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Where The Weeds Grow

“Some seed fell on the foot path and the birds ate it, other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock and sprang up quickly, but it soon wilted beneath the hot sun and died because the root had no nourishment in the soil. Other seed fell among thorns that shot up and choked out the tender blades so that it produced no grain. Still other seed fell on fertile soil and produced a crop thirty, sixty and even hundred times are much.” Mark4:4-8 NLT The seed can be put out in the same field and have different results, but why? The seed cannot be planted if your heart is hard and so closed off from God it cannot even fight its way in. Your ears are being filled with our enemies lies instead of letting the truth in. Where God is trying to work in you, Satan is trying ten times harder. You can be in your walk with God and be connected to Him, but the roots are not deep enough for it to take hold and flourish. We can be in a place where we receive the word and we know the right…

Which Way

How many of you are like me and love to be in control? How many people like me live in the fear of what ifs or let your mind and soul become so consumed with anxiety that those voices get so loud you begin to question which way is the right way? Or how about the times God is trying to shut doors that you are wanting desperately to open but He is saying No? There are times He says no and you will be in a season of waiting that tests your patience and your faith, maybe He needs you in the valley so that He can break you down only to remake you and make you whole through Him. I am not going to sit here and pretend like I haven’t tried to lean on my own understanding more than God’s because I have many times. There have also been the times that I have let my own fears and anxiety cause me to not follow the path which He is trying to take me on. I have cried out to Him in my times in the valley and in the darkness because I…