The Parable Of The Sower

“I wanted to tell you a story…”A sower went out to sow his seed. As he scattered it, some fell along the path. It was trampled on, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and When it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it-and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It grew up, yielded a crop, and produced-some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown. Whoever has ears to hear-let him hear.

(This story is found in Matthew 13:3-9, Mark 4:3-9, and Luke 8:5-8.) Let Me explain what this story means…” The seed is the Word of God. And your heart is the soil. Some people hear the word- ut it’s snatched away before it can take root. Some receive it with joy-but they fall away when testing comes. Some hear it-but life’s worries, riches, and pleasures choke it out. But the good soil?
That’s the heart that hears My word, holds on to it, and bears fruit with patience.

So ask yourself: What kind of soil am I? I’m sowing the seed. But you must decide what kind of heart receives it. “My parables matter because they reveal the Kingdom.” I didn’t speak these stories  on My own.

In John 12:49-50, I said: “For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.” This story came from the Father-because He wants you to bear fruit that lasts.

And in  Matthew 24:35, I said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” So let the seed go deep. Remove the stones. Cut the thorns. And let My word grow strong in  you.