Daily Thoughts "My Word"

Isaiah 55: 10 “The rain and snow come down from the heavens

and stay on the ground to water the earth.

They cause the grain to grow,

producing seed for the farmer

and bread for the hungry.

11 It is the same with my word.

I send it out, and it always produces fruit.

It will accomplish all I want it to,

and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

The word comes down from God and stays on the soil of our hearts watering us. As maturity comes into our lives through discipleship, fruitfulness is the evidence of the word growing in our hearts. The farmer, who is at that time in our lives the beneficiary of the word, can measure and see the good fruit in our lives so that it can be used to benefit others and provide spiritual food for them. I see this time and time again in ministry. I have seen the positive and I have seen the negative. As a positive I continue to watch men of God being matured in a church that loves them and cares for them and disciples them. I see the evidence of their lives because wherever God places them they continue to produce fruit and God confirms it through prospering them in the ministry. Also, the farmer in their lives is like a skilled surgeon knowing the right balance and nutrition so that it produces good fruit that lasts and ministers to many. I have also seen the negative. The word is so powerful and it pierces the heart of the man, but either through not wanting to be tilled or corrected that it becomes more of a pit of hard and unfruitful soil, or it becomes a soil that looks to be muddy or over watered and like any immature person looks for any kind of spiritual teaching and becomes more confused than fruitful. Both do not work and it is sad to see Men of God called to ministry but get brought down because of lack of correction or not understanding the farmer as a tool of God to help them and see them as a lid and not a covering in their lives. In this case too, the farmer needs to truly understand the condition of his soil so that he knows how to treat it or through perversion, passivity or abandonment that soil becomes just another pile of dirt. Help us Lord to be trained up great to be a great soil so that you can fulfill the call in our lives. Also Lord help us when you make us a farmer to be one that inspects what you expect and to be one that is constantly looking to produce fruit through that soil that is healthy to feed hungry people that fill this world.

Ask yourself first if you are being watered by God daily? Are you allowing God to fill your heart with his word so that fruit comes out and helps so many out there. Second are you being a good sheppard? Are you relying on the Lord to help train up others so that his word does not return void but prospers everywhere it is sent.