Glory Release Ministries

I shared last night about 1 Cor 15:36  "What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.  When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.   But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body..."

I was preaching on it last night and it will come  up in video form later in the week on the GRM sight, mainly reflecting on we can sow things one way, but God raises it up as HE determines how it should look. 

But this morning I got more revelation which will be quite obvious to some, but to me it struck me afresh.  When we sow something it get's buried, it cannot be pulled back up.  It no longer has 'connection' with 'me' if you like.  It gets 'covered over' unable to be pulled up.   

And yet I recognise in my own life how we can sow something but there are still 'strings attached' as such as we often are still determining or expecting it be raised how I see it.  In essence I have't sown it as I still have 'expections or demands' on it.
So for instance if I sow forgiveness, then it cannot be pulled back up the next time there is an issue.  If I sow finances, then I can't determine or have expectations on how that finance is used because I have given it over.  If I sow hope/vision in a dream, then I have given hope over then I can't decide how that hope will be resurrected so I can't be disappointed or try to make it happen when it doesn't happen how I expect it to happen etc etc and so in essence, if I find myself with expectation toward the thing I have sown and get disappointed in not seeing the 'return' in the way we expect, I realise we have not 'really sown' it and given it over to the Lord for Him to raise it as He determines it to be.  We still are attached to it. 

I remember a time when Jim and I believed God was saying something and everybody else didn't agree and we had to 'hand it over', lay it down, and we did in such a way people thought we were no longer interested in what we believed God had been saying.  We were, but He had given us a grace to lay it down and to trust Him with it and because if it was of God, He would make it happen.  And then 6 months later what we had given over, it was now offered and we stepped into it.  God's timing.

What is it today that the Lord is perhaps 'asking you to lay down' as a seed, to bury it, and to let Him resurrect it the way He wants it resurrected?  To truly let it go, surrendered putting your trust in HIm, that He will do it.  I pray He gives you the grace that He gave us in our time of need and even today for ourselves that I can release what He asks me to let go of and not pick up again.
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