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3-11-07                                    *Positioning Yourself to Prosper* *III  *

 

I.

A life-changing lesson

A.                If you pay careful attention to what I am about to reveal to you today, and consider carefully what you hear, you can dramatically change how you live the rest of your life.

B.                 The principles I am about to discuss are clearly revealed in the Scripture and if applied diligently in your life it will position you to receive bountiful blessings from God

 

II.

The Fundamentals- we will go back to the beginning and learn a fundamental law of God

A.                *THE LAW OF REPRODUCTION*

*Ge 1: 11 Then God said, **ALet the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.**@

And it was so.

12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.*

*Ge 1: 20 And God said, **ALet the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.**@

21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.*

*Ge 1: 24 And God said, **ALet the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.**@

And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.*

1.

EVERY SEED PRODUCES AFTER ITS OWN KIND

2.                  EVERYTHING PRODUCED HAS SEED IN IT TO AUTOMATICALLY CONTINUE ITS REPRODUCTION.

3.

These are laws of God

B.                 Consider the process

1.

One Apple seed planted in the ground may produce one Apple tree

a.

By law it cannot produce a peach, an orange, or pecan tree.

b.

It must produce after it=s own kind

2.                  Then, that one Apple tree will produce multiple apples that will have seed to produce unmeasurable additional Apple trees.

a.

And all of this from one seed

3.                  Thus, a single seed if nourished and provided with the proper environment can grow to produce a forest of its own kind

4.                  Thus one seed has the ability to produce fruit that has more seed in it to produce more fruit.

\\ C.                 Jesus also compared your belief system to a seed when he said

*Lk 17: 6 He replied, **AIf you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, **>Be uprooted and planted in the sea,**= and it will obey you.*

1.

He compared faith to his seed because faith is a way of thinking and thinking produces thoughts that are seeds.

III.

*THOUGHTS ARE SEED *

A.                *KJV    Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil *(Bad, trouble, wickedness) * upon this people, /even the fruit of their thoughts/,*(Imaginations, thinkings)* because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

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1.                  Thoughts produce fruit.

2.                  Consider everything that exists, exists as the results of a thought

3.                  All things created by man were born as a thought of a man

a.

Those thoughts are the sown by the words of man

b.

And then germinate in the minds of other men

 

 

4.

Thus we see that thoughts will produce fruit and that fruit will contain the seed that causes a thought to manifest itself into reality.

B.                 Thoughts are powerful seeds that produce fruit of enormous results

1.

They begins small but they can grow to tremendous heightsheights to tremendous to tremendous

2.                  What is faith?

Consider it:

a.                   Faith is a way of thinking based upon a certain belief.

C.                 What makes a man distinctive among all of the animals God created?

1.

The lion has power and strength

2.                  Birds fly

3.                  Fish swim

 

4.

What makes a man different and what gives him the edge so that he has dominion over all the earth?

a.                   God gave man a tool that is vastly superior to all the creatures he created.

b.                  Unfortunately most people do not realize its value and allow it to be missed used or totally neglected.

5.                  I am speaking about the mind of man and his ability to use it to think.

IV.             *How Seeds Grow *

A.                */SEEDS GROW THE EARTH/*

1.

When a farmer plants a seed.

He does not make it grow, the earth does and what ever he plants the earth brings it up.

*~*~*~*~*                            Mk 4: 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

28 All by itself the soil produces grain**Cfirst the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.*

\\ 2.                  Once planted in the earth, if the process is not disturbed, and allowed to develop, it will produce after it=s own kind.

3.                  It is the earth=s job to produce the fruit of the seed that is sown

4.                  God has given us all types of seed.

It does not matter to the earth what seed the farmer plants whether it be

a.

Tomatoes or corn or opium or marijuana, it will come up

b.

He may even choose to plant thorns,  it will come up

c.

The earth will produce what ever the farmer plants

(1)               it is its job to make it come up and become reality in life

(2)               this is because man has dominion over the earth

5.                  It is up to the farmer to decide what type of harvest as he would like to receive.

God gives him the freedom of choice to decide what to plant.

6.                  Another law say,s AWhatever a man sows, that shall he also reap@.

B.                 */SEEDS GROW IN YOUR MIND/*

1.                  Now, does not God say that we are made of the earth?

Therefore, your mind is like the earth.

The seed that is sown on it are your thoughts.

It does not care what seeds are planted in it.

It will simply reproduce after its own kind and bring into reality the manifestation of what has been planted in it

a.

It is the mind=s job to produce the fruit of the seed that is sown

2.                  You have the ability to do this is because of your being created in the image of God.

Who himself created the universe by his thoughts, his words and his actions.

3.                  Again, it must be understood is AWhatever a man sows, that shall he also reap@.

a.

You have a choice of the thoughts you think and you will reap the manifestation of those thoughts be them good or evil.

4.                  You may allow your mind to think positive or negative.

If you allow both, most certainly the prosperity that God desires for you to have will never come to pass because negative will choke out the positive

*Pr 4: 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.*

V.

*THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS *

A.                What you think will affect your belief system.

What you believe will come to pass affecting your environment and your life.