Seed Power | Pastor Jentezen Franklin

[Music] you may be seated well I'm gonna teach today a little simple message that goes along this is an exciting month as you saw the video and all of you at all of our campuses we're just delighted you're joining us we love what God is doing I want to do something because it's important right before I preach but I want every veteran in the house every person who is a veteran would you stand up and let us tell you and remain standing until I tell you to sit down let's tell these veterans now somebody get up and hug them I mean it just give them a big old hug tomorrow's Veterans Day and we're getting a head start on it because we are we are so thankful for freedom fighters and freedom protectors and we honor honor honor you today from the bottom of our heart we mean it we mean it I want to celebrate something about our Midtown campus has a brand new location they're moving into December the 8th the Woodruff Arts Center in downtown Atlanta will be their new home and it's pretty exciting because it's got fantastic children's ministry area which we've never had in the present place that we've been in and so pastor Robert Gloria are doing an outstanding job down there and God is doing things we're gonna fill up every one of those seats with Souls Souls Souls so thank you thank you thank you alright I want to talk to you as you know that we begin a special series and man if I could just beg you to not miss one of these next few weeks we thought it through we planned that we prayed about it fasted about it everything we're planning I'm gonna be here next Sunday but we have someone coming in because I heard this message that he preaches and I said you must come speak that over our congregation it's called cathedral faith and when you hear this message it's a game-changer it will change you concerning your family and legacy you have got to hear what is gonna take place in this room next Sunday it's one of the greatest sermons I've ever heard and I'm a connoisseur of sermons and I'm just telling you it's one of the most important messages and concepts it changed my life I think about it a lot since I heard it and Dave Martin is a tremendous communicator funny guy too but boy he's gonna bring the word next Sunday I'll be here in the service and it's gonna be special it's part of the series we have every week in for the next three weeks four weeks we're going to have something extremely in porting and special to share with you and I'll be doing the preaching the rest of the time want to start it off today with a message that I'm gonna call cede power SAE the power many times those of us who've been around church for a while when we hear the word seed we think that that is a reference all the parables and stuff in the Bible about seed that is so it's a reference to we get a very narrow definition of what seed is we immediately think money but I'm not talking about money in this message today I'm talking about seed power that you may not be aware of everything God gives comes in seed form seed means the beginning so when I say seed power I mean the beginning power of something and you are you are the carrier of seeds that you may not even be aware of everything that you have is a seed everything that you know is a seed everything that you have experienced is a seed in somebody else's life that needs to be sown everything that you have that you have experienced is a seed that could help somebody else your ears are a seed you should you hear things other people don't hear your eyes or a seed you have a perspective and you see things your your compassion your your love your concern is a seat and I want to teach you today incredible power that lies in seed power that I think many times lies dormant and we don't even know that our life and those around us could be elevated and raised miraculously to greater heights if we would learn see power of principles that I'm going to share with you today a seed is something you've been given that can create everything you've been promised when God makes you a promise he then turns around and he says now I'm gonna give you something that is in seed form and you will get to the promise if you use the see like I tell you to use it and the seed is something that you've been given that will get you ultimately to everything you've been promised so here I'm just gonna if you want to take notes and write down things you know turn to somebody and just tell them if you're gonna stay stupid I can't be your friend so yeah I mean just just tell them that just tell them and so and so we ought to get something out of church besides a shall we people are destroyed for lack of knowledge the Bible said destroy so a good piece of paper and a pen or a writing it in your phone is a whole lot better than a short memory I promise you so I'm gonna give you some principles of seed power number one access is the seed for opportunity access is a seed for opportunity anytime a person allows you access into their life that is a seed of opportunity for you opportunity to show your difference from everybody else opportunity to reveal your talent to reveal your wisdom to reveal your significance your passion that you care about access is the seed for opportunity that's why you should identify every environment that you've been given opportunity or access to enter into you need to identify the fact that you have certain people's numbers that nobody else has that they know your name and all you've got to do is use that access as a seed for even greater opportunities in your life and so many times we just we don't we don't take advantage of the seed of access that ultimately leads to much much much bigger opportunities so if you got the bat and somebody put the bat in your hand swing that bat if you've been given access to somebody's life don't be a pest but but if you've been given acts to that person's life then you need to pray and really prepare yourself but but realize that that access is a seed for opportunity that maybe you haven't even considered secondly battle is the seed for territory battle is the seed for territory any time God's gonna enlarge your life and give you more territory battle will be the seed for territory be careful what you ask for when you ask God for a bigger life and more territory and greater influence and all of that that's great that's fine but know that what you're really asking for is battle battle is the seed for new territory so get good at fighting because life is a fight get good at fighting you will never outgrow warfare just when you think that you have arrived if you're going to take new territory you never take new territory without battle and battle is the seed for territory never allow the enemy to decide your weapons for you David said Saul you're not gonna pick my weapons I know what my weapons are and I know my weapon jury and I'm gonna use the weapon of praise and I'm gonna use the weapon of fasting I'm gonna use the weapon of Prayer I'm gonna use the weapon of confession I'm gonna use the weapon of silence sometimes but I have not carnal weapons but spiritual weapons and I've learned that I've learned that battle is the seed for new territory every time we launch a new campus I know that if we're taking new territory just gear up for the battles come and challenge us for that thing or coming challenges for that vision will come it's just gonna be warfare and so you don't freak out when it happens battle is the seed for territory that's why jay-bez prayed enlarge my territory jay-bez was a man in the Old Testament and he prayed and God granted him his request but with that enlargement of territory always comes battle those kids are your territory and you need to learn to fight for them kids are that marriage is your territory fight for it that that job that new business that you're trying to get up and going that's your territory don't be shocked that it's a battle battle is the seed for new territory in your life Goliath don't show up till you enter into the territory God has promised you if you don't have a Goliath in your life it's a sign you're not on the turf God has for you yet you're still on the wilderness side of things but when you move into the real promised land that God has that's when Goliath shows up if you don't see any chance you haven't entered your promised land but that's where the Giants appear in the turf that God has given you and that means in marriage there will be giants you I prayed I must have married the wrong one no you married the right one you're in your promised land you there were no Giants over there in the wilderness there were giants when they got on the turf of what God had promised them so quit whining about it and get your weapons out and get your prayer life out and get your Bible out and get some praying out and get some fasting out get some unforgiveness out and stand there and fight for your territory battle is the seed for territory strength is the ability to remain unmoved by the adversary battle is the seed for territory when you understand that you never fight for what God didn't give you but when he gives you something and if if if what you wanted comes too easy nobody wanted it battle is the seed for territory number three this is this is an important seed right here I'm talking about seed power thankfulness is the seed for joy if you're unhappy if you're sad if you're depressed if you are discouraged if you're negative thankfulness is the seed for joy and I mentioned in the first service thankfulness does not come easy for some people some people just see the Brightside they see the glass half-full you know they if it's raining they say oh wonderful free water i when i see i'm not like that when i see rain on my all man it's raining that you hear a sermon on hail and positive people say free heating amazing you know if you just they always get a positive but but but thankfulness does not come naturally to some of us i can walk in a room this is sad but it's the truth i can walk in a room and nine things can be right and i will see instantly the one thing that is off that's not a wonderful trait but it's just how it is and and and and that's a challenge for someone to be thankful when you have a tendency and that may be part of your gifting you know as to you say well you should just not worry about that well no sometimes you need to see that that tenth thing you get on an airplane that may have nice seats and it may have a beautiful cockpit it may have all the beauty it's a beautiful food and all that that the waitresses are bringing or the stewardesses are bringing but if there's one boat outside on the wing that is missing and i'm the guy that will always see that one boat don't you want to work for me and that's bad for you because I'm your pastor so how do you overcome and how do you when you understand that thankfulness is the seed for joy if I don't have it I'm not gonna have a lot of joy so it requires focus it requires focus it requires using self-talk you have to verbalize thankfulness God you have sustained me great is thy faithfulness God you have blessed me say it verbally out loud read some of the Psalms out loud I do this a lot to myself believe it or not when I read the Bible I'm learned I've learned this little secret like I'll read a chapter and I read it out loud and it causes all of me to be drawn in I can be distracted release but if I'll read it out loud something will happen to me and there's something about thankfulness is the seed for joy so you self told God you bless me God you've watched over me sometimes you you put it in a song look what the Lord has done you've healed my body you touch my mind you save me just in time I'm going to praise your name well guess what that's producing joy in your life thankfulness is a seed for joy it must be verbally expressed confrontation is the seed for change anything unconfronted increases in your life if you don't confront the problem you're giving permission to the problem to increase and God is like this and God says when I confront you about something it's it's the seed for change confront what you don't like any time people stop confronting you it means they don't see you in their future so when you understand that that the reason that there's confrontation between you and other people it's because there that is the seed for change there's a mazing verse in the Old Testament where God got so aggravated with Ephraim that he said leave Ephraim alone I don't ever want God to say just leave Jenson alone so I thank God for the times when his spirit comes and confronts me and he uses people in circumstances in life to confront the inconsistencies in me it's just a sign that God loves me and sees me in his future and he's not gonna leave me alone until I change in some areas of my life and confrontation is the seed for change let me give you another one listening is the seed for knowledge and this is this is challenging for me this must be pick on pastor day listening is the seed for knowledge listen for pain listen to people listen for anger listen for frustration put excellence in the moment that you're having a conversation and focus on that person and listen because listening is the seed for knowledge abandon yourself to that moment listening is a see did you hear me and the harvest of listening is you get knowledge about people and sometimes you have to say repeat it again I wasn't listening say it again but listening is a seed for knowledge and all the women said amen look at your husband just real disgustingly right now just look at and say if you stay stupid I can't stay with you all right let's keep moving this is so important honor is the seed for access rarely will you get access to someone or something that you don't honor your future is decided by who you have chosen to honor honor is the willingness to reward a person for their difference the Bible is a book of honor we honor people through our words we honor people through our kindness we honor people through our respect we honor people through silence sometimes just being quiet when your mother or father is speaking and saying something an elder is saying something and it may be rubbing against you but but you need to learn that honor is the seed for access and when they are speaking you listen you listen and sometimes silence is proof of Honor when you understand that that that honor is the seed for access and favor is the result of honor whatever you do honor people and honor those in authority honor them whether you agree with them or not there is God's spiritual chain of respect that he demands and when you do that or you don't do that it has profound effect on your life and on your family and your future is decided by who you have chosen to honor or dishonor number seven I like this one presentation is the seed for acceptance don't ever go to a job interview just roll out of bed don't comb your hair don't brush your teeth throw an old t-shirt that has ketchup stains all over it and walk in and think you're going to get a job because presentation is the seed for acceptance the number one reason recently was written by a man who has a job firm that gets more people jobs than anybody and they said the number one reason that people get hired is personal appearance it doesn't cost a lot to be clean doesn't cost a lot to be neat doesn't cost a lot to if you got one shirt to iron it nobody don't want you coming in see your belly button especially if you a man amen Oh Harry let's keep moving you know s-sir in the book of Esther the second chapter soaked in all for 12 months before she went into the presence of the king every day for 12 months she soaked herself in all because she understood presentation is the seed for acceptance you know the Bible said that Daniel took language lessons for three years so that he could have one conversation with the King because he understood that he was going to have to talk Palace talk and when you go into someone who has great importance you don't just walk in there and talk oh whatever you go in and talk Palace talk in other words you know something that they need to hear or they you get you know what conversation is correct in that setting and it took him three years to get to walk in and he and well I just think they ought to accept me no matter the Bible said that that man looks on the outward appearance but God looks at the heart but man looks on the outward appearance and I don't care what you got in your heart if you don't if you look all jacked up when you walk in somewhere people say y'all don't want me to tell the truth you just won't sing foo at all again but I'm gonna just tell you the truth presentation is the seed for acceptance young people need to learn this pants on the ground pull them up and with you gonna try to get a job presentation presentation package for where you're going not where you came from they Joseph Joseph knew that the Egyptians did not like beards this is in your Bible and when he was told that he was being summoned to pharaoh's court he was leaving the prison in the Bible said he changed his raiment and put on a Egyptian garment and then he shaved his beard off he could have walked in there kind of you know with his beard on his old look but he understood that presentation is the seed for acceptance well every time we change the church it's always and you'd have to see the progression y'all remember we used to wear back in the old old church with the choir world they had gold roads gold and white roads and and but but but then we had to start reaching young people and so some people when we put lights in is that why we got a rock concert in the chair action yeah where's that and and you know people just come and they don't understand presentation the seed for acceptance of a new generation we're preaching the same cross the same blood the same Holy Ghost just putting them in skinny jeans just put them in skinny jeans tell somebody you need to work on your presentation - I saw you wear it out for the last 14 years upgrade your presentation men do you hear me it may be time to actually go shopping and get a new sweatshirt you've worn that thing out alright let's keep going presentation is the seed for acceptance presentation reveals the level of importance presentation requires creativity if you're gonna marry somebody and you're trying to get acceptance of the ring I would suggest you get some rose petals and some candles and so get a violin player and get get what you know get get go do some work give it some create tip presentation is the C not Jana make an arrangement and I care about you you care about me we both like pizza let's get married presentation is the seed for acceptance all right words are the seeds for feelings words are the seeds for feelings right words are the bridge out of trouble and all the married men said a man right words words are the seeds for feelings think before you speak think before you speak God loved words so much he called himself the word and words are the seeds for feelings with your words you can create good feelings or bad feelings with your words you can bring peace or you can bring war and words are the seeds but what kind of words are you sowing into your family into your husband into your wife into your children into your atmosphere words are the seeds for feelings is it a good feel to your house is it a good feel to your family is a good feel to your marriage words are the seeds that can change it all and write words write words are the bridge out of trouble I'll give you another one real quick order is the seed for productivity order is the accurate arrangement of things any movement toward order will create pleasure in your life and if you don't believe it if you drive around in a nasty car for about 2 months and you don't clean it out you got chips chips chips you know you know bags of McDonald's and stuff laying all around trash all over the car in the car all you got to do to have a wonderful day is get that car cleaned out it don't cost a lot just drive through if you don't want to do get it clean outside and inside and you will love people again it's the most amazing thing clean your closet out if it's been in a mess for a long time and you will you will come out with a whole new perspective about life I just love everybody your wife will love you back we'll give you a couple more we're going close you're getting something out of this give your husband an elbow right now just give him a Holy Ghost elbow let it fly problems are the seed for recognition a problem is an invitation to significance a problem is a chance to reveal your talent your skills your competence anytime God allows a problem to come into your life it is the seed for recognition nobody would have ever heard of David if he would have fought a the reason that we know about David is he faced a gigantic problem and the problem was the seed for recognition in his life your problem is an opportunity Joseph saw the butler and the Baker with sad countenances and he knew they had a problem and in his mind he said if I can elevate myself through their problem I can exit this prison and I can go to the palace and he used their problem as his exit out in a your value is in the problems that you solve never run from a problem David teaches us this the Bible said that David ran toward the Giant never run from your problems never run from the run to them because that problem is a seed that God is going to use to raise you I want to give you these in closing two more confession is the seed for mercy we so complicate the gospel and I appreciate all the texts in the Bible that says that God defends the righteous and God stands for the righteous and God blesses the righteous and I feel real good about those when I've had a perfect week and I love to quote those verses back to God when I feel real good but I want to ask you a question is there any help for people when their failure when they've messed up when they've even Christians who know what's right and they've done what's wrong and it's brought shame and it's brought guilt and it's brought condemnation on their own life - they don't feel like I can even I can't compa scripture I can't take a scripture and rub it in God's face and say Lord you say it because really I'm the one who has messed up when you can't do that that's where you understand that confession is the seed for mercy all God has ever wanted from you is honesty God I'm messed up in the court system they call it comping a plea ple a a plea throwing yourself on the mercy of the court and what you're really saying is I can't defend my actions I was absolutely wrong it was so stupid it was the dumb choice but I accompanied I can't come a promise but I complete and there's something about the seed of confession that brings God's mercy every time every time he doesn't require you to do anything but be honest and confess I messed up last one repentance is the seed for forgiveness there's a difference between confession and repentance confession is confession is admitting I was wrong but repentance is turning away repentance is saying I did it I'm sorry that I did it and God by your grace and help I'm not going to do this again I won't be the same help me change me transform me and repentance is the seed for forgiveness confession is the seed for mercy that's why when that thief was hanging on the cross and Jesus was dying and one of them cursed him and went into eternity but there was another one who was dying and he was nailed to the cross he couldn't he was guilty he couldn't they nailed him they nailed him his whole life was wicked and vile and he says Jesus when you come into your kingdom remember me and when he said that Jesus said I was gonna die and go to heaven after all I've done down here but I got one more miracle I'm gonna do while I'm bleeding here this day Saint confession is the seed for mercy repentance is the seed for forgiveness jesus said this day you shall be with me in paradise he was the thief who stole heaven didn't deserve it didn't earn it didn't pay his ties one time didn't go to church one time didn't say praise the Lord one time didn't do a help anybody and the Joker stole heaven the first as a matter of fact the first feet to walk on streets of gold heaven got opened up when Jesus died and the first streets were all thief the thief that stole him how'd he do it confession it's the seed for mercy if you'll admit it God will help you quit oh just admit it I did it I'm doing it I shouldn't have I know better I'm better than that I'm living beneath the dignity of a child of a king oh god I'm so stupid why why I'm sorry just confess it just say I admit it and if you will admit it what did I just say it was a good line that's not what I said I said something before if you'll admit it say I like my own pre God will help you quit it well that's good news I ain't gotta try harder I just gotta admit it and then mercy comes and then if I repent truly repent I'm sick of it I'm sick of it I really want to change change me the blood comes the cross comes the Holy Spirit comes the word comes and then he says admit it quit it and then forget it forget it [Music] and if a thief could steal heaven with his last few breaths what will he do for you this morning if you'll take the seed of confession and the seed of repentance it will lead you to forgiveness and mercy it's available to you today and some of you your whole life as a result of the seeds you're sowing this just everywhere trouble trouble trouble the good news is the same way that your reaping that harvest you can change your world when you change the seeds that you're sowing suddenly when Christ comes in you're sowing good seeds you live in a blessed life and it's not that you don't have trouble but you know how to deal with that trouble cause everything you have is a seed my ears are seized my eyes are see everything and if I'm not liking the harvests that I'm getting I can change the seeds that I'm sowing and the first seed many of you need to sow and listening to me at all of our campuses and right here in Gainesville all by TV by internet the seed of confession leads to mercy and the seed of repentance leads to unbelievable forgiveness quit trying to you know water it down when I can use I can't stand people when they apologize they don't really apologize if I ever done anything I guess I'm sorry that's not an apology incredible the incredible incredible power of a meaningful apology [Music] meaningful apology it's hard for anybody to turn me away when you're really sorry been a few times when I've had to say the Charice I'm really sorry I had to express meaningful apology dumb things stupid things I said or did I don't care how hurt or how hard somebody's heart may be against you if you truly manifest meaningful apology walls come down what would happen to families if we said one to another meaningful apologies that's a seed that's a sea and don't come to God with all your righteousness just as I am without one plea can't defend myself I'm not going to try to I am guilty I am an idiot I am stupid I am a worm I am nothing without God's grace and God's Word and God says come on come on home that's all I need all I need is you to come home and repent and I'll release forgiveness and I'll release mercy somebody who knows that's the truth if that was your testimony you need this shout right now get up on your feet everybody and give God a mighty shout clap your hands and shout for the mercy don't leave this stand real steel don't leave just stand real steel don't leave just stand real steel miracles fixing to happen in this room I feel this simple little sermon but it's a it's a game-changer if you get a hold up I want everybody under the sound of my voice who would say pastor Franklin I'm tired of defending myself I'm ready to offer the King of Kings the Lord of glory a meaningful apology I'm willing to say Lord please I'm confessing I am a sinner and I need your mercy and God I'm repenting I want to change I can't change me but I when the changer comes in he can change me so that's repentance I'm ready for a change I don't want to live like I've been living I'm too selfish I'm too sinful I want you to come in and change me if that's you and you mean business I don't care who you are I don't care where you're from I'm asking you today to sow a seed of obedience that will lead you to total repentance and the mercy and forgiveness of God and here's what I want you to do if you know I'm preaching to you right now and you need confession and you need repentance because you need mercy and you need forgiveness if that's you and you would say that's me I need to get back to God today pray for me if that you boldly raised your hand on see I want to see that hand to seed that hands to see that hands to see amazing amazing at every campus the pastors are coming keep your hand up just a moment we'll have to trust me on this don't have to trust me on this nobody's gonna embarrass you but if you raise your hand be bold enough to get out of your seat walk down the aisle and stand right down here I'm gonna lead you in a prayer that's going to change everything everything come on come on they go sing this song and while they're singing every teenager every mom every business person every day every husband every wipe their marriages their colors No meaningful apologies that need to take place oh come on come on come on [Music] but you see our something that's like [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh you know [Music] [Music] is the so you are a miracle standing here today Grace has brought you here Hale wanted to kill you you should have been dead you shouldn't be here you should be a lot of places but you shouldn't be here but God in His mercy has brought you here today for life change and I don't mean he kind of trying to like you I mean the Bible declares that if you were the only person on earth that was lost he knows your name Isaiah said your name is carved in his hand tattooed in his hand and here to send his son just to die for you it's incredible he doesn't love me more and he loves you it isn't believing others more than he believes in you this is your day say these words everybody out loud Lord Jesus my words are a seed for for feelings but my words are a seed for repentance I confess and that confession of Allah sinner leads me to mercy and I repent and repentance leads me to forgiveness therefore I am forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ I am washed I am cleansed my name is written in the book of life I am a new creation I admit it I quit it I forget it praise the Lord now throw your hands up thanks kid for joy to see for choice so give him some banks and values I appreciate I appreciate your ever [Music] [Music] to Holland [Music] [Music] [Music] can we give God thanks can we sow the seed of Thanksgiving for joy in these lives today she keeps sewing the right seeds you'll reap the right life the good life your best life that's with Jesus only with Jesus welcome to the family of God welcome to the kingdom you are not fighting alone anymore God is your defense and he's for you and we're for you there's a something called next steps matter of fact if you want to see what is the next step come back Wednesday night at 7 o'clock let me tell you what I'm gonna do we're gonna baptize about 40 people in water on this platform Wednesday night and you're gonna hear their pet their personal testimonies I'll be doing that it's gonna be remarkable have you been blessed today alright everybody lift your right hand up and almost speak the blessing over you thank you for worshiping with us less so good sees us less less so power cedes all week long into people's lives and be lift through be a lifter of people father in the mighty name of Jesus I ask you today to bless these people and I ask you Lord to bless them and keep them make your face shine on them be gracious unto them lift up your countenance upon them and give them peace in the mighty of Jesus not breath you are blessed we are blessed we'll see you have a good week everybody I'll be here Wednesday night I hope you'll join us I'm gonna be at the back door I'd love to shake your hands god bless all the veterans to celebrate them and love them thank God for [Music] and as we're leaving here today I do want to remind you about the Gaither Vocal Band concert taking place right here in Gainesville on Thursday night November the 14th your tickets are available online for purchase but make sure you check that out and invite a friend with you but then for all the ladies the following Thursday night the Beth Redman will be here for our divine at night and then finally just as a reminder that we are in the midst of a series entitled the exchange and that exchange will be taking place that one-time offering above our normal time will be taking place on December the 8th and so we're thankful for your giving in your partnership with this ministry to continue to see the vision come to fruition not only in 2019 but in 2020 as well but we do love you love you so much we're thankful for who you are and your continuous support of this ministry and we'll see you next Sunday morning [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Mon Nov 11 2019