| Planting Faith Gal 6:7 Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant. Gal 6:8 If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life. |
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| The above scripture says that I will reap exactly what I plant. I cannot undo what I’ve planted. There doesn’t seem to be a spiritual equivalent to “weeding.” Every thought I think, has been planted, and it seems that from there, I only have the option to tend to some, and ignore others. Those that I tend to, water, and feed – those will grow. Those that I ignore will become relatively weaker and weaker until they have no notable influence in my life. |
| Planting the Seeds Throughout the day, unsolicited thoughts seem to just spontaneously materialise in my mind. These can come from seemingly nowhere, or they can enter through my senses. When they pop in, they are like a seed, not yet planted. If I immediately reject a specific thought, it dies there and then. However, the moment I entertain that thought, I plant it. It now starts to take root, and starts to fight for “thought time.” The more thought time it gets, and the more intense that thought time, the stronger it grows. |
| Seedlings planted from spending about the same amount of thought time and energy on good and bad thoughts. |
| It Is Never Too Late to Change Your Thinking It is never too late to decide to start changing the way you think. The moment you make the decision to start thinking thoughts of faith, you begin to plant those seeds. The more you entertain those thoughts, the stronger they become. The negative thoughts you’ve had before, of doubt and unbelief and evil are not simply going to disappear, but they will become increasingly negligible as they are surrounded by an ever increasing multitude of ever strengthening thoughts of faith. This is one of the biggest reasons why you find that committed and serious Christians spend time reading scripture, and then thinking about it. This systematically fills our minds with thoughts of abundance, peace and making the world a better place. |
| The change that starts happening when I begin to give more and more thought time and thought energy to thoughts of faith |
| Choosing Which Seeds to Nurture Therefore I can see that the harvest this scripture talks about starts as seeds of thought. Those thoughts start spawning other similar thoughts – and so the harvest that I grow becomes either increasingly good, increasingly evil, or it remains in a sort of equilibrium. Ultimately, however, these thoughts will influence my actions, it will influence what I respond to and what I don’t respond to, and it will eventually cause the material world around me and my physical environment to manifest similar conditions.. If I continually make the effort to look for the good seeds, to plant them, and then to give them thought time, the weeds will become relatively less and less, and those that are there, will not grow stronger. This is how my faith grows stronger and stronger. In the beginning, I’ll have a land full of seedlings of faith. Eventually, I’ll have a forest of massive trees of faith. |
| The Harvest you get if you continually make the effort to discipline your thoughts and give time and energy to the good ones |
| This applies to anything If you are not a Christian, and the above was getting a bit too spiritual for you. It works for anything. Are you trying to become wealthy? Planting positive thoughts about wealth are likely to systematically begin to fill your mind with ideas and images that will greatly enhance your chances of actually obtaining the wealth you desire. However, if you allow negative thoughts of fear and doubt in your own abilities to simply fill your mind, those will erode and sabotage every attempt you make at growing to becoming the person you need to be, to obtain the wealth you are trying to obtain. |
