The Seed that Breaks the Siege

Monday 7 August
READ: 1 Sam. 1: 11
MORE LESSON: 2 Kgs. 3: 21 – 27

Year after year, Hannah wept because she had no child. Her pain was heightened by the fact that Peninnah, her husband's second wife who had sons and daughters, tormented her. Each time they went to the house of God in Shiloh, Hannah’s prayer was for a child. However on the day the Lord visited her she did something that she had not done before, And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head: 1 Sam 1:11.
Hannah promised the unborn child as a seed to the Lord and the Lord heard her prayer. God needed a prophet and Hannah needed a child. So Hannah promised the Lord that if He would give her a child, she would give Him the child as a prophet. This means that Hannah gave the child as a seed to the Lord and her seed broke the siege over her womb. There are many types of seed: money, word, service, your life etc. Whatever the type of seed you want to sow, you need to know that you can break your siege with your seed.
God gave Hannah a son named Samuel and she gave him to serve in the house of the Lord. After she handed over Samuel to the priest of the Lord Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, Hannah, And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD: 1 Sam 2: 20 – 21. The siege had been broken and the Lord gave her many more children. Moreover the child that she gave to the Lord was not lost but rather became the best of her children. The names of all the other children of Elkanah may not be known, but Samuel is remembered forever. He is the child that was sown as a seed to the Lord.
Even a non Jewish king had the knowledge of the power of seed and did not spare his first son to break the siege of Israel against him. In today’s more lesson the king of Moab sacrificed his eldest son, taking after the sacrifice of Jesus to appeal for divine intervention in a war that was ‘sore’ against him. Despite the prophecy of Elisha to the contrary(v18), when the king laid down his sacrifice the tide turned (v27) and they (Israel) departed from him. Send your seed against your siege.

Prayer/Action
* Proclaim that no siege will be able to resist the power of your seed, in Jesus’ name.
* Declare there shall be a thousand fold return for every seed you sow this year.
* Decree that you are walking in super abundance by the power of sacrificial sowing, in Jesus’ mighty name.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I connect with the Spirit and blessing of Judah, my month shall flow continuously with praise, in the name of Jesus.

The Hundredfold and the Blessing

Sunday 6 August
READ: Gen. 26: 12-19
MORE LESSON: Psa. 112: 1 – 10

The lineage of the righteous is always blessed. When we look at the Scripture, we will see that the patriarchs and men of faith were people of righteousness and blessing. Men like Abraham have showed us that it is possible for the righteous to be rich. All the traditions and doctrines that make it look like becoming born again means signing up for poverty is entirely wrong. Wealth and abundance are the heritage of the righteous. According to Psa. 112:3, Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
In the Bible, a testimony was recorded about Isaac that he sowed in the land where he was and he reaped a hundredfold. After reaping the hundred- fold, the Lord further blessed him. It says, Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him: Gen 26:12. Reaping a hundredfold of one's planting is blessing enough but as if that is not enough, the Lord blessed Isaac after he had reaped a hundredfold. This denotes both natural and supernatural blessings. Isaac experienced the blessing of having returns from the natural work of his hands. Then he also experienced supernatural blessings that he couldn't account for by the work of his hands. You will receive the hundredfold
and you will also receive the blessing. In other words, God will give you both blessings that you work for and those that you can't work for.
For the rest of your life, expect a hundredfold return from every effort you make. You will never labour and have nothing to show for it anymore because the Lord is giving you the hundredfold harvest. In addition to that, expect blessings that you can't labour for. Prov 10:22 says, The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. The Lord will crown your hundredfold returns with the blessing.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, David, Solomon and our Lord Jesus Christ were blessed people. You are from a lineage of wealthy people, your story will not be less. The adage 'like father like son' applies to you, not according to your natural parenthood but by your spiritual descent from the lineage of the blessed. You will not be poor or small. Your greatness will not stop. You will move from one level of glory to another. Wealth will be found in your house, in Jesus’ mighty name. I pray for you today, the Lord will increase your greatness and comfort you on every side (Psa. 71:21). He will break the curse of poverty over you. I release you into wealth.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that the hundredfold blessing shall rest upon your work, in Jesus’ name.
* Declare that because you are a righteous seed, wealth and prosperity shall be in your house, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask for the things money can buy and the ones money cannot buy, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Every dark cloud confronting my sunshine, scatter now, in the name of Jesus.

The Seed of the Widow

Saturday 5 August
READ: 1 Kings 17: 8 – 16
MORE LESSON: Psa. 126: 5 - 6

The Word of the Lord came to Elijah to go to Zarephath for there a widow had been commanded to feed him. The widow on the other hand didn't know she had been commanded to feed anybody; she was not even able to feed herself and her son. At the time Elijah arrived, she was actually trying to cook the last meal she had so that she and her son could eat and thereafter wait for death by starvation. The meal was her last and she was undoubtedly very hungry as she would have stayed off the last meal in order to save it for as long as she could.
When Elijah arrived, he asked her for water. Bearing in mind that it was a time of famine and drought where it had not rained for years, even the instruction to give water was not as easy as it sounds; but she obeyed. Elijah didn't stop at asking for water, he asked her for food. She replied that she didn't have food except little flour and a cruise of oil which she was going to prepare for her and her son to eat as their last meal. That was a very touching statement but the prophet seemed unperturbed; he just told her to go and prepare the last she had for him to eat.
The instruction sounds unfair and cruel. Here is a widow with her last morsel of food and a prophet walks to her demanding for food. She explained to the prophet that she was willing to give him food but she couldn't because all she had was a morsel of food for herself and her son after which they had no hope of any other meal. The prophet replied that he understood their predicament but they should handover their last meal to him to eat. One would have expected that a prophet should provide for the poor widow but here was a prophet placing a demand on the widow to sow her last as seed. Everything about the seed looked wrong; the amount, the timing, and the person of whom it was demanded. However, the widow obeyed and the blessing of the Lord came upon her house. The food continued to multiply and the oil never ceased flowing.
One thing that can be learnt from the widow of Zarephath is that one should sow one’s seed first before he eats his bread. Psa 126: 6 makes us to understand that those that sow in tears will reap in joy. So even though it is your last, you must plant your seed, plant generously because the size of your seed determines the size of your harvest, plant on good ground and plant continually at every opportunity you have, And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah: 1 Kgs. 17: 15-16.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to turn your little into a miracle of harvest, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that as Heaven makes demand on your seed you shall not withhold and you shall not lose your harvest, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask for accurate prophetic instruction today that will change your life forever.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
My destiny divorce secret and public bitter pains of life, in the mighty name of Jesus.

Keep Sowing

Friday 4 August
READ: Gal. 6: 6 – 10
MORE LESSON: Eccl. 11: 3 -4

God's covenant with the earth is that for every seed you sow there must be a harvest, While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease: Gen 8:22. So whenever you need a harvest, you look for a seed to sow to attract the harvest. Many people ask, 'I have been sowing and my harvest has not come, what should I do?' The answer to everything is in the Bible, Gal 6: 9 says, And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Your harvest will surely come but while you wait for it, you must continue to sow, For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry: Hab. 2:3. All your seeds and sacrifices may not be showing presently as you can't see the commensurate harvest, but as surely as the Word of God is true, your harvest will speak at the end.
Never get tired of sowing seeds because when you give up on sowing, you have given up on the harvest. Sow more seeds to activate the harvests that are hanging. It is like the falling of the rain which happens as the water on the earth keeps accumulating in the clouds till one day, the cloud is full and all the water of many months that have condensed and accumulated fall as rain, If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth...: Eccl. 11:3.
Gal 6:10 says, As we have therefore opportunity... Sowing is an opportunity. Therefore make use of the opportunity as much as it comes your way. If you see a prophet , sow into his grace. If you see a person in need, sow into his life. Do not be weary of sowing seeds because you will reap in due season. I am glad to announce to you that your due season has come. From today onward, you will begin to experience an avalanche of harvest of all the seeds you have ever sown in life. As you keep sowing, I decree an opening of unending harvest over your life and destiny, in Jesus’ name. Don't observe the wind, just sow, He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap: Eccl. 11:4. It can be painful but God has promised a harvest (Psa. 126:5-6).

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will not lack seed for sowing, in Jesus's name
* Pray that you will not be weary in well doing in the name of Jesus

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Standing on Jesus the Rock that never fails, I decree that the sound of joy and gladness shall be my portion throughout this month, in the name of Jesus.