Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. John 12:24 In the natural realm, when you sow a seed, the seed dies and takes on new life. This new life has the potential ability to bear fruits, usually greater than what was sown. However, the death experience of the seed presents a challenge to the seed, it has to lose hold of itself and trust absolutely in the natural process of germination to take on new life. If a seed refuses to trust this process and so refuses to die, then it can only abide the way it is. As basic as this is, it can be the simple reason why some believers never experience increase – the fear of dying to self. I have established in several previous writings that God wants you to prosper and to increase, and He has put everything in place for that to happen, but if you don’t follow God’s system of increase, He is not going to begin to run halt...
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