Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.--Ecclesiastes 11:4, NLT

A friend of mine was suffering with cancer, and, when I looked at the flower seeds I'd purchased days ago. I imagined the lovely flowers, but I knew they'd never appear, unless I planted them!

I had talked to her, and, instead of hearing her gripe and grieve, she was strong in faith, victorious in voice; acknowledging the pain, but denying its right to be in her body. Hallelujah!

I decided to plant the lovely flower seeds (which I thought I'd bought for myself, but now knew they were for her) in a couple of small pots, and take them to her in a day or so. I knew they would come up--like almost every seed I'd ever planted or ever would. 

Like some seeds, these would be a very quick harvest--proof that the seeds had been planted. 

God started the planting-and-harvesting cycle, in the Garden of Eden. 

I'm so thankful the LORD created the Garden of Eden, and has continued to cause the earth to revolve around seed time and harvest. 

(We were always supposed to live in a beautiful, peaceful, well-supplied, heavenly Garden, where we could fellowship without reserve with our Daddy God, the Great Creator Elohim!)--

As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.--Genesis 8:22, NLT

As I was on the back porch planting the flowers for my friend, I sensed the Holy Spirit affirming the thought, If you want something, just plant the seed!

Reverend Charles Capps, a former farmer and preacher now in Heaven, when asked why he didn't have the usual cotton, said simply, "Didn't plant any." When asked after that why he didn't plant any, he replied, "Didn't want any."

As the LORD told me once, "Life is simple, unless you make it hard."

Amen, and I've been really (wrongly) good at making things complicated in the past, in the name of "I like to do lots of things," implying I'd get bored if I wasn't involved in many things at once.

So, we can (through the grace and mercy of God!) declare "crop failure" on all the thousands of bad "seeds" (wrong words, actions, motives, thoughts, failures to do what we should, etc.) we've planted through the years, and ask God's forgiveness.  We can also speak (sow or plant!) the Word of God over those good seeds--those good deeds--and "water" them. 

It is indeed only God Who gives the increase; Who makes the seeds grow! 

It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.--I Corinthians 3:7, NLT

They who sow in tears shall reap in joy and singing. He who goes forth bearing seed and weeping [at needing his precious supply of grain for sowing] shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.--Psalm 126:5-6, AMPC

Through books, courses, presentations, service, prayer, worship, and more, Tonja and her husband live to exalt God. Her series for girls, P.O.W.E.R. GIRL ADVENTURES, is now out (books I-V), along with LEGACY; YOUR HOLY HEALTH: VISIONS OF THE KING, and more. See the "River Rain Creative" YT channel.