Brother Sam & Brother John combine to water Wednesday's lesson, "APPRECIATING OUR MESSAGES." Watering applies to fostering the growth of the word of God to take root in our hearts, as watering seedlings in your garden nurtures germinating plants to take root. Too much water drowns the seedlings, and too little causes them to dry up because of thirst. Hence, an elder must be Spirit-filled, sensitive, and skilled in applying God's spoken words. The ministry sows the seed as led by the Holy Spirit.

Like horticulturalists working in a greenhouse., the tender attention of the elders develops seedlings into vibrant plants that bear fruit in due season: some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, some a hundredfold. (Matthew 13:6).