We planted a little pumpkin patch this summer.
It's so fun to watch seeds sprout and grow into big vines.
This is our first patch, but we are hoping for pumpkins in the fall.
Seeds always remind me of faith.
Seeds are specific.
Pumpkin seeds = pumpkins
Sunflower seeds = sunflowers
I won't find watermelons in my punkin' patch.
Scripture speaks of the mustard seed.
Mustard seed = mustard tree
Mustard seeds are as tiny as a pencil point,
but the trees are huge.
"Faith like a mustard seed" is not about measuring your faith.
It's about what your faith is in.
Mustard seeds will grow from tiny to huge because that is what was planted.
Everything inside that little speck is meant to be big and strong -
when it's planted.
Do you believe in an all-powerful, mighty God?
Are you planting that kind of faith and expecting fruit?
If you don't really expect God to work or
believe that His miraculous work will come into your life,
then that's what you're planting.
If you're not even asking, but working on your own strength and ability,
then you're not planting faith.
Faith means letting God lead you into impossible places
and sowing your trust in Him.
Choose that faith.
Plant it and tend it like a garden, expecting a harvest.
The work of any seed is the LORD's.
It's a beautiful mystery when you see life come out of that little shell.
A work of the Creator.
Trust God for new life to burst out from your seed of faith.
And share the harvest.
Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” Matthew 17:20
Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened. Genesis 1:11
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 2 Corinthians 9:6
May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise you. Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us. Yes, God will bless us, and people all over the world will fear him.
Psalm 67:5-7
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