I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ALL OF YOU

                   

SOWING THE RIGHT KIND OF SEEDS

PRAISE THE LORD EVERYBODY, BEFORE I BEGAN OUR LESSON, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A SMALL PRAYER.." FATHER GOD LET THIS WORD THAT IM SHARING WITH OTHERS, SINK DEEP DOWN INTO MY SPIRIT, BECOME A PART OF ME, AND MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, AND BRING ABOUT A CHANGE IN OUR LIVES, WITH THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT , LEADING AND GUIDING ME INTO ALL TRUTH. I THANK AND PRAISE YOU RIGHT NOW, THAT THIS WORD WILL BE PLANTED ON GOOD GROUND, AND IT WILL BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT IN ITS SEASON, IN JESUS NAME, A-M-E-N, H-A-L-LU-L-A-H, THANK YOU JESUS. OUR LORD SPOKE IN PARABLES WHEN HE WAS HERE ON EARTH, JESUS WAS ALWAYS  WALKING AND TEACHING ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE SEA SHORE, IN A BOAT. THIS PARABLE OF THE SOWERS IS  JESUS  SITTING IN A BOAT, BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF SO MANY PEOPLE. HE MADE SURE EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO SEE AND HEAR HIM. AS I SAID HE TAUGHT IN PARABLES, SOME MAY ASK WHAT IS A PARABLE? I WILL EXPLAIN IT THIS WAY. A PARABLE IS AN EARTHLY STORY WITH A HEAVENLY MEANING. JESUS MADE IT SO PLAIN THAT EVEN THE CHILDREN COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT HE SAID. THE STORY BEGANS,  THE SOWER, (known to us as the farmer ) WENT ABOUT PUTTING  SEEDS INTO THE GROUND, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, FRUIT, COME FROM THE FARMER PUTTING SEEDS INTO THE  GROUND, THEY HAVE TO BE PUT INTO SOME GOOD RICH SOIL, PLANTED DEEP ENOUGH, AND WATERED TO PRODUCE HEALTHY PRODUCE. IN THIS PARABLE, FOUND IN MATT. 13 CHAPTER THERE IS 4 PLACES THE SEEDS LANDED, SOME SEEDS FELL  BY THE WAYSIDE, AND THE BIRDS CAME AND ATE THEM, SOME SEEDS FELL UPON STONY GROUND, WHERE THERE WASNT TOO MUCH SOIL, UNLIKE THE ONES PLANTED BY THE WAYSIDE, THEY CAME UP BUT BECAUSE THERE WASNT ENOUGH SOIL, AND THEY WASNT PLANTED DEEP ENOUGH, THEY DIDNT GET ENOUGH NUTRIENT FROM THE SMALL AMOUNT OF SOLI, NO WATER . THE LITTLE BABY PLANTS DIED. SO IT IS WITH SOME OF US, WE ARE LIKE THESE PLANTS. PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DYING FOR LACK OF THE RIGHT KIND OF FOOD. THENEXT  SEEDS  FELL AMONG THORNS, THE  THORNS  WHICH IS AN ENEMY TO A BABY PLANT, OVER POWERED THEM AND CHOKED THEM , BECAUSE THE LITTLE PLANTS WASNT STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT THOSE HARD THORNS, WITH PRICKLES ON THEM. THE PLANT TRIED TO GROW BUT THE THORNS WOULD BE RIGHT THERE TO PRICK ALL THE LIFE OUT OF THEM. SO THEY COULDNT LIVE, AND LIKE THE OTHER 2 THEY DIED. NEXT JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE SEEDS PLANTED ON GOOD GROUND. THEY SURVIVED, AND BROUGHT FORTH GOOD FRUIT, 100, 60, 30 FOLDS, THIS IS KNOWN AS A BUMPER CROP. SUCCESS. PRAISE GOD. THERE ARE MANY, MANY WAYS TO UNDERSTAND THIS PARABLE. WE CAN ALL IDENTIFY WITH THIS PARABLE, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. JESUS SAID: MATT. 13:9 WHO  HATH EARS TO HEAR LET HIM HEAR".  13 ver."THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES:BECAUSETHEY SEEING, SEE NOT:AND HEARING THEY HEAR NOT, NEITHER DO THEY UNDERSTAND. 14 th. ver) "AND IN THEM IS FULFILLED THE PROPHECY OF ESAIAS, WHICH SAITH, BY HEARING YE SHALL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND: AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND SHALL NOT PRECIEVE: (15 )" FOR THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED: LEST AT ANY TIME THEY HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEARTS, AND SHALL BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM. (16 )BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYESD, FOR  THEY SEE, AND YOUR EARS, FOR THEY HEAR.
 ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS PARABLE IS TO SEE PEOPLE AS SEEDS, WE ALL CAN IDENTIFY WITH  THE PROBLEM THIS FARMER HAD, SOME OF US STARTED OFF GOING TO CHURCH, BUT BECAUSE WE DONT GET INTO THE WORD OF GOD , STUDY, WE LET EVERY LITTLE THING THAT PEOPLE SAY TO US OFFEND US, SOME STOP GOING TO CHURCH, SOME END UP BACK IN THE WORLD. SOME ARE IN CHURCH THINKING ABOUT ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO ROOTS, THEN THERE ARE OTHERS WHO START OUT STRONG, BUT DONT LAST LONG, BECAUSE AS SOON AS THEY GET A FEW PROBLEMS ARISE BECAUSE OF THE WORD THEY ARE OFFENDED. THEN THERE ARE THOSE FOLK WHO  HEAR THE WORD, BUT LET ALL THE CARES OF THIS WORLD  CHOKEOUT THE WORD. THIS KIND OF FOLK, BECOME OBSESSED WITH EVERYBODY'S ELSE PROBLEM, OTHER FOLK PROBLEM BECOME THEIR PROBLEMS. THESE FOLK DONT KNOW THE WORD WELL ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT JESUS SAID FOR US TO CAST ALL OUR CARES ON HIM. THIS PERSON IS AS BAD AS THE OTHER 2 . THEN THERE IS THE 4TH ONE WHO HEARS THE WORD, UNDERSTAND THE WORD OF GOD, BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD, STAND ON HIS FAITH AND DO THE BOOK. THAT IS A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN PLANTED ON GOOD GROUND AND THAT PERSON IS GOING TO DO WHAT JESUS SAID FOR US TO DO SHARE THIS WORD WITH EVERYBODY WE MEET. WE GOT TO BE ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD. READ THE WORD, MEDITATE ON IT LIVE THE LIFE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, STUDY , STUDY, STUDY, READ , READ. READ. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU, AND YOU DECIDE WHICH  SEED YOU WANT TO BE. THE CHOICE IS  YOURS. GOD DOESNT FORCE US BUT THE DEVIL  WILL DO ALL HE CAN TO CONVIENCE YOU THAT WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD, BUT WE ALL NEED THE WORD OF GOD TO BE ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD. SATEN DONT WANT US TO READ THE WORD, LEARN THE WORD OR DO THE WORD, BECAUSE THE WORD IS WHERE OUR POWER AND STRENGTH LIES IN THE WORD OF GOD. REMEMBER IN THE BOOK OF JOHN 1ST CHAPTER. ITS STARTS OFF BY TELLING US THAT IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH. JESUS IS THAT LIVING WORD, AND WE NEED TO FEAST AT HIS TABLE AS OFTEN AS WE CAN EVERY DAY IF POSSIBLE. TO ALL OF YOU BE BLESSED, ATTEND SOMEBODY'S CHURCH.  LOVE YOU IN JESUS NAME,      MIN. SIS. GLADYS