Matthew 13 - If you look at the parable of the sower, it is about the different types of ground where the seed was planted. Some was sown by the wayside, but the enemy caught away what was received. Some seed was sown on stony ground but having no depth, the seed could not take root. Some was sown among thorns and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choked it. But he that received the word on good ground is he that hears the Word, understands it, and bears fruit some 30-, 60- and 100-fold. Stop! The seed is the word of God and each person's heart receives it with joy, but depending on the condition of the heart, the Word is adversely affected.
If you want supernatural manifestations of the Word of God in your life, prepare your heart to receive the Word. Some of us have sat by passively and expected the preacher to prepare our heart. Others think because they were filled with the Holy Ghost, their heart's are already prepared. A slogan in computer-speak is garbage in/garbage out. If you don't put some effort into preparing your heart to receive the Word, like Reheboam, you will do evil. God has a purpose and a plan for our lives, but we can't do our own thing, think what we want to think, say anything we want to say, and expect our lives to be perfect because we say we believe in God. The Word is what quickens our dead spirits. If there is no word in us, there will be no quickening.
The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. It has a propensity, a bent, to be disobedient!
- Adam sinned because he was disobedient.
- When Moses smote the rock instead of speaking to it like God told him, he was disobedient.
- When King David was supposed to be out to battle but at noon day was on the roof top, he was disobedient.
- When Solomon married women who were idol worshippers, they turned his heart away from God and he was disobedient.
- When Paul was taking men and women bound to Jerusalem, he was disobedient; but God stopped him.
Consider this the hand of God stopping you because you are disobedient. Take the time to prepare your heart. He promised to bless the work of our hands (Deut. 28:8 and again in vs. 12). If God uses what we furnish Him, then give Him what He has given you ~ His Word.
Be blessed in Jesus Name ~
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