Lift up your voice and give quality thanks to Him from the depth of your heart.
Ask him to speak to you this morning, Lord give unto me the speech of the day.
Our Father and our God, We have come to give glory unto you, we thank you for the blessings of been in Your presence. We give you all the praise and glory unto you. We ask that you speak to everyone of us and by your word let everyone of us be changed and transformed, in Jesus name we pray.
We have been looking at this exhortation all through the week titled – DEDICATION A COVENANT PLATFORM FOR THE RISE OF GIANTS.
One of the fundamental discoveries we make about life is the reality of seed time and harvest.
Genesis 8:22
One of the laws that govern life is the law of seedtime and harvest. All seeds vary, even in nature we find out that all seeds are not the same. Not all seeds are of equal value and not all seeds are of equal profit. Seeds vary in their nature and in their profit.
In agriculture for example, there are seeds of plants that are called cash crops and the reason is because of the profit they procure for those who plant them. As it is in the physical, so is it in the spiritual. In the realm of the spirit there are seeds of various nature and profit.
Like we know we can plant money as a seed, you can sow your time as seed. But of all seeds in the spirit the greatest of all is your life.
Psalms 126:1-6
Any wise farmer you know will plant various seeds, but here the Bible says there is one precious seed and that precious seed that is sown that carries the greatest profit of any kind is actually the seed of our life.
Proverbs 23:26
God’s servant has taught many years ago on what he called ‘The Mystery of Your Greatest Seed’ and that seed is not your cash. That seed is not your time, that seed is your life.
John 12:23-26
The planting of your life before God is the commitment of your life to stewardship. When your life is sold out as a seed to serving God, then your life is planted as a seed in God. There is no life that is planted in God that will not bring profit. It begins to bring supernatural profit. And the profit of that life is far beyond the commitment of that life unto God. Even in the natural no seed is bigger than the harvest. Every seed is planted in smallness and the seed grows unto greatness.
In the same way you can plant your life in smallness and it comes out in greatness. Church Gist. The mystery of life is the mystery of seed time and harvest. If your life is planted in God, then that life is made great by God. This mystery is the difference maker in the race of life. That is why dedication is said to be the mystery behind the rise of giants.
Dedication is steady commitment, it is getting sold out to God. It is giving your entire life to God, it is making your life a seed unto God
Psalms 22:30
The highway to distinction is the pathway of dedication. Until you commit yourself to God in dedication, you are not a candidate for distinction. Even if you have being counted out on the journey to destiny, as long as you are committed to dedication, you are sure to rise in distinction.
It is not where you start with God, it is the fact that you are planted in God that makes the difference. Church Gist. You may start at the point of insignificance but as long you are planted in God, the outcome of your life is dinstinction.
Let us look at an example in the Bible – the life of Daniel. The Bible of Daniel shows us several pictures of dedication in scriptures.
Daniel 1:8
Daniel was a captive in Babylon who said he couldn’t afford to defile himself with the meat coming from the King because it had been served to idols even if it was to his own detriment. As far as Daniel was concerned taking a stand for God is more important than any thing else.
The second picture of Daniel’s dedication is in Daniel 6:5-22, when the king gave a decree that no one should pray to any other thing except to the king. The Bible said Daniel opened his window and prayed morning, afternoon and evening to the God of heaven, that was the man that Daniel was. Church Gist. No wonder we are told that Daniel was a man in touch with divine secrets. You cannot but be distinguished when your life is dedicated to God.
In this kingdom, you don’t rise by talent, you don’t rise by skill, you don’t rise by connection, you rise by dedication. It is not your talent, it is not your ability, it is not your connection but your dedication that secures your rising.
It means therefore that every other thing that people chase after will not get you to where you are going until you are dedicated.
Mathew 6:33
You have one life, which means you have only one precious seed. Any seed that is broken is a destroyed seed. Church Gist. If you break a seed into three parts and plant it in three places, that seed will not grow because by breaking it, you have destroyed it. There are people who want to give God one part of their life, and other things other parts. If your seed has been scattered, it cannot produce.
Your life is one seed which means it must be planted only in one place. If you plant it in God, then greatness will come out of it.
- May your own life bring forth what it carries
We are going to take grace because we live in a very distracted world, so many people are trying to plant their life in several places and it will not produce.
Lord give me grace to plant my one precious seed in your kingdom. I don’t want to scatter my potential and destroy my future. Give me the grace to plant my life in one place seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Lord by your grace let every one of our lives be seeds that will be planted for a generation.
Speak to the day, decree and declare what you want to see today. Speak it in faiths in Confidence.
- In the name of Jesus, this day is declared blessed.
- For you it shall be a day of testimony, all through this day God will continue to visit you.
- For you this day will be a day of rising.
So shall it be in Jesus name.
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