COMMANDING YOUR GROUND TO BRING FORTH FOR YOU
COMMANDING YOUR GROUND TO BRING FORTH FOR YOU
Luk 12:16 KJV And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
His ground produced Plentifully – His land was fertile, and produced even beyond his expectations, and beyond what he had provided for.
What are the necessary factors that caused such a plentiful harvest? I found out that all the factors like good arable soil, fertilizer, good seed, climate like sunshine, removal of pests and most importantly adequate and proportional rainfalls. If all the factors are present and one is missing, the harvest will not be described as plentiful.
There are factors that can make our lives to be as productive as this, after this encounter, your ground will produce, bring forth, bear so much in Jesus name.
Your hand is the instrument of economic empowerment while your ground is the place of your economic activities. For this man in this parable, it was his farm land because he was a farmer. Therefore, your workshop, office, market store are your ground. Anywhere you have invested money, efforts, and other things are your ground. I pray that they will bring forth plentifully.
This is our desire that our ground should bring forth abundantly and plentifully.
There are many of us that our grounds are not like that of the man. It is either producing little or nothing at all. Many of us have been on that ground for a long time, you have prayed, fasted and do all in your powers and yet nothing much is coming forth. You might be asking what is happening to all my efforts? Why am I not getting an increase? Why am I not getting results for all my labours? Am I going to lose my investment?
Such was the situation in Gen 2.
Gen 2:5 KJV And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
If you remember, the Lord had commanded the herbs and plants to come-forth from the ground and it was reported that they did.
Gen 1:11-12 KJV 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
This is how other versions rendered Gen 2: 5
Genesis 2:5 AMP When no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,
Genesis 2:5 ERV And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;
Genesis 2:5 NIV Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
Gen 2:5 BBE In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
Genesis 2:5 NLT neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
From these passages we understand that the conditions that prevented the crops from appearing on the earth was because there was no rain and no man to till the ground.
We also understand that when He gave the command in Gen 1: 11, they were done as recorded in Gen 1:12 but they remain in the ground. No one was seeing them. They did not come out.
What is the function of the rain? Why was it necessary for the plant? What is the relationship between the rain and the coming out of plants and herbs?
Before i tell you the importance of rain, let me quickly tell you what happen when there is no rain:
Deu 11:17 KJV And then the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Amo 4:7 KJV And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
1Ki 17:7 KJV And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
1Ki 18:2 KJV And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
What happens when there is rain?
You may not know much about agriculture, the Bible has all the knowledge we need. Here is what the Bible says:
Isa 55:10 KJV For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
- the water will loose the soil,
- facilitate the breaking down of the hard cotyledon on the seed
- The moisture activates the enzymes inside the seed so that the life in the seed can sprout out or germinate.
- The physical sound and vibrations of falling raindrops act as an underground alarm, telling certain seeds that moisture is present so they can speed up sprouting. They call these acoustic vibrations that wake them from dormancy and start the germination process.
When seeds ‘hear’ rain, they ‘decide’ to sprout — study
Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have found that some seeds respond directly to the sound of falling rain by germinating faster.
In fact, it is as if seeds use the environmental cue of rainfall — feeling or hearing it through the vibrations it produces — to decide, as it were, it is the right time to grow.
How seeds respond to rainfall and germinate
The researchers at MIT ran tests with rice seeds. They found that acoustic vibrations from raindrops shook the seeds out of dormancy and triggered them to sprout sooner than they otherwise would.
They offer the first direct evidence that plant seeds can sense sound and act on it.
The researchers exposed thousands of rice seeds to controlled droplets of water, mimicking rainfall of varying intensity, from light to heavy. The seeds were submerged in shallow water — conditions typical for rice cultivation.
And the results were striking. Seeds exposed to the sound of falling droplets germinated 30-40% faster than seeds kept in silence.
That means that the sound of rain may help them judge whether they are in an ideal position to grow. Richard Connor, DW.com. 05/04/2026May 4, 2026
What the scientist says its true, it collaborated what the Lord had said:
Joh 5:25 KJV Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
The voice is by which we give command. Jesus raised up the dead by his command, or by his authority. When he did it he spoke, or commanded it to be done.
Jesus raised up the dead by his command, or by his authority. When he did it he spoke, or commanded it to be done. Mar 5:41; “he took the damsel by the hand, and said, Talitha cumi.” Luk 7:14; “and he came and touched the bier, and said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.” John 11:43; “he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.”
Rain typified God’s blessings, Holy Spirit, abundance. This is where you come in as a man. Man, you will remember is the second condition why the plants did not show up. The Bible says there was no man to till the ground. It is the man that will use his voice to command rain to fall.
Case study of Elijah
Jas 5:17-18 KJV 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
There is a need to ask for rain.
Zec 10:1 KJV Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Prayer is the catalyst that brings the rain. When we pray for rain as Zec admonished us, God will make lightning which are precursors to rain and then make the rain to fall on our ground. The seed planted will hear the sound or the acoustic vibration and sprout up.
We need to command our crops, herbs, plants to come out because there is a man now. They should not remain “in” the earth. They are needed on the earth.
Your voice or prayers will release the rain and make your ground to bring forth for you. Prayer is an agency that helps us to release rainfall that generates sound waves to the seeds in our grounds. It enables us to speak forth in order to bring forth.
The intensity of your prayers will determine the intensity of the rainfall and consequently how fast the seed planted will sprout up. When Elijah prayed earnestly for the rain, this is what the Bible says:
1Ki 18:45 KJV And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
And when James was reporting it, he says:
Jas 5:18 KJV And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
The end of it is to give seed to the sower and bread to the eater and the hungry. That is the good news.
When your ground or land begins to bring forth, it puts an end to poverty, lack, insufficiency, borrowing, sickness, etc. and all those things that we are battling with.
How do we pray like Elijah and receive enough and high intensity rain? It is when we pray under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
Isa 32:13-15 KJV 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.