Patricia King - Positioned for Increase - Part 1
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Summary
Patricia King launches a series on increase, declaring the upcoming Hebrew year 5782 (Rosh Hashanah Sept 6-8, 2021) and Gregorian 2022 a season of marked multiplication in every area—anointing, gospel opportunities, faith, finances, possessions, joy, peace, love—for the faithful. Grounding increase in the eternal law of sowing and reaping (Gen 8:22), she teaches it operates independently of worldly economics but thrives in God's unshakable kingdom. Using Isaac's hundredfold harvest (Gen 26:12-13) as a model, she outlines four realms activated by intentional sowing: (1) reaping (often hundredfold in the same year), (2) divine blessing in multiple areas, (3) entering a realm of "rich" (personal abundance and confidence), (4) becoming "wealthy" (influencing and blessing the world). She urges believers to identify desired harvests, partner with God for vision, sow corresponding seeds with faith, and expect multiplication greater than the seed planted.
A Season of Increase
Wow, don’t you just love this family? I just love this family. I love you, and we are so blessed to have each other and to enjoy all the gifts in each other, with the different unique personalities just being beautiful. So, we are blessed. I thank God all the time for you all.
Right, well, over the next few weeks, I want to share on the subject of increase because I believe that this coming year, marked by Rosh Hashanah, September 6-8 this year, is the beginning of the new year in the Hebrew calendar, and then, of course, January for the Gregorian calendar. But I believe in this next season there is going to be marked increase waiting for those who are faithful, and that is increase in every area of your life.
It’s increase in anointing, increase in opportunities to share the gospel, increase in your faith, increase in your finances, increase in your possessions, increase of your joy, peace, and the love that you walk in. This is a season of increase, and as leadership in this house, it is our desire to see each and every one of you increase, and that is what we intentionally stand for and cover, so that you can enjoy the goodness of the Lord.
When we look back at the last year, He has just been so faithful, and there has been, even though the world was in a shake-up season, we have been so blessed. We have increased in so many good things, even though in the world there’s been so much shaking.
We never want to lose sight of the goodness of the Lord, never lose sight of His increase in your life, because whatever you focus on, that’s what you empower. So, if you focus on what’s not happening, then you will empower what’s not happening. But when you focus on what He’s done, then you will empower what He is doing in your life.
I want to take this as far as I can today, so we’ll just see how far we get with it. I want to give you a teaching so that you know the words, so that you know the principles of God in this area, and so that you can position yourself for increase.
How many of you would enjoy increasing in every good thing in this coming season? How many of you would like to be decreased in all the garbage stuff? Right? We’ll just see all that stuff go, and we’ll increase in all the good stuff. You know, when you increase in goodness, there’s not much room for anything else, so that’s a good thing.
We are going to position ourselves for increase in 5782 and 2022.
Facts About Increase
So let’s begin first of all with some facts about increase.
First of all, increase is both a spiritual and a natural law. It is actually based on the law of sowing and reaping, and in Genesis 8:22, when God made a perpetual promise with mankind through Noah, He said in Genesis 8:22, “as long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest.” There will be a time to sow seed and a time to reap that which you have sown.
You don’t need to be a Christian to activate the laws of increase or the laws of sowing and reaping, but only what is done in partnership with the Lord will bear eternal fruit and reward in His kingdom. So we want to live with a view for eternity because even people who do not know the Lord—successful people in the world, according to the world’s standards—are successful because they operate in the law of sowing and reaping.
They have sown; it could be through investment or through their career training or whatever, but they’ve made an investment into their life. They sowed into their life in an area that they expected fruit from, and they enjoyed the benefit of that fruit. But you know you can have all the blessings. You know Jesus said that you could gain the whole world, but if you lose your soul, it’s worth nothing, right? Absolutely nothing.
So we always want to look, when we’re thinking about increase, to look at it in the view of eternity. What is counting for eternity?
Secondly, increase is not determined by the stability of the economic status in the world—praise the Lord—but rather by the stability of the economic status in the kingdom of God.
We look at even times like, for example, Amy Semple McPherson. She was growing in her ministry in the 20s and the 30s during the Depression. It was during that time that God spoke to her, a woman in ministry, and she had a lot of obstacles, even as far as public opinion in the day, because of choices she’d made in her life and the way her life went. But the Lord told her to build Angelus Temple.
In the natural, it was not a good time to build because the world economy was very fragile and shaken at that time. But God said, “Build it.” She went out by faith to build it, knowing that the supernatural kingdom, the eternal kingdom of God usurps the natural.
So we never want to gauge our life on what’s going on in the natural kingdoms of the earth. Things are going to shake, and they’ll shake more than they have already, but it doesn’t mean we shake in it, right? Because we are of a kingdom that cannot be shaken. It’s only if we have things in us that need to be shaken, then let it shake.
Colossians 3:1-2 says, “Therefore, if you’ve been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, and set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.”
So we want to lock in, as a people who love the Lord, and we want to lock into the eternal kingdom. We want to live our lives with a view to eternity and sow into the increase of those things.
In Hebrews 12:28, it says, “Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe.” It says in Hebrews 12 that anything that can be shaken will be shaken but we are of a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
That is amazing, and if we truly believe that, no matter what’s coming in the world, no matter what it looks like in the future, we can stand stable and strong in the midst of it all and say we are not shaken because we are not subject to a kingdom that can be shaken; we are subject to the kingdom that cannot be shaken. So our lives are not based on the world system in that way.
The third fact about increase is that increase is not limited to influencing the realms of money and possessions but also to health, relationship favor, emotional soundness, souls, ministry, anointing, gifting, etc.
A lot of times when you hear messages about increase, right away our mind goes to the increase of money. Right? Oh good, I’m going to get an increase of money, and that’s fine. The way that we value money in Shiloh is that it is an earthly currency. God doesn’t have a problem with blessing you with it, but we definitely do not put our trust in it, and our goal in life is not to increase in money; it’s to increase in Jesus.
Because when we increase in Him and what His kingdom stands for, everything else follows. In fact, Jesus said very clearly in Matthew, “Why are you anxious about what you’re wearing, what you’re eating? Why are you anxious about these natural possessions? Because these are the things that the gentiles eagerly seek. But if you seek me and my kingdom, then those things get added to you.”
You know, it’s just where your seeking heart is. If you seek after money, if that’s what’s always on your heart, always on your mind, “I’ve got to get more money, I’ve got to increase financially, I’ve got to have more possessions. I’ve got to have an increase of houses, lands, boats, clothes,” all that. If your mind is in that, you will suffer in it because that’s where your treasure is.
But when you look at Jesus with full confidence, knowing that He is going to add to you, you can run forward free of the anxiety that the world lives with. You start putting your trust in money, and you will be anxious all the days of your life.
You know what? Even people that have billions of dollars have anxiety about money; can you believe it? They do. It’s true! In fact, they commit suicide during times like the Depression. Multi-millionaires committed suicide in the Depression because they had so much anxiety about their finances. It doesn’t matter how much you have; it’s fickle. It is not something you put your trust in.
So when we’re looking at increase, of course, you know we’re open to be increased in finances. I am! Are you? Are you going to say no to the Lord if He wants to increase you in finance? Of course not! We can have an expectation, a healthy expectation to be increased in finance. I want you to have an expectation because God will just increase you in everything.
I just don’t want you to limit yourself to that one little area of life because there are actually more important things to sow into and to see increase in, like relationship, spiritual connection with the Lord, encounters with the Lord, experiences in Him. You know, there’s increase of favor, of relationship, of health, of healing, of anointings, of calling—all those things can increase, and God wants you to have an expectation for increase, an increase of your peace, an increase of soundness within you. He wants you to believe for the increase because He wants to give it to you in every area of your life.
Okay, number four, the fourth fact is increase was spoken over mankind at creation. In Genesis 1:28, it says, “As soon as God created man, He blessed them and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, increase.’” So God’s increase isn’t addition; it’s multiplication. So it has to be at least double. Yeah, that’s the lowest denominator of multiplication.
How would you like everything in your life to double? Double wisdom next season, double peace next season, double strength next season? It doesn’t matter how old you are; you can be 90 years of age and have an expectation for double strength. Amen! I’m putting my faith out for the rest of my life to just go from glory to glory and from strength to strength. Why should I think that my God will fail me at 70 years old, 80 years old, 90 years old? No, it’s only going to be increase, right?
And the fifth fact of increase is that increase begins with planting a seed, but the harvest is always greater than the seed. So if you plant one thing, you’re not just going to get one thing back; you will always get greater than what you planted. But it starts with a seed—a seed of faith, a seed of the word of God, a seed of finance, a seed of investment into study or whatever—but it always begins with a seed.
Four Realms of Increase Through Sowing (Genesis 26:12-13)
So we want to prepare for increase, and the focus of this particular message is going to be preparing for increase through sowing. We’ll look at other aspects of increase inside other messages, but there are four realms of increase through sowing a seed.
Once you know it and you put your faith behind your action, that faith goes to work. You see, faith is your kingdom currency. So you can do actions, but without faith, it won’t profit you. But when you intentionally activate your faith and work a promise or work a principle of God and you see the promise of God and believe in the promise of God and receive it, then the activation of that will produce great things in your life.
So I want you to see something really clearly in the scripture, and I’m going to use one verse to point it out, but you can see the principles of it backed up through other verses in the Bible. Genesis 26, verses 12 and 13 is one of my favorites, and it says, “Now Isaac sowed in that land.” And what it means in that land is that land had been a troubled land; it had experienced some drought and it wasn’t growing much. But he sowed in that land.
I just want to say this: he didn’t sow because in the natural it was the best; he sowed because of covenant promise. He knew the covenant that God had with Abraham, and that was for Abraham’s generation. So he said, “I’m going to sow with expectation.”
So Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundred times as much. Now I want you to get a hold of this because one of the benefits, the God-initiated benefits that God created through sowing a seed is that you will reap from that seed. Everyone say reap! That’s just level one.
Whatever you sow, you will reap, and in this covenant blessing, he reaped a hundred times in the same year. Okay? In the same year! Now, is your expectation growing when you hear that scripture? Because if God did it for Isaac, He can do it for you.
Isaac was a covenant man because of the covenant Abraham had with God, but you’re a covenant man; you’re a covenant woman because of the covenant that Jesus cut for mankind with God. And so you can stand on that promise and know that this blessing is yours. But you have to do it with intentionality.
Isaac obviously did it with intentionality. It didn’t even make sense in the natural that who would sow in that particular land, but he sowed with intentionality and he reaped.
Now you can put your faith out for sowing. Many Christians do, but they oftentimes will lack aggressive faith for reaping, and having your faith activated for reaping is just as important as your faith activated for sowing. You have to have both.
So if you’ve sown, I hear people say this all the time: “I’ve sown, and I’ve sown, and I’ve sown, but I’ve never reaped anything.” I said, “Well, have you intentionally called it in?” “Well, I didn’t know I was supposed to do that.”
So utilize your faith. Some of you have so much harvest out there that all you have to do is put in your sickle, go out and reap it, and reap it with intentionality. I will oftentimes call in my harvest. If I know I’ve planted seed, I will call in my harvest and say, “I’m calling in my harvest. I call to the north, the south, the east, and the west; bring me my harvest in Jesus' name.”
God has actually sent angels out. I know, in one particular case that we were praying into in our ministry years ago when we had this massive project going on, and we had sown but we hadn’t reaped, and we had a big need to fulfill that project. One day, I was in my office praying with my team, and I just felt prompted by the Lord to release—to dispatch angels to go and get our harvest.
So we just dispatched them at the word of the Lord. We said, “Angels, go out, angels of provision, go out and bring us our harvest to the north, the south, the east, the west.” And within, I think it was 48 hours, every single need got met, and it just came in from unexpected sources. It was a miracle—a miracle dimension opens up when you believe the word of God.
All right, so the first realm of increase is reaping. Everyone say reaping again! Do you have an expectation to reap? How many of you have a harvest that can be reaped right now? Amen!
Okay, and then it says the second realm is, “And the Lord blessed him.” Now the blessing realm is beyond even the reaping, because when you sow a seed, it activates a blessing realm in your life where you will get blessed in other areas of your life in addition to the areas that you sowed into.
We see this all the time when we go into intentional sowing. We just see that not only do we get blessed in the area that we sowed into, but we get blessed in other areas that we never even prayed about.
So now Isaac has not only reaped a hundredfold—a hundred times in the same year—but the Lord blessed him.
And then the third realm is he became rich. Everyone say rich! So, the man became rich and continued to grow richer. So, the third realm is the realm of being rich. Now, rich is a realm.
Now, if you’re blessed—like if I could use a monetary gift, let’s say I were to give you a thousand dollars right now—you would say, “Thank you, Lord, for the blessing,” right? It’s a blessing. But that thousand-dollar blessing doesn’t make him rich. It could; it’s got the potential to, but that blessing doesn’t make him rich.
See, rich is a realm. When you’re living in the realm of rich, you always have enough, and it’s not based on worldly currency or status; it’s got nothing to do with it. A lot of times people say, “Well, they’re really rich because they have a hundred million dollars.” It has nothing to do with it. You can be poor and have a hundred million dollars, and you can be rich and have ten.
It’s just this realm that you live in where you have more than enough. I am very rich! I’m a very rich woman. We live, actually, I think we live quite humbly compared to many—not because we necessarily have to, but because we just enjoy that. But we have everything that we need and more.
There is never a day when we don’t have enough. Every single day we have enough left over to bless other people with. Every day we do! That’s rich! That’s rich! When you have enough to look after yourself, we never wonder, “Oh man, how are we going to pay our bills?” Or, “How are we going to put the electricity on?” Or, “How are we going to get food in the fridge?” We never even think of it because we live in a realm of rich. It never even crosses our mind. We just live in the realm of rich.
And when you live in a realm of rich, in that realm, there is no concern about those things. There’s just knowing that you will always have enough because you know who your Father is. Amen!
And it can be rich in your anointing. It can be, you know, like if you’re rich in the anointing and you have received a level of anointing, you have a confidence that when you get up into a pulpit or into a situation where you need to activate that anointing, that is there, you’re not worried and saying, “Oh maybe it’s not going to show up right now.”
Now if you have that worry, it’s time for you to sow seed into that anointing, right? Sow your faith into it, sow the word of God into it, pray in tongues into it, sow into that level of anointing. But when you come to the level of being rich in the anointing, you’re not worried about whether it’s going to show up anymore because it’s a realm that you stand in.
Esther, when you get up and play these keyboards, you’re not thinking, “Oh man, I wonder if I’m going to be able to play today,” because you’ve cultivated that through practice, through sowing into that gift, which is years of activation of sowing into that gift, and obviously because we can see the anointing level on the gift. Obviously, you’ve spent time with the Lord in that too, so you’ve sown time in worship, sown time in prayer, sown all that time into it.
So when you get up to the keys, you’re not worried and saying, “Oh, I wonder if I’m going to be able to play.” You just have confidence. Why? Because you’re in the realm of rich in that area of anointing and gifting. And we can become rich in any area. It’s a matter of activating; it’s a matter of sowing into it and being a blessing.
I know many of you personally in this room, and I can actually point out the gifts that you’ve cultivated and that you’re using for the glory of God, and I know that many of you are actually very rich in your gifts. Amen!
Joyce, you are very rich in the ability to do art, to play the violin, right? Because you cultivated that over the years. You sowed into those gifts. And I mean, I could go on and on with so many people in the room here. But rich is the third realm of blessing, and God wants you to be rich.
There’s no poverty in heaven. It should not even be. Never should we think for a moment, “Oh, maybe I should be poor,” because to think that way is anti-God value. You won’t find poverty in heaven; you won’t! And so our commission is to go into areas that aren’t poverty-stricken and bring them out of poverty, and not us go in and become poverty.
It’s got to be the other way around; light has to go into the darkness and make more light, not darkness, you know, put out the light. So God wants you to hold your head up high and start to see yourself as one that He has marked to be rich.
And how do you get rich? By sowing! It’s not by sitting back. It’s not by sitting back and saying, “Oh one day God’s just going to plunk on me the ability to stand up at a keyboard and go for it,” just like Esther. That’s probably not going to happen; I’m not saying it can’t; God’s able to do anything. But the way the kingdom operates is through sowing and reaping as far as increase.
Okay, and of course, God sovereignly can intervene, but His principles, His laws are that you sow in order to reap so that you reap, and then you are blessed, and then you go into a realm of rich.
But what is the fourth realm? The fourth realm is that he became very wealthy. He became very wealthy. He says extremely wealthy.
Now wealth is different from being rich. Rich talks about your personal abundance, but wealth is about the way you influence the world that you live in. Now you can be rich and not wealthy. I know many rich people; they’ve got a lot for themselves, and they keep getting more and more and more for themselves, so they get richer and richer and richer, and God wants you to grow in realms of being rich in all things.
But if you don’t become wealthy, then you miss the whole thing. If you just sit back and you’ve got all this rich on yourself, but it’s not being given out, your gifts aren’t being given out to be a blessing to other people, then there’s no investment of that to make you wealthy.
Your wealth is what you do to influence the world that you’re living in, and that’s why we need to go after it in every area. We need to go after a wealth of wisdom; for example, Solomon was the wisest man in the world, and as a result of that, he influenced kings and queens who came to him and sat at his feet for counsel because he was rich in wisdom. But then he became wealthy because he was able to influence others with wisdom.
And the same with riches—the same with material possessions. He was the wealthiest man in the world as far as material possessions at that time as well, and he was able to be a blessing to others. The Queen of Sheba comes and he just blesses her, loads her up with blessing. He was able to bless the people.
David was a very blessed, very rich king, and he started out as a shepherd boy. He started out with a shepherd boy who had a slingshot, and he understood the richness that was in the name of God, in the name of the Lord. That’s what he slew Goliath with—was the power that was in the name of the Lord because he had a rich revelation of that.
But then he grew in wisdom to rule and reign because he kept sowing wisdom. He kept stepping out in faith and getting more and more from God and gaining understanding in the Lord. But he also gained in material possessions.
He got to a point in his rich realm where he was able to bless the entire nation. When they brought the ark back into Jerusalem, he made sacrifice every six paces. He made sacrifice, so he was extremely rich, and he brought it before the Lord and gave it to the Lord. Then when he brought the ark back into Jerusalem, he fed the whole nation a threefold portion. Everybody, God bless! That’s wealth! That’s wealth!
You will always know a wealthy person when you see what they’re doing to help mankind, to help the world that they’re living in. That’s what makes a person wealthy, not how many possessions they have—it’s how influential they are.
Most of you know the work of Mother Teresa with the poor and the dying in Calcutta, India. She was a voice for the unborn; she stood before religious leaders—not only just Christian religious leaders but religious leaders from other faiths. She stood before kings, before prime ministers, before economic forums, before all of it and told them all off as far as needing them to care for the life of the unborn.
She did it with boldness. She was a voice; she had a realm of influence. She was very wealthy, and yet in the natural, she had nothing. She didn’t have any money per se because she always just gave it for the sake of the greater good, but she was one of the most wealthiest women in our day because of what she contributed to the world that she lived in, and she will be remembered. I mean, she is being remembered. She is a general for sure!
Okay, let’s go to the next point here. How many of you want all four realms of sowing? You sow the seed and it’ll take you into four realms. Okay, I want it all!
Identify Your Harvest and Your Seed
Next, identify your harvest and your seed. If you’re going to increase in this next season, you need to identify your harvest and your seed. This is absolutely important; otherwise, you’re going to go through life beating the air. You’re just going to be beating the air, not knowing where you’re going, what you’re doing, what you’re to invest in, and it’s called spinning wheels.
You just spin wheels. And if you spin wheels long enough, you get into what’s called a rut, and none of us want to do that. We want to grow in increase.
So, what are you looking for as far as a harvest? A farmer, when he is looking out at the land that he has, he will actually calculate—especially these days, they have very sophisticated equipment for calculating harvest—but he would look at the land and see how much land he has and what it could possibly yield.
Let’s say he wants to grow corn. He looks at his land; he says, “I’m going to grow corn on this property.” He knows exactly then how much corn seed to plant, and definitely that it’s corn seed! He’s not going to sow oats if he wants corn because he’s being intentional about his harvest.
If we’re going to increase, we need to become more intentional or we’ll spin wheels, and we will be in a rut year after year after year after year.
Now let’s say that as I’m partnering with God and dreaming with God, I have this stirring in my heart to become a surgeon. Okay? And I’m thinking that would be amazing! God, I’d love to become a surgeon because then I could help so many people; I could save them in life-threatening situations. I could be Your hands extended in this, and me and God together are dreaming big about this great harvest of goodness that can come from me becoming a surgeon.
But I’m going to have to make some investment into that if I want the harvest of that. I have to sow some seed. I’m going to have to go to university, pre-med, you know, medical school. I’m going to have to sow finance into it, lots of time, lots of mental energy. I’m going to have to sow many years of my life into that—probably around nine—in order to fulfill my goal. Maybe longer, but I’ve got to calculate what my harvest is and what I need to sow to get that harvest.
Does that make sense?
So if we’re going for revival, for example, in this next season, what do we need to sow in order to reap a revival? What does revival look like? When you’re partnering with God, what does revival look like to you, and what is your part in that revival? How do you see it in the Lord? Because whatever you see, you can have.
If you see it, you can have it, but you can’t just throw seed all over the place and all different kinds of seeds and just throw it everywhere and expect it to grow you a harvest. There’s an intentionality; there’s a clarity that comes when Jesus came into the earth. He sowed Himself, and He knew exactly what He was doing and why He was doing it. He knew exactly what He was going for. He was the seed for a harvest of souls, and He knew what He was sowing into that He would win over the hearts of mankind.
So He identified His harvest, and He identified His seed.
Now your seed actually represents your harvest. So, for example, if you have a corn seed, you can look at one corn seed, and if you understand what that corn seed can produce, you can see the stalk of corn that it will grow and all the cobs of corn on that stalk. You can actually calculate how many corn seeds you plant and how much you can get off of it, and on those cobs of corn, there are many more corn seeds—all of those can produce more.
So your seed represents your harvest. Someone told me one time—and I haven’t verified this; I just believed it—but apparently when you split an apple seed, for example, in half and look under a high-powered microscope, you can actually see inside the seed the shape of the apple. And apparently, it’s like that with every seed.
So inside the seed is your harvest. Inside your seed is your harvest!
So when you look at what you’re sowing, it’s not just throwing something out to the wind: “This is my harvest.” This seed in my hand right now—this is my harvest! Wow!
So it could be corn seed, apple seed; it could be a friendship seed; it could be a favor seed. “I’m going to sow favor; I’m going to sow honor.” Because I see within this seed of favor that I’m going to sow into other people, I see a harvest of favor coming back where I’ll be able to preach the gospel and have favor as I do it, where doors will open for me to give me utterance to preach the gospel and honor.
I look at a financial seed, and I look at that and say, “Inside this seed that I’m sowing right now is my harvest.” I sowed a seed just the other day, and I was praying over the person I was sowing the seed into because I wanted them to have a hundred times what that seed was. And I looked out and thought, “There is potential in this one seed because I’m sowing it into really good ground.”
The person was very good ground, and I sowed it into them, and I put my faith out and said, “In that seed it’s going to be; it is going to grow for you a hundred times more than that seed.” I saw it; I could just see the potential!
So I get a text back of thanksgiving from the person I gave it to, and they said, “And I’m praying that as you gave that seed, you will get a hundred times more than what that seed is.” So now we’ve got a double harvest. There’s a harvest that she’s going to get for the seed I gave to her, and then I could see the harvest and the seed that I gave in the check that I wrote.
It wasn’t just print on a paper; it wasn’t like ink on a check; it was seed, and in that seed was my harvest.
Partnering with God for the Harvest
Okay, number two: What harvest are you and God partnering with? Let’s not just decide, “Oh, well, I’m going to believe for a million dollars,” or “I’m going to believe for this,” “I’m going to believe for that.” I mean, it’s good to believe for things; definitely, it’s good to have vision, but what makes it eternally impacting is out of relationship.
If you go to God Himself and say, “God, let’s partner together. I want to share my desire with You; I want you to share Your wisdom with me, and I want Your confirmation on what we can partner together with in these coming days.” Because the kingdom’s about relationship—relationship with God.
So what harvest are you and God partnering with? Take time with God to dream and come into agreement. Receive your promises.
Now, I was praying before the Lord about something just this last week, and I’m at home right now because I’m getting renewed in my health right now, and so there are some areas that the doctors—who I believe God put into my life—have said, “You need to rest; you need to be free from any stress right now; you need to be in this kind of environment.”
So, I mean, I am sowing into my health, but it’s not like I feel restricted; I actually feel quite happy because I know what’s coming. I’m sowing into my health, but because of this, I had some time, and I was dreaming. I thought, “God, you know I could study for something.”
And there was a career opportunity I’ve always wanted to walk in. I tried to step in eight years ago, and the Lord didn’t open the door for me. I had the opportunity, but He said, “No, not this time.”
So I thought, “Well maybe this is the time; maybe this is it.” And I knew that it was going to take study, and it was going to take time to go through this. I would have to apply; I’d have to invest finance into it, invest time, and I would—if I was going to be really good in this career, I would need to get some mentoring in it and just make an investment into it.
So I was dreaming big, and I felt the pleasure of the Lord on it, and I thought, “Oh, this is awesome!” And I said, “Lord, are you with this?” And He said, “Well, if you step into it, I will bless it.”
I said, “But that’s not what I asked! I didn’t ask you if you would just bless that. I want to know if you’re in this. Is this your best for me? Is this where you want me? Because this is where I want to be if it is because I could impact a whole different realm than what I’m impacting right now, and I thought this would be so cool for the kingdom, right?”
I’m bringing all my things before Him, saying, “I could do this and this and this, and it would impact the kingdom in such a powerful way.” And He said, “Yes, yes, yes, it could!” And I said, “So, can I?” He said, “Yes, you can! You can. But,” He said, “if you want to do this, I will bless you in it. I will bless you. You will be blessed in it. I will walk with you, and you’ll be blessed. But feed my sheep.”
I knew what that meant—that’s what He said to me 25 years ago when I asked Him the first time. So I could sow into that and I could get a harvest, but it wouldn’t be the harvest that God would want me to have; it was a better harvest.
It’s almost like, you know, if you have a farmer that says, “I’m going to sow into a whole field of spinach or whatever,” and he reaps his spinach, but on the market it’s not as expensive a market. Let’s say it’s not as lucrative as something else—maybe as asparagus or apples or something that takes longer to grow and takes a bit more effort, a bit more investment of time, and a bit more investment of care. But in the long run, you reap more, and it’s more valuable.
So you could do one, or you could wait longer and have this because this is actually where I’d like to bless you. So you need to hear from God; He’ll bless a lot of things that He’s happy to bless—but when you’re a partner with God, when you’re a friend with God, He’ll show you exactly what will be the very best, and you can then sow into that dream, and you want to receive your promises in that place too. Ask God to give you promises so that you can hold on to those promises.
Sowing Intentionally & Offering
Number three: What seed will produce your desired harvest? In Galatians 6:7 it says, “Whatever a person sows, this is what he will reap.” So sow intentionally.
For example, into revival, with what? With prayer, with tongues. It says in the Bible that if you sow to the Spirit, you’ll reap life. You’re not going to use yesterday’s seed that you sowed for a past harvest. This could be a fresh seed, fresh word, fresh promises.
You can sow the decrees of the word; you can sow even imagination! Did you know that you can actually spend time with God? Because your imagination is going to go somewhere; it’s going to see yourself in lack and in trouble or see yourself flourishing. Which one are you going to invest in?
So you can actually sow into your imagination and start to see yourself flourishing, start to see yourself enjoying the harvest for revival.
We could imagine the revival; we could host meetings like what we’re doing. We’re bringing in Jane Hammond. We want you all to be here and bring your friends. That’s not this coming Sunday, but the one after we’re having a Wind and Fire, and it is going to be amazing. And Jane Hammond is one of the most proficient, accurate prophets I know. She’s amazing! And she’s coming here full, and she’s coming here for you.
So we’re hosting a meeting. Why? Because we’re sowing into revival. We know what we’re sowing into.
And then we can sow financially. So sow with faith, for example, into ministries that believe in that, that have faith for it. Sow intentionally into a harvest of souls; maybe that is your harvest.
How do you do that? Through praying for the lost, through making decrees over the unsaved, through engaging in evangelism! Come out to my class tonight on prophetic evangelism, and I’ll give you opportunity to sow seed by going out into the harvest fields. It’s going to be great.
You can sow by sowing into training and increase in evangelism. You can get resourced—there are all kinds of different ways: healing ministry—you can lay hands on the sick, sow into a seed for the sick, imagine the sick healed.
You can see a harvest of financial increase, of houses increasing, of vehicles increasing, of favor increasing. There’s just everything can increase! Everything in your life can increase in this coming season! That’s what God wants to do.
And then forth—and we’ll stop here—what size harvest do you desire? What size? Because you can have a little harvest, or you can have a big harvest.
My husband and I used to always have gardens every year. We would have a garden, but I mean it wasn’t a farm; it was just a little hobby garden, and we could— you know, we planted enough food though to put in the freezer and to can for all winter, and we ate fresh out of the garden in the summer.
So we knew that we wanted the yield so that we could can and freeze for the coming winter, so that’s how much we grew. So discern what you want. What is the size of your harvest? And then sow accordingly.
In Galatians 6:6, it says, “Now I say this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly.” But at least he reaps, right? If he sows little, he’s going to reap. And the one who sows generously will also reap generously. But the one who sows nothing, what is he going to reap? He’s going to reap nothing! You sow nothing, and you’ll get nothing.
Okay, so we’re going to stop there. I’ve got so much more to share on this topic, and I want to go into this between now and Rosh Hashanah because I’m sowing the word with intentionality right now into Shiloh nights, and I’m believing for Shiloh—everyone in Shiloh, that’s including the Webb Church, including everyone that is part of our on-site congregation.
I’m believing everyone in this coming season is going to come into increase, that you’re going to be positioned for increase. I’m believing—I’ve got my faith out for it.
So I’m sowing the word. It says in Mark 4 that the sower sows the word, so I’m sowing the word of God that cannot return void. It’ll go and accomplish everything it’s sent to do.
So when I put it into your heart—when I send it into your heart—it’s positioning you for increase, and you’re going to have the best year ever! That is my goal for you in every area of your life! That is my heart for you; that’s what I’m going after. And I am being intentional with.
In fact, I’ve started a brand new little journal. I just encourage you to do it—get a journal out for this next season and write down every seed you sow. Like I have written in my book now: “I sowed the word into Shiloh nights on this date concerning increase.” That means I get a harvest! I get to see you increase! I get to see you increase!
I’m standing on the word, and it helps when you can go through your little list. I just went through one day, and I already have seven things that I’ve sown in one day already. It’s just noon—just turned noon here—and I’ve already sown seven things! As written in my little journal.
But you see, if you don’t write them down, it might escape you. You may think, “Oh, I never thought of that as being seed.” I never thought of that prayer for the sick as being a seed for their healing. I never thought about sowing that financial gift, that it would be a seed for my increase and a seed for the advancement of the kingdom of God in the earth.
So take note of your seed and go through it and meditate on it and rejoice in it, because everything that you write in there, everything that you acknowledge as seed is going to bring you a harvest. It will bring you increase! Everything!
So let’s get intentional with it.
Now I’m going to pray for increase for you, the blessing of increase, but we’re also going to give you opportunity right now to sow in your tithes and your offerings unto the Lord. And this is something we always do—not because we have a message on increase; we just believe in lavishing God with our gifts.
We believe in kingdom economy; we believe in the goodness of God, and therefore it’s part of our worship that we sow. But I wanted to receive the offering after the message today because when you connect your giving with faith, it’s like the seed gets put in the ground. The seed gets put in the ground!
We’ll be talking about soil next time, but the seed goes into the ground today, and it will bring increase.
So we want to encourage you in your giving—to give the very first and the very best always to God—the first and the best of everything that comes into your hands. Just bless Him and worship Him with it. That’s called the tithe; it actually means ten. But it’s bigger than ten; it’s like your heart of giving—the first and the best.
And then, in addition to that, we sow seed. We sow seed.
Pastor was telling me before we started that we have a need in the house, that I didn’t know prior to this, and he said we have a need of upgrading all of our sound equipment because it’s very old. It’s you know, I mean we’ve been using it probably for 15 years, and so it’s very old, and it needs to be replaced and upgraded and fixed and all that. So if you know anything about sound equipment, you know it’s costly.
But you see, we’ve been sowing as a ministry, and we know that God is going to provide for that, right, because we sow into it.
So what is it that you have need of in your life in this next season? What is it that you can see as a harvest that you want to see fulfilled in your life? Intentionally sow into that today. And there might be even some of you today that might even want to sow into the sound equipment in addition to your tithes today.
So let’s prepare our offerings. Make your checks out payable to Shiloh. If you’re watching online, you can text to give; you can see right on the screen here, text the word “seed” to 73256. You can use the app, the Realm app; you can go online to give, and if you’re watching online, there will be an address that you can mail a check into as well.
But I want you to sow with intentionality today, believing that this seed is going to bring a harvest.
Now the Lord says that we would go and preach the word everywhere, and then He would confirm it with signs following. That means supernatural empowerment. So if we’re preaching a word on salvation, what is He going to confirm it with? Salvation! If we preach on healing, what’s He going to confirm? Healing!
What’s He going to do when we’re talking about increase and we’re giving financial seed? What’s He going to increase? Finance, right? The advancement of the kingdom and the advancement of your financial well-being as well.
So, Father, we thank You so much for Your kingdom, Your wisdom, Your goodness to us, Lord God. We thank You that You have called us for such a time as this and that we live inside of a realm of goodness that is because Your Son Jesus Christ made the way for us.
We don’t take that for granted, and so we honor You. We honor You with our seed, with our tithes, with our offerings, with our seed to sow right now, with our extravagant love.
We sow into this next season, Lord. We partner with You as we sow into this next season and ask Your blessing on the seed, upon the gift, and upon everything it will produce in the days to come. In Jesus' name, amen!