I’ve got a couple of packets with seeds in them that have sat in a drawer for years. The seeds are still good. They have the potential to produce vegetables, but that’s all it is as they sit in the drawer. Potential. Seeds only work when they’re sown. They can’t take root until they’re placed in the soil. It makes me wonder how much potential each of us have in unsown seeds. The Bible is full of examples telling us to sow the seeds God has given us. Many times it tells us what we will reap if we do, yet we all have bags of unsown seeds. What seeds are you holding onto that God has asked you to sow? Don’t delay anymore. Go out and sow them.
Here are some Bible verses on sowing:
1. The wicked man earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness and lives his life with integrity will have a true reward [that is both permanent and satisfying].
Proverbs 11:18 AMP
2. Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate]; Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek and search diligently for the Lord [and to long for His blessing] Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.
Hosea 10:12 AMP
3. This generous God who supplies abundant seed for the farmer, which becomes bread for our meals, is even more extravagant toward you. First he supplies every need, plus more. Then he multiplies the seed as you sow it, so that the harvest of your generosity will grow.
2 Corinthians 9:10 TPT
4. Here’s my point. A stingy sower will reap a meager harvest, but the one who sows from a generous spirit will reap an abundant harvest.
2 Corinthians 9:6 TPT
5. For the one who sows to his flesh [his sinful capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses] will reap from the flesh ruin and destruction, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:8 AMP
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Devotions by Chris Hendrix 