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.
Thoughts of Faith
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.