30 Days of Prayer: Day 11 Scattering the Seed

Seed sower famer

Jesus  also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like.A man scatters seed on the ground.Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel … [Read more...]

30 Days of Prayer: Day 12 – The mystery of conversion

Growing the small church

"Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how." - Mark 4:27 How does the seed grow? I remember science projects I did in elementary school to make seeds sprout.We played with the variables of soil, light, water, and even gravity (by … [Read more...]

30 Days of Prayer: Day 13 – Conversion process is discernable

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The Mango I once gave a talk to children at a Bible Camp in Panama.Outside of the covered patio we used as a lecture hall, mango trees were getting heavy with fruit.The mangoes were almost in season.I had picked one bruised and green mango that had fallen on the ground.  Turning it … [Read more...]

30 Days of Prayer: Day 14 – Harvest

Wheat Harvest

Mark 4:29 - "As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."In the past few days, we have seen the process of evangelism.Sowing the seed into the soil (A farmer sows the seed. . . ) The mysterious process of growth (The seed sprouts and grows . . … [Read more...]

30 Days of Prayer: Day 15 – The soil

Mark 4 the rocky and unprepared soil

"Still other seed fell on good soil.It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times." (Mark 4:8)I've recently been meditating on the parable of the sower (Mark 4:1-8), or the parable of the soils (Matthew 13:1-9)Jesus uses lots of farming … [Read more...]