Everyone who is born again has faith – God gave each of us a measure of faith. The question becomes are we walking by faith and living by faith? Do we understand how faith works? Do we only seek to walk by faith when things get hard?
How does faith work? The Lord reminds us that there will always be a time of sowing and harvesting and that all seeds reproduce after their own kind. Every good thing that comes from God comes through the Word. Faith works according to sowing the Word in our lives. When the word is sown into good ground, it will grow and produce fruit. We don’t need to know exactly how that happens – just as the farmer doesn’t know exactly how the seeds planted into the ground germinate and produce their crops.
Just as a natural seed requires sunlight to grow, spiritual seeds need the light that comes from the Son of God. Seeds also require watering. This requires that we continue to speak life over the seed – don’t speak death and tear it up. Continue speaking God’s word.
Having good ground requires first that we have spiritual ears to hear what God is speaking to us. We then need to receive what is spoken to us. The moment we think we already know something, we stop receiving and we stop hearing.
Bearing fruit requires effort in the form of persistence. We need to persist in the Word of God and not let it depart from our mouth in order to have good success.
Key Scriptures: Genesis 1:11; 8:22, Mark 4, Proverbs 4:20-22, Joshua 1:8-9
