Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnzVzeY4WY ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing Field of Souls ... poignantly singing of God’s has commissions us as He seed planters to reap the field of souls for God’s Kingdom.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Mark 4:26-27 [NKJV] ... 26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should [a]scatter seed on the ground, 27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.
… Jesus’ parable about spreading the seeds of the Gospel so that God can reap the harvest of souls.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Mark 4:26-29 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus, teaches on the harvest of souls from God’s fertile field.
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Reference Passage : … Matthew 13:24-30 [ NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus explains in a parable how we must be His harvest workers on earth, … planting His kingdom seeds and tending the crops until they come in with His harvest.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 28:19-20 [ NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… We are called and commissioned by Christ to go and spread the seeds of the Gospel and tend His fields until there is a harvest of souls for His kingdom.
Reference Passage : … Revelation 14:14-16[NKJV] … USE THIS LINK … … In the end, thru the work of His Saints, God will reap a harvest of souls for His glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Winn Collier, uses an agricultural word picture to illustrate how we may plant the seeds of faith, witnessing to others, but it’s God who makes the field fertile for His Kingdom growth. … The ODB author wrote: For nearly four decades, a man in India has worked to bring a scorched, sandy wasteland back to life. Seeing how erosion and changing ecosystems had destroyed the river island he loved, he began to plant one tree at a time, bamboo then cotton. Now, lush forests and abundant wildlife fill more than 1,300 acres. However, the man insists the rebirth was not something he made happen. Acknowledging the amazing way the natural world is designed, he marvels at how seeds are carried to fertile ground by the wind. Birds and animals participate in sowing them as well, and rivers also contribute in helping plants and trees flourish.
If any readers here have taken the time to digest the ODB summary above, and listened to the poignant linked song, and meditated on the Scriptures above, I would hope that many of you are as convicted as I am to do more to fulfill Jesus’ call for His disciples to be His workers to plant the seeds of the Gospel in His field of souls, allowing Him to reap the harvest for His glorious kingdom when Jesus comes again.
No more need be written by this seed planter.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for placing us, as your field workers, so that You can reap the harvest of souls in glory.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will do all we can to plant your Gospel seeds in fertile ground, prepared for the harvest of souls. … Amen
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