by: Jason Witt
When you receive the Seal you become a little garden plot, and you nourish the crop in your garden by apotrophy, where you are the earth itself feeding the flower from within yourself.
The crop undergoing apotrophy is feeding from something--your fertile soil. And your fertile soil is feeding away from itself and into something completely different--the crop you bear.
You have what it takes inside you to become this garden and feed the seed. You have the innate ability for you have what is required inside you already, even without any help from God.
That is right. You have what your crop requires inside you even without any help from God. Not that you need to go without God's help. But you need to realize what power is within you.
All the nutrients needed to provide for your garden are within you. And when a little seed begins to grow in that garden, its roots will probe into your thoughts looking for what it needs to survive.
Your thoughts will bring the nourishment to that little seed and it will grow. In time it will come to full flower and bear fruit. It is all possible with your thoughts which provide the nutrients.
Now your feelings also help your garden grow. Your feelings can enable you to have many of the kinds of thoughts that will grow as good things. Yet if you are often in pain it can hinder the progress of your garden.
The Holy Spirit will come to live within you. And this will comfort you. So your feelings will reinforce good thoughts in your mind. When you are comforted, you are ready to change the way you think.
But you must know that not everything in the garden is a pleasing plant. There will be weeds sown by the enemy. And you will have negative thoughts like doubt and fear which will feed those plants like they want.
Just as you tend a garden to grow vegetables you can tend the garden of your mind. You can uproot the negative plants. You can pull the weeds. But often you need to do it daily, sometimes many times within the day.
Because apotrophy works with anything you want to grow. You have the necessary nutrients within your mind. And your thoughts bring those nutrients up to whatever is growing, whether it is good or something negative.
So you can bear fruit. And you can do it without the help of God or anyone else. You can change your thoughts and think about certain things more while cutting out other thoughts. You can choose. You have the power.
But you do want to include God. When you are sealed you belong to God so you do not exclude Him. And though you are able to grow your garden independently, God's help makes everything much easier.
God sows good seed in you. A lot of good seed. So you can depend on God to help you engender a good garden. And God will also help you to change the constitution of your soil.
Is your soil sandy or rocky? Does it have much clay in it? What is causing you to provide less than ideal for your garden? God can change that. And He can change some of your thoughts and where they come from.
God wants you to provide for your plants with apotrophy. He wants you to become a little garden so you can grow them. And so you can do it, He wants you to receive the Seal.
