Matthew 13:18 “Hear then the parable of the sower: [19 ] When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. [20 ] As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, [21 ] yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. [22 ] As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. [23 ] As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
(Matthew 13:18-23 ESV)
We love to garden. In fact this year we have doubled our garden’s size to accommodate our vegetable consumption. I love every stage of gardening. I love working the soil, making the rows, planting the seed, watching for that seed to sprout, watching the plants grow and then bloom, and the best part of all is seeing and harvesting the fruit from those plants! We have bought all our garden seed for this year and it sits in our laundry room waiting to be put into soil.
Much of what we have learned lately may be elementary to some people. But it has closed a gap in my spirit. I have heard many, many teachings on the seed being the Word of God. I have heard many teachings on reaping what you sow. I have heard many teachings on the lack of the Word being taught but somewhere along the way, I had missed a crucial element.
I am writing this blog to the ones who may be like I was… not understanding HOW to plant the Word into my situation. It is a simple and yet profound teaching. Confession. We live in a time where words fly back and forth like nothing else. We have Phones, Texting, Email, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, all about words. The Bible says a lot about your words. Jesus said a lot about your words. I would like to encourage you to start looking up and studying how many times the power of your words is mentioned in the Bible. It will be life changing!
What has stood out to me the most during the past two months is the fact that I need to KNOW what God says about my life, today, so that I can change what my harvest looks like tomorrow.
For example; if the seeds sitting in my laundry room represent God’s Word to me and the empty garden is my life at the moment, then what will change the future of my life? Planting that seed! When I am going through something, perhaps financial difficulty, or a desire to conceive, or be productive all I need to do is get in the WORD, watching for what God is saying to me and WHEN He does, speak that into my life. Sound simple? It is. The problem is that the enemy wants to keep all these things from believers so he will distort this truth until we either don’t ever hear it such as myself or we push it aside and title it “sensationalism”.
Right before Christmas as I was reading one morning in a book titled “The Power of Your Words”, I was struck to the core of my spirit with what the Holy Spirit was teaching me… “Deanna, you have been taught so much against ‘Name it, Claim it’, I am telling you, ‘If I name it, you claim it!” WOW! What a revelation! He is the One who is responsible for naming blessings in my life! My job IS to claim THOSE blessings, and how do I do that? Confession!
I hope this helps someone out there who may be struggling with these concepts. Maybe you have never been able to put your struggles into questions… Find out what God says about your life today. Write the verse down and start memorizing it. Every time the enemy comes to you with doubt, fear, unbelief, you speak that Word out loud until you are fully persuaded God will bring it to pass!
Romans 4:21 fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised.
Jeremiah 1:12 Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
Good job sweetheart! Good word! Thank you!
HOW do you come up with these??????????They are GREAT!!
Thank you Anna! I love you girl!
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