Are you good ground ?

I love gardening, I remember the first time I did a container of shade inpatients I used the wrong type of soil! I watched it everyday to see how my flowers were doing, and nothing, they "didn't grow". I remember looking at my neighbours planter box and they were getting so big and full! I happened to see her outside and I asked her why? It was the wrong soil, "what" I said, what do you mean?  Now that was like 20 years ago, I have learned a lot about different types of soil since then. I was using top soil, not container soil, big difference if you know anything about gardening!Even when you put seeds in the  ground it's important that  the conditions of the soil  have all the same principals as container gardening . In order to see things grow, everything has to be in your favor! Some ground is "clay or sandy ground".The sun, rain, even shady areas  are part of  that process to see a fruitful blooming garden. I just want to touch on this a bit, just enough hopefully to get you to understand the parallel of the natural and the spiritual how they work, same principal involved!

So what ground are you, and by that I mean in your heart? The bible in Mark 4 talks about the different types of ground. There is wayside ground where fowls came and devoured  up the seed. There is stony ground, where there was not much earth, the roots couldn't get down deep enough and so it got scorched by the sun, it withered away! Then their is thorny ground, where thorns grow and choked it, and it produced no fruit.Then this the one we want to all be GOOD GROUND, and it produced fruit that sprang up and increased!

Nobody would take the time, energy, and the money to start a garden with out doing the right process, getting the ground ready to take the seed.That would just be foolish," gardening" to get it started takes a lot of sweat, and time. I look back on all my gardens throughout the years and I did put a lot of sweat and time, so I know what that entails. The reward is so worth it, the feeling of seeing the fruit of your labor far out weighs the hard work! It worked because you had the right conditions to work with," GOOD GROUND" In the "SPIRITUAL" the ground is our "HEART" the seed is the word of God, so we need to make sure that we have our heart ready to receive the word. If we don't the word will fail to produce the way plants do in the natural.

In order for you to be good ground you have to HEAR, yes Hear the word and get understanding of it! If you don't then the seed that will fall on the ground of your heart will cause it not to produce. This heart first has to be born again like the bible says. Then your heart is ready for the seed (word)! The good soil will first HEAR THE WORD, ACCEPT THE WORD, AND PRODUCE A CROP- 30,60,100 times what was sown.

It is the "life in that seed" that the person who plants it, which causes the manifestation of the very thing they planted. There is life is God's word, the promise itself, the life God breathed into it gets into our heart and produces whatever you need! We must not be casual listeners, Jesus mentioned hear, hearing, hears, 14 times just in the 13th chapter of Luke. We are empowered to be hearers!

I'm going to stop hear, I could go on but this is the first process to see THINGS CHANGE FOR YOU, like a Gardener the ground conditions have to be right!

Don't leave planting up to God, its our job to plant, God will water it, and cause the SEED WORD to produce whatever you plant ! Always remember how much He Loves you !