SCRIPTURE: Luke (NIV) 8:4 While a large crowd was gathering, and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: 5 “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. 6 Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
OBSERVATION: Jesus went on to explain: “The seed is the word of God.” (vs 11) The different types of ground represented the different hearts that would hear the word of God. Their response would be in accordance to the condition of their heart.
Something in this story is missing. There is no warning for the Sower to be careful as to where he sowed. The Sower was not warned about wasting the good seed on ground that would be less fruitful. The Sower was not a field judge, he was a Sower, so he just sowed the seed.
APPLICATION: The Lord of the harvest is not willing that any should perish, so He sends us into all the world and to every field. As one of the laborers in my Father’s field, I am to be generous in spreading the seed. When talking about the Lord with another worker, I do not know who might be listening behind my back or around the corner. It is more important that I be a seed scatterer than a field judge.
In several places in Africa, people have been sowing the SOAPs like seed. Some places I would have thought as rocky soil have proved to be very good ground! The Lord of the Harvest opened a door and sent Sowers into His fields!
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, make me a good seed scatterer. Amen
Pastor Leon
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Personal note: Praise the Lord. Saw the doctor today. The scan done last week shows no sign of cancer elsewhere in my body.
On the 10th of October I go in for a CT scan to make some tattoos where the frame containing the radiation with be placed to target the prostate cancers. Then the radiologist will be working on a computer program to set the frame exactly in place. About a week later, I will start 28 days of radiation, Monday – Friday. Weekends will be off to allow the normal tissue to repair itself from radiation damage. Treatments will only take 30 minutes each day, only 10 minutes laying still with the frame in place. I should walk in and then 30 minutes later walk out as if nothing has happened.
Between now and the start of radiation, I will see a urologist to start a treatment that will stop the production of testosterone which is food for prostate cancer. While killing the cancer they do not want to feed it. After the cancer is gone, the testosterone will be allowed to return.
There should be very limited side effects, maybe some in the third or fourth week of treatment. I should be able to continue my normal life.
I thank everyone who has been praying. I am thankful for testimonies from people who have gone through this. May my prayer and testimony encourage others as yours did me! 😊
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