Todd and Katie share keys for supernatural provision: sow led by the Spirit, harvest with full strength, and believe God for excessive seed.
Most people sow just enough to cover what they can see coming. Todd and Katie have learned to sow for what they cannot see yet — needs that are months or years out, harvests that require a seed big enough to match them. That shift in thinking, they argue, is the difference between scraping through and walking in consistent, Spirit-led provision.
The teaching that kicked this off was Ecclesiastes 11:1 — "Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back to you." Simple enough on the surface. But Ecclesiastes doesn't stop there. Verse 2 adds: give a portion to seven, yes even to eight, for you do not know what evil may come upon the earth. Seven is the number of fulfillment. Eight is one more than complete. The instruction is not just to give your full portion but to go a little beyond even that — because you genuinely do not know which seed is going to produce, and you do not know what the enemy might try to block in the heavenlies before your harvest reaches you.
Give a portion to seven, even to eight — because you don't know what's coming or what the enemy might try to block before your harvest reaches you.
Ecclesiastes is blunt about weather: don't wait for it to look right before you sow, and don't let it stop you from harvesting when the time comes. A farmer who only plants when conditions seem favorable can miss an entire season. A farmer who stops harvesting because machinery breaks down or sleep becomes scarce loses everything that grew. All hands and all resources go to bringing in the harvest — that's not optional.
That same urgency applies in the kingdom. "You can't give and then go into weak mode," Todd says. Sowing takes strength, and so does receiving. The two aren't separate seasons of effort — they require the same resolve.
"Give with all your strength. And then be prepared to harvest with everything that you've got also."
The temptation to grow weary is real, and Galatians says exactly what happens when you do: you don't reap. Not because God withholds, but because harvesting is intentional work. It requires commanding your harvest in — using the authority you have as a believer — and not abandoning the field just when things are about to break open.
There's a version of giving that looks faithful but is actually void of faith. When you budget your seed down to a predictable dollar amount on a predictable schedule and stop there, you've made giving a transaction rather than a response to God. What Ecclesiastes calls for, and what Todd and Katie describe from their own experience, is giving that follows the leading of the Holy Spirit, even when the amount takes your breath away.
When you get methodical in your giving, you miss out on so much of the opportunity to experience a great harvest.
The test is whether faith is actually engaged. If you're not sure something is God's direction, you can't fully mix faith with it — and without faith, sowing is just an action. When God speaks something that feels bigger than you're ready for, the pattern Todd describes is to ask for confirmation. If it keeps coming back, unprompted, two and three times, that's the signal.
Couples carrying this together adds another layer. Getting into true unity — not just surface agreement but both partners fully mixing their faith with the same step of obedience — multiplies the weight of what's being sown.
One of the sharper points in the conversation: your faith cannot be in yourself, even in the act of sowing. There's a version of faith-and-giving theology that quietly turns into "because I did this, God has to do that." That's not faith — that's leverage, and you cannot leverage God.
He brings the harvest. He's the one who sends the rain. He causes the earth to produce. Without him speaking the word that sustains seed time and harvest, all of it is empty motion. Sowing the seed is obedience; the miracle is still his.
"Lord, I obeyed and I have done what you've asked me to do. I put it all over into your hands now. I trust you."
Complaining is the tell. When you've truly trusted, you don't complain — because complaining is just identifying your doubt out loud. Job figured this out the hard way. Griping at God produces nothing good, and it's the opposite of faith. The more honest posture is to acknowledge to the Lord that you're frustrated, that you lack understanding, and ask for grace and a spirit of understanding — then leave it there.
A word the Lord gave Todd at some point along the way: believe for excessive seed. Not just enough for the need in front of you, but more. The reason is practical: a bigger harvest takes longer to grow, like an elephant's gestation compared to a human's. If you're going to need something big six months or two years from now, the seed for it needed to go in the ground before you could see that need coming.
Todd and Katie describe asking God not just to meet the need but for much more, so there's already seed available from the harvest itself — tithe off it, give an offering off it, sow again from it. Some of the time, what arrives looking like a harvest turns out to be a supernatural seed for the next level. That's a harder ask on the faith, but they've seen it prove out.
Believe God for excessive seed — because there's going to be an excessive need coming down the road.
Obedience is not partial. The word itself carries the meaning of completion — a full follow-through, not a version dialed down to personal comfort. And obedience extends beyond behavior into motive, attitude, and perseverance. Why are you doing what you're doing? That's part of the equation too.
When obedience is genuine and faith is fully engaged with it, something shifts in the spiritual. Obedience is the key that triggers supernatural provision, and it also positions you to be a channel of blessing to others. The farmers in Ecclesiastes who band together during harvest — everyone throwing their strength into bringing it in — are a picture of what kingdom mentality looks like. It's not just "what has God called me to build." It's a wider vision of building the kingdom, helping other people bring in their harvest, sowing time and energy and wisdom into people who are moving on or moving up.
The simplest version of what Todd and Katie are sharing: stop using your circumstances as an reason to stay put. Comparing your platform to someone else's, your resources to another minister's, your opportunities to what seems more favorable — none of it moves you forward. It moves you backward, every time.
The limits people feel are almost always interior. A mindset that says "this is all I have, this is as far as I can go" will cap a life right there. The widow with Elijah had nothing but a little oil in a cruse and was ready to make one last meal before dying — and that little oil, offered first to the prophet, was exactly what God needed to work the miracle. When it looks most like you have nothing left to give, you're probably closest to your breakthrough.
The decision in front of every person listening is the same: engage faith or don't. God responds to faith, not to complaints, not to comparisons, not to excuses. Sow what the Spirit leads you to sow, give your absolute best and then a little more, harvest with full strength, and trust the one who causes the earth to produce. He doesn't neutralize what the enemy intended against you. He turns it for your good — and that is more than enough.
