Day 264
Genesis 1:11
"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
God said the seed to produce a fruit tree is in the fruit. Inside every seed are the ingredients to produce another tree. In the natural world, the kind of seed we plant will determine the kind of tree we will produce. It is the same in the spirit world. The seeds for everything we produce, whether positive or negative, begin inside us.
Many times, we miss getting the answer to our challenges, because we look all around us and fail to look inside ourselves. Psalm 46:!0a says, "Be still and know that I am God." To look within ourselves and get an answer from God, we must be still. We must calm our flesh and our minds down and allow our spirits to reveal to us what is going on. The Bible says in Proverbs 20:27, "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching the inward parts of the belly." Our spirits must be allowed to take over for us to get insight into what is going on deep inside and affecting our everyday lives.
When Joshua was losing a battle, he cried to God for help and God told him the problem was inside his camp. Someone in the camp of the Israelites had been disobedient to God's instructions and was causing their army to lose. Joshua had to get rid of the person inside the camp to win in battle against the enemy outside the camp.
Sometimes, evil spirits have caused problems in our homes, and the key has been something that was in the house. God told the Israelites not to bring cursed things into their houses, because they would end up cursed like the things they brought in. When they conquered territory, they would be tempted to bring cursed objects back to their houses because of their value. (Sometimes these objects were made of gold or silver.) God told them not to desire the gold or silver from the items. They were told to destroy them.
Before we go hastily looking on the outside for the cause of a problem, let us be still and look inside. Before we embark on a project we hope to be successful with, let us look inside and make sure the right seeds for success are there. The most important seed is a healthy relationship with God, which causes us to seek His direction and to be submissive to His will and guidance.
I will look within for seeds of blessing or cursing, seeds of success or failure. With God's help, I will eliminate the bad seeds and cultivate the good ones.