Wednesday, November 25, 2009

ONE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

“Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed. Therefore sprang there even of one so many as the stars in the sky in multitude, and as the white sand by the seashore innumerable” (Hebrews 11; 11-12).

“There that should do it,” you say to yourself as you carefully set your last tomato plant.
Suddenly, a red Dodge Ram pulls into your yard. As you walk toward the truck to see who it is, the driver rolls down the window and calls your name.
“O My God!” you proclaim—you’d recognize that voice anywhere. “It’s Jesus.”
“How about coming with me,” he asks. “I have something I want to show you.”
“Me……You want….. Me?”
Laughing, Jesus opens the door and says, “Yes, get in.”
Taking Faith 23 north for about eight miles, the Lord takes a right on New Beginnings Avenue. Here he pulls into a 100,000 acre field that sits at the foot of Mount Petition.
“All that you see is mine,” he declares. “I want you to plant this in corn and feed the nations.”
Overwhelmed with faith and joy, you worship him.
“Should I buy the seed in one ton allotments?”
“No need for that,” he says, and hands you one seed.


“And he said, So is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed into the ground” (Mark 4;26).

God has placed in the nature of a seed the power to reproduce itself in unlimited numbers. From one seed can come trillions of other seed that look like the original, grows like the original, and tastes like the original. The only difference between the original and the trillions is a major one: The original is the root; the trillions are the fruit.

Let’s do the math on one seed of corn. Every country boy knows that one stalk of corn will produce two ears of corn. An average ear will have 820 kernels which times two is 1,640. Plant all these and you will have 2, 689,600. Repeat this a third and fourth time and you will reap an astonishing 7,223,948,160,000 kernels of corn! All from one.

“Now the Lord had said unto Abram… I will make of thee a great nation…unto thy seed will I give this land… that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven” (Genesis12;1,2,7; 22;17).

God builds nations and kingdoms from one seed. He promised a seed to Abraham and from that one seed came forth the nation Israel. Abraham had Isaac who had Jacob, who in turn fathered twelve sons. When Israel went into Egypt they numbered seventy: “And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls” (Exodus 1:5). By the time you get to Hebrews 11; 12, the seed had multiplied to innumerable proportions; just like he promised. All, from David to Paul, from the least to the greatest, came from one.

God is not looking for great strength; He can do all that is written with little strength!

What has he placed in your hand?

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