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The Miraculous Seed

February 1, 2026 · Apostolic Pentecostal Church (St. Louis, MO)

Transcript of a published sermon by Rev. Garry Tracy, transcribed from YouTube. An attributed primary source — not Acts 2:38 Life doctrine text.

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Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

The Kingdom Is Like a Man Scattering Seed

  • The guest speaker opens a day of celebration at Apostolic Pentecostal Church, honoring the church's leadership past and present, and turns with the congregation to the word of God.
  • Reading from Mark chapter 4 and verse 26: Jesus said the kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground; he sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows — he knows not how — first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear; and when the grain is ripe, he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
  • In this verse Jesus describes the word of God as a seed planted into the ground or into our hearts, which miraculously and supernaturally does a wonderful work in our lives — the subject of the sermon: the miraculous seed.
  • The prayer before the preaching: that the word spoken would go forth carried on the wings of the Spirit into the hearts of the people, to bring forth a great harvest.

Scriptures: Mark 4; Mark 4:26

A Seed That Sleeps Two Thousand Years

  • The sower does not understand how the seed works; through experience he puts it in the ground, waters it, and watches, dependent totally upon the Lord for the harvest — and the harvest comes. Scientists to this day, with all their abilities, do not know how a seed put into the ground brings forth a harvest.
  • Scientists have confirmed that a Judean date palm now growing just outside Jerusalem is the result of a seed found in the city of Masada — a 2,000-year-old seed that was placed in the ground, watered, and brought forth something fresh, new, and alive.
  • So it is with God's word: no matter how old it is or how long it lies dormant, when it is planted in the heart of a human who believes and cultivates it, it is going to bring forth a wonderful and great result.
  • God made us spirit, soul, and body, but we have limitations, and the world of the spirit — where God dwells and the angels dwell — is largely beyond our understanding; yet this house full of people is confirmation of the seed's power: they heard the word, believed it, embraced it, opened their hearts to the Holy Spirit, and that seed brought forth new life in them — and gave them a desire to share the seed with other people.

Abraham Believed the Promise; Israel Is the Witness

  • Abraham was a man in covenant with God, who spoke to God and was spoken to by God, and was promised that from his loins would come a nation — but he lived and lived until, in the Bible's terminology, he was well stricken in years, and still he believed the promise resident in his soul.
  • The miraculous seed is not dependent upon the ability of man, the physical condition of a person, or the way we have lived in the past; it is a promise of a new beginning. Abraham and Sarah experienced it: Isaac was born out of Abraham's old age, and out of Isaac became a great nation.
  • That nation backslid, walked away from the promises of God, and was scattered throughout the earth, so that Israel did not exist for 2,000 years — but the seed was only buried; in recent decades Israelites have come from all the corners of the earth, and today there is a strong, powerful nation of Israel, a witness in our world to every person that when God's word is spoken, it is going to happen.
  • It does not matter how hopeless the situation is: if God said it, you can count on it, build your life on it, believe it, and act upon it — not by our power or strength, but by the Spirit of God united with the word of God bringing forth the miracle.
  • There are over 300 prophecies in the Bible concerning the first coming of Jesus Christ, and three times that number concerning his second coming; so live ready, live full of the Spirit, and be about the Father's business, because the second coming of Jesus Christ is just as certain as his first coming.

The Seed Behind the Curtain: Revival in China

  • In the speaker's years as regional director for the Asian region, Bibles began to be smuggled into a China that was totally closed, from which all the missionaries had been sent away just before World War II; for a time no one knew whether the seed planted years before was sprouting behind that curtain.
  • Reports from inland China told what God had done in the intervening years: the word had germinated and brought forth fruit, and hundreds of thousands of apostolics were discovered. It is impossible for the word of God to return void, and no man and no enemy can stop the growth of the word of God, whether we see it with the natural eye or not.
  • Because those years of drought left them with no preconceived ideas of how or what to believe, when the word of God was given to them and they read it for the first time, they believed that Jesus was God and that there is only one in the Godhead — the Lord Jesus Christ: the power of the word of God read for the first time.
  • So do not be weary in well doing when you are planting the seed: you may not see something today, but if you hold true, that miraculous seed is going to bring forth a miracle in the lives of people.

Every Person a First-Generation Witness

  • The miraculous seed is twofold; first, the personal part: every individual on planet earth can have the word of God planted into their heart and experience everything available through it — not man's ingenuity or ability, but the power of the word of God to transform the human soul. You heard it, believed it, received it, and by faith acted upon it in obedience, and today you are living in the result.
  • The speaker's grandparents received this apostolic faith about a hundred years ago in a little village in New Brunswick, Canada, and he heard it through his father, who was an apostolic — but no one has to depend on a grandfather's or a father's experience: God doesn't have any grandchildren; everybody is born again of the Spirit, first generation, and every person a witness.
  • Educated in engineering and having enjoyed that work for about twelve years, he concluded there is something better: planting the word of God in the hearts of other people — and whatever your occupation, you can do this too.
  • You do not have to be a big combine covering mammoth fields with seed; you may be bent over with age with only a little wee satchel of maybe a dozen seeds — the power of the seed is not in the man or even in the method, but in just getting that powerful seed into the ear, into the mind, and into the spirit of people who will believe it.

More Seed for the Weeds: The Old Nature, and John's Story

  • Life is challenging because we are fallen: after receiving the miraculous seed and the new life it brings, the old nature is still there — about a week after coming off the Holy Ghost high, the old guy is still present, and something has to be done about him.
  • His illustration: in front of a brand-new home he scattered seed for a lawn, and more weeds came up than grass; for three years he applied weed killers and insecticides over and over, and it did not help. His friend Edwin Judd, whose own lawn was lush, laughed and told him: "You got to put more seed down" — twice a year — and not worry so much about the weeds.
  • The remedy for the stubborn areas of our lives is the miraculous seed itself — the word of God: incorruptible, pure, powerful, with discernment; there is not a fault in human nature that cannot be resolved by the power of the word of God anointed by the Spirit of God. Quiet the mind, turn off the social stuff, and say, "God, speak to me" — start the day with it and end with it.
  • John had been born and raised in the apostolic faith, but after graduating he went into the Army Rangers and got away from God for thirty years, addicted to alcohol — yet a sister of the church kept in touch with him all those years, and all those years, alongside his appetite for alcohol, he still studied his Bible: he planted the seed.
  • John combined medication with alcohol and went into a coma; for nine days the doctors said he was done, and that if he ever came out he would be like a vegetable — but the church prayed, went to the hospital, and laid hands on him, and there was a Spirit and a word of God in that room. John came out of his coma, went to rehab for a little bit, and went back to building fighter aircraft — a great witness to the word of God.

Sow in Tears, Reap in Joy: Get the Seed Out of the Barn

  • The second fold of the miraculous seed: we need to become sowers of the seed. The prophet of God spoke to an Israel moaning and complaining, "Where are you, God? Where are our blessings?" — and God said their blessings were in the barn: get the seed out of the barn into hearts and into the field, and the blessings will start. Anytime there is not growth in our life, the problem is not the seed; it is the planter.
  • God will do a miracle not only in your life but in your witness, your testimony, your Bible study, and your friendship: as you decide to join this plan of making disciples, God will be with you every step of the way, and the miraculous seed will do a marvelous work in the hearts of men and women.
  • These are legacy churches: in ninety years, how much seed has been sown into this city? Literally thousands of people around this community have been connected to this church over the years, and the seed is in their souls; the Bible tells of a mighty end-time ingathering — the latter rain, the outpouring of the Spirit upon that dormant seed — bringing forth a great harvest like the world has never seen.
  • Psalm 126 verse 5: "Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy" — and he who goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed for sowing, shall doubtless come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
  • Amos prophesied of a time: "Behold, the day is coming, declares the Lord, when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the reaper of grapes him who sows the seed, and the mountains shall drip with sweet wine" — a revival so great it upsets the normal process of harvest. God has a season for everything, but the maker of the season can disturb the season.
  • His own family is the proof he has seen: his grandparents, people of the word, the Spirit, and prayer, sowed the word into their ten children every day — children who ranged from age two to twenty when the family came into the faith and who mostly went their own ways. When his grandparents passed away, four of the ten had returned to the faith; by the time all of the children had passed away, all ten of them had returned.
  • The closing appeal: a prophetic word that God is going to pour out his Spirit upon the seed that has been sown, is being sown, and will be sown in this church and city, and bring forth a great revival. Come to the altar and let Jesus talk to you; the Bible said he sent his word to heal them — there is power in that word to heal every disease and every sickness; anyone who needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit can believe the promise, open their heart, and surrender to God. Leave with a determination: receive more seed into my life, and spread more seed into the lives of others.

Scriptures: Psalms 126:5; Amos (book-only, as spoken)

Scripture index: Mark 4; Mark 4:26; Psalms 126:5; Amos (book-only, as spoken).

Clap your hand all ye people. Shout with a voice of triumph. Let the Lord be praised upon your lips. This is a day of celebration, a day of revival, a day of rejoicing, a day of anticipation. We thank you Jesus. We give praise to you Lord for your mighty kindness unto us day after day, year after year. What an awesome and great God you are. Praise the Lord, everyone. It's good to be in God's house this morning, to be with Apostolic Pentecostal Church. Victoria and I have enjoyed ourselves the last three days and we're looking forward to a great time together in this service this morning.

I am so impressed and blessed to be with you, to be close to your leadership, to see what God is doing. To be with your leadership the last two days has been a highlight. Wonderful what God is doing and the anticipation and expectation for the future. It is marvelous. I thank God for a thriving apostolic work in this area of St. Louis. Yes, we give God praise and glory for all of this. We thank you, Jesus. We have great respect for your leadership, love, and admiration for the Willaffords for many years and then to be part of this church now that the Del Longs are leading.

I'm just so blessed to be here and to be a part of it. Well, I believe this church is a church that honors and loves the word of God. So, we're going to turn to the word of God, reading from Mark chapter 4 and verse 26. Common everyday language that Jesus uses to explain the kingdom of God. And Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and he rises night and day and the seed sprouts and grows and he knows not how the earth produces by itself.

First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come. The word of God as we know today is described in many different ways. But in this verse, Jesus describes the word of God as a seed that is planted into the ground or planted into our hearts and miraculously, supernaturally, it does a wonderful work in our lives. So I'm preaching to you today on the miraculous seed.

Now I know there are various needs in the audience. I know that God wants to do marvelous things through his word, through his spirit. And so I want us to open our hearts and pray today together. Lord, let this word speak to me personally so that I can be a blessing in your kingdom. Lord, we thank you. Our hearts rejoice in you. You're a God of might and miracles. There is no God beside you, no God like you. You have all power and you have visited with us today and we thank you for it.

Now Lord, I need your help. I can't do anything without you, Lord. But with your help, something good couldn't be done today. And I pray that the word of God that we speak will go forth carried on the wings of the spirit into the hearts of your people to bring forth a great harvest. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen. You may be seated. Jesus said that the swer doesn't understand, doesn't know the power of the seed, but through experience, putting it in the ground and watering it and watching and see what God will do, dependent totally upon the Lord for the harvest, the harvest comes.

So it is in the kingdom of God. Scientists have no idea how it works. Even to this day, with all of their abilities, they don't know how a seed can be put into the ground and bring forth a harvest. There's something wonderful I discovered a while back. Scientists has confirmed that an ancient Judeian palm tree, date palm tree that is now growing, there's a picture of it here somewhere. There we go. Is now growing just outside Jerusalem. This palm tree is the result of a seed that they found in the city of Msada.

2,000 years old seed. And they wonder, is this bring forth fruit? Is it still possible? They placed it in the ground and watered it and did what they were supposed to do. And today there is a date bomb tree in Israel from a seed that is 2,000 years old. Now, how about that? Now, we don't understand how a seed can be dormant for 2,000 years, put it into the ground, and it bring forth something today, fresh and new and alive, vibrant. But I want you to know today that God's word is a seed that no how matter how old it is, when it is planted in the heart of a human that believes and cultivates it, it's going to bring forth a wonderful and great result.

AND WE GIVE GOD PRAISE for this miraculous thing. Now we humans, we have intelligence. God made us so that we could interact with him. Spirit, soul, and body, but we have limitations. Lots of things we don't understand. There's a there's a whole world of the spirit where God dwells, where the angels dwell that we don't know a whole lot about. We visit there once in a while, right? When you're filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, sometimes in services, the glory of God came comes down.

We sang about it this morning. We desire it to happen right here today that there's going to be a heavenly visitation in the hearts and lives of people in this service. People delivered, people healed, people's lives are regenerated by a supernatural power that is in the word of God. And that is what we believe is going to happen here today. Praise God. And so we have confirmation of this ability of God's miraculous seed to work. There's a house full of people here today that have experienced this.

You heard the word. It went into your heart. You believed it. You embraced it. You prayed about it. You opened your heart for the Holy Spirit to touch it. And that seed brought forth new life in you. And if you're like me today, you are living in the blessings of the Lord. You're thanking God for your deliverance. You're thanking GOD FOR THE MIRACLE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN your own life. And if you're like me, you have a desire. I am going to share this seed with other people so that they can experience the miraculous power of God in their lives.

And so the gospel is being spread around the world. God does not leave his world without a witness. I'm thinking now of Abraham. Now when you read about Abraham in the Bible, this was a man that was in covenant with God. He had a relationship with God. He spoke to God. God spoke to him. God called him and sent him out of his homeland to a new land that he would he promised to give to him. And this Abraham was promised that from his loins would come a nation.

Well, he lived and lived and lived and the years went by and the years went by and the Bible says, I like the terminology, he was well stricken in years. That means he was done. That means it was over for him. But oh no, NOT SO YOU SEE GOD, HALLELUJAH, MADE A PROMISE and he believed that promise. THAT MEANS THERE WAS A miraculous word of God, A PROMISE OF GOD THAT WAS RESIDENT IN THE SOUL OF THIS MAN AND HE BELIEVED it even when he was stricken.

There might be some stricken people here today. You're not sure how in the world is God going to use me? I am so beat up and beat down. I don't know if God can do anything in my life. Well, I got good news for you today because this miraculous seed is not dependent upon the ability of man or the physical condition of person or even the way that we have lived in the past. This miraculous SEED IS A PROMISE OF A NEW BEGINNING. Praise God. And so old Abraham AND SARAH EXPERIENCED THE MIRACULOUS SEED.

NOW there's something about this that's a little unusual for us. When we read about Abraham and his descendants, the word seed is used all the time. Doesn't say his descendants. Maybe some of the new translations might. But the word of God is referring to a word, a seed that came from God that was resident in the life of Abraham and brought forth a miracle in his life. Now, that miracle exists today. You see, this is a double revelation of the power of what I'm preaching about this miraculous word of God.

Not only was Isaac born, out of Abraham's old age, but out of Isaac became a great nation. Now, that nation, we know the history, backslid, walked away from God, walked away from the promises of God. And then God said, I because of your wickedness and your desire to go your own way, I'm going to scatter you throughout the earth. So, the nation of Israel didn't exist for 2,000 years. But here comes another miracle. You see, it doesn't really matter how long, how long that seed is buried IN THE GROUND, HOW FAR it has been scattered.

It doesn't matter HOW HOPELESS THE SITUATION IS. IF GOD SAID IT, MY BROTHER, MY SISTER, YOU CAN COUNT ON IT. YOU CAN BUILD YOUR LIFE ON IT. YOU CAN BELIEVE IT. YOU CAN ACT UPON IT AND GOD IS GOING TO DO A MIRACLE IN YOUR LIFE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT GOD DOES. Because it's not your power, not by OUR STRENGTH. THE SPIRIT OF GOD UNITED WITH THE word of God are going to bring forth a miracle. And so here they come. Now for what is it 60, 70, 80 years, Israelites began to come from all over the corners of the earth.

And today there is a strong powerful nation of Israel. Well, now that did not happen by the power of man. That happened by the miraculous power of God. And it is a witness to every person on the planet. It doesn't matter what faith they believe. It doesn't matter whether they are kings or poppers. There is a witness IN OUR WORLD TODAY OF THE MIRACULOUS WORD OF GOD. WHEN IT'S SPOKEN, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. It was just a few weeks ago that we celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ.

It was good to celebrate these things. There are over 300 prophecies in the Bible concerning the first coming of Jesus Christ. BUT THERE'S THREE TIMES THAT in the word of God, prophecies concerning THE SECOND COMING of Jesus Christ. So don't you get weary in welloing and don't you worry. I don't know if this is going to happen. Maybe it won't happen. Maybe this is a promise that has faded off into the universe somewhere. But I've got a promise for you today that comes from God. You need to live ready.

You need to live full of the spirit. You need to be ABOUT THE FATHER'S BUSINESS BECAUSE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST IS JUST AS CERTAIN AS HIS FIRST COMING. AMEN. And so we live for that day, don't we? This miraculous word of God that is doing a work in our lives. There's wonderful things that happen. One of the greatest things that I've seen in my experience when we were regional director for the Asian region of our fellowship, uh, at just about that time, we began to smuggle Bibles into China.

China was totally closed up. All of our missionaries were sent away from China back in the World War II be just before the war started. And we had no witness that we knew of in that country. But years before the seed had been planted. So you wonder, is it having effect? Is the seed sprouting? Is it growing? Is there ANYTHING GOING ON BEHIND THAT CURTAIN THAT WE can't see? And we began to get reports from inland China of what God had done during the invenient years.

I'm telling you today that there is no possibility that the word of God is going to return void. IMPOSSIBLE for any man, any enemy, whether he be a spirit like the devil or a human king, it doesn't matter. You cannot STOP THE GROWTH OF THE WORD OF GOD. IT'S TAKING place whether we see it with our natural eye or not. So don't you be weary and welloing when you're planting the seed. You may not see SOMETHING TODAY, BUT IF YOU will hold true, I want you to know THAT SEED, THAT MIRACULOUS SEED IS GOING TO bring forth a miracle in the lives of people.

We can't understand some of these things like we can't understand how seed grows. But that word that was planted in the hearts of the Chinese people, it germinated. It brought forth fruit. We've discovered HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of apostolics in China. Now, they had no Bible for many years. We smuggled a few in. I've been part of that. That's an exciting thing, trying to get past the, you know, the border guards and all of that. That's kind of exciting. all they're going to do to us if they catch it just throw us out.

So, it wasn't that dangerous. But the fact is that the word of God got in there and these people began to believe it. Now, a good thing that came from this these years of drought of the word is that they had no preconceived ideas of how to believe and what to believe. And so, when the word of God was given to them, they read it for the first time. They didn't know anything about the Holy Trinity. And so when they read the Bible, they believed that Jesus was God and there was only one in the Godhead and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

They had no idea about the baptism and the names and the titles, but all they knew was what they read it. Is anybody with me here this morning? YOU SEE THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD. YOU CAN READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IT'LL BRING FORTH a wonderful result in your life. So there's a great revival in China. That is another example of what God is doing in the lives of people. I'm going to talk about a twofold miraculous seed. First of all, the personal part of this when the word of God, every individual on planet earth can have the word of God planted into their heart and they can experience everything that is available through the word of God.

that one individual. Now, you've experienced that. That's why you're here today rejoicing, celebrating the goodness of God because you heard it, you believed it, you received it, and by faith you acted upon in obedience to God's word. And today, you are living in the result of that. You know, I'm getting old. I'm supposed to be retired, sitting in a either a wheelchair or a lazy boy today. But here we are enjoying the blessings of God with longevity in life. Now whether that happens or not, the point is the word of God does a work in YOUR LIFE.

NOT JUST A WORK. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT comes from man's ingenuity or ability. IT COMES FROM THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD TO TRANSFORM THE HUMAN SOUL. And this is available to every person who hears it. And so there's a personal application in this. My grandparents, yeah, about a 100 years ago, received this apostolic faith in a little village in New Brunswick, CANADA. THEY EMBRACED IT AND GOD DID A WORK IN THEIR LIVES. And that faith I heard through my father who was an apostolic.

And today I have been blessed. And so this wonderful PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH this miraculous seed is amazing. It's wonderful. It's real. This is so good. You know, you don't have to hear about somebody else's testimony about what God can do in a human life. You can experience this yourself. Every person can experience this. I don't have to depend upon my grandfather's experience or my father and mother's experience. I've experienced this for myself. God doesn't have any grandchildren. Everybody is born again of the spirit. First generation.

Praise God. Now, we talk about third and fourth generation and we thank God for our heritage, but that's not really the WAY IT IS. EVERY INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES THE POWER OF THE MIRACULOUS THAT MAKES EVERY PERSON A WITNESS. WHAT A JOY. WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU RATHER GIVE TO ANYBODY THAN TO HAND THEM A SEED THAT'LL TRANSFORM THEIR LIFE? You know, I love engineering. I I was educated in that field and I enjoyed doing it. It was a wonderful job. But after about 12 years of that, I said, "Well, there's something better than this." And that is planting the word of God in the hearts of other people.

Nothing beats it. So, whatever your occupation is, you can do this, too. And some of you are saying, "Well, I'm old. I don't have a lot of energy and my mind is not quite as sharp as it used to be. You know, you don't have to be a big combine. You don't have to be, you know, when you cross the prairies, you see these big machines and they're planting seed. I mean, whoa, they're wide. They plant big rows of seed all over the place AND THEY JUST COVER MAMMOTH FIELDS WITH THAT.

YOU SAY, "WELL, I don't have any hope because I can't I don't have that kind of ability." But you know in the Bible they didn't have that. So the analogy is true to us today. You may be a little bent over with age and all you got is a little wee satchel with maybe a dozen seeds in it and that's all you can handle. I'm you see the power of the seed is not in the man or even in the method. It's in JUST GETTING THAT POWERFUL seed into the ear, into the spirit, INTO THE MIND OF PEOPLE WHO WILL BELIEVE IT.

OH, AND THEN YOU WATCH THE SEED DO ITS MIRACULOUS WORK. Don't know how I can't explain it all, but it is something that we have seen happen over and over all over the world. So, receiving this for yourself, this is this is very very personal and I thank God for it. Now life is challenging because we humans are fallen. I have a nature in me I don't like. Got me into a lot of trouble. In fact, all the trouble I've ever received in my life is my own doings.

Well, most of it anyway. Right? We can blame it on other people. That didn't help. You might as well be realistic. You're rotten. You've got a nature that is corrupt. I'm just talking like the Bible here right now. AND IF YOU FOLLOW THAT NATURE, WELL, you're not going up. You're going the other place. I'm trying to be nice. True. OKAY. SO, I RECEIVE THIS MIRACULOUS SEED AND SUDDENLY THERE'S A NEW LIFE IN ME. And about a week after I come off of my Holy Ghost high, I found out the old guy is still there.

And what are you going to do about that? Let me give you an example. I moved about 30 years ago into a brand new home. We thank God for the blessings. There was no grass. You don't want a brand new home with mud out front. You want nice, lush, green grass. And so I scattered some seed on and wa grass grew up. But as I looked at it, as time progressed, there were more weeds than grass. WHY IS THAT? THAT'S AWFUL. WHY DID GOD DO THIS?

WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SCATTER A LITTLE seed and all the weeds disappear? I wrestled with that for three years. I was getting depressed because I said, "You talking to myself, you idiot. Don't you know how to grow grass?" The fact was I didn't. And so I did what I was told to do. I went and got all this insecticide and this stuff you spray on the ground and you're supposed to kill all the all the things you don't want, all those weeds and thistles and crab grass and everything you don't want.

and and over and over AND OVER I APPLIED THIS INSECTICIDE and these grant these weed killers over and over and over didn't help. Fortunately, I had a friend. It's good to have friends. His name was Edwin Jud. He worked at Global Missions. He was a general secretary of global missions. Now, his house was in my neighborhood. And I drive by his house. It looked like this. In mine, I got a few sprigs of grass and mostly wheat. I said, "Brother Jet, I'm beside myself. I look at your lawn and I have to tell you, I'm jealous." He said, "What are you doing?" So, I told him, "Scatter a few seeds and then put on the insect, the wheat killer.

I mean, pile it on." Oh, he said laughed. He said, "Oh, Brother Tracy, that's not the way you grow along. You got to put more seed down. Well, how often do I have to do that? Twice a year. It'll be good. Don't you worry about so much about all those weeds. I'm talking to somebody here today who's struggling with weeds in your life. The things you don't like that old nature that keeps coming back. There is a remedy. I think somebody knows where I'm going with this.

The remedy is in the miraculous seat. Not one seat, not two seats, not three seats. How often should I read my Bible? How often should I sit down, quiet my mind, turn off all the social stuff, and say, "God, speak to me." Now, I think we ought to do that about 20 times a day. And if that's a challenge, well, do it 10 times. And if that's a challenge, AT LEAST DO IT TWICE. OKAY? START WITH IT AND END WITH IT. THAT WILL HELP A whole lot.

So, Brother Jud taught me, you know how to deal with those weeds IN YOUR LIFE. SEE, SEE, SEE, SEE, SEE. I'm talking to somebody. You've got stubborn areas of your Now, I know about this because I'm a human just like you. There's a stubborn areas in my life that need the word of God. The word of God is miraculous. The word of God is incorruptible. The word of God is pure. The word of God is powerful. The word of God has discernment. The word of God can take care of your human nature.

What's going to happen? Okay, YOU TAKE THE WORD OF GOD AND COMPARE it to THE WORD OF MAN. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO GET? WHO'S GOING TO HAVE SUPREMACY? Praise God. I'm talking to somebody here today. There's victory for you in the word of God. There is not a fault in human nature CANNOT BE RESOLVED BY THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD ANOINTED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. PRAISE GOD. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCED it and it's not over yet. Can you BELIEVE THAT AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS I STILL HAVE TO apply the word to my life on a daily basis?

We're got a focus here on healthy homes and building faith in our lives and in our children and in our homes. Well, this is one thing we can't omit. We have to have that miraculous seed of the word of God in our lives. Let me give you an example. John came to New Life several years ago. He'd been born and raised in the apostolic faith. But when he graduated from New Life Christian School, he went into the Army Rangers and got away from God. He was away from God for 30 years.

Hadn't followed God. Couldn't follow God's ways. Became addicted to alcohol. John was a mess. But he came in. One of the sisters of our church was a personal friend of his and kept in touch with him for 30 years. And finally when John got beside himself said, "I need to go home." God's word had been hidden in his heart all those years. Fortunately, John had an appetite for not only alcohol, but an appetite. I'm speaking to somebody here today. Had an appetite for the word of God.

All those years away from God, he still studied his Bible. He planted the seed. all those years. Now, what's going to happen? Who's going to win out here? Who is going to win? The nature of man or the powerful word of God? You see, all we need to do is expose ourselves to the word of God over over again, and we know who's going to win. HEAR THE WORD OF GOD TODAY. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU ARE CHALLENGED WITH IN YOUR HUMAN LIFE TODAY THAT CANNOT BE OVERCOME BY GOD AND HIS WORD AND HIS SPIRIT.

DON'T YOU GIVE UP. YOU DOUBLE DOWN ON THE THIEF AND GOD IS GOING TO DO A miracle in your life. John combined some medication with alcohol and went into a coma. Nine days doctor said he's done. If he ever comes out of this, he's going to be like a vegetable. Well, that's okay for the doctor. See, doctors don't understand the power of God's word that had been swn into John's life. And anybody hear what I'm saying here today? There's miracles in that word. Yeah.

So, we prayed for John. The whole church prayed for John. Went to the hospital, laid hands upon him. He laying out there, stuff stuck all over him, coming out of his mouth. He was totally oblivious to what WAS GOING ON. BUT OH, MY BROTHER, THERE WAS A SPIRIT AND THERE WAS A WORD OF GOD IN THAT ROOM. John came out of his coma, went to rehab for a little bit, and went back building fighter aircraft at Boon. He's a great witness to the word OF GOD.

WHAT AM I SAYING TO YOU TODAY? THERE'S A MIRACLE IN THE WORD OF God for your life. Okay, so that's a personal application, but there's another application. We need to become sers of the seed. You know what St. Louis needs more than anything else? Maybe we could use some Democrats turn to be Republicans. I don't know. That might help. You decide. I'm not politically minded. I'm just saying to you today that what we need more than anything else is more seed. More seed. Put the word of God out there.

The prophet of God spoke to Israel. They were moaning AND COMPLAINING ABOUT WHERE ARE YOU GOD? WHERE ARE OUR BLESSINGS THAT YOU PROMISED TO US? AND GOD SAID YOUR BLESSINGS ARE IN THE BARN. You need to GET THE SEED OUT OF THE BARN INTO YOUR HEARTS INTO THE FIELD AND THE BLESSINGS WILL START. IS ANYBODY HEARING WHAT THE WORD OF GOD IS saying here today? Praise God. So anytime there's not growth in our life, we need to remember it is not the problem of the seed, it's the problem of the planter.

And we need to get the seed into our hearts. It makes a big difference. God does a miraculous seed. So what I'm saying to you, the second fold there is not only will God do a miracle in your life, he'll do a miracle in your witness. He'll do a miracle in your testimony. He'll do a miracle in your Bible study. He'll do a miracle in your friendship. As you decide to just go on this travel, this this plane, this plan of making disciples, God's going to be with you every step of the way.

And that miraculous seed is going to do a marvelous work in the hearts of men and women. Thank you, Jesus, for this word of God. Here's what I believe. I believe it for new life. I believe it for APC. These churches are legacy churches. 90 years. How much seed has been sown into this city in 90 years? You don't know. I don't know. I know this. It's true of New Life is true of APC. There are literally thousands of people around this community that have been connected to this church over the years and the seed is in their soul.

There are grandparents here today. There are parents here today. You are praying. You're asking God to bring them home. You need to be encouraged. My Bible tells me that in the last days, there's going to be a mighty in gathering of the souls of men and women. There's so much seed that has been sown in this city that God is going to bring forth the miracle in the lives of these people who have received the word of God. Now, you're looking at them and you're praying for them and you don't see anything outward, any change at all.

But don't you be discouraged. I'm saying to you today, God is going to do a miracle of mammoth proportions in these last days. How do I say that? By the authority of the word of God. It's miraculous beyond anything that you can imagine is going to happen in our lifetime. We're going to see it. The Bible talks about the end time revival, the latter rain, the outpouring of the spirit upon that dormant seed that is going to bring forth a great harvest like the world has never seen.

I conclude with this scripture Psalm 126 verse 5. Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy with shouts of joy. And he goes forth who goes forth weeping bearing precious seed for sewing shall come home doubtless he will come home with shouts of joy bringing his sheav with him. Amos prophesied of a time, "Behold, the day is coming, declares the Lord, when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the reaper of grapes, him who sws the seed, and the mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it." A time of such great revival, it upsets the normal process of harvest.

I believe it. God has rules. God has a season for everything. BUT THE MAKER OF THE SEASON can disturb THE SEASON. I CAN'T DO IT, but he can do it. I'm saying to you today, there is a massive revival of people coming into the church of the Lord Jesus Christ because the seed has been dormant for a long time. But you need to have faith with me today. Let's get into the field, SOW THE HARVEST. LET'S BELIEVE WITH all of our hearts and do what God wants us to do.

And the WORD OF GOD IS GOING TO BRING FORTH THE GREAT RESULTS THAT he has promised that he would do. Would you stand with me here today? I thank you, Jesus. I shared this with your leadership team. My grandparents who I mentioned a little while ago had 10 children. When they came into the faith, those children were from age 2 to 20. Some of them, all of them were exposed to the apostolic faith. But they went their ways. For most of their lifetime, my father's siblings were away from God.

But in the Tracy household, Percy Henry's household was Bible every day, prayer every day. My grandfather and grandmother were dedicated people of God. They were not in the ministry. They were not licensed ministers in that respect, but they were people of the word, people of the spirit, people of prayer, people who swed the word into the lives of their children. They prayed for them every day. When my grandparents passed away, four of the 10 had returned to the faith. But by the time that ALL OF THE CHILDREN had passed away, all 10 of them had returned to their faith.

I'm saying to you today, THERE IS SUCH POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD. I've seen it. I don't have time to give you all of the examples, but I've seen it in my own family. I've seen it in our church families. PEOPLE AWAY FROM GOD, BUT THE WORD HAS NOT DIED. IT'S alive in their soul and it's going to bring forth a harvest. I will say a prophetic word to you today. This church is on the right track. You have got the right leadership. It's the right time.

The anointing of the Lord is upon you. God is going to pour out his spirit upon the seed that has been sown and the SEED THAT IS BEING SOWN AND the seed that will be sown. And he's going to bring forth a great revival. I believe it. Not only one church on this strip, this road right here is going to have three services on Sunday. Is going to be one just like this church right here to accommodate what God is going to do. I'm telling you today, there's power in the word of God.

Miraculous power in the word of God. Are you away from God? You're not quite as hot for God as you'd like to be. Believe the word today. Come let Jesus talk to you right here at this altar. Let others lay hands upon you and the word of God is going to come alive in your heart and God's going to do a miraculous work. Anybody here today that needs a healing? Did you know the Bible said he sent his word to heal them? There's power in that word of God to heal every disease, every sickness.

Anybody here today that needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit. It is a promise. You can believe it. You can open your heart. You can surrender to God and he will fill you with the presence of his spirit so that he can unite that spirit with the word of God and be a powerful person in the kingdom of God. the miraculous. Leave here today with a determination. I'm going to receive more seed into my life and I'm going to spread more seed into the lives of others.

Would you join me today? We sing. This wonderful praise team is going to sing. Would you respond? Let's see what God is going to do in our lives today, tomorrow, in the days to come. Believe with me for a harvest unprecedented that we have never seen across St. Louis before.

Scripture references as spoken: Mark 4; Mark 4:26; Psalms 126:5; Amos (book-only, as spoken).