RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Bible in one year: Lamentations 1-2

Memorise: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John 12:24

Read: John 12:24-25

Wisdom for financial breakthrough teaches that: although God gives seed to the sower, He also expects the sower to sow and not eat the seed.

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 2 Corinthians 9:10

You must realise that there is no child of God without a seed. But you may say,

”I have no money and therefore I have nothing to sow”. You are wrong. If you have no money, you may have something more valuable than money. Look at your hand, heart, intellect, abilities and talents, time, what you have in your house, your academic training, your mouth to preach and win souls, etc. There is no one without a seed. When God provides you with a financial blessing, say your wage, salary or profit from a business, that provision has a seed in it. If you spend everything, you will harm yourself.

That financial provision – salary, wage, profit or salary raise is some kind of harvest. God expects that the harvest you take today will give you larger harvests tomorrow. When you receive your harvest, pay your tithe, sow your seed and use the rest. The seed you sowed, in the process of time will be multiplied and will be able to fetch you bread – food and not just seeds alone. If you don’t sow your seeds, they remain alone but when you sow them, they will be given an opportunity to say, “thank you for parting with us”. They will give you a harvest that will yet give you more seeds to sow. John 12:24 says:

You can decide to keep your corn with you, eat it and starve or sow it and expect a harvest. Many believers today are poor because greed, gluttony, impatience, ignorance and lack of faith made them to eat their seed with their harvest. Now you know better, simply obey and things will change.

While the fruit of some fruit trees are sweet, the seeds are bitter. Eat the fruit, sow the seed.Seeds are not meant to be eaten or else they will bring bitterness into your taste buds.