"Preparation is NEVER a Waste of Time!" - Bishop T. D. Jakes
Throughout the week, I have been sharing with you lessons I’ve learned from my various dirt-dwelling experiences. First, I spoke of the PLANTING process. We must consider ourselves planted seeds that God, our Farmer, has strategically positioned in the earth for maximum growth. Every soil condition was divinely selected in order for us to yield a fruit-full harvest. Additionally, it is also important for us to embrace the Truth that we are seeds with seeds! Too often we look outside of ourselves for wealth, when in actuality God has already empowered us to prosper from the inside out.
Secondly, I progressed in thought by releasing the importance of the GERMINATION process. It is time for all of us to capitalize on our dirt-dwelling experiences, gaining all the benefits of cultivation that is necessary as we continue to grow up and out of our circumstantial confinements to a level of personal freedom. There’s no need to live in the spirit of comparison. God, our Farmer, knows exactly the amount of time and style of cultivation that is necessary for us to finally be transformed into our authentic “you”! Believe it or not…our authentic “you” is the worship God has been longing for since He earthed each of us into time. For when we grow into our authentic “you” and are living re-presentations of that Truth, we are His Imagination of us made a reality.
Now as we proceed in this process of building in the dirt, let’s continue sprouting to breakthrough as we discipline ourselves to…
Appreciate the Building Process to Breakthrough!
If you have been struggling like me, begin to appreciate and embrace your time building in the dirt. It is our time of preparation. God promises to do “exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think, according to the power that [works] within us” (Ephesians 3:20, NIV). May the power within you be quickened to produce wherever you are planted. Trust me when I say that your chances of being transplanted before you grow in your current soil condition is very unlikely. Know that the Farmer Himself has scheduled the set time for your exposure and the set time for each harvest of your life.
When we grow to understand our lives are in His Hands, we will continue to pursue destiny REGARDLESS of the conditions we are planted in. When we tap into the authorized power within us, circumstances and surroundings will be our launching pads instead of our cemetery plots. Nothing and no one will be able to prevent our growth just like the seed that is surrounded by the earth’s soil and is determined to germinate, sprout, and breakthrough its confining space. We would never know the potential that lies within a seed without its time in the dirt. Our dirt-dwelling experiences give God the opportunity to show us our true, authentic potential. Many of us would remain content in the status quo or the too familiar positions of mediocrity if it were not for the uncomfortable, dirty places of our lives. Like the seed, it is the soil conditions that push us on, pressing us to produce what we would otherwise not even know existed within.
Like me, some of you must consider yourselves transplanted seeds!
I confess...I am a transplanted seed. God saw fit to plant me first in one soil condition, allow me to begin germinating and then transplanted me into yet another pile of dirt. It’s safe to say, my dirt-dwelling experiences seem to be an extended process. At times, I have to rebuke the urge to live in the spirit of comparison, wondering why someone else’s seeds have been planted, germinated, sprouted, and harvested. All the while, my season for breakthrough seems to be delayed again and again.
God showed me that my distorted perception of my growth progression had to change. Maybe I have more to die to or maybe I am a hard seed to crack. Or just maybe, for the purpose God has placed in my seeds, they must take d-e-e-p root so that when my breakthrough does take place, and I have emerged from my place of hiding into full bloom, I will be able to withstand the weight of the calling and anointing on the harvest that has been produced.
So now, I am hopeful your perspective has been renewed to reflect Truth. No longer see yourself as just dwelling in the dirt…You are building in the dirt, and the bountiful harvest will be worth the wait!
© 2011 Julianne Pearson
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