Monday, March 06, 2006

Through Christ We Abundantly Sow God's Word

"Listen to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches it from his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who receives the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the Word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the Word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among thorns is the man who hears the Word, but the worries of life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the Word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Matthew 13:18-23 NIV

As we are led by the Holy Spirit to abundantly sow God’s Word to the world, remember this: if someone wishes to disagree with it, they are disagreeing with God, not just with us. We have been filled with the Holy Ghost and He strengthens us to abundantly sow the Truth of God that will set the world free. We are used and empowered by God to share His Word in love with the world; but God keeps the responsibility for Himself to make it grow. Remember this too, that all who hear God's Word may not prosper because of it. Yet even though all may not prosper by hearing the Word, it is our desire and our prayer that all will. God's Word does not fall void to the earth. The Anointing of Christ within us loves those who even disagree with God, and God’s Anointing empowers us to earnestly pray for them, and to intercede for them. If they won’t listen to us, the love of Christ within us leads us to pray that God sends someone who they will listen to. There are absolutely no exit signs in Hell, keep that in mind and allow God to be Who He is within you! Think about our Father and how He acts for a minute, how many prophets did He send in the Old Testament to the children of Israel, how many times has He forgiven us, and does He ever change, does His Word ever change? This is what we are born again of and this is Who is now alive within us!

Jesus taught us to ask for whatsoever things we desire, and He told us that by receiving and producing much fruit through our asking, actually glorifies God. This is God’s will for our lives. He wants to provide for us and He wants to give us more than just our needs, He wants to give us our wants. The Lord is our Shepherd; we shall not want, Psalm 23:1. God gave us the Holy Ghost to empower us and He gave us Jesus to Author and Finish our faith. Our Father has given us a new heart that allows us to walk in His will, and He has given us the mind of His Anointing, which is Christ. And the heart and mind that God has given us desires that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth! God will never leave us or forsake us, and He has allowed us to actually be one with Him through Jesus our Lord and our Savior. Now let me ask you this, if all of these verses are true, don’t you think that we will resemble Jesus, Who is the Word of God manifested in the flesh? Jesus came for all men to be saved and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost. Jesus asked and He received, and you can’t tell me that asking for water to be turned into wine was a need, that was definitely a want! “Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;” Ephesians 6:6 It’s God’s will for our wants as well as our needs to be realized through Him! And through the love of Christ that is within us we want for all men to be saved! And we want to be used to sow the Truth that will set all men free!

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