PLANTING NIGHT SEEDS
“Behold, He [God] who keeps Israel [and us]
shall neither slumber nor sleep.” God is Spirit, and He doesn't sleep. We, as
Spiritual beings, don't sleep either, but it's our body and soul that do need
the sleep while we're here on earth. If we sleep three hours out of 24, it's an
eighth of our day. If we sleep eight hours, that’s a third of our day taken up!
How can we make those sleeping hours count spiritually? One way is to plant
night seeds.
Night seeds: The thing that is so amazing and
awesome is that Spiritual faith can work through the night, uninhibited by our
doubtful, fearful, and oh-so-rational minds! Things are working in our
unconscious, spiritual hearts, freely.
The two following sections of scripture are
vital to me in getting great results from planting night seeds:
Jesus taught this: Mark 4:26-27: “And he said,
‘So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And
should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up,
he knoweth not how.” Notice that Jesus said the man planted the seed, then he
immediately went to sleep! I just love that.
If we plant seeds right before we go to sleep,
no rationale or emotional reaction can get in the way to block our faith! Who
we are spiritually as sons and daughters of God Almighty, and our relationship
with His son Jesus goes ahead to work while our bodies and souls take a rest,
and the solutions come as the seeds sprout.
Then the second vital verse is Psalm 17:15: “I
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.” I looked up the Hebrew word
for “likeness” so that I could better understand this verse. It is “temuwnah,”
and in this context, it means “what You [God] have fashioned,” what You [God]
have formed,” “the manifestation of Your favor.”
So this verse is saying that when I wake up, I
can feel blessed by what the Lord did in the night. He works with our seed and
helps it to get sprouting.
I’d learned this principle a while back and
forgot about it until I was scrolling through some old Preach letters and
decided this was a great principle to start using again. Here are some results
from when I used this method before.
It was Christmas time, and I got a last-minute
invitation to a Christmas party. I’d already scheduled a hair appointment for
several days after the party. When I called to reschedule, there were no
appointments available. After more than a week went by, I started getting a
little worried. I decided to try out my new discovery of planting a night seed.
In light of the worry I was feeling, I knew I needed peace about whatever the
result would be with my hair. So I claimed John 14:27, which says, “Peace I
leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Even though I was feeling stressed, I prayed and
planted this peace seed. When I opened my cell phone first thing in the morning,
I had a text from my hairdresser offering to do my hair on a Saturday. Not only
did I get an appointment, but it was on a perfect day, so I didn’t have to miss
any work.
My best friend Jane also planted a night seed.
Her seed was concerning the promotional business she does for my writing. Facebook
was blocking the usual routes of her promotions. It was as if they were trying
to starve her out and get her to quit, and she knew it had to be changed
around.
Jane didn’t get out her Bible and read the
scriptures, but she told God His own story back to Him about the lepers outside
the wall in Samaria. (It’s in 2 Kings 7). There was a great famine in the city
because it was surrounded by an enemy army, cutting off the food supply. The
lepers did as they were inspired by God, and He did a miracle. The enemy fled,
leaving all the food and goods behind. The next day, the famine was gone and
the commerce thriving!
When Jane woke up the next morning, there were
more downloads on her promotion than there had been in the last three
promotions!
This stuff works. Remember, Spirit continues to
work while we sleep. Let’s make our sleep count in a spiritual way to enhance
our lives. Plant a few night seeds this week.
Love, Carolyn
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