As mentioned in Part I, dormancy is caused by either internal factors or external factors. The major internal factor is the absence of an embryo. Such a seed, called an empty seed, will never germinate. External factors include the soil, oxygen and water levels, temperature, light or darkness etc… Each one of us was created by God with seeds within us. None of us was born empty. In that case, I want to put it to you that you are not an empty seed. As such, if your life is empty and the seeds within you are not germinating and growing, there are some external factors that need to be changed to break dormancy and bring germination and growth of the seeds that are within you.
Every dream and calling that God has put in your heart is a seed. And just like various seeds require different conditions to germinate and grow, the seasons of your life are orchestrated to ensure that the physical factors are just right to grow whatever seed the Lord wants to germinate at that point. What does that really mean?
The Holy Spirit who is the breath of God must breathe on that seed to provide the necessary ‘oxygen’ for the seed. In order for man and all that is in him to live, God must breathe on and into him the spirit of life. The breath of God, who is the Spirit of God stirs up life within the seed.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.
Job 33:4
[It is] the Spirit of God that made me [which has stirred me up], and the breath of the Almighty that gives me life [which inspires me].
Ezekiel 37:5
“… Behold, I will cause breath and spirit to enter you, and you shall live;
Ezekiel 37:9
Then said He to me, Prophesy to the breath and spirit, son of man, and say to the breath and spirit, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath and spirit, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.
Then moisture must also be provided by God who sends rain in due season.
Leviticus 26:4
I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14
I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Isaiah 30:23
Then will He give you rain for the seed with which you sow the soil, and bread grain from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.
Zechariah 10:1
ASK OF the Lord rain in the time of the latter or spring rain. It is the Lord Who makes lightnings which usher in the rain and give men showers, and grass to everyone in the field.
James 5:18
And [then] he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops [as usual]. [I Kings 18:42-45.]
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