THE WORD
MUST PRODUCE
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hen you go to the shop and buy a packet of seeds, you will expect those seeds to will always produce SOMETHING, whether it is flowers or fruit. Given the right conditions, what will happen to the seed? It will produce a flower. It has no option, it simply must. If the right conditions are not in place the seed will die without producing what it was meant to. Why are there so many seeds in the bag? Some of them might get eaten by insects or other animals or may be blown away by the wind and so on. Therefore, it’s not just about planting the seeds but keeping them planted for a long enough time for them to produce. The Bible says in Luke 8:11 that the Word of God is a seed. “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word”. If it is planted in the correct conditions, it must produce. We need to realise this truth. The word simply MUST produce something. I want you to have confidence that the Word you are reading, meditating on and speaking over your situation CANNOT produce nothing. It MUST accomplish what it has been sent to do. Time that you spend planting the truth of the Word of God in your life is not wasted.
Some people will say, how can words on a page, written so many years ago, actually achieve anything new?
ꞏ Some hear /read the word only to have the devil come and take it away from their hearts to prevent them from believing.
Isaiah 55: 8-11 says:
• Then there are those who are happy to receive the Word but they only believe for a while until temptation comes
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. 10 “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. 11 IT IS THE SAME WITH MY WORD. I SEND IT OUT, AND IT ALWAYS PRODUCES FRUIT. IT WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL I WANT IT TO, AND IT WILL PROSPER EVERYWHERE I SEND IT”. I want to encourage you to prayerfully and led by The Holy Spirit seek out scriptures that will produce what you want to see in your situation. Are you experiencing issues in your relationships? You need to sow the Word of God into your situation. Read it, speak it, live it! The Seed MUST Produce!
• Others hear the Word but they don’t meditate and stay on it because they are distracted by the pleasures of the world and riches etc. THOSE PEOPLE WHO SEE THE HARVEST PRODUCED BY THE WORD ARE THOSE WHO HEAR IT, CLING TO IT AND ARE PATIENT. The central theme here is faith. Various things can affect our ability to believe and have faith in the Word. Without your faith, that Word cannot produce. Unbelief, temptation, troubles and world distractions can all prevent the seed of the Word of God producing a harvest. Have you ever seen a video of a rodeo rider? You will see how the rider holds on despite all the efforts of the bull to throw off the rider? That is the way we need to determine to hold on to the Word of God, no matter what comes to try and throw us off.
Now we said at the beginning that given the right conditions, all seed MUST produce.
• Another important thing we can do with the Word is to give it our whole-hearted attention.
What are the conditions?
Prov. 4:20-21 says: “My son, give attention to my words; incline your
If we read Luke 8:12-15, we see that: 38
