Acknowledgments
I want to say thank you! To all those who have gone before us in
teaching on The Seed, Prosperity, and Who we are in Christ. They have laid the
foundation for where my wife and I are today. Their words, teachings and prayers
have brought us closer to the truth and knowledge of the Lord, and the Holy
Spirit.
We bless you and thank you
For those coming after us I hope they will be able to say the same
about us as we have said of our predecessors.
In most cases, we have used the King James Bible as our point of
reference, with the Strong’s Concordance. I have tried to convey what the
accuracy and wording was when the writers first penned the verses we are using.
I pray I am accurate
Most of all I must thank my wife Dr Amy Price and our Children,
Kathleen and Ryan who have sat through hundreds, and for my wife thousands of
meetings while I have Ministered on the subject of Prosperity over the last
twenty plus years.
Patience is a virtue that some of us come by naturally and others
must acquire. I Bless you Dr. Amy Price, my wife.
Dr. DJ Price
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This book on the Seed is another in a series based on teachings I have given over the years in the area of Prosperity. Gods Word does not change, His people do. As we acquire more knowledge and understanding of the Word of God, the Lord expects us to walk in it.
The Apostle Paul said it this way:
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became an adult, I put away childish things.
When it came to money, the writer of Ecclesiastes said it this way:
Ecclesiastes 10:19...
… but money answers all things.
Ecclesiastes 9:16...
… nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are
not heard.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge,
and joy: but to the sinner he gives to travail (the ability to work), to gather
and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God....
The Prophet Zechariah said
Zechariah 1:17 ...
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad...
Many people when they hear a person is teaching on prosperity say, you seem to be choosing your favorite verses and leaving out others that contradicted your position. The Apostle Paul and the writer of Ecclesiastes both talked about several other things in their writings. Just as some of our modern day, writers and Ministers are anointed to teach about Prayer, Brokenness, Humility, Holiness, Sanctification, etc. I am anointed to teach in the area of Prosperity. Just as other Ministers in the Body of Christ, I will use scripture verses that will reinforce the area of teaching I am anointed in. That is not to say I do not recognize and understand the other scripture verses but that is not the intent of this book. The intent of this book is to bring revelation to the reader in the area of prosperity.
Just as Prayer and Holiness are vital parts of our life, so are Prosperity and the planting of seed. As we pray we expect God to answer and bring results, as we walk in Holiness before the Lord, we know He will honor our stand. The planting of seed is giving with the expectation of the Lord bringing a return for our efforts.
In this book, I will try and explain what seed is and what it is not. If you want a financial blessing or you need the Lord to intervene in circumstances in your life, then the sowing of seed is one way to see it come to pass. It is not the only way but it is one way.
We have seen people believing for the 30, 60-fold returns and it has come to pass. We have watched while some have sown $10:00 to receive $100.00 and it has come to pass. In each case, they have called this sowing of seed, and although this is a true saying and the Lord has honored, their heart, with what they have said and sown. It is not the full revelation of sowing. This book will bring some of these truths to light.
When it comes to the sowing of seed and the harvest that comes forth the only reference that seems to be absolute is in:
Genesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and a harvest appeared the same (not bound by time or the law) year (as a revolution of time) a hundredfold: …
What
is Seed
God gives seed to the sower; this verse goes on to say God increases the seed sown, increases our bread and increases the fruit of our righteousness.
11 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that Ministered seed to the sower both Minister bread for your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness;
Many people want to sow prayer or good works and feel this is sufficient. I would say to that reasoning this is not sowing, but our Christian duty. I am not saying that their doing these things will not produce Gods favor in their lives, but there is a greater truth to the sowing of seed. It also has been my experience in Ministering on seed in several continents of the world, the people that want to concentrate on prayer and good works as their seed, are the same people that are not faithful in their Tithes and Offerings. They are using prayer and good works to remain in rebellion to God in the area of returning Gods Tithe to Him.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet, you have robbed me.
But you say, how have we robbed you? In Tithes and Offerings.
Can you imagine a farmer going out in his field every day and praying over the land? Or going out and tilling the ground and fertilizing it every week (good works), or professing a good profession over his farm every day. These activities in themselves are good and Godly things to do, but without actually putting seed in the ground, he will not have a harvest.
Remember God said He would increase the seed sown. Please take some time to read 11 Corinthians chapters 8 and 9 and see as the Apostle Paul was writing to the Corinthian Church how he was admonishing them for
A) Not living up to a commitment last the year, chapter 8
B) Give not grudgingly or by feelings this year, chapter 9
There is nowhere in these passages that we are told not to sow physical seed. Neither the Apostle Paul nor the Macedonia Church were able to live of the prayers and good feelings of the Corinthian people. It takes finances to purchase food, it takes finances to pay the rent and it takes finances to travel from one country to another.
As you read 11 Corinthians chapter 8:1 through to 11 Corinthians chapter 11:15 you will see the Apostle Paul was referring to finances and the attitudes of the Corinthian people towards them.
I am not saying that what you give out will not be the same thing you receive back. But I am saying that many times the things we have referred to as seed, Gods word does not call them seed. A better communication on what we are doing would be to call those things our Christian duty and that we find it a privilege to give freely from our Spirit and Soul that which the Lord has sow freely given us.
We
hear people all the time say, Dr. Price if our people would only pray like they
do in developing countries we would see every Nation changed. There is a truth
in this saying, but the reality is we are not seeing every Nation changed and
even those in developing countries that stay at home to pray for Gods blessing
find themselves in need of financial support from someone else other than God
Himself.
There will always be exceptions to the rule of the natural. God is not bound by the natural and He will do what He wants and when He wants. Some people have more faith in one area than others, some people have a special calling in one area, and the favor of God will manifest itself for them in that area. But in the normal, God will work with His people according to the Laws of the Spirit and they will coincide with the logos (written word) of Gods word.
Deuteronomy 28:1
And it shall come to pass, if
thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and
to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God
will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Seed for prosperity needs to planted in the ground. Seed sown is seed
grown.
As we look at the first time seed is mentioned in, the Bible we see that majority of the meaning is related to something physical.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so
H2232.zaw-rah'; a prim. root; to sow; fig. to disseminate, plant, fructify: --bear, conceive seed, set with, sow (-er), yield.
Seed - Progeny (noun) - Descendants - Heirs – Offspring See (d) - to receive (verb) - To Take Possession Off - To Overcome
Luke 8:15
But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it (keep what? the Word) and bear fruit with patience.
Mark 4:20
But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it (accept what? the Word) and bear fruit: some thirty fold, some sixty, and some a hundred…
Again coming back to seed. As we give our money into the Kingdom of God the properties of our money (seed) or something else physical will change into whatever we call it, physical, emotional, or spiritual.
As we are seeing, sowing seed is different from tithes, (see my book on The Tithe) which is a return to God of something He has and always has had ownership. The Offering, (which I have written two books on at this writing) was to be given in this dispensation of grace to bless the Kingdom of God, bless the Minister who has Ministered to you, bless the poor, bless the orphans, bless the widows, build buildings, supply the furnishings for the buildings, just to name a few. It was not because you needed to be blessed but so you could be a blessing. With your good works, God has some promises for rewards but we were not to do the good works because of the rewards.
Haste will make waste.
After you have done the will of God, you have need of patience so as to
posses the promises.
Offering - Was to bless the Kingdom of God and others, not ourselves.
These are selected excerpts from the book SEED.
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