Month: November 2022

Kitchen Table Devotional
Kingdom Parables

Day 4

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 13:8-9

What we have in our hearts determines what we hear with our ears and speak with our mouths.  We can’t hide it.  If the word of God is in our hearts, we won’t just want to say the right things,  do the right things and believe the right things; that seed will bring new sight, new words, and new life into our hearts.  We don’t have to force God things in our lives; we just have to free them to be in our lives.  We do that by letting God’s perspective, passion, and plan live in our hearts.  Remember, we don’t have to force God things to happen; we just free God to do things in our lives by faith.

Kitchen Table Devotional
Kingdom Parables

Day 3

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 13:7-9

It’s a very simple story with a very strong message but it can be the hardest thing to understand.  The seed has the power for a new and powerful life.  The promise is in the seed, not the soil.  But it’s the condition of the soil that determines the success of the seed.  If the soil is open and obedient to the seed, the seed will do its thing.  God made it to do its thing.  The problem is never with the seed but with the soil.  The Bible says THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM (1 Corinthians 2:9)  Don’t doubt the power of the seed, doubt the purity of the soil of our heart.  Where there is agreement, there will be authority.

Matthew 13

Kingdom Parables

Day 2

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

Matthew 13:3-5

The seed has the power, but the soil gives permission.  God can do anything He wants without us, but He does everything He wants with us, and it all begins with receiving the seed.  We must receive the word, and give the word permission to come into our hearts.  We are the doorkeepers of our own hearts.  The soil of our lives is the heart of our souls.  It’s here that we decide what to trash and what to treasure so the condition of our hearts is more important that the considerations of our heads.  The heart can be hard, it can be dirty, it can be poisoned, or it can be good.  Before we worry about what’s in our heads, maybe we should look at what’s in our hearts, honestly., because if there is no power with the word maybe there’s a problem with our will.