August 12, 2010 Sowing Seeds 4

"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown."

Good families and schools day Thursday, my dear brothers and sisters. And thank You Jesus for the rain that is falling at the Southern Location of the North Pole as I start this message. Yes, God is watering our garden, our lawn, filling our well, and those taking care of a lot of our needs. God is so good, please take time to appreciate Him.

Yes, today we pray for our families and for our schools and indeed our schools are family and we should remember that. Do you not trust the folks at the school, in fact starting with the school bus drivers to take care of your children? Please as you pray for families and for schools and the workers there take time to teach your kids respect. Please take note of this, if all kids behaved and did not cause trouble, all kids could learn more. And principals could do work leading the schools instead of always being the heavy hand, speaking of which if school staff could use the heavy hand, more kids would behave. Back when I was a kid and sort of a brat (what do you mean sort of?) - Anyway if the teacher fanned my rear part, and my parents found out, rear part would get it again twice. Two shots for one. Now if a teacher would give a kid a smack on the rear part, the parent would either come in ready to fight or hire an attorney to sue. We need to put two things back in schools... God and the hickory stick, and someone said AMEN.

Sowing Seeds 4: Luke 8:5 - "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell on good soil. 8 It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." 11 "This is the meaning of the parable: But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop." (NIV)

Today we are going to take a look a what God gave me on this and how we can "root in" for God, and then tomorrow we are going to talk about how we can sow good seeds for God, and also when and where.

First of all, if we expect to be good seeds for God we need to get our soil in good shape. Let's see, if we work in the garden we get the soil in good shape by taking out those weeds we talked about yesterday, we need to get that trash, the weeds, out of our gardens, meaning our lives. When we get our gardens ready one thing we use is fertilizer, and one of the products that is very good for the garden and really works is Miracle Grow. So let's talk about that Miracle Grow for we know that our Lord God is also good when working with miracles. So if we get ourselves ready to take on the good seeds and get our soil or SOUL ready for this let's pray for a miracle to work us over. Let's face it, folks, and I never really looked at it like this before, but is it not the greatest miracle ever that we get born again?

Other things people do to get the garden ready is to read garden books and tips on how to grow the garden. When it comes to our soul and getting that ready, we have a manual for that, it is called our Bible. Now let's look at three books for us... The Bible should always take the lead, then a prayer book and a good hymn book and by the way, as I recall they were the three books used at prayer meetings years ago. Now when we work a garden we must always stay ahead of the weeds, and it is the same for us, we must stay ahead of evil to keep our soil or soul ready for the Lord. The best way of course is to stay tight with God, talk to Him often through His Son Jesus, and remember this, it does not do much good to talk to someone if you don't take time to listen and then act on the answer. It is no different with God, we need to take time to listen and we need to act on it.

So how do we keep those weeds down and stay from evil, and again I say we all need a good church, one where the COMPLETE WORD OF GOD is preached and taught, not part of it, but all of it, and it is not altered. As we know some churches pick and choose or they just get away from the complete truth. Some churches believe that gay marriage is ok, others and some of the big name main line churches support abortion rights for women. Still others will stay away from touchy subjects. You folks know me, I try my best to follow the word and I do not stay away from those touchy subjects, in fact I attack them in the name of the Lord. You also need good friends, people who also love the Lord, and although we need to love everyone, we do not need to "run around with" those who will give us cause to lower our thinking for God. We need to put that armor of God on each day to just stay safe.

If I were to compare my Christian walk with just one thing I might compare it with my driving. I was taught to be a defensive driver and I do that daily, and I need to do the same with God, I need to be on the defense and be ready for the attack from evil. Tomorrow we talk about where to go with our good seeds that are producing good things. We are told where in the Bible, do you know where it might be, and what it tells us...

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another day of life on earth and thanks for the early morning rain. Thanks for this computer which I can use for You, and thanks for the talent you lent me to use it. Thanks for protecting the computer and me from evil. Lord, bless this day please and bless our families and our schools, and most of all bless the family of God, Your family, Lord, and may we help it grow. Lord, again I ask that you heal my dear wife, and also the wife of my friend Tom Sansoni. Lord, heal also Pearl and protect her family also... and be with Ron and heal him and all others with cancer and all those other problems. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Go forth now sharing those blessings and take a look at this scripture one more time... "Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a HUNDRED TIMES more than was sown." Grow good crops and share them... love ya, Pastor Dan.

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