Secrets

God told me a secret about your heart…

A woman found out I was going through a divorce (the 3rd one). She didn’t really know me. I picked up my daughter from a slumber party at her house and she handed me a daily devotional. I was ticked that she knew my personal bizness and promptly chunked the devotional in the very back of my Tahoe. “Great. She feels sorry for me.”

A year later I was getting something out of my car and found that devotional wedged between the seats.

Because of her obedience to give me that devotional:

I had an encounter with God that forever changed my life and I felt true peace for the first time.

I began attending church.

My marriage was reconciled 7 years after our divorce and we were remarried.

Imagine my surprise when, about 3 years after my reconciliation in marriage, to see this very woman sitting in front of me at our new church. Only God. I was able to go to lunch with her and give her a personal thank you and tell her the impact she’d had on my life.

It dawned on me this morning. That seed planted in obedience has actually reproduced of its EXACT SAME KIND in my life.

I now write prayer devotionals similar to the one she gave me: a 30 day purity of heart devotion. A prayer devotional for flight attendants to pray over their crew and the cities they visit, a daily devotional for freshman college girls after leaving their nest to keep their hand in Jesus’s hand.

I also help others share their overcoming testimonies in the form of devotionals: A prodigal prayer journal, a teacher’s journal to pray for each of their students by name daily.

That devotional changed my life and the lives of many others and even cities around the world.

There was no sign of life in the moment it was planted…It was just a tiny little mustard seed of faith planted by a woman who had God’s kind of compassion on me and knew He could be my answer in life…but with time that teeny tiny seed grew in darkness and secret until it began to bear fruit in my life and many others.

YOU HAVE SEEDS IN YOUR HEART WAITING TO PLANT IN OTHERS! Seeds of joy. Seeds of strength. Seeds that carry life!

Your seed won’t look like my seed. It will be unique to you.

I think of my precious and amazing daughter, Monica. Her nana was a school teacher. She taught at a tiny private school/daycare off 28th street in North Fort Worth. No glam. For many, many years she was faithful without a big paycheck or any recognition. From birth, Monica attended the daycare, preschool and then school through 1st grade. Her nana planted seeds of love for teaching and children in Monica’s heart.

And that seed bore fruit: Monica was recognized as one of the top 20 elementary educator’s in Texas and was invited to the Texas Governor’s mansion for a bbq and round table about Texas education.

The seeds we plant will be MORE fruitful in other’s lives.

Who and how did another plant seeds in your heart? The way and what type of seed planting is YOUR SECRET SEED that you carry in your heart! Will it lie dormant or will you share it with another so they can produce more fruit?

Some of us don’t know what we carry to give birth to...so journal with God on the seeds other’s planted in your life and then be intentional to scatter that SAME seed because it carries resurrection power.

Matthew 13:8 Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted.