10/02/2026
Prayer challenge day 12/40
Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever. We want things to happen at the speed of light instead of the speed of a seed planted in the ground, but almost all spiritual realities in Scripture are described in agricultural terms. We want our dreams to become reality overnight. We want our prayers answered immediately. But that isn’t the way it works in God’s kingdom.
We need the patience of the planter.
We need the foresight of the farmer.
We need the mindset of the sower.
We worry far too much about outcomes instead of focusing on inputs. We can not make things grow. Period. All we can do is plant and water. But if we plant and water, God promises to give the increase. All of us go through times of spiritual, relational, or financial famines. It seems like the harvest will never come. And the temptation is to stop planting, but my advice is simple: sow a seed. Keep praying, keep obeying, keep giving, keep loving, keep serving. And if you keep sowing the right seeds, the harvest of blessing will come in God’s time, in God’s way! Mark Batterson.
