*"Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."* (KJV)
Every fruit comes bearing in itself a seed. Galatians 5 verses 22, speaks of *the fruit* of the Holy Spirit or in other words, the *spiritual fruit*. And I always remind you to note that the bible does not call it, *the fruits of the Holy Spirit* as many think, instead it is called *the fruit (one/singular) fruit of the Holy Spirit.*
Therefore, Paul through the unfathomable wisdom of God says, " But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."
Yesterday, we said that the man of God must first be able to give spiritual fruit to you, by so doing, and from the fruit he gives you you get a seed that produces physical fruit and from the physical fruit you can be able to get a physical seed which you can sow into the life of the man of God.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 9:10, "Now he that *ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food,* and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)"
He says that God, through the men of God is supposed to give you (spiritual) food to eat and a (spiritual) seed. And if you sow the spiritual seed He has given you through the man of God, He will multiply it and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
Righteousness is the ability to be right with God. When you are right with God, there are things that are evident and one of them is *prosperity*. Your ability to possess and position yourself is increased immensely.
My point is, you cannot give a physical seed and expect to prosper if the spiritual seed given to you in the first place was not sown and multiplied to increase your fruits of righteousness.
People have been frustrated because they give at every altar, and to every prophet that speaks with charisma. I am told that nowadays there is even "the preachers voice", where you have to strain your voice in a certain particular way to prove that God is talking through you.
*Any ways, what exactly is a seed?* How do we differentiate it from other forms of giving?
There are different forms of giving in the church and all of them are seeds in their own respect.
But sowing a seed *is giving from revelation and prophetically.* It is not giving to God so that He may do something, because this is where many people go wrong; and many preachers have "mispreached" this message; it is however thanking God in advance for the great things that He will do. It is not a trial and error, it is a prophetic confirmation of what you have already seen in the future prophetically.
The misconception is that people plant and wait to see, but you are supposed to see first prophetically and then sow a seed towards what you have seen.
Jesus said, "Blessed are those who believe, even before they see physically". Paul comes on and says, "Faith *is the substance* of things hoped for and an *evidence* of things not seen.
One way to interpret this is that, showing faith is the ability to produce a substance or a portion of what you hope for and to show the evidence of that what cannot be seen exists. In fewer words, faith is a seed or faith is more evidently embedded in a seed.
A seed is a unit of the harvest, it is the smallest building block of a building that is called harvest. Therefore, you do not give a seed to try and see what will happen, you sow a seed, because you have already seen what the future holds. Hence, you are now bringing a seed to show us the substance of what you hope for and to give us the evidence of what you have seen that we ourselves have not seen.
This is the main difference between a seed and other forms of giving in the church. Other forms of giving come after the harvest, but a seed prophesies of a bountiful harvest ahead.
Therefore brethren, do not go dropping money all over calling them seeds, unless you are first convinced by the Holy Spirit of the harvest to come.
Many Christians sow seeds, not because they believed in the harvest, but because the preacher man told them to do it and see. Therefore, theirs is a trial and error and not faith. *And anything done without faith, is sin.* They therefore sin, in the name of sowing a seed and expect returns.
But I want to raise a new generation of Christians, who can listen to a sermon and sense a harvest from a far, they can prophetically see that God is about to do a great thing. And from that revelation, they raise up even without being told by anybody and plant a seed, as an evidence of what they have foreseen and as a substance of what they hope for.
This is what a wise Christian does. They conceive an idea, they foresee how great the idea will become when actualized, from that prophetic foresight, they pick a substance of that hope and convert it into evidence and plant it as as seed.
As I finish, let me say that, *the revelation behind a seed is that, "Whatever does not grow is inanimate".* Inanimate objects can only be added up, but live objects are multiplied. Two plus three is five, but two multiplied by three is six. If your two is inanimate, you have to work harder for it to become great, but if you animate your two, then your job will be simply to multiply and forge a head.
Jesus said, "unless a seed agrees to fall on the ground and die, it remains alone. But if it falls down and is crushed, then it has power to produce more than itself."
Let us pick up from here tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.
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