Mark 4:24 tells us, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given” NKJV).
According to this verse, we have the power to measure our seed. We have the power to affect the harvest our seed will produce. Seed grows. Seed multiplies. Seeds produce a harvest.
For example, naturally speaking, one apple seed will produce a tree that will flourish into a harvest of apples. In the same way, any seed you plant in faith will produce a harvest. A financial seed. A relational seed. A seed of time, talent, ability, skill. Any type of good seed, sown in faith, will grow.
Ephesians 6:8 promises us: “Knowing that for whatever good anyone does, he will receive his reward from the Lord” (AMPC).
What kind of harvest do you need? Then sow a seed and consider these 3 Steps for Measuring Your Seed.
1. Sow Good Seed
When Oral Roberts first took a pastorate, there was no parsonage for him, Evelyn and their children, so they were staying with a deacon of the church. Naturally, this was distressing to Evelyn because she couldn’t see how this was going to work long term. She told Oral that if the church couldn’t provide a home, they would have to leave.
In a bold step of faith, one Wednesday night, Oral sowed his entire paycheck into the offering of the church—without telling Evelyn. At the end of the service, he told the people, “We are going to have a parsonage at this church, and I’m starting the offering with $50.” Once he did that, the piano player jumped up, grabbed a hat, and started receiving the offering in his hat.
There wasn’t enough in that night’s offering to build a parsonage, but Oral understood the power of seedtime and harvest.
Genesis 8:22 says, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (AMPC).
Well, at about 4 a.m. the next morning, there was a knock at the door. Oral opened the door to the find the wealthiest farmer in the county standing there. “Oral,” he began, “I’m ashamed that I didn’t put anything in that offering last night. I’m a farmer. I know if I want a harvest that I must plant a seed.” Then, handing Oral four crisp $100 bills, he said, “I had this buried in a can out in my backyard.”
According to Oral, he had never seen $100 bills before in his life and neither had Evelyn. But Oral’s seed sown in faith produced a harvest.
2. Remember: A Seed Will Meet Any Need
When we sow a seed in faith, we will reap a harvest, but it’s up to us what size of harvest. That’s right! We have the power to measure our seed and affect the outcome of our harvest.
In Matthew 13, Jesus told the Parable of the Sower, saying, “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil; and at once they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they dried up and withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out. Other seeds fell on good soil, and yielded grain—some a hundred times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty” (verses 3-8, AMPC). Are you sowing good seed into good ground? Then expect a good harvest!
3. Declare your return.
What size harvest do you need? Jerry Savelle says, “A seed will meet any need,” and it will! What is it that you need today? What size harvest do you need? Sow a seed. But not just any seed. Measure your seed. Sow intentionally for what you need and sow it in faith.
Your harvest can be thirtyfold, sixtyfold or a hundredfold. Pray over your seed in faith. Water it with the Word, meaning speak and pray the Word over your seed. Declare the promises of God that He’s given you over your seed. Then declare your return. Declare the end from the beginning, and see your faith manifested in reality!