How The Devil Steals Your Seed

How The Devil Steals Your Seed


The Law Of Displacement 
Seed Cultivation


Now lets get in our garden and get rid of all the tares that have slipped in while we slept.  The result of our profession as we plant seed, and the acknowledgement of the truth of the scripture pertaining to us in Christ will cause the law of displacement to begin to take effect.  In other words, the seed of Christ roots out the seed of Satan.


Light is more powerful than darkness.  One simply turns on the light switch and displaces the darkness.  John 8:12 says, "I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."  Just turn on the Word of Truth and the lie will go.  It is that simple.


This is why Christ said in Matthew 11:30, "for my yoke is easy and my burden is light."   If Jesus said this then we can expect it to be true.  If you are experiencing anything to the contrary, if it's becoming complex or overbearing to you, then we are walking in the realm of the "self life."


Jesus said he will give us rest when we lay our burdens down to him.  This is precisely what he was talking about, resting from your own self trying to fulfill what God wants for you in your own power. All things will manifest itself from His power within us.  Because when we don't use His power we fall away in unbelief.


Timothy 2:25-26 says, "In meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves."  They actually oppose themselves by what has been planted within them.  They can't overcome these obstacles, because these obstacles are actually within them.  "If peradventure will them repentance," changing of the mind, "to the acknowledging of the truth."


Repentance is the first step.  Changing your mind or saying I don't want to be that way anymore.  You have to acknowledge you have a problem and then that you have an answer to that problem and that is Truth.  When you begin to acknowledge the truth, manifestation comes.  You don't oppose yourself anymore.  The rest of the verse says, "and that they may recover themselves."  Did you hear that?  Recover themselves.  "Out of the snare of the devil."  You see, God already recovered you.  Now you must recover yourself, by renewing the way you think.  Blindness to this truth is the reason why people continually say, "Why hasn't God done this," or "How come God hasn't come to my rescue," and so on.  He has done it all, it's already completed, it's within you and you need to release it.


What we hear, see, and say comes back to us.  It will manifest.  It is planted within you and you will see it come out of you and echo back.  Through prayer and meditation we can sow the concepts of what we are in Christ into our inner man and start having victorious thinking.  Acknowledge that the old man is dead.  It is done, it is finished.


After a seed is planted, we must cultivate it, and care for it, or it will die.  If we don't we will have wasted our time in trying to grow that seed within us.  Cultivate, according to Webster means, 1. to prepare and use (soil, land) for growing crops. 2. to break up the surface soil around plants in order to destroy weeds, prevent crusting and preserve moisture. 3. to grow from seeds, bulbs, shoots. 4. to improve or develop by various techniques. 5.  to improve by care, training or study, refine and cultivate your mind. 6. to promote the development or growth , as he cultivated a social conscience. 7. to seek to develop a familiarity with; give one's attention to, pursue.


The word of God says to break up the fallow ground and to not sow among thorns.  Jeremiah 4:3 says, "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you."


Cultivation is basically a two-fold process, the first being the preparation of the soil, and the second is caring for the seed sown.  In preparing the soil, which is our heart, there are several attitudes we must mix within us to fertilize and break up the fallow ground.  They are humility, sincerity, honesty, Godly sorrow and patience. 1Peter 5:5 and James 1:4.


This two fold process can be done by completely opening yourself up to God's spirit through surrender and fellowship with Him.  Be willing to observe the areas of your life that need changing, knowing they can be changed, and don't be intimidated about facing different areas of your life because you feel that if you try to overcome them that you will fail.  That's why we bury some areas of our lives, subconsciously, and we get into the realm called "denial."


Matthew 10:39 says, "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.  If we continue to hold on, through our pride some old ways, instead of coming to a place of repentance (knowing that God will give us the power to change) we will never change the things that we desire to change.  We can give ourselves a momentary fix, but unless we uproot them through humility and mind renewal we will eventually be given back over to the root.


There is one thing I must add here, and that is that the Holy Spirit is a gentleman.  He will never expose your frailties in a condemning way, but gently, one at a time with great love and mercy.  Satan, on the other hand, will condemn, bombard and intrude upon you with the problem that you have.  He will do that to get you to close up so change can not occur.  His goal is to make you defend yourself and if you are defending then you are not surrendering.


God wants us to have dominion and to prosper.  He doesn't want us in ill health, negative and in need.  It is just common sense to know that evil is not God's will for His children. Genesis 1:28.  In our hearts we know that it is not God's will for us to live that kind of life.  Yet somehow people have bought the concept of suffering, poverty, depression, confusion as being part of God's plan.  It is no wonder why the scripture says, "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge," Hosea 4:6.  It is this very thinking that has caused people to accept the seed of the serpent.  Then he has you in the bondage of fear and guilt.  That's why people fear or run from churches, they are teaching and approaching people in bondage the wrong way.


This article is a collection of teachings by Donna Braman