The seed of God, The seed of Greatness - Gen. 1:26-28

Sometimes ago I was on a visit to friends house. I saw a rare breed of Orange, which I learnt was imported from Europe. It produces about the same number of fruit a normal orange tree will, what made it special was the slim chances of coming across it seeds! I was told in a season, it really hard to get 50 seeds from all the fruits on the orange tree. The common orange fruit has about 10 to 15 seeds. As a result my friend’s family had to plead with visitors to return the seed if they by any chance find a seed in the oranges they took away. Funny isn’t it? Here is someone begging me for orange seeds, which I grew up spiting around.

When God blessed mankind he deposited a seed in her and commanding her makes a demand on that deposit, a command to nurture the seed and produce profit. If you want to see an orange plantation plant orange fruit over and over again. In the same vain there are seeds in everyman, the seeds are undeveloped potential, un-attempted capacities, usually small and unattractive tendencies, a masterpiece in rough sketch.

Channels of fruitfulness

All that man had at the time of his impartation was his mind, mouth, hand, womb and spirit. I am therefore persuaded to say His seeds – God’s blessings, fell on these soils of the human mind, mouth, hand, womb and spirit. These I call the Five Channels of fruitfulness. As such;

The Mind produces the fruit of thoughts

The mouth produces the fruit of words

The hand produces the fruit of labour

The Womb produces the fruit Children

The Spirit produces the fruit Character

It is unfortunate that in the religious circle, the compelling command “be fruitful” has been marginalized to just a small fraction of the whole. Most folks interpret being fruitful as procreating, though true but not the absolute truth. If fruitfulness meant giving birth to more children then it means the more children you have the more dominion you have! No! As much as the fruit of the womb is critical to God’s plan of seeing His image fill the earth, this is undoubtedly the lowest level of fruitfulness; in fact animals function absolutely well at this level even than human being. So what distinguishes His image from other creatures is a full utility of the other channels of fruitfulness. God desires us to be fruitful, John 15:8. Bishop David Oyedepo said “there is so much inside man! Only eternity I think can reveal the worth of the creature called ‘man’.” No fruitfulness no dominion!

You just have to be fruitful the seed is greatness is right there on your inside - see you at the top!

...#an excerpt from my book The 11 Parables of Naira