Seed of Restoration

Tuesday 8 August
READ: 2 Kings 6: 1 – 7
MORE LESSON: Joel 2: 23 – 26

The sons of the prophet wanted to build a bigger house for the prophet. In order to achieve this, one of them went to borrow an axe for the job. As they were working, the axe head fell into the water. They needed a miracle to salvage the situation so they went to meet the man of God. There is a lesson that can be learnt from the miracle of restoration that was performed that day. God's servant took a stick and threw it into the water and as the stick went in, the iron floated to the surface. There is no natural law or science that can account for the dynamics of this miracle. How does an axe head float on water? What is the relationship between the wood that was thrown in and the iron that floated to the surface? No man can explain.
However, one thing that is obvious in this miracle is that for every expected harvest, there must be a seed. When you want a miracle, there is a seed that you need to sow. The man of God showed them that the iron would not just float, there needed to be the sowing of the seed of wood. When you look at stick and iron, you will realise that iron is heavier than
wood. So the harvest is always heavier than the seed. Therefore, “no seed, no harvest”, “seed brings heavier harvest”. The stick was the seed for the restoration of the iron.
The sons of the prophet had a role to play in the miracle of restoration that was wrought that day. They needed to throw in something no matter how small. You always have a role to play in having God break your siege and bring a restoration. They just lost the axe head and could have used that as an excuse not to sow a seed. However, the man of God cut a stick and released the stick inside the same water that swallowed the axe head and the wood brought out the iron. He must have used another axe head, probably from another of the sons of the prophet to cut the stick that he threw in. Therefore, you also should not just sit bemoaning your lost axe head, get another one and cut the stick to sow a seed. Your seed will break your siege of loss and bring the restoration of all that was lost. Sow a seed no matter your condition.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will end all siege in your life by your seeds, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that your seeds shall bring mighty harvest, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask for a miracle that will defy the natural order of things in your life, in Jesus’ mighty name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Satan, I rebuke you and your force over my new month, you shall not have a memorial in it, in the mighty name of Jesus

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.