PLANTING YOUR FAITH FOR A GREATER HARVEST
Beloved ones, I have been taking My own through a long journey of overcoming the hardened, opinionated mindsets of men. In honor of your intercessions, I gave a second chance to find resolutions and although you changed, those with hardened opinions did not.
I know how disheartening this is to let go, but I AM asking you to plant your faith. If you continue and go through a third round, you are in danger of losing your faith and the good Word I have planted within you. It is very important to Me that I become your feedback, and you hear My opinion about you, and not the opinions of men. When you continue in the same fashion year after year, it becomes abuse to your soul. The condition of their soil is not your fault. I do not want you to repeat this season again. You have not failed, you have not fallen, you have graduated. I AM taking you away unto Myself, and away from the hardpan soil of men’s hearts. It is time to give them to Me and I will break up their fallow ground. As you give what you have sown to Me, I AM watering and bringing forth a greater harvest that is far beyond what you image or think!
Mark 4:2-20 NLT
He taught them by telling many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed. 4 As he scattered it across his field, some of the seed fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate it. 5 Other seed fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seed sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. 6 But the plant soon wilted under the hot sun, and since it didn’t have deep roots, it died. 7 Other seed fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants so they produced no grain. 8 Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!” 9 Then he said, “Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.”
Later, when Jesus was alone with the twelve disciples and with the others who were gathered around, they asked him what the parables meant. 11 He replied, “You are permitted to understand the secret of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables for everything I say to outsiders, 12 so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: ‘When they see what I do, they will learn nothing. When they hear what I say, they will not understand. Otherwise, they will turn to me and be forgiven.'” 13 Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables?
The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. 15 The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. 16 The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. 17 But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. 18 The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, 19 but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. 20 And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
