Higher Ground

What Kind of ground are we being?

Last Weeks’ Challenge:

Look for the Keys Jesus is giving you: Honor, Trust, Healing, and Sending.

Jesus, what is the spit in my life?

How are the works of God going to be displayed in this? Exchange the question, who is at fault?

What is Jesus asking you to do in that area?

Share what He has done.

You must receive mercy before Grace can do its work in you.

When I forget I need or needed His mercy Grace quits working in me.

When I think what i have came from me and not a gift from God, Grace quits working in me.

Matthew 13:3–9 NASB95

3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4 and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 “Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. 6 “But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 7 “Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out. 8 “And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. 9 “He who has ears, let him hear.”

Matthew 13:18–23 NASB95

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 the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. 20 “The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away. 22 “And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 23 “And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Seed = Word of God

1.) Seed that fall on the wayside = Hear the word to you, but let other voices convince you it is not.

2.) Seed on rocks = Hear the word and know it is true, but time and other words make it fade away.

3.) Seed in the thorns = Hear the word but let the needs of life or what you want distract you.

4.) Seed that fall on Good Soil = Hear the word knowing it takes time for it to come to full effect.

1.) Hear His Word, but let other voices convince you it is not.

2.) Hear His Word, and know it is true, but time and other temptations make it fade away.

3.) Hear His Word, but let life tell you who you are instead by all the challenges of life.

4.) Hear His Word knowing it takes time for it to come to full effect.

Challenge:

What has God said, or what is God’s word to you now?

God, do you have anything You want me to let go of so your word can produce more fruit?

How has that word been coming true already?

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Matthew 13:44 NASB95

44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.