“While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. Genesis 8:22

From the natural point of view, there is no fruit without the seed. It is first the seed and then, the harvest. If we want orange, we do not sow guavas and if we want cocoa, we do not sow kola nut. Hence, the fruit we desire determines the seed we sow.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”. Galatians 6:7

professor and an authority on the New Testament and yet, be gagged by poverty, sickness, fear and defeat, if he has no spiritual grasp of the truth. When Adam fell, his mind was still active; he knew he needed a covering for his nakedness as well as protection from wild beasts. But as earlier noted, he was already a dead man, because the real him (his spirit) was dead. 

The Word has to find its way into the heart of man; that real man, the spirit. Just as a natural seed will not grow unless it is buried in the earth, a spiritual seed will not produce other than when it is received into the heart. The Word is knocking at our hearts, not our heads. Revelations 3:20 says: 

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”.

The “I” stands for Jesus, and bless God, Jesus stands for the Word. (See John 1:1-3). Just as we expect a seed to bear fruits when it’s planted, we must expect miracles when we plant the Word. We must recognise that when we plant the healing seed, we reap healing miracle. The Bible says God watches over His word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12, ESV). The moment the seed is planted, the husbandman will ensure that the desired result is obtained.

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. Isaiah 55:11

Just as the enemy cannot hinder the growth of our natural seeds when they are planted under appropriate conditions, the forces of hell can do nothing against the Word, when it is received into the proper place, which is the heart, The Word, therefore, is not meant for the shelf or desk but for the heart. It is important to understand that, until we come to the Word-point on any issue, we should not expect any fruit. The natural seed is the source of its fruit, so also the Word is the source of all miracles.

No wonder the Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:15:

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth”.

“To study” in this context means the act of seed-seeking. Thus, where one has the seed, his miracle will be approved, and he will not be afraid. Seed-seeking believers are the ever-prosperous ones; they have the secret. The secret is seed before fruit.

I once ministered to a woman plagued with barrenness. I knew that I had to get hold of the seed in the first place; therefore, I set myself to search the Word of God for the appropriate seed. After a while, I got hold of some scriptures that stirred up faith within me. I fed the woman with these and she received her miracle. Praise God, she has a child today! Again, another Christian family had a sickle cell anemia child and the case had become very frustrating. 

The mother of the child hurried to my office on the issue. I went again into the Word to obtain the appropriate seed for the desired miracle. I got about eight scriptures that forbid such in a believer’s home. I became victory-conscious, went to their home and ministered to the child. The Word produced the miracle. That child is very healthy today.

If no man will commence praying for a big harvest of maize when, in fact, he has planted no seed, then, a believer will be merely wasting his time praying for a miracle when he has sown no seed. The question is, how does one get the Word to produce? The subsequent chapters are devoted to answering this question…

This text is an extract from the book “THE MIRACLE SEED” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
We invite you to read the following article “BELIEVE THE WORD“.

SEED TIME AND HARVEST.