Year ended two days ago.

For the past 5 years I’ve spent what most call “Crossover Night” at home or at a quiet space in solitude and introspection.

For many, it usually happens with its familiar soundtrack: fireworks, prophecies, testimonies, loud prayers—and the inevitable call to “sow a seed for the new year.”

In many churches, the year doesn’t officially begin until an envelope marked Seed For 2026 lands on the altar. The message is often subtle, sometimes aggressive, but always clear: give money to God so God will remember you.

But here’s the uncomfortable question many avoid asking—is that really what seed sowing was meant to be?

Somewhere along the way, seed sowing became dangerously transactional. It shifted from obedience to bargaining, from love to leverage. Give this amount, get that blessing. Sow here, receive there.

God slowly became a divine investment bank, and faith turned into a receipt-based relationship. Yet this idea collapses under honest scrutiny.

Seed sowing, in its truest sense, is not about securing God’s blessing. It is about reflecting God’s nature.

The Church is not the only place where seeds can be sown. When you pay your nephew’s school fees because his parents can’t, that is seed sowing.

When you feed a widow who hasn’t eaten all day, that is seed sowing. When you clothe a barefoot child, support a struggling sibling, or lift a family out of shame and desperation, you are sowing seeds into human soil. That soil matters deeply to God.

Jesus never taught seed sowing as a spiritual investment scheme. He taught love, compassion, justice, and responsibility. Godly theology has always understood charity as an act of love, not a transaction.

You give because Christ is present in the poor, not because you expect profit in return. The poor are not a pathway to blessing; they are the face of Christ himself.

And yet, ironically, many Christians now preach seed sowing louder than ever—envelopes, emotional pressure, guilt-driven giving, and the dangerous idea that your breakthrough depends on your bank balance.

When churches glitter in gold while slums rot beside them, something is profoundly wrong. God hears prayers inside sanctuaries, but He also hears empty stomachs outside the gates.

Too many believers have become loyal to envelopes instead of people. We weep at the altar and ignore our struggling relatives.

We “sow into the anointing” and then step over beggars at the church entrance.

We chase blessings while God waits patiently in neglected homes, hospitals, orphanages, and forgotten streets.

Seed sowing is not about impressing heaven; it’s about healing earth.

If your seed never leaves church walls, your gospel is too small. If your giving never restores dignity, relieves suffering, or changes lives, you’ve misunderstood sowing entirely. Seeds are meant to grow life, not fund religious theatrics.

This year, let love shout louder than envelopes.

Let generosity look like responsibility. Feed someone. Pay someone’s school fees. Lift a family back to dignity. Because when you sow into the lives of the poor, the broken, and the forgotten, you touch the very heart of God—and no shouted prophecy can replace that.

In 2026, sow wisely. Sow humanly. Sow where life can grow.