldn't get to go if I didn't believe.. I was like whoa.. A seed does need to soaked in water before it will sprout, but even after it has sprouted it still needs to be watered.. Like watered for ever.. Without water it will die. If a seed was soaked in water for awhile but then the soil dried up, it would of a began a new life but then would have died off only after a short amount of time.. Or if a seed is planted in a bad place, it may of sprouted but then may have been choked out, eaten, or withered away..

But if a seed is planted in good soil, and soaked in water, it will sprout, and start to create roots.. These roots get stronger and grow the opposite way as the plant the more they are nourished. They deepen in the soil, and they can hold the plant firmly in the ground when storms and bad weather comes through. The plant will start to grow up and out of the soil, and start to form branches, and leaves, then it will bud flowers, and eventually bear fruit. But this too will only happen if it continually gets watered..

Then God was showing me about the seeds and water.. Not every seed planted is a good seed. 
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

There are many seeds, but there are only 3 perfect seeds that will never fail. Faith, Hope, and Love.. But just as scripture says, God showed me the one that is most important. The seed of love.. That is the one that stood out. You can preach the word until you are blue in the face, but if you do it without love.. You sound like Charlie Browns teacher,, wah wah wah, woh, and most likely are doing more damage than good.You sound like nothing. This might be why some seeds never sprout. They were planted without love. You can even water these seeds, and they still wont sprout because there is nothing inside.

Then God showed me how to water. He showed me this from John..One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. The pouring out of Jesus blood, and His water.. When you pour into someone you are watering them. The more you water the more that seed will soak. Once its sprouted, the more you give that plant nourishment, so it can grow and become strong. There are only 2 liquids you can water from.. That is from Jesus's living water, and from the liquid that gives life, His blood.. You might say well I'm not sure how you can water someone with these two things, but the Holy Spirit showed me that since these two things came out of Jesus heart when He was pierced, that when you water, you get these two liquids from inside your heart.. Which is liquid love, or waters of grace!! You don't just want to come sprinkle water on these seeds, but you want to pour it out on them.. Just a continuous flow on them, just like God gives to us.. Jesus poured these out on us, and so did God..Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.

When you pour out on these seeds, it gives life to the seed. The seed soaks up that life giving blood and water, and the seed turns from something dead into something alive. It goes from a dead seed into a entirely new living breathing creature.. For a little while someone might need to keep watering that plant, but when it starts to get really rooted, and learns how to stay in the water and blood, it will continue to grow, becoming deeper rooted in God. It will become mature and start to bear fruit.. 

God brought me back to baptism and communion with this.. These two things represent the same things, the blood and the water of Jesus.. You are cleansed with the water, but the blood is what is on the inside doing the cleaning..

So after all of this, the reason why I am writing is because I was thinking about how in March when I think about wanting to garden, sometimes I get lazy, and I think about how much work it is to garden. I have to get the weeds, out, and turn up the soil, and it just takes awhile to get it even prepped to plant anything. Planting seeds is hard work.. Its laborious, but its worth it..The first thing I ever planted and grew, I wanted to cry. I was so excited, and that is how we should be.. We should always know that bearing the seed for sowing may cause weeping, and tears, but you will come home with a harvest that overflows and shouts of joy. You will get to eat your fruit of all you hard work..


Those who sow in tears
    shall reap with shouts of joy! 
 He who goes out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    bringing his sheaves with him.