Maureen Y. Smith - Conquering the Seeds of Destruction

Unlike most seeds, the enemy plants the Seed of Gossip into a person in settle ways and most people minimize its level of destruction. Listen and discover how the seed of gossip can form into you and cause detriment to your life.

God wants you to keep seeking Him and trusting Him so that you can be obedient to His Will. Therefore, it becomes necessary to not just to go along to get along to please others, nor should your focus be on pleasing yourself consistently. Meditate and memorize the two greatest commandments that Jesus gave to man and let those be your guide daily.

How you communicate and relate to others can be essential in the types of relationships that you build with people. What is your primary goal in the relationship? Listen and determine if your conversations are growing and developing with others and with the Holy Spirit.

God wants you to hear His voice and to operate in the things that He says to do. He also wants you to be able to display forgiveness and to let go of the things that has happened to you so that it will guide you into becoming a better servant for Him. Listen and allow God to equip you completely. 

I shared with you yesterday the Plan of Salvation and how to connect with Jesus. Once you have done that, it becomes important to make sure that you learn how to forgive others. Being one of God’s children means also acting like He does. You must be willing to operate in the same characteristics that He does. You will also see how God restored David’s kingdom through one of David’s sons. David’s son touched God’s heart because of what he asked God for as he became king. Always know that God searches the hearts of man.

As you listen to today’s podcast, you will uncover one of God’s most rewarding and necessary character traits that He has bestowed on everyone and that is the Seed of Forgiveness. The forgiveness that He grants to you is not only powerful, but it continues to show the unconditional love that He has for His people. If you haven’t met Him, you can listen, follow, and acknowledge the Plan of Salvation for yourself or to be willing to share it to someone else who may not know Him.

As your life continues to spiral downward, you are now faced with the last root that the enemy can form from the Seed of Violation and that root is called the Root of Pain. When you have reached this level, you are now at rock bottom. You keep re-living the painful scenarios over and over again and you can’t find a way past it. As you listen today, you will discover that in your level of vulnerability, it will require you to be ALL IN in giving the situation(s) to God and putting the work in to recover from it. You will also see that sometimes the enemy will use your kids to cause havoc in your life, just like he did with David and his children.

If you find yourself still trying to do things your way, you may start to develop this next root that the enemy can form into you and that root is called the Root of (Feeling) Broken. How did you get to this level of brokenness? Why do you keep holding onto the pain that you had experienced in the past? What will it take for you to move past it? Listen and learn how God can help you answer these questions. See also how David’s children started to follow in his footsteps.

Today, I am going to finish talking about the Root of Shame. As your relationship continues to grow with the Holy Spirit, allow Him to minister to you so that you can learn and grow from your mistakes. Please don’t beat yourself up too bad because everyone goes through things. As you listen to David, you will see that he also messed up, but God was willing to forgive him. God saw his remorse for his sin and his repented heart that wanted to do better. Your situation may not be the same but there may be lessons that you can learn from him.

As the enemy keeps trying to consume you and you listen to him, he will begin to plant the first root that comes out of the Seed of Violation which is the Root of Shame. There are many things that a person can feel shame about based on what they may have done in their life. Also, the shame you feel may be the result of the hurt and pain you caused to someone else. Listen and see how you can have feelings of shame that can come from the enemy and from the Holy Spirit.