Our Unplowed Ground—at least the way I'm defining it—are the parts of our lives that we are ignoring, that we are refusing to look at or deal with, that we are, inadvertently or intentionally, closing the Lord out of. They are parts of our hearts, our spirits, our lives that we have neglected. In many cases, what we have neglected is spending time with the Lord. But don't you think for one second that what we're going to do here is heap guilt and shame upon ourselves for forsaking the "quiet times" that we know we should be having.

Sometimes we've forsaken the field because we don't know what to do with it.

Sometimes we've gotten busy and neglected these lands.

Sometimes we've gotten frustrated or disappointed and decided that the upkeep wasn't worth it.

What I want to do together here is to explore some of the reasons that we've neglected these grounds—some of the reasons we've walked away (and we can walk away emotionally while continuing to go through the motions)… And then, seeking the Lord's guidance and begging Him for the intervention of His Spirit, we will begin to look at some practical aspects of plowing—we will consider ways to spend time seeking the Lord and breaking up this ground.

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