Encouraging messages of praise to get you through the day tail d.c. 95.3 f.m. And on the West Bank a l d c 1220 dot com. Welcome to body building where the author and speaker Deborah stage this is a public affairs program at a presentation of the proper Broadcasting Company and this station. Joining us as together we work to build a lot of writers. Welcome to bodybuilding this is Deborah States and I have a special guest with me Stacey Stacey is returning she's been on a few times well thank you for having me again right Stacy I'm going to start us off and perfect Give me just a 2nd here k Father God we just thank you so much for for this opportunity to serve the Lord and we would just ask that you would just bless they say in the ministry that she that she does and we just thank you so much for being there for us thank you Jesus Amen All right now if my listeners don't remember Stacey she's been on a few times but just recently she released her 2nd devotional it was our Easter devotional and it's awesome. And I was just asking her has it do and you know my answer was I don't know as I really actually prefer it that way it is it's better that way than there's no pressure there isn't because I know myself well enough to know that I can be very numerically driven goal oriented and that wasn't the point of the book right I mean it's about reflecting Easter so how are reflecting Easter if we are goal driven of you know how many copies can I say that's not the point it's really if it touches one person and helps us see what Christ did on a different level. That's what it's about for me right so if that really was my measurement then I think I had it but I got back on it and it's been a lot of fun so this is a kind off topic but I got to ask you this is your 2nd but you were published before that but has any companies contacted you to like help you publish your book recently Not that I'm aware Oh Ok my Web site crashed and so if they did I you know it didn't come through but no I haven't haven't had anyone that I'm aware of again welcome have had this company that's been stalking me and telling me how you know how they've they're inspired by my book and all of the stuff and they want to help me republish it you know get it back out there so facetious as I am you know I kind of like So tell me what my book's about. I have no idea and I love it I said very inspirational but they have no idea you know and it's one of those things that you know we allow you know the world to put pressure on us sometimes and it's unduly it's just not needed right like you know you know you're not worried about how it's how it's doing if it's doing what God as intended it to do that's all that matters I think we put so much pressure on ourselves we think God requires so much of us and I don't really know where we get that. And I say we like i truly put myself into that equation and I fight very hard to remove myself from it which is why I don't know why my book did because that's part of my fight is I have to take myself out but I remember a friend years ago saying if she sat in a rocker for the rest of her life just rocking back and forth that God would not love her anymore or any less than he did. Like oh yeah 1st of all I don't sit very well I just assumed he was there you know. But it really challenged my thinking because I think. On some level she's right on I mean God can't love us anymore he can't love us and he less right. His level of love isn't dependent upon us it's not dependent upon how much we do what we do right whatever that has nothing do with him he still wants us to serve him I think it's a chip and I don't think sitting in a rocking chair the rest of life would serve him unless you were sitting there you know talking to somebody inspiring somebody maybe but just sitting there doing nothing writing he still loves you but there are still things that you should be doing for him maybe you know I could be wrong but just my thought is no I think it's using the gifts that God has given us using them to bring Him glory and I don't think we have to define what that looks like we don't have to put numbers to that I think we exhaust ourselves in the process of that oh yes I mean seriously Eric world is so competitive already we don't need anymore no we don't and when we do something like you know putting a devotional out there putting something out there that is for his you know for His glory we shouldn't put any any numbers in pressure on it right to think also be able to stop and just sit back and go. But what I just produced or what I was a part of or whatever it might be for each of us like else pretty good like today I was thinking about that I'm so glad that the creation story you always hear God saying and it was good right because like This morning I was working on some stuff not my freelance writing but for work and some of my proposals like wow this is really coming together Let me like well like I really like how this is coming together and part me is like oh that's arrogant as boastful you're not supposed to think that and I'm like you should be like God made stuff and he goes it is good that's right in Aren't we honoring God when we use our skills that he's given us and we stop and go thank you for Lead to be like thank you for gifted me with this thank you for letting me use it the way that I get to thank you today that what I wrote think it was good right you know but I think it's the old you. That puts that doubt in your mind and then you have to remember no God took that away and you know it is good right as he is good yeah right because I mean I have that you know you know the doubt and the lack of confidence that seeps in sometimes and you know and you know writing is is one of those things because it was really hard for me or I wrote mine but for me thinking about going another doing another one and another step I'm like well when God tells me to then I guess I will but right now I feel like I did what I what I feel he asked me to do and then he does the rest exactly and if the boxes you know if the books sit in my my closet or if they you know if I give them out or whatever that's what he has planned and that's as far as I can go exactly. There's such freedom and that when we're not in charge of the outcome right we just do what we believe God is calling us to do but we don't have to manipulate people manipulate things or whatever it might be because really when we try to take charge of the outcome we just manipulating Ellen I think it's so funny whenever I make plans. Like yeah your plans I don't think so. You know I know my husband and I you know we talked earlier you know we're trying to figure everything out for retirement you know one of these days I mean but we're trying to be good stewards and prepare ourselves you know financially and and physically emotionally My husband is so crazy busy and active and I told him you better have a list of things that you're going to do to say Agger away has been driving me crazy right I don't know the 1st month he'll be in the garage rearranging and arranging and again because he's just such a perfectionist everything will have to be in its place yeah yeah and then that. That yeah and then then you're going to have to have you know you're going to have to have a list to fall back on right to stay active because I know so many people that they retire and they become inactive and then they have a heart attack you know and I said we're not going to do that so you know before we retire we are going to have the kayaks we're going to have the paddle boards we're going to have the bikes fixed so that we can stay active this is so fun right because we have one of those tandem bikes nice you know I tell everybody if you want a good marriage counseling program buy a tandem bike. Explain that oh yeah. Well you both have to pedal Ok And it's it is funny because there is our bike isn't a fancy one you know it's one of the cheapest ones we could find but if we're going down a hill and if I'm not pedaling as fast as he is not the chain off so I put my feet up all right so people go by us and say make or Pad all. I don't understand the logistics but you have to work together on it and it's not the same as a motorcycle where you both lean together when you're turning it's different it just feels different and if he doesn't tell you to duck when he goes under a tree. There's a lot more to it than people realize if he doesn't tell you that there's a bump coming up and you don't lift it's painful you know I have no interest to see so it's a good marriage building you know it is or it could tear a marriage apart really quickly if you want to tell your daughter lived in Dhaka and whatever Munich ations you know yeah I like it I like it. But you know there's all those all those things that we're trying to be good stewards and prepare and and you know we pray every night God you know guide this to to make the right decisions in the right timing so we don't have to work at Wal-Mart as a greater right you know I mean nothing against that but we'd like to not have to go back to work after we retire Salut would like to travel and you know spend time with the grandkids and so on but I don't know when he'll tell us you don't know. And you know me I mean we're tired from one job and probably just go get another one I know you will. That's just I'm just always busy and I know I'm not good with idle time so you know what though only because I love you and you're such a great friend so if you end up having another job and that paddle board and kayak like they're just sitting there not being used I will like I don't want you to. Guilty about that so I will take them out on the lake and I'll use them Ok Cher Oh there you go buddy I'll have to get you know broken and for me yes because I might have blisters on my thumbs as we speak from kayaking over those I did you actually get blisters on your thumbs you have to make those gloves without the fingers for that yeah I'm using that next time I yell at the gym but apparently they're going to cook I mean. We just don't realize the tools that we're given you know exactly. It all comes back around God gives us tools and and it's just our own stubbornness or ignorance that we don't use what he gives us exactly. So so tell me what you've got going on next so eventually there will be another book but I don't know for sure when that's going to happen and that really is part of like a set of taking off the expectation one of my mentors years ago said you know one of the downfalls of the women's movement is that it taught us that we can do everything and choose and we probably can but we think that we can do it all and we can do it all at once and that really challenge me and open up my mind the fact that I'm doing a lot and I'm. Not careful I'm going to wear myself out yeah and I only have the same number of hours as anybody else and it's not my season to have my freelance writing as predominantly as it has been in other seasons right sometimes it's really hard for me to. To admit to embrace but other times I love I really do love the other things that are in my season right now well your perspective is changing you have teenagers yes one t one almost one pre-teen Yes and I'm sure that having a teen girl around the house everything is changing the right. And true and that's going to be interesting writing but I yeah she might not be in the book quite as much moving forward. Might be surprise if it might not be like her name but still some of the situations are going to come to play this is true yeah I mean the best writing is from what we go through in our life you know and you know I always think the best comedians are the ones that actually use real life situations and you know that has a sense of humor Absolutely and I think that through the teenage years I could just see I'm just sitting there just laugh and. Yeah I left and you know when she does of the new things like has d.c. Now what are you going to do and it's not funny not fair. And then I have to remember back what I put my mother through right and then I'm like Ok I guess I do deserve it. I mean I was pretty I was pretty lucky you know I had one that was my problem child and then 11 to pieces and then the other one was so mellow so I kind of got both worlds you know they kind of evened out yeah. One never grew up he still hasn't grown grown up I'll get there Yeah baby yeah but now you know I got grandkids that are teenagers so I think all but one is a teenager. Well there are 12 so yeah well between you much there yeah and it's so interesting watching their change oh my goodness. And taken you know I had boys so this was a whole new experience having girls you know different but now I realize the 2 teenage boys that are here when I take them shopping for their birthday they're worse than girls Yes I cannot believe how picky they are I have to go to every shoe store in the mall. But it's fun very fun but God has a sense of humor you know absolutely and that just it just cracks me up watching them. It's so fun where they have their personalities Yes You know like some people think 012 so young you know they are fully like have their analogies own likes dislikes all of the whole and they're all taller than me but. You know it was hilarious that when I went to see my grandkids the last time my oldest one was so excited that he knew he was going to be taller than me so he as soon as we got in the house he had to stand up next to me and and he looked and he was all disappointed and I looked at him and I took my 4 inch heels off. So you do you know you can't just keep buying higher and higher heels to beat him out you know it doesn't work you know you're going to come in with the girls just go get some of those stilts so there you go. It was so cute though because you know he was excited and and I knew what he was doing and I'm like Ok let me take off my shoes. Yeah they're good kids they're good kids so I want people to back up a little bit I want people to know how they can get a hold of you you do speaking engagements I do speak at a lot of women's events some other ones as well but mostly women's groups retreats conferences things like that speak on a variety of topics such as contentment really just kind of diving in deeper of our relationship with God right so my website is Stacy com You can find me there I have information about my speaking engagements about my books. Used to blog it's not as frequent anymore may not happen just as it does that doesn't that yeah just changes it does yeah I mean I'm not on Facebook hardly at all on Twitter I don't know when I was last on Twitter same I just don't have time and I probably wouldn't be on there at all if it wasn't for the show right now. And that's when I get caught up with my with my son and his family that's in Ohio Ok the pictures they don't send me I find them on Instagram or Facebook you go yeah. Well because he's a youth pastor so they're always posting pictures of their lands right yeah that's so fun so I get I get a key to it I can't keep up that way little bit he does and maybe most everything or his wife does and she's just phenomenal at that so special I got some today they were to they were to baseball game and I'm like oh. So you're fun but will be out there soon and that's awesome So you were also published in chicken soup chicken soup and work her eye and. Carry Chapman's love is a verb and. I don't I remember today's Christian woman couple to Fred and now you're working you're doing grant writing for a nonprofit that's got to be fulfilling I love it. I mean that's what I was talking about just this morning working on proposals and to me it's not really work I mean I love what I do and. So it makes it easier that I don't do my freelance work as much but to be able to get to take my ability to write and then use that to write proposals for nonprofits that are doing really amazing things right I actually feel like God has increased my my my scope is increased my influence you know when I was a missionary I really impacted people in Mexico now that I'm here I actually have an impact that's more global than that which is really beyond my realm of. French I'm quite honestly like I'm working on proposals that will help in Africa and locally and other parts of the nation and it really is phenomenal to me and I think you know what I'm learning with that is so often we think Ok this what I need to be doing make God happy or this what I need to be doing like yours ministry here is not Ministry I'm not sure how we come to check off one box and not the other I think ministry is doing what God has called us to do and look so different though from one perspective to the other in the early does there is no I don't know I'm sure there's a definition but I feel like it's just so much broader you know than just the very the very definition yeah you know because your hands are only so big exactly when you put hands together look how many more you can reach absolutely and with working you know with non-profits and with work and different organizations you are allowed to be those multiple people and I get to take the skills that I'm good at and I tell my clients all the time I said you know for me I'm not doing anything that I consider hard like it might be hard for them some of them a lot of them are really good at writing grants they just one of the time let me do that because then you can go do the things that you're really good at right and I love like that's how the body works that we can each do the part that we are more gifted at right than other people we do that we do it with excellence do it with joy and other people like they get to do the parts that they're really good at because there's stuff that my clients do that I'm like oh please don't make me do that like I don't love what you do but don't make me do that right I'm not good at it that's why we all have different gifts exactly because I wouldn't have I wouldn't have the slightest beginning thought of how to put together a a grant I just wouldn't have any clue and people that are like accountants on say am right oh oh like numbers make my head spin and I can do the budgets I need to for work. But when I sit down to really have to do nitty gritty like I don't know how someone can look at numbers all day long but some people love it right now yeah yeah and that's why we're all we're all the body and we all have something different to bring to the table yeah nothing is anymore nothing is any less it's all it's all needed to be able to do God's work absolutely. Well I want people to know how to get to get a hold a year again we've got just a couple minutes left so so they can find me on my website it is that go up now it's Stacy Vos dot com so that Stacy know even that Vos with a v Ok And you're both books are out there for that you said look we're going to be there yes Ok Yeah Ok I'm going to put on the spot again I do this every time you bring out something tell me a little bit just just a little bit about one of the one of the chapters commit just a little story in the Easter one I know the Christmas one back and forth so Ok Easter. I know it was different it was very different than the Christmas when it was different Yeah I'm trying to remember just because I'm still a long way from her ready but one of them was really talking about my mentor who trained me in writing grants and his he passed away from cancer and we had a service a few weeks before Good Friday and his service was in my church he didn't attend church there but I go to a larger church and so. They used that facility just because there were so many people he impacted a lot of people and it just reminded me of his dad and Christ I mean there's not a comparison between the 2 but really thinking about how he said My mentor that you know he want to walk it out well and he didn't want to kiss to look at him and to see that he was complaining that God had a purpose even in the cancer and we think about the cross then and the purpose of that and we try to skip over the cross we try to you know at least I do I skip over Easter or I want to skip to Easter morning but I want to skip over all the pain and everything that led up to it so to stop me like this is horrible it's awful but. There are such great purpose and I get about the depth of the love that it represents you know just you were talking about the insecurities that you face that we all face and the thing I've really been challenged with is what does that say if we if we don't believe or lovable For example you know we might embrace it with your head but if we don't really believe that we're lovable What does that really say about what Jesus did for us right because he did it out of love and the head goes oh yeah of course like Jesus loves me and Jesus died for me and these things that we've been taught with little flannel graphs you know very. When we start doubting what we're capable of doing with these gifts that God has given us and we start doubting like I don't know and I really capable of doing that I'm not so sure then I think we actually start minimizing the gift that Jesus gave us such a huge gift but that's the last thing I want to do right now you may not be able to do it on your own this is true but the things that we are called to do that we can to or to walk out with other people and we go I don't know right try to back out and I think that's when we start minimizing the gift right. You know that's funny I was thinking a good friend of ours had just recently passed away and up until like a week before he passed he he went would pick him up taking the Bible study and my husband to have breakfast with him and he kept talking about he lost a daughter when when she was very young 2 or 4 you know very young and he was so excited to be he wanted to get to heaven to see his daughter again and I just think that you know he knew he only had days left right you know he knew and he was ready to go see Jesus he was ready to go and see his daughter and it was so it was very inspirational seeing you know his faith all the way up you know I mean. Sure that I'm that strong Got mean you know. But but he loved the Lord and he was he was ready you know that's amazing that be incredible to watch that get walked out yeah evil. So I mean you know we just don't we don't understand a lot of what happens in life things happen right but we know we know the end of the book yes we do know we know the end of the story you know and how can you not to have faith and you know get excited about what's going to happen I mean of course the the ring there is going to be difficult but we know what we know what to expect Yeah you know it's all there in black and white literally. Right where we only got about a minute left so Stacey I'm going to ask if you pray for us Ok have to leave you to your Holy Father God I just thank you that you love us in ways that's really just beyond our comprehension thank you for the Maison gift of love that you've given us through Jesus and just that incredible sacrifice I pray that we never take that for granted and I pray that we use that to you to be more bold in the things that you ask us to do the things that you my challenges with that we know that you are loved because they are that yet that we are loved because you love us and through that. To not minimize and to go out to do the things that you desire of us thank you for loving us thank you for your grace and that's your name we pray Amen thank you Stacey and listeners make sure you go in to her website and pick up her devotionals both of them you're going to want to read them both and it does take a while if you're going to lead up to Christmas or lead up to Easter so make sure you get them and you're ready because you're going to you're going to love them and it's sad there Stacy boss dot com get on there and give her give her a yell and and have her come and speak to that would be fun Thank you Stacy thank you so much. Good for joining. Thank you for joining us for body building a public affairs program of the scrubber Broadcasting Company station to recommend a ministry or church for the broadcast please email host Deborah States at states Deborah k. At g. 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Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for about one offering He has perfected for Alberto's who are being sanctified what say in God's eyes you're perfect if you don't believe I understand I can't make you believe it but I pray that the Holy Spirit will help you only live in a this truth for Denver Christian Bible Church Monday through Friday at 7 30 am and at the door to come before we see you in service will see you in the clouds. Contact any of our k.l. D.c. Programmers by calling our helpline at 303-481-1800. Welcome to a word for life a word for life is the radio ministry from the Word of Life Bible Fellowship in Tacoma and now let's join Pastor Michael Fields as he brings us a word for life. Was Let me give you the revelation to give you all the revelation his revelations of before it would be corrected as a Sunday school is as we illumination so if to some it may be a lumination visit might be a revelation I don't know which one it is but whatever it is here it is if you like he a go all right. There was when you come to church you come to pray to worship to fellowship you come to it to glorify the Lord Prince God Amen that's wonderful but when you come to church you should always come with a caution in your mind also. A caution in your mouth. Because you want to be exposed to the Word of God. And as you are exposed to the Word of God If you don't do something what you are exposed to you know that you're just like the soil you're exposed to something over and over and over again and it's just packing it. Is just packing it down but you're not doing anything with what you're exposed to. Will have their say. Look what I say so so I'm go I'm going to text I'm going to Isabel or I'm hoping these visas that kind of a minute. Let me get my mind right let me get my heart right let me get well will right so when I go and receive the seed of God's Word it comes in the soil that's ready to do so but what I got is ready to do something with it it's rated the act. On God's Word not just take it and just let it sit. Like you know. You want to come and try to get into chain will become a church at a no no Jesus was warning us there's a danger if you get in a tank don't come to church just watch that person there where no no no pay attention because the seed is being found and you are killed to build to do something with the sea. So that's one thing but the thing that we want to take note of is that the soil that's by the side of the way is the same type of soil that the rest of the seal is steel is made up. It's no different the only difference is this side of the way the white wayside soil has just been walked off it is made up of the same soil that the rest of the seed is the rest of the field is made up. And so all the same amount of potential and promise and possibility is in that soil just as much as it is in the rest of the field and the only so what that helps us to understand. Is that there is nothing in 8 or intrinsically wrong with this soil. There's nothing it is or intrinsically along with it the only problem is it hasn't been given the time and the attention that the rest of the field has been given it can produce if you give it. And so there was also the things those are the components of the story but now as we begin to look at the text says verse 3 hearken the whole that went out a sore. And it came to pass as these so some filled by the wayside and the fowls of the air came and devoured it. Now as we begin to look at the text again there was we noticed at this wayside soil even though it is exposed. The seed of the Word of God it never produces anything and we are told the reason for why this is we're told because the fowls of the air come and devour the seed. Text tells us the fowls come a devour with the seed that's why it doesn't produce anything and then we are given the explanation as to what that means in verse 15 knows what it says little with Jesus says and these are they by the way side where the word is sown but when they have heard Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. And so the explanation that we are given dear ones is Jesus is describing for us how the devil can and will come and take away the word that has been sown before it even has a chance to begin to take root and grow in a person's life the enemy comes and takes it away now there are several things for us to take note of at this point the 1st thing is that this is one of those times where it becomes highly informative for us to begin to look at what the of the gospel writers say because all 3 of the synoptic gospels deal with this Matthew Mark and Luke They all 3 all 3 of them deal with this story but all 3 of them give us a little bit more information concerning how this taking away of the seed is accomplished by the enemy and so we wanted to get to take note of what they say and the 1st place there was here in Mark we're told 2 things that we need to take note of one is that the devil we're told that the devil comes and goes what is this reversed 14 and 15 again the solar so is the word and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown but when they have heard Satan comes immediately notice Jesus says He comes immediately in other words. Yes there is a haste there is the quickness there is an urgency that the double shows in doing this because he wants to get the see that God's word out of there that person's heart and mind and will before he has a chance to start growing. This is why sometimes do what you come into the service and the world just blesses you and you hear the word and you are in food and you are excited and your roof I add and your refresh and you go out and before you can get to your car the delivering something to try and get your mind off of what you heard and all that other thing. Because what he's trying to do is steal away when her. The text tells us he comes immediately. Past you just tell me when you go to church sometimes with our church service at the hill it would just be moving and a little be blessing and before which a service would tell my passes the Ok Ok about Ok everybody let me help you all realize Wolf of the week is does the double go try to do something to steal your joy. To steal your blessing well for the week is done prepare yourselves get your mind ready get sharp ready gets a man fixed on the Lord don't let the devil deal your blessing. Then we missed our See that was where every now and then here we were lied to fail a week is that the day we will try to bring some against you to speed will what has done is we will use realize that be mindful about that when it comes against you realize no not that what you do is steal them out Lessig do not feeling well God has given to me then I've seen them with that has done in my soul will you not take it from me I'm not going to our way it. Is so and so the 1st thing the Bible says she can't. Just pick says the devil comes immediately but the. The thing that marks helps us to see there was is that Jesus says that what the devil does is it takes away the word that was sown in the heart and the phrase takes away it comes from a Greek word that means to lift something up and carry it off. To lift it up and carry it off. And so it's not a matter of the enemy just comes and they just take this room you know and I'm taking God bless you with them take this truck let's go stand here and just kind of let you go and you go see where it is no word is a no who has no no the enemy comes and he just. Takes a completely own way. This is why somebody else this is why the Lord blesses you and he blessed you come in and you hear the Word of God and he's just bless you and you allude 'd I was just there was a good word out today was a good lead by the former minister to us it was just written. And just bless my soul and then you go out and the enemy brings something against you and you get your mind off what I don't know the Lord has been trying to do in your life and then later on in the week you begin to try to remember well but the foreman spoke about it and you can't seem to remember it. Because it takes it away. I don't even want you to remember what the topic was. I don't want you to remember what the text was. I don't want you to remember anything about it. To look at me like I that passion is never having me stop. Stop. Stop you I do know I didn't. Think of I will pass out like that Mrs Last winter when I preach that I don't know. But it was good. And so this there is a complete removal of the seed of God's word that the devil. All is doing here because he is endeavoring to remove any trace of God's word before it can get any possibility of taking root in your life. He's trying to remove any trace of it I don't want you to remember nothing about it but there was now now hold your finger in Mark but let's turn to Matthew Matthew 13 because Matthew gives us a little bit more insight into this parable when he tells it because there Matthew verse 35 to 13 versus 18 and 19 notice what Matthew says the Lord says to sort of this parable he says verse 18 of Matthew 13 hear ye therefore the parable of the Sower with anyone hears the word of the kingdom and understands it not then comes the wicked one and catches away that which was sown in his heart this is he which received seed by the wayside. Now there was a couple things here that Matthew helps us to understand one thing is notice that Matthew says that part of the reason for why the devil is able to do this is because even though the seed of God's word had been sown the person understands it not. They own they don't understand it now the phrase understand it not it comes from a Greek word that means to bring something to gather to collect the individual features of something and bring it together in order to make a hole or to gather the pieces of something so you could have the whole picture. And so there is an inability to do any of these things so the person is not able to gather the pieces they gather to bring it together and make a whole we're not able to collect everything together to get the whole picture. Now there are several possible reasons for why this lack of. Of comprehension because we're talking about a lack of comprehension that is taking place so will the word that has been sown it just stays fragmented it just stays broken you don't understand the pieces they don't fit together now there are a couple of explanations or reasons for why this lack of comprehension takes place one possible reason is because the Holy Spirit does not open the understanding of the person so that they are able to receive it and comprehend what has been sown So one possibility is that the Holy Ghost doesn't open the understanding of a person so they can comprehend the seed of God's Word they could understand what has been sewn into their lives the problem with that one dear ones the problem with that possibility is one of the jobs of the Holy Ghost is to open the understanding that's one of his jobs is to open your understanding so if you want to know he will open your understanding so you can go through that May when likely is not the reason that Jesus is talking about here because the Holy Ghost is not doing his job we can be accused of doing not doing our jobs you can accuse me of not doing my job you could never accuse the Holy Ghost of not doing his job. He is always on his job so that's one possible reason is probably not the reason another possibility though dear ones is because the person is reluctant and resistant to receiving the word that has been sown. That's another possible reason that the person is reluctant resistant to receiving the word that has been sewn into their lives there is a reluctance there is a resistance to the word that they are showing because the word is addressing something they don't want to receive that they don't want to admit that they don't want to change or they don't want to let go. The word is addressing sudden the world has been slow news and this. Seeds are there but you don't like to see it because talking to you about something is talking to you about some you don't want to let go of or you don't want to change or you don't want to admit about yourself . And so there is no openness to the seed of God's word but there is a 3rd possibility there is a 3rd possibility all you preachers and teachers need to hear these are 3rd possibility because the 3rd possibility is that there has been a failure on the soul worst part to properly handle the seed. There has been a failure on the soul worst part to properly handle the seed so that the message that is communicated becomes unclear or uncertain or hazy or confusing. Lord have mercy. The saying where is not the problem the problem is not the same Will the problem is not to see the problem is the so are. The same way doing his job you may handle in the seed. Your not doing your not doing what you need to do to make the see understandable to make the seed clear to make the seed comprehendible. You are not doing which you need to do Sol or start doing your job better. And so as all the soil what this produces is saw oil that remains closed to the seed and see that that remains unplanted because the Soul or has failed to properly handle the seed and to properly prepare the soil to be able to receive the seed. And so the saw or the so were has a responsibility in this but notice also that Matthew back here in Matthew Matthew points out to us that the devil catches away the seed that was sown in their hearts and that's. Phrase catch away it literally means to snatch something from someone suddenly and force to snatch something suddenly and for so so so it's not a matter of the enemy comes in. Because there was the Bible says the Bible says that the feet comes to steal kill and destroy the feet comes Jesus likens the devil to with feet but there was that's just one picture of how the enemy works he's a feet fees try to do things subtly. Try to do things he believed in what she does know that they're picking your pocket or taking your purse strong arm robbers don't care if you know. Strong armed robbers don't care if you see what they do when they just come a snatch it walk away or run away. Jesus says the enemy comes and catches away the work. Before we disown. It always there is the hatred they have to the seed of God's word. There is an aggression but he comes at you with it to get the word out of your life before it takes a book even has a chance he hates the word of God and he hates the fact of it being so many lives so it can begin to produce in you all marvelous that the will begin to use to transform your life and to advance his kingdom he ates that. So he comes aggressively he comes with anger with aggression with each frustrated and he's coming at you right that. So there is an aggression that the Lord has trying to help us to understand that the enemy comes out us with to steal away the word but dear ones as we look at Luke's account now turn with me to lose Luke the 8th chapter. Because in Luke the 8th chapter verse is 4 and 5 and then verse 12. The loop helps us to understand a little bit more Luke the 8th chapter knows what it says verse $4.00 and $5.00 this is when much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city he spake a parable a solar wind out to sow his seed and as these sowed some fell by the wayside and he was trodden down and the fowls of the ear devour did not jump over to verse 12 is what it is now this is the verse 11 I should say this is the parable the seed is the Word of God those by the wayside are they that here comes the devil and takes away the word out of their hearts list they should believe and be say. Now dear ones the Luke helps us to understand a little bit more about how the it will be there is this because Luke uses the phrase trodden down he says the seed is trodden down now that phrase it literally means to tread or step upon something were to walk on something and what is being described here is a carelessness of callousness a discounting of the importance and the significance and the value of the seed that the solar has and noticed there was I need everybody to hear me now notice the solar is trading upon to see. Each other with a widow what wait a minute. That the devil tread upon the seed and there is nothing that will do it it is not what it takes is the Tx is as he so do some was trodden upon. Bible so were himself. The soul were. The pony in other words there is a careless ness there is a callous ness there is a lack of concern that the soul were. So show us the very see. He said Well Bobby is a preacher How does it look like. When the see the God's word comes. It comes it comes it does This morning we're going to be preaching from the Book of. Job verses. Who say they're going to save you and you know that I think that I've got to pay attention to listen and you know their stories are to know that I know you don't say I know the Bible says about. You I don't I'm. Going to bed negro I got that guy yeah you know I know I know this all about it I got I got to pay attention and I got to listen no more because I know the story. I know the point you go make a priest the message but him he can't get a preacher say so. Get me it's attain me get my attention say something to me. We we discount the c. O. 2 you know when you go say before he say to the penitentiary. Man start to wander all over the thing I wonder what the Patriots is doing right now. What about them Seahawks. Is the mall going to open. His address will be all saying . This is a carelessness a callous ness. That the soul is showing to their receipt and he. Said. 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Helping to forge God strong in your life freedom in the way church in Lakewood Colorado Jesus is Lord and that's where it is infallible trust God believe God fellowship with faith buddies told talk the junk that the devil wants to talk about what God doing talk about what he had what I was going to happen in my life from now on because I'm walking with God and good things got to have good God The good God so I'm going to have greater things happening all the time she's a god of Ingres so I'm not going to lack I don't like any good thing praise God I have a more than enough freedom in the word every Thursday 1030 to 11 am with Pastor David Talbert right here on Calle d.c. 953 f.m. 12 20 am. Welcome to every day moments with Joyce Meyer how many mirrors do you have in your house and would you ever leave the house without looking into one of them probably. Not because you're looking for flaws before you leave here's Joyce. You know God's word is like a mirror and actually I can read my Bible and I concede the way Christ is I can see the way that I'm supposed to be and then I also have a tendency to say the way that I am it's kind of like if I've got dirt all over my face but I never look at America go around all day with a dirty face and never know it all the Word of God is like that you know I had a lot of wrong behavior that I didn't even know was wrong until I started studying the Word of God and the more I study the Word of God the more I realize that there are things that need to change but that's a good thing it's not something to make us feel condemned but it's a good thing we really need to have the consciousness of sin not so we can feel condemned but so we can rape and ask God to forgive us and then go on about our business you know there's a big difference between condemnation and conviction the Holy Spirit uses the word of God to convict us so don't let the devil take it and condemn the within the law is like a mirror look at it and basically. 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