The Seed

I have a best friend that I have had since middle school.  Although we may not speak to each other every day the bond is undeniable.  For instance, one day I had this overwhelming heavy heart feeling that made me bust into tears.  I didn’t know why I was crying but my friend kept coming to mind.  Later, I called and she stated that her dad had been rushed to the hospital with a heart attack.  I went to be by her side.  He was in and out of consciousness and upon waking he would try to remove the port in his neck.  So we took shifts to stay and watch him carefully. 

As I was sitting with him one morning I noticed someone’s bible close by.  It was her mom’s bible, which intrigued me because it was old and very much had been used. I opened it and just to pass the time, started reading to myself…  The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear Matthew 13:1-17.  I finished reading and reached for my journal and wrote a quick prayer asking the Lord to help me lay seeds that would produce a hundredfold harvest for His glory.  I prayed that God would use me in order to bring glory to Him and Him alone.  As I went to lay my journal aside, her dad woke up only for a moment to say, “Tab, how did you get those seeds so fast?”  I was so amazed to say the least!  How in the world did he know I had just prayed that?  I had not read or prayed out loud, so how did he know?  I believe that God used her dad to reveal to me what I wouldn’t have heard otherwise.  Later after coming home he didn’t remember anything of that moment, but for me it was life changing. 

For years those verses would pop up out of the blue.  One occasion was when I went to a conference right after that experience.  On big screens of the auditorium, as we were being seated, a video was playing of a woman planting seeds and there were those same verses. As I watched this video I was so moved that all I could do was to bury my face in my hands and cry as I heard those verses ring across that huge auditorium.  

Recently I felt God urging me to write.  I know, I don’t understand either because I’m not a good writer, but I do love the Lord so with much prayer I started this blog.  He even used that to remind me of where this all started and henceforth the name Hundredfold Harvest.  I pray that this will be a place where you will be inspired and encouraged to seek hard after God in order to lay seeds that will return a hundredfold harvest for His honor and His glory!