Mark 4 gives us the Parable of the Sower! We find in this teaching the importance of the type of "soil" our hearts are! We need to make the necessary adjustments so that our hearts become good soil for the GOOD seed! And THAT is what we're looking at today! Verse 14 explains to us exactly what the "seed" is!
14 The sower sows the Word.
That's it! The Word of God must be sown in our hearts in order to produce anything in our lives! How do we sow the Word? By speaking it! We find the importance of this emphasized in Kenneth E. Hagin's Faith Food for Spring on March 1.
Power of Life
March 1, 2012"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof" (Prov. 18:21).
"No, I won't pray for your son," I told the startled widowed mother of a fifteen-year-old boy. "It won't do any good. As long as you keep telling your son he'll never amount to anything, you'll undo the praying."
"Did the Lord reveal that to you?" she asked.
"No," I said, "I just know that the condition in life that we or our children are in was created by words."
"No, I won't pray for your son," I told the startled widowed mother of a fifteen-year-old boy. "It won't do any good. As long as you keep telling your son he'll never amount to anything, you'll undo the praying."
"Did the Lord reveal that to you?" she asked.
"No," I said, "I just know that the condition in life that we or our children are in was created by words."
"What shall I do?" she asked.
"There are some things you should have done when your son was younger, but he's fifteen now. So first, quit nagging him about being saved. Second, instead of lying in bed at night worrying about him, say, 'Lord, I don't know where he is, but wherever he is, I surround him with faith and love.'
"You've been surrounding him with doubt, fear, and condemnation. Say, 'Lord, I'm going to tell You what I believe. I don't believe he'll end up in the penitentiary. I'll never tell him again he won't amount to anything. I believe he will amount to something.'"
I was back in this woman's city fifteen months later. To make a long story short, she came to me and shared, "It was hard, but I did just what you told me. Before, my son was all out for the devil But now he's all out for God!"
Confession: Life is in the power of my tongue, and I will minister life with it. I speak words of life!
"There are some things you should have done when your son was younger, but he's fifteen now. So first, quit nagging him about being saved. Second, instead of lying in bed at night worrying about him, say, 'Lord, I don't know where he is, but wherever he is, I surround him with faith and love.'
"You've been surrounding him with doubt, fear, and condemnation. Say, 'Lord, I'm going to tell You what I believe. I don't believe he'll end up in the penitentiary. I'll never tell him again he won't amount to anything. I believe he will amount to something.'"
I was back in this woman's city fifteen months later. To make a long story short, she came to me and shared, "It was hard, but I did just what you told me. Before, my son was all out for the devil But now he's all out for God!"
Confession: Life is in the power of my tongue, and I will minister life with it. I speak words of life!
What she had been sowing into her sons life were words! The WRONG words! What have YOU been sowing into YOUR life? Make the adjustment to speak ONLY what God's Word say about you and yours. THEN you will begin to have God's results! Mark 4:20 says:
20 And those sown on good (well-adapted) soil are the ones who hear the Word and receive and accept and welcome it and bear fruit - some thirty times as much as sown, some sixty times as much, and some [even] a hundred times as much.
Sow the Word! You and your family will be SO glad you did! Amen! Here is Hillsong United with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!
