Bible Texts: Lk.19:11-26, Gal.4:19, Eph.5:25, 1Cor.13:4-8, Eph.6:4, 2Tim.2:6, 1Tim.3:1-4, Heb.11:2, Mk.9:29, Gen.3:4-10
Our text today in Luke Gospel chapter 19 from verse 11 to 26 is the story about a landowner that Jesus shared with the people. Jesus said that a landowner gave seeds in equal proportion to three sets of people. Each one was supposed to trade with the seed that had been entrusted into their hands. While two persons were productive by increasing their seeds, the other person was not because he hid the seed. At the end of the day, the master added to the people who increased their seeds and took the only seed from the person who did not multiply the seed.
Now, as the head of your family and the priest over your wife and children, there are few lessons you can pick from this teaching. The first is that everything that you have was given to you by God. The word of God says that no one receives anything except it be given to him by God. Secondly, everything that God gives to you is a seed. Thirdly, the receiver of the seed has the personal responsibility to do something with the seed. This includes planting, watering and watching over the seed. If he doesn’t do anything about the seed, he has denied the seed the capacity to translate its potentials to results.
As good and godly husbandmen, God has given you and I seeds. Your wife is a seed. Your children are seeds. Just like the landowner, God has entrusted your wife and children into your hands to do something positive about their lives. If you don’t like what you see in your wife and children, then it is your fault and not theirs. In 1st Samuel chapter 3 and verse 13, see what the word of God says about the husbandman, Priest Eli, who did not broker his seed productively. For I (God) have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not. Also, remember the event at the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 3. God held the husbandman, Adam, responsible because he did not put his seed (his wife) to work, hence their fall.
So how do I maximize the potentials of my seeds? The first thing to do is to understand the original plan of God for your seeds. Your wife was given to you by God for a purpose. There is something that God wants to achieve in your life and the life of your wife. God also gave you children because there is something He wants to achieve on the earth through them. Therefore, seek the Bible to find out God’s will and plans for them.
Secondly, you must learn to intercede for your wife and children in prayers in order to align their lives to the will and plan of God you show them from the word of God (Gal.4:19). You must consciously locate God’s provision for your wife and children and engage the weapon of prayers until the results manifest in their lives. And as you do these, you will be the first person to enjoy the fruits that will come from your wife and children (2Tim.2:6).
Make your wife and children productive seeds because that is what makes you the good and godly husbandman.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver me from foolishness and fear.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to make my wife and children profitable and productive.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to keep watering my seeds (wife and children) until they begin to bear fruits.
FAITH CONFESSION
I am a wise farmer and I am committed to nurture my seeds (wife and children) for a profitable output because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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