Week 4 Prepare!

Key Verses Luke 8:5-8, and Matthew 13:3-9, talking about, seeds: on the wayside, stony places, among thorns, and in good ground.

This week the focus in on preparing the ground so that it is good for growth, breaking up hardened areas, protecting the seed of life from scavengers, removing stones and thorns. Revelation backed with the power of prayer.We need to understand the difference between information and revelation. Information is of the mind, however, biblical revelation, which involves and affects the mind,originates from the heart. Spiritual power is only released through revelation.The written word (graphe) must become the "vital" living word (logos). Even as believers,we mustnot just read, but we need to abide in or meditate on the Word, praying as the psalmist does in Psalm. 119:18 “Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from your law”. The word “open,” galah, also means “to unveil or uncover” ...revelation. Information can come immediately, but revelation is normally a the result of process. As the parable of the sower demonstrates, biblical truth comes in seed form. Spiritual seeds must grow into a fruit-producing revelation. We must ask God to bring this revelation to the unbeliever. The hearing of the gospel isn’t enough, prayer must accompany it.


Pray that the person’s heart be prepared, so that it will be “good soil” for the seed Mark 4:8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times. " Mark 4:15-19 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.


Pray that Satan not be able to steal the seeds of truth (see Mark 4:15), and that nothing else will be able to destroy the seeds (see Mark 4:16-19).


Pray That The Root Of Pride Does Not Choke The Seed of Faith. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.


Pray That The Person Comes To True Repentance
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Timothy. 2:25-26 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Repentance does not mean to “turn and go another way.” That change of direction is the result of repentance, not repentance itself. Repentance - metanoia - means to have “a new knowledge or understanding “- a change of mind. In a biblical context, repentance is a new understanding that comes from God through an unveiling (revelation) and results in a new direction or lifestyle. It is necessary because of the turning to our own knowledge or understanding at the Fall. Therefore, pray continuously for divine input of the Word of God in the lives of our loved ones that they may have new understanding of God and the gospel.