Series Introduction

Hello and welcome, my fellow Gods, to another epic discussion regarding our heavenly kingdom. In this article series, we discuss some principles in the kingdom that are important for us to know to better effect changes in our lives and gain the mastery over both this world and the world to come.

Before we proceed, I feel compelled to note that it is important that you must have read the first few articles we’ve discussed on my platform such as Who and What a Christian Really Is, The City called Christ, Classifications of Celestial Knowledge, Classifications of Celestial Wisdom, Understanding Righteousness, Living in Two Worlds, and the Celestial Constitution before proceeding with this article otherwise many of the concepts in here will be a bit elusive to you.

So, just to get a few basic definitions out of the way, what do we mean principles of celestial reality? Now in this instance, we’re not talking about laws similar to our discussion on faith or the concept of sin. Let’s take it from the natural world, what are some of the principles we have in this natural world?

1. The locality principle: this is a principle in physics that suggests all matter in the universe is made up of substances known as elements (solids, liquids, gasses, and plasma), which themselves are made up of atoms (Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide, etc.)
2. The causality principle: this is a principle in physics that states that the future state of anything depends on its present state
3. The scarcity principle: this is a principle in economics that suggests that limited supply of goods—coupled with a high demand for that good—results in a mismatch between the desired supply and demand equilibrium.
4. The theory of divine proportion: this is a principle in mathematics that suggests that two quantities are in the divine proportion if their ratio is same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
5. Sociological positivism: is a principle in criminal law that suggests that there are relationships between societal influences and crime.

The list goes on but what we understand from each of these classes of knowledge in our natural world is that there are principles that we have discovered and taken advantage of to better understand our natural world and to take advantage of them. Another thing to note is that these principles are not universally named the same. What I mean is for example, that the theory of divine proportion goes by many names e.g., the golden ration, the golden number, and so on. Similarly with the other principles, they may not be universally known as the same name, but they are universally accepted to mean the same body of knowledge. With that said, the principles we are to discuss in this article series are not to suggest that these are the exact names and terminologies used in the scriptures, rather that they are universal principles outlined in the scriptures even though the terminology might be different.

The Seed Faith Principle

So, what is seed faith? In the church of Jesus Christ today, it’s a term that’s widely associated to a principle in our kingdom. When talking about seed faith, we mean the application of our faith by the seed principle of life.

There are two important things we need to understand about seeds as they occur in the natural world:

1. The seed contains within the life-giving attribute for what it is the seed of. Meaning there’s something about a seed that causes it to produce and reproduce life—that’s what makes it a seed; the fact that it is the source for that thing of which it is seed.
2. A seed will only bring forth after its kind. This means an apple seed will only bring forth apple fruit, a corn seed will only bring forth corn fruit (or flower or whatever you want to call it, I’m not a vegetarian, okay?)

Before we take a look at the origins of this principle, let’s take a look at it from the scriptures now in the words of Jesus. Now, before we get started reading this portion of scripture, I would like for you to notice the words of Jesus himself here: he directly relates the seed principle of life to everything in our kingdom—not some things. This let’s us know that without this principle that we are about to discuss, it is impossible to walk with God—it affects every area in our kingdom. Let’s read,

“Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.

He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:

‘Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.

But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.

Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.’

Then Jesus said, ‘Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.’

When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.

He told them, ‘The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables

so that,

‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,

and ever hearing but never understanding;

otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’

Then Jesus said to them, ‘Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

The farmer sows the word.

Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.’

He said to them, ‘Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?

For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.’

‘Consider carefully what you hear,’ he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.

Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.’

He also said, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.

Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.

As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.’

Again he said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?

It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.

Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.’—Mark 4:1-32 [NIV]

Reading this, I tried my best not to diverge from the topic. Notice what he says in this reading, Jesus tells us how that our kingdom is lie this: where a farmer plants a seed, goes to sleep and wakes up every day, yet without the farmer needing to go into the ground to do anything else, the seed still grows on its own. Notice, Jesus didn’t say something are like this in our kingdom, He said the kingdom is life this. Whether or not you understand this principal, Jesus tells us that as long as we sow anything, we will reap that same thing. See the importance of words? If you are confused in your life, then chances are you sowed confusion prior—whether you know it or not. If you are broke, means you did not sow wealth whether you know it or not. If you are failing in anything, then chances are you did not sow success. Remember, you can only reap what you sow, and Jesus gives us the principle in this passage of scripture.

What you have today is the result of what you had yesterday.

With all this in mind, we understand how that God reveals to us the importance of sowing seeds and the principle of life is not just because He wants all of us to be farmers, He’s teaching us a concept about farming that we could apply in our own lives because that’s how the spiritual life works.

Why does God choose for it to be this way? It’s because the ground is free. It doesn’t discriminate on gender, race, age, background, social status, and so on, everyone can sow and everyone will reap the measure they sowed. So, it doesn’t matter what point you’re at in life right now, whether broke, poor, sickly, uneducated, etc., if you put this principle to work it will produce for you the exact same results as it would anyone else—if you sow wealth, you will reap wealth. If you sow sickness, you will reap sickness. If you sow confusion, you will reap confusion.

Before we explore how to put this principle to work, let’s put some legitimacy to it by understanding its origins.

Origins of Seed Faith Principle

It is important to note that every major truth in the scriptures has its origins in the book of Genesis, and every final truth ends in Revelations. So, when we talk about the principle of sed faith, we can directly trace its origins from the book of Genesis,

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”—Genesis 1:11

So, God commanded the earth to bring forth all thee things and the scriptures record that it did come to pass because it was so. Now, let’s connect this thought with another in the same book,

“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”—Genesis 2:4-5

Now, there’s a few important things we find here. Even though God had spoken, the plants had not been found yet and that was for two reasons, first being because God had not caused it to rain which means the rain was needed for the plants to grow, and second being because there was no one to till the ground which means God needed someone to cultivate the ground. Let’s continue reading,

“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.”—Genesis 2:8-10

So, from this we know that it was actually God who planted this garden and put this river to run through the garden and also placed Adam to take care of this garden. Just to recap so far, we know that among the necessary things required for seed to grow, God needed,

1. Sowing of the seed
2. Watering the seed
3. Cultivating or tilling the soil

These three things are very important, and we’ll see why in a moment.

Notice the underlined portion of scripture. The scriptures point out for us how that it was God who caused the seed to grow out of the ground. What does this mean? God is the one who dictates the seed that is needed for that specific harvest you want. Now, in this context, seed refers to that specific thing that contains within it the life giving attribute that’s going to reproduce for you after its kind.

For example, God can make a promise to you, but unless and until you operate by these principles that He has set, the promise may never work.

Applications of Seed Faith Principle

Before we take a look at some examples of the way this principle on seed faith has been applied in the scriptures, it’s important to have something in,

“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:”—Isaiah 55:10

A small detail we observe here is how that seed for sowing comes first. God here is letting us know that we sow first before we eat. He’s saying when we get our produce, what we take out first is for sowing.

By far, my favorite (and perhaps the most intense) application of this principle is the story of the king of Moab, and how he defeated three kings that came up against him in the book of 2 Kings. Because the story is a bit too long to read, I’ll give you the background.

[Reference: 2 Kings 3:1-17]

So, three kings came up against the kingdom of Moab and these were Israel ruled by King Jehoram, Judah ruled by King Jehoshaphat, and Edom. Now, at this point, the king of Israel, Jehoram, did evil in the sight of the Lord, but the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, was a righteous king, and at this point he accepted the proposal to go with the king of Judah against Moab. So, when the three kings went to war, they traveled through the kingdom of Edom which was mostly desert so there was a lot of dehydration for both the soldiers and the horses. So, they called Elisha to find out what’s up and Elisha prayed to God and actually prophesied to them that God was on their side—keep this in mind, God was on their side. And He told Elisha to instruct the kings to make 2 daily sacrifices (at noon and in the evenings) and also to dig pits in the desert and that even though no rain would fall, the desert would be filled with water for their soldiers and horses to drink. And it so happened that the following morning when the soldiers of Moab and saw what’s up and how that a place that should have been a desert was filled with water, they assumed it was blood and assumed that the three kings killed each other and so they decided to go collect the spoils of war. But when they went there, they were met by soldiers who were very much alive and ready, and they were defeated so badly that they were chased so far back into their country of Moab.

Now, here’s my favorite part of the story. The king of Moab, king Mesha, started to wonder how this could have happened because he at this point, he was really desperate. His nation was on the verge of being conquered, his soldiers were being defeated, they were on the verge of death. So, he asked one of his men how there was suddenly water in a place that should have been a desert, and the king was told that the water seems to have appeared there after the children of Israel offered the evening sacrifice. Now, have in mind that the Moabites had a direct covenant with God too from Abraham, so God always warned Israel not to invade Moab prior to this moment. But Jehoram went ahead and disregarded this. So, king Mesha remembered that he had a covenant and also remembered how that Abraham nearly sacrificed his son and that action alone moved God to such an extent that God was provoked to act. So, what did king Mesha do? Big guy grabbed his oldest son—his heir—and offered his own son and heir as a burned sacrifice to God. Think about how desperate the guy must have been.

Mesha grabbed his son—the child that he was expecting to make king—and sacrificed him publicly. As far as the whole world, all of history, and even God was concerned, Mesha sacrificed his bloodline, lineage, and kingdom for the survival of his people. To put it in context for you, this was Mesha’s seed for the survival of his kingdom. Now, observe what happens after he does this,

“And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.”—2 Kings 3:26-27

What does this mean? The soldiers of Israel were slain in the thousands by an unseen force. Remember, God assured Israel earlier that He was with them but here He is having changed His mind—He could not but be moved by this sacrifice.

What do we learn from this story? Mesha applied this principle of seed faith; he tethered his faith to his seed. He wanted the survival of his people so he seeded his own bloodline and he reaped the survival of his entire kingdom.

Let’s take a look at the direct example that Mesha drew from. We all know the story, God told Abraham that He had made him a father of many nations. This was before Abraham had his first child.

“Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.”—Genesis 17:5

Now, this was a promise God made Abraham so as far as Abraham was concerned, this promise was Abraham’s seed. This was the only thing that Abraham could tether hope to. And when God gave Abraham his first and only son, Abraham recognized that for the promise of fathering a nation to be fulfilled, he would have to offer seed to God. Recall the first thing we read from Isaiah that God gives seed to the sewer and bread to the eater and how that we when you receive your harvest, you first separate your seed before you have anything else? Abraham was fully conscious and fully aware of this concept. So, when God told him to sacrifice his son, Abraham knew that this was so that the promise of fathering many would be fulfilled because Isaac was the seed for the many nations to be fathered. Now, Abraham didn’t sacrifice his son, right? We all know that. Yet, the promise was fulfilled. So how did that work? Let explore why that was from the scripture,

“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”—Hebrews 11:16-19

What’s Paul telling us here? That even though God stopped him from sacrificing his son, in Abraham’s mind, he had already sentenced his son to death trusting completely that God would raise him from the dead. In Abraham’s mind, Isaac was already dead. And God saw that in Abraham’s heart that he had sentenced his own son to death and according to him, Isaac was as good as dead. That’s why God stopped him from proceeding with the sacrifice. And that’s why the promise was fulfilled because the demands were fulfilled.

What’s the one common thing between these two stories, Abraham’s story and Mesha’s story? It’s the value that both of them had for their sacrifice. For Abraham, Isaac was his only son; Sarah was already too old to have kids to have even had Isaac in the first place, and so was Abraham himself. Isaac was birthed by virtue of a sheer miracle and there would be no guarantee that Abraham and Sarah would birth another child other than the promise God gave them both. For Mesha, his son was his heir and his son. The guy gave up his bloodline for the purpose of his kingdom’s survival. Both sacrifices held direct value to them. What does this suggest about the seed principle? That the value of a seed is attached to how much it means to you. Not what the seed is, rather what it means to you.

Now, there are many other examples of the application of this seed principle in the scriptures but I deliberately picked my favorites.

So, what does that say about how to seed and what to do?

1. Seed produces after its kind
2. The weight of the harvest of a seed is determined by how much it means to you

So, if you sow life, you reap lives. If you sow, something that has the most value to you, your harvest will be more bountiful than if your seed means as much as anything else.

Recall the story of Cain and Abel and why God preferred Abel’s seed over Cain’s? It wasn’t because Cain wasn’t a bad person, rather it was because when Cain offered sacrifice, he picked whatever he preferred to bring but when Abel offered sacrifice, he brought the very best of what he had.

“Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.

And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,”—Genesis 4:2-4

Abel brought the very best of what he had to God while Cain brought what he wanted. See the value that Abel attached to God? Abel revered God so much that when he offered sacrifice, he knew God only deserved the very best and nothing less. That’s how you sacrifice.

Now, let’s assume you wanted wealth and wanted to attain it by this principle, what do you do? You sow the seed money and water it with your words constantly according to everything we’ve learned so far. Let’s assume you wanted success and wanted to attain it by this principle, what do you do? You sow the seed of service under someone who has already attained that success. What does this look like? David was ordained to be king and since he needed to be a great king, he served under a king—Saul. Elisha wanted to be a successful prophet, so what did he do? He served under a successful prophet—Elijah. See the pattern? So, what if you wanted a child, what seed do you sow? Do you sow a human life? Firstly, get that thought out of your mind because you will be arrested by everyone including me! But second and most importantly, you sow the seed associated to children—you take care of the children within your own sphere of contact as though they were your own children. The caveat is that when you sow, you must water your seed with the right words. That’s the principal of seed faith in our kingdom.

Conclusion

This was the first of the four principles we aim to look at in this article series.

If I am to conclude this article, then let it be on this note: these principles we will be looking at and everything we discuss on my platform is for Christians and Christians alone. If you are not Christian then you cannot function in this realm of life no matter what you try. And this is not me saying this, Jesus Himself says it,

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”—John 14:6

There is no other way to have this except by becoming Christians. Christianity is not just a religion. Read everything we’ve taken a look at from our very first article series on Who and What a Christian Really is for yourself to know what a Christian is. If you are here and haven’t given your life to God (and therefore aren’t Christian) then I offer you the opportunity to give your life to God.

Simply believing in God and in Jesus DOES NOT make you Christian.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.“—Romans 10:9

Paul tells us exactly how to become Christian. He says you need to believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, and you need to confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. If you have never done this then you have not Christian no matter how often you go to church and no matter how good a person you are. So, right now, if you’re reading this and wish to give your life to God and become a Christian, repeat this prayer below out-loud to yourself wherever you are,

“O Lord, God,

I believe with all my heart in Jesus Christ, Son of the living God.

I believe He died for me and God raised Him from the dead.

I believe that He’s alive today.

I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from this day.

Through Him and in His Name, I have eternal life; I am born again.

Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul!

I’m now a child of God. Hallelujah!”

Now if you said that prayer for the very first time and gave you life to the Lord today, congratulations: you are now a new creation! You are born again! And you are child of God from this day. Please, please, please reach out to me directly using my contact form or on the numbers given below and I will respond to you immediately: I have amazing gifts lined up just for you and I wish to help you through your Christian walk. Feel free to read my article series on Who and What A Christian Really is to learn more about who you are as a Child of God, what it means to be a child of God, and what you have as a child of God.

Thank you so much for joining me on this amazing journey and I look forward to seeing you in my next article where we discuss the Principle of the Double Portion.