Confession – I’m going into 2020 with a prepared heart.

Today’s Message: Preparing the soil of

your heart for harvest

(Key Point)

Identify Your Soil Fertilize Your SoilProtect Your Soil/Consistency

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Key

Verse(s):

John 15:7-8 (KJV)

 7 If ye

abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall

be done unto you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much

fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

John 15:7-8 (TPT)

7 But if you live in life-union with me and if my words[a] live powerfully[b] within you—then you can ask

whatever you desire and it will be done. 8 When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate

that you are my mature disciples who glorify my Father!

Our goal

is to bear abundant fruit/got to get to the fruit (Harvest)

Identify Your Soil

Jeremiah 4:3 (AMPC) 3 For thus

says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your ground left

uncultivated for a season, so that you may not sow among thorns.

Breaking up the soil helps us

to see the condition of our hearts

Four types of soil/hearts

were identified

Hard SoilStony SoilThorny SoilGood Soil

Matthew 13:3-9 (KJV)

3 And he spake many things unto them in parables,

saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side,

and the fowls came and devoured them up:

5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much

earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and

because they had no root, they withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up,

and choked them:

8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth

fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Hard Soil

19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and

understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which

was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Lack of understanding is associated with forgetfulness of

what God has done  (same meaning)

Mark 8: 13-21 (AMPC)

13 And

He went away and left them and, getting into the boat again,

He departed to the other side.

14 Now

they had [[c]completely]

forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

15 And

Jesus [repeatedly and expressly] charged and admonished them,

saying, Look out; keep on your guard and beware of the leaven

of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod [d]and

the Herodians.

16 And

they discussed it and reasoned with one another, It is because

we have no bread.

17 And

being aware [of it], Jesus said to them, Why are you reasoning and saying

it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet discern or understand? Are your

hearts in [a settled state of] hardness?

18 Having

eyes, do you not see [with them], and having ears, do you not hear and perceive and understand

the sense of what is said? And do you not remember?

19 When

I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many [[e]small

hand] baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve.

20 And

[when I broke]

the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many [[f]large provision]

baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? And they said to Him, Seven.

21 And

He [g]kept

repeating, Do you not yet understand?

Not remembering can cause the thing you should have

dominion over to take dominion over you (fowl of the air)

 Stony Soil

20 But he that

received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and

anon with joy receiveth it;

21 Yet hath he

not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or

persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Shallow

living – has an appearance of deep livingOffense

is a stone which can turn into bitterness-which can turn into u