The Seeds Inside of Us

​In the spring a farmer prepares the ground to receive the seed he will plant. After the seed is planted, he does what he can to ensure that the seed will grow and produce a harvest. As we know, corn seeds will produce a harvest of corn or wheat seeds will produce a harvest of wheat. I would like to connect this picture of seeds coming to life and bringing a harvest to the verse found in Romans 4:17. The apostle Paul, writer of Romans, reminds us here of a conversation that God had with Abraham. "As it is written, 'I have made you a father of many nations.' He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." (NIV)
 
This verse in Romans tells us that God has the power to create something out of nothing. While this is true, I would like to broaden the picture and suggest that our Father in heaven is doing more. I am drawn to Psalm 139:13-16. "For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful; I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me are written in Your book before one of them came to be." (NKJV)
 
Could it be that God placed within us seeds of promise that are to produce certain characteristics at the time He ordained for harvest? Perhaps this is why God calls us by certain names when there is no evidence that this name is true. Abraham is a perfect example. God changed his name from Abram (exalted father) to Abraham (father of a multitude). However, God called him the "father of many nations" when he was the father of none. (Genesis 17:4-5) At the right time and season, when Abraham was one hundred years old, the promises of God were realized. My belief is that God had planted a seed in Abraham when he was formed, and like a good farmer, called forth the harvest after the seed sprouted. It grew and produced fruit at the appropriate time and through the call of "The Farmer."
 
Gideon is another example of one who was called something that he was not. "When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior." (Judges 6:12) When Gideon was being called a mighty warrior, he was hiding in fear from the Midianites in a winepress. Yet God called him to his destiny at the right time and place knowing what was within him. He called forth what was not as though it was. It is interesting to note that Robert Hotchkin, recognized prophetic voice and speaker, recently gave some words for the Hebrew year 5787. He said we are in a Gideon season where God will be expanding the way we see ourselves. He will do this by showing us an increase in the supernatural.
 
May I suggest that God has planted seeds within each of us. He calls us, not according to the way we may be now, but according to our purpose. He calls us names that may seem foreign but are perfectly correct. For example, "You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light." (1 Peter 2:9)
 
Our responsibility is to listen for the voice of God as He calls us into our destinies. He has more for us than we may realize and the seeds that are in us are being called forth. God is calling into being that which is not apparent so that we fulfill His purposes for us and demonstrate the power and glory of the Kingdom of heaven on earth. Ephesians 2:10 wraps it up like this: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (NKJV)