When we talk about seed, which I believe everyone knows, we can define seed as the embryonic stage of plant life. Also, we can define it as the initial capital of a new business or, metaphorically, a concept or idea for something that stimulates growth or development.

Humanly speaking, seed can be seen as an attitude sown, help rendered, offering, work done, and maritally speaking, the expected seeds are meant to be that of kindness, affection, forgiveness, patience, which can lead to a bountiful harvest of joy and intimacy in the relationship. In other words, what you put in is what you get out.

However, today, we are going to mainly focus on good seeds planted and how we must not lean on our understanding to see the seed grow and give increase.

Most especially, when we believe that we have sown on fertile ground. Sowing on fertile ground to some people gives them the assurance that their seed will yield good fruit, but sometimes, disastrous developments seen or unseen may hinder that seed from growing and bearing fruit.

And that is why, this morning, we are going to focus our message on how to trust in the Lord for increase and multiplication irrespective of where we sow our seed.

We’ve heard in marriages, where a couple will find themselves struggling to have a baby, and when they go to the doctor, the doctor will tell them that both of them have no medical issues. They have every reason to give birth to children, and even with that confirmation, they still could not give birth to children.

They labor, planted the seed, but there was no result. So in other words, unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.

When seeds are planted, they are planted with the expectation of fruitfulness, but no one commands fruitfulness unless the Lord makes it happen. And that is why all eyes must look unto Jesus for fruitfulness even though you have and know what it takes to be fruitful.

Psalm 145:15 says, “The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season.” So the expectation is for us to look expectantly to God for our food, for fruitfulness, for increase and multiplication if we want our planted seed to yield fruit.

And this is what Apostle Paul is telling us in 1 Corinthians 3. Yes, he planted. Yes, Apollo watered. But all this labor can easily go in vain, can easily become a waste, can easily be flooded away if God did not give increase. So no one must look unto them or qualify them as the ones with power to produce or reproduce.

Beloved, we do not have power for production or reproduction. We do not have what it takes to give increase. We do not have what it takes to multiply, and that is why we must not lean on our own understanding but rather trust in God in the midst of all labor, when we plant our seed, so that our planted seed may bear increase.

Psalm 71 verse 21 – God will give us increase and comfort us on all sides. God is the one who gives increase. He is the one who multiplies. He is the one who makes our barns to be full, supplying all kinds of produce.

And that is also what David understood in Psalm 144 when he looked unto God to rescue him from the hand of foreigners so that his barns might be full.

I know you know the calculations. You know where the good soil is. You know the right fertilizer to use. You know how to water your seed right. You know the right content to use. You know the time of sowing and the time of harvest. But do not be pompous and forget that unless the Lord makes fruitful, no man can be fruitful. Unless God watches, you cannot watch for yourself. Unless the Lord makes the seed to germinate and yield expected results, you cannot turn the seed into fruit.

So just like Paul and Apollo, shift your focus off your knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Shift your focus off your intellect if you want to be fruitful and also multiply.

Was it not the same land of the household of Philistines where Isaac sowed and reaped in the same year a hundredfold? Was it not the same seed that Jacob poured into Leah that was the same Rachel received? But the Bible says God held Rachel from conceiving because of how Leah was being treated.

Beloved, I know you’ve gotten the seed and you know how to plant in the right place, but if you want to become fruitful and multiply, let go and let God. Follow suit with the instruction of God. Leave everything to God and let God bring fruitfulness and multiplication to your life, to your business, to your home, to your marriage so that all glory will be His and His alone.

Prayer: I put my trust in You O God for increase and multiplication. Amen!