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30 Days of Power Principles: #27 Success is in the seed

Monday, June 20, 2011
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"Ye shall keep my statutes...thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed" Leviticus 19:19

It's possible to have mixed seed in us - to say we believe one thing and yet at the same time another thought system to be working actively, sabotaging what we say we believe otherwise. Such is the case with Christians when we say we believe in being victorious in Christ, yet subtly we act as if we're the minority, we're losing and we're never going to rise to our best. These seeds of failure might have been sown in us by the world or even through those who profess to be teachers of the Word and had chosen to propagate failure as spiritual. 

To say you are a son or a daughter of the King by definition means you are declaring a higher and better way of being than the desperate world around you. You and I are supposed to think and act as success. 

When exactly do you begin to feel successful? Naturally, most people begin to "feel" successful when they actually achieve success, not while they are trying to get there. 

Success to a businessman or a business woman means closing the deal. For a doctor, it means a patient sent home healthy after being treated for a life-threatening disease. For a student, it means a diploma received at graduation. To this world, the evidence of success is the realized promise, not the promise itself.

But agree with me - success has to be the direction, before it becomes the final destination. If success is not the direction, it will never become the final destination.

You can be on the right road, but going in the wrong direction. This actually happened to me recently. While driving around a Baltimore suburb, looking for my final destination, I ended up on the right road, but going in the wrong direction.

Likewise, you can be married (the right road) but acting as if the final destination of this marriage is divorce (wrong direction). You can be studying at school but doing it as if you'll end up as a drop out. You can be running a business, but all your actions are admitting you're moving towards bankruptcy. 

Sometimes this lack of congruity between belief system and actions, seems obvious to everyone, except the person who is the primary character in their own life drama. 

Are you thinking one way about the future and yet acting out a different belief system or a conviction? 

Here is a Kingdom Power Principle you cannot afford to miss: as soon as you have identified the seed of success, identify yourself with it and celebrate it! Success is in the seed! 

Next, identify the seeds of failure and begin to root them out until you have purged your heart, mind and life from all the bad seeds the enemy had planted through the world or through false teaching. 

It is now only a matter of time to experience the harvest of the success God has already planted in you. He is with you to bring forth the promise of the seed.

You'll meet a lot of people who want only the ready harvest, the end result, the realized promise. They don't care to hear about your faith struggle. They will only respect you after you have produced. That's okay, you can't be mad at people for being that way. Only a select few are probably your "seed buddies" - those who will believe in the seed God has placed in your. Find out who they are and stick close to the those few encouragers. However, if you don't have such, when you understand that success is in the seed, the power of fear is broken over your life! As long as you have the seed of God planted in you, you know you will be a success, regardless how long it will take or how many challenges you will go through. 


 
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