Scripture reference: Mark 4:1-20 (NKJV); 2 Tim. 2:6-7 (NEV); Hosea 10:12 (TLB); Proverbs 28:14 (AMPC); Deut. 5:29 (NKJV); Proverbs 20:4 (AMPC); Hebrews 13:15 (AMPC); Habakkuk 3:17-18 (NKJV)
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Sunday evening, gathering together of the brethren, which is our habit, right. Glory to God. And so, in me sharing with Pastor John the things that are on my heart, he said to me, “You need to take the next three Sundays to do this and to teach this.” So, I do want to say to you that it will be teaching because of the recognition of the time that we’re in. So, it will be teaching, let me just rather give it to you the way the Lord gave it to me this morning, actually. So, let’s pray. Let’s just pray, and let’s ask the Father together. Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus tonight, and we know for sure that there are some things that You want to impart from Your heart to us. There are some things You want to teach us that we have need of right now, Lord. These are things we need to be made aware of. These are the things we need to receive of, for right now at this time of Yours, Father. And we’re going to be taught quickly, and we’re going to receive quickly, and we’re going to obey quickly, Father. And we’re going to get into, we’re going to do everything that You tell us to do quickly, Lord, because that’s who we are and that’s how we do it. So, we thank you, thank you for Your voice that speaks tonight and for our hearts that receive. In Jesus’ name, and we say amen.
So, this is.. He put it to me this way this morning. He said, Sharon, well, Heritage of Faith Church, be beholding the journey. Present continuous tense. We are on a spiritual journey with God. We have been on a spiritual journey with God for a long time. Some of you have come in at certain phases and certain stages of that journey and you’ve slipped in and your heart has just gone on in the journey with God because your heart has chosen that. That is why as Pastor John and I always say, this Church is the perfect environment for even a baby Christian, someone who’s just got born again, because you can hear the Word and you can hear the messages and you can receive from the Lord and you can believe from the Lord and you can receive correction and you can receive direction and you can receive revelation, you can receive instruction from the Lord right there where you are at with your heart with God, instantly, instantly you can choose to flow with God in what, what, the journey that we are on right now.
But He said this, be beholding the journey, I had a distinct, distinct knowing that He was saying, don’t, don’t take your eyes off the journey that you are on. Don’t consider for a moment that you are not on a journey, you are on a journey. You are on a spiritual journey with Me and I am leading you through a spiritual leader. I’m leading you by revelation just like I lead My people with Moses, just like I lead My people with Joshua, just like I lead my churches through with Paul. I have got this church on a very specific course and on a journey.
So, be beholding the journey. You are traveling with Me. Keep proceeding, keep advancing, keep progressing, continue in motion for promotion from Me. I am with you. Forward onwards. I am writing living letters to you, Heritage of Faith Church. I am speaking to you. My voice in endless flow upon the waters, wave after wave it rolls. My living voice is proceeding. Who is heeding? He who heeds is the one who proceeds. I am leading. My Word is proceeding. I am creating My will here as in Hebrews 3 and 4, and in Deuteronomy 30. The Word and My messages is very near you in your mouth and in your heart, for My church, this is My house. Don’t lose your spiritual sight.
And then I continued with this. He is building here. Present, continuous, perfect building. He is planting here. Perfect present continuous planting. He plants with the seeds of His words. He is giving here to this people seed to the sower. The sower is the knower. The sower knows that the seed is the word. The sower knows that spirit and life seed is incorruptible. The sower is a knower. The sower is therefore a sower. A planter and a grower, a not letting go-er, of the words. The sower is a holder of said seed in the heart in the mouth. The sower is a follower. The follower is a listener and an obeyer of My voice. It is the crossover going in way. The move of My Holy Spirit. Move with the words of God. Move with the messages in your mouth and in your heart. What is the Lord saying?
So glory to God. Glory to God. Be beholding the journey and be continuing on the journey. Be in a continuous present state of being in the journey. Be in the journey. Hallelujah. Glory to God. So I am going to be teaching you principles that you need for right now. If you’re not in the practice of the principles, you need to quickly get them going in your life. Quickly. Can you obey quickly? [Congregation: “Yes”.] Yes, you can obey quickly. Hallelujah. You can obey quickly. So I’m going to read Mark 4 verse 1 to 20 and I believe it is from the King James or the New King James. And Jesus began to teach by the sea.
This is Jesus teaching us tonight, not by the sea, but in this building. 1 And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. 2 Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: 3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.” 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
So He comes with messages. Just imagine this now. The seed is the Word and the words come from the messages that come from the Holy Spirit, that come from the very heart of the Father and the heart of Jesus into this Ecclesia, into this church, because we are journeying and traveling with Him. Right? So, see the seed now. What can happen to the seed? What can happen to the seed?
4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. 5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
Oh, my, my, my. What can happen to the seed that God sows? “8 But other seed fell on good ground.” We are looking at good ground because Jesus says in Hebrews chapter 3 and 4 that He spoke about in what He told me this morning, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your heart.” So we are looking for good ground. Ground. And it yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” 9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” He who has ears to hear, let him hear. It is the same Jesus that wrote letters to the churches in the book of Revelations and said to every single individual church, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit of God is saying to the church.” Hallelujah. Glory to God. So he who has ears to hear, let him hear.
10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable. 13 And He said to them, and He said to them, and He said to them, Do you not understand this parable? Do you not? As if He expected some to have understood. Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
Jesus taught principles and spiritual truths in parables And He’s saying if you don’t understand the truths and the principles in this parable, how are you going to understand any other truth, any other principles? If you do not understand this parable of parables and what Jesus is teaching here, there is very little that will grow in your life and very little that you will understand. Very little. You will understand according to your obedience to the principles and the truths that you follow in this parable. And so, here we go.
13 Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. That’s what Pastor John was saying this morning. You have a filter whereby you listen to God’s Word, and you’ve immediately dismissed the messages that God brings here because you are filtering it through your cultural filter. You’re not receiving it pure as it’s coming. It’s coming when Jesus brings teaching, it comes in a pure, perfect stream. Hallelujah.
So now it says here, 15 Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; we’ve all had that experience. We hear the good news and we immediately receive it with gladness. Right? 17 but they have no root in themselves, and so endure with that word that they were glad about for just a little time. 17 only for a time afterward, when trouble, tribulation, persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. Now these are the ones sown among thorns. They are the ones who hear the word. And the cares of this world, houses, cars, food and clothes, the deceitfulness of riches, the desires for other things entering in to your heart, choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. And these are the ones sown on good ground. Those who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit, some 30 fold, some 60 and some a 100, (Mark 4:1-20 NKJV).
So, there we go. Our theme scripture for these three teachings will be 2 Timothy 2:6 and 7 from the New King James. It says, 6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. Consider what I say and may the Lord give you understanding.” (2 Timothy 2:6-7 NKJV). The new English version says, “The farmer who’s done the hard work should have the first share of the harvest. Think about what I’m saying because the Lord will enable you to understand it all.” (2 Timothy 2:6-7 NEV). Will understand it all.
So here Jesus is using farming so that we can understand because parables let me just go back here a little bit. Parable. The purpose of parables is to make spiritual truths clearer to us, to put truth in a form that can be easily remembered. Right. So God likens me to a farmer here to sow the Word. So we can see from this parable in this verse that it says, Satan comes immediately to steal the Word out of your heart. So what is the soil? Your heart is your soil. It’s my soil where the Word’s supposed to go and the Word’s supposed to grow. So, the very first thing – I am giving you teachings over three weeks that God gave me over a period of a whole year. But God is going to help me to give it to you so that you can get it quickly and you can do it quickly.
So, the very first thing that a farmer does, is to plough – to plough – this is what the Lord taught me. So, verse 15 of our parable tells us clearly that the ones by the way-side that the word is sown, when they hear, satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts. So, Jesus makes it clear that the heart is the soil. The heart is my soil. My heart is me – it’s my innermost me. It’s all of what makes me, me. This word heart is cardia – which comes from cardiac – cardia. It’s all of me, it’s my middle, it’s my centre, it’s my core, it’s my seat of my personality, my temperament, who I am, it’s my will, it’s my disposition. It’s my innermost thoughts, it’s my innermost consciousness, and conscience. And so God is saying that all of this, in my heart needs to be ploughed.
Jesus spoke often to His disciples about their hardness of heart. The hardness of their cardia – of their innermost beings. That is where all your believing happens. That is where all your – what you perceive, that’s where all of what the world system has put in you resides – in your heart. So, God is wanting some things – your heart to be ready for Him to be able to do some things He wants to work in your heart and my heart, right? Especially at this time. He wants to work more in my heart than He has ever done before, and more in your heart, because we have crossed over and we are going to enter in. And He is wanting us to make sure that we know the way to go in, the way to grow, the way to follow now. Hallelujah.
So, cardia is the heart – it contains the hidden man, the real man. 1 Peter 3:4. It represents the true character but conceals it. Okay. It’s essentially the whole man. The new Bible dictionary says of this word, kardia; heart. It’s used of the center of things. It’s essentially the whole man. It’s the whole man. It’s the person. Hallelujah.
So simply put; my heart is what makes me me. It’s what it’s, it’s what everything has impacted me that’s made me me where I am right now. And so, everything that makes me me; my innermost, my innermost being, the innermost things in me, needs to be ploughed. Hardness of heart, Jesus said to His disciples. Hardness of heart. Hardness of kardia. So, plough, Hosea 10 verse 12 from the Living Bible. The Spirit of God says to us, 12 plough the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower salvation upon you (Hosea 10:12 TLB). He wants to restore total wholeness to our lives. He wants to restore us completely but He needs for our hearts to be in a condition. He’s given us a way to get our heart in excellent condition because wayside soil is hard and impenetrable. Stony soil is shallow earth and hard and roots can’t grow down. Thorny soil is prickly and hard, and then there’s the good soil. The good soil is the heart that’s ploughed. It’s the heart that’s ready to receive seed. It’s a heart that’s soft and yielded and open to the seed of the Word of God.
The Old Testament word for hardheartedness is a Hebrew word qāšâ meaning to be dense, stiff-necked, unyielding, stubborn, callous, hard, and so it’s just a heart that is is not pliable and not teachable and doesn’t receive in the way that it could actually receive if it were in excellent condition.
If it were ploughed and ready for seed it could receive amazing things, it could grow, but a hard heart is not capable of receiving.
Proverbs 28 verse 14 in the Amplified Bible says; 14 Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is the man who reverently and worshipfully fears [the Lord] at all times, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity, (Proverbs 28:14 AMPC). Calamity is chaos, it’s crisis, calamity is disaster, distress, it’s adversity; all the things that Pastor John spoke about this morning, the destruction, right.
God does, He loves us, He wants good things only for our lives all the time, but He can’t help us because our hearts won’t let Him. Our hearts won’t let Him. Deuteronomy 5:29 in the New King James, God says; 29 Oh, oh, Deuteronomy 5, 29, New King James.
29 Oh, God says, that they had such a heart in them. 29 Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me always and keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! (Deuteronomy 5:29 NKJV). Hallelujah. He wants it to go well with us always but we need to have such a heart in us that we would give God the first, Him and His Word. So, there we go.
Like I said to you, you have got to receive this teaching in these next three weeks, you have got to receive it quickly, you have got to listen quickly, you have got to put it into practice quickly, you have just got to do it. Because your crossover and your going in depends on it. All of your success, all of your successful crossover and going in depends on your obedience to this teaching.
It says here in Proverbs 20 verse 4. You want to know, “When am I going to start plowing?” We’re gonna see how we plough. But when do I start ploughing? When? Amplified, Proverbs 20 verse 4 says, 4 The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing. So if you’re not going to plough, I just have a sense that God is so kind. That there are those of us that have been obedient to the scripture for many, many, many years. But then there are those that are coming in, like Jesus told that parable about the workers in the vineyard; come in at the end of the day and you start to work it, and you start to work it, and work the Word and work it. Work this word. And you just get the same reward as someone that’s been obedient to it for a long time, but you’ve got to do it. You’ve got to do it to get the same reward as someone that’s been doing it for a long time.
So, 4 The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing (Proverbs 20:4 AMPC). So, I’m just going to make one statement here. Winter in your life is a time when there seems to be no spiritual activity in your life. No spiritual activity. No new growth and development in your life and in your heart. And things are just in a mess. I’ve tried everything. Nothing works. It’s winter. The sluggard doesn’t plow when winter sets in. You can’t be a sluggard. Don’t be a sluggard now, at this time when we’re going in. “I’ve tried for so long.” It’s winter. “We’ve been broke for so long.” It’s winter. “My marriage, nothing can help me anymore. It’s winter.” It’s time to plough up that hard heart of unbelief. Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 talk about the hard heart of unbelief. That’s a hard heart that does not trust God and trusts the Word to work for you. So how do I plough?
This is, was a search that I was on with the Lord when the Lord began to speak to me when I was 33. And I was just at a place in my life where I just, it was winter for me. And I said to the Lord, “Lord, I want to know how to grow. I want to know. I want You to show me, I want You to teach me so that I always know how to grow for the rest of my life.” And for that year, He took me by the hand and He began to teach me and unpack and unfold this parable of parables, this truth of truths, this principle. Principle parable. And He started, He said to me; “You need to plough up. You need to plough.” So I searched and I was on a mission with God. So what I’m giving you very quickly now was a whole year of walking with Jesus and being determined to not let go of Him until I had everything that I was asking for.
So how do I plough? What do I plough with? What is the instrument that God has given me to pull through the hard ground of my heart to make it soft? I searched until I received light. Revelation light. Until I knew that I knew. Oh, my word. This is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. Hosea 10 verse 11. Hosea 10 verse 11. The word of God says, “I will now set a rider upon Ephraim and make him to draw. Judah shall plough. Judah shall plough and Jacob shall break up the clods.” Ephraim, it’s just a very, very beautiful verse. I will set a rider upon Ephraim, means double fruit and make him to draw double fruit. Ephraim, double fruit. To bear fruit, to grow, to increase, to bring forth fruit. Judah comes from a Hebrew word, Yadah, which means to make confession of, to make confession of, to give thanks, and to praise. To make confession of, to give thanks, and to praise. To make confession of, to give thanks, and to praise. Judah, Judah shall plough the hard ground of my heart. Glory. The hard ground of your heart. And Jacob, Jacob means, Jacob means to supplant. In the positive sense, this word means to stay, to remove, to uproot in order to replace with something else, to supersede especially through force.
And so, that was what the Lord said to me, “If you’re gonna stay in this forcible, you’ve gotta stay in this forcible place of praise in order to uproot other stuff that’s grown in your heart. All the weeds, all the tears, you’ve gotta stay in this forcible place of praise in order to replace with My Word, in order to supersede through force.” Hallelujah. You’ve gotta stay. Glory to God.
So, this is how I’ve just put it all these years ago when I was 33. In order for me to be fruitful in areas that I’m not, in order for me to bring forth fruit. This is what else this word means, praise. It’s yada. It means; to hold out the hand. To hold out the hand or worship with extended hands. Worship with extended hands to give thanks, to make confession of. So, this is what He instructed me, to worship Him, to give thanks, to make confession of Him, and about Him with extended hands, giving thanks for all that He is and He has done for me. As I restrain myself from leaving that place of praise to God, as I force myself, because that’s what Jacob means, will break up the clods. Judah will plough. Ephraim will, I’m telling you, Ephraim is that rider that’s on me. And, and so as I restrain myself from leaving that place of praise, as I force myself to stay in that place of thanksgiving. That forceable habit will cause my heart ground to be replaced with tender, soft soil. It will cause the ground to become tilled and fresh and fertile and ready to receive the seed of the Word.
Fruitfulness – Hebrews 13, verse 15, Amplified Bible. Hebrews 13:15, Amplified Bible. 15 Through Him, through Jesus Christ, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of the lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. It’s the powerful principle of praise. It’s the powerful principle of thanksgiving – not because God needs it because He has some ego-deficiency that He needs to be told Who He is – He is full of Himself and He knows Who He is. But it’s what it does in me, it’s what it does to my heart, this forceable principle, powerful principle of praise. Hallelujah. Continual praise, oh hallelujah. Glory. It says here 15 …let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of the lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name (Hebrews 13:15 AMPC). Hallelujah. Through Jesus I do this to my God and my Father. Hallelujah. Glory, glory, praise You Lord. Praise You, praise You, praise You, praise You Lord. Almighty God. Almighty God.
And so, what happens is that your heart was hard because before that, you were not in a habit of it. You were not in a habit of thankfully acknowledging and confessing with your mouth and with your lips giving fruit of lips… you were not doing that. Or maybe on a Sunday morning. This is a forceable habit of praise. This is not something I do lightly. It’s not something I take lightly – my praise and thanksgiving life is my life. It’s for the condition of my heart. It’s for the very condition of my heart – to be able to receive seed, to be able to believe seed, to be able to… are you with me here now?
So, what happens is now, you’re acknowledging Him. Now, you’re speaking to Him. You’re thanking Him. You’re considering Him. You’re making confessions of who He is. And so, what happens is the giving of praise, and the giving of thanks, and the making confession of His name changes me, not God. Like I always will say, God is full of Himself. He’s full of Himself. He is Himself. He is God. You know? Praise the Lord. It’s what He’s given to me for my heart towards Him.
And so, I had never given myself to that place before on a continual, let us continually offer up to Him a sacrifice of praise. So, at that time, I was like, “Lord, it feels strange, You know, this is not something I’m used to, just giving You praise and extended hands and just me and You,” you know. It wasn’t something that I was used to at that time. I had learned a lot about praise, and so, of course, Sunday mornings were great, but this was something much more.
And so, I said, “Lord, it’s unfamiliar. It’s uncomfortable,” but a plough is an implement for turning up and cutting furrows in the soil. It consists of a cutting blade fixed in a frame. That’s what it does. Praise is an implement for turning up and cutting furrows in your hard heart. When you pull the blade through your hard heart, of course, it’s painful, it’s uncomfortable because you’re not used to it. When you have a heart, when you have a life of, when you’re in that flow of praise and thanksgiving to Him, and it’s just so part of your life, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. But, if you’re not doing it and you’re not continually doing it, then God is saying to you, “In order for you to successfully crossover, you’re going to need to plough up hard ground of your heart.” Because this not only gets your heart soft, but your life of praise and thanksgiving with extended hands keeps your heart soft for all the days of your life. Glory to God. So, praise and giving of thanks and making confession of His Name changes me, not God. It’s the powerful principle of praise with purpose on purpose. With purpose on purpose.
So, I said to the Lord at that time, I said, “How long will this take?” You know. “How long will this take?” And, so He said, “You’ll know. You’ll know. You’ll know when your heart’s soft. You’ll know. You’ll experience it for yourself.” And that is just how it was. As I put myself in that place of powerful, forcible praise on purpose, with purpose to soften my heart. There was a time that went by and I was aware that my heart was receiving truth, receiving revelation, willing to yield to God, to obey God. And it’s just something that I’ve never let go of in my life. Never let go of in my life.
You know my story. You’ve all heard my story. I said to the Lord, and He helped me with that. I said, “Lord, I want to.” Because when you start off and you don’t have a praise, thanksgiving confessing of who He is, if you don’t have a vocabulary yet, you know, it’s really fine to just stand and say, “I praise You. I thank You. I give You thanks. I worship You. I extend my hands to You.” Just that definition alone of praise, you know, of Judah. Lord, I praise You. I thank You. I thank You. I glorify You. All the words and I would slowly expand. He would help me expand my vocabulary. And then He said to me, “Now underline all the things you want to say to Me, the praise things you want to say to Me out of Psalms. You know my story. Underline all the things in the book of Psalms so that you can turn to it quickly and you can get into it quickly. So, that when you’re up in the morning, you can get your joy going. You can get your joy juices flowing. Hallelujah. First thing in the morning, your praises can ascend to Me. Your thanksgiving and your confession of who I am can ascend to Me and can work in your heart and be working in your heart. Get your joy going. Get the praise going.
Get it all flowing quickly in the morning. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Oh, hallelujah. Glory in the morning. In the morning. First thing in the morning. First thing in the morning. Judah. Judah. So there we go. I think it’s Isaiah 60 that says; you shall call your gates praise. Shall call your gates praise. Your walls salvation and your gates praise.
This is one of the most wonderful scriptures in the Bible, Habakkuk 3:17 and 18. Habakkuk 3:17 and 18, in my life, 17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, [though] the product of the olive fails and the fields yield no food, though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, there’s no signs of covenant promises showing yet in my life. Can you see that? There’s no, there’s no, there’s no, even though there’s not yet, even though it’s not yet, it says here, yet, yet, yet, yet, 18 I will rejoice in the Lord (Habakkuk 3:17-18 AMPC). 18 … I will joy in the God of my salvation (Habakkuk 3:18 NKJV). Because that joy and that rejoicing is what gets your heart in excellent condition ready to receive the seeds that will grow, that will show in your life on the outside. There’ll be cattle in the stalls. There’ll be fruit. The fig tree will blossom. There’ll be fruit on the vines. The product of the olive will yield, and the flock will not be cut off. Glory to God. Because that’s what happens on the inside. This is the spiritual activity that happens on the inside that changes everything on the outside. This Judah, this yada, the doing of it changes everything on your inside. It’s tremendous spiritual activity that you are releasing, that you are activating and releasing from your spirit man, just you and God. Glory to God.
So praise and thanksgiving will keep your soil soft throughout your life. Praise is to be continual, because it will ensure that your heart remains tender and you need never ever develop a hard hearted condition again. Never ever. Praise the Lord. Hard heartedness is not an incurable disease. It’s not incurable. Jah, I thought I did. I did have some where …. but I don’t want to. I want to move right along, right? I want to move right along here.
So God is very interested. God has made a way for us to – when your heart condition is right, then your heart condition, your soft soil, can receive seed now. Can receive the seed now. And we have to have a look. And we have to be fully persuaded. We have to be fully persuaded. What did God say to me? The sower is a knower. I just want to read this again. Fresh, fresh this morning. So beautiful. His voice when it speaks to you in poetry. He’s just beautiful.
Be beholding the journey,
You’re traveling with Me,
Keep proceeding,
keep advancing,
Keep progressing,
Continue in motion for promotion from Me,
I’m with you,
Forward, onward.
I’m writing living letters to you, Heritage of Faith Church.
I’m speaking to you.
My voice in endless flow upon the waters,
Wave after wave it rolls,
My living voice is proceeding,
Who is heeding?
He who heeds is the one who proceeds.
So, he who begins today their life of praise with Judah, with ploughing, he who is not ploughing, who has not hitherto been ploughing their hearts, who has not known perhaps this principle from this parable, who has heard but has not obeyed. Now it comes again. It comes again an opportunity for you to let Judah plough, to let Jacob break up the clots. Hallelujah. So, you and I can have fruitfulness in our lives from the Word. Fruit comes from the Word. But let me just see here. My living voice is proceeding. Who is heeding? He who heeds is the one who proceeds. I am leading. My Word is proceeding. I am creating My will here in this church as in Hebrews 3 and 4. For My Church, this is My House. Don’t lose your spiritual sight. He is building here, present continuous building, planting here, perfect, present, continuous, planting. He’s giving seed to the sower. The sower is a knower. The sower knows that the seed is the Word. The sower knows that spirit and life seed is incorruptible. The sower is a knower. The sower is therefore a sower, a planter, and a grower, a not letting goer of the Word seed. The sower is a holder of said seed in the heart and in the mouth. The sower is a follower. A follower is a listener, an obeyer of My voice. It is the crossover, the going in way.
That’s why this teaching is coming to you now. That is why God has been merciful to us. He’s merciful to us to give us these next 3 Sunday evenings. He’s merciful to us. This is not the first time this has come forth. Romans chapter 10 has come forth time, and time, and time again. You believe in your heart and you speak with your mouth. The Word is near you even in your heart and in your mouth. Meditate on the Word day and night. Don’t let it depart out of your mouth. It’s not the first time and He’s merciful to us. You are merciful to us to have this teaching, this teaching of teachings come to us again at this time, Father. You so want us all to go in, and this is the only way that we will go in.
So move with the words of God. That’s what a move of the Holy Spirit is. There’s a new wine. These are new words. New wine is new words that God brings, that Jesus brings because He is the sprouting Vine. And they are new words that we receive in our hearts and we believe, and we sow and we grow them, and we hold them. We are those that have got that kind of soil where we just take it in. We just accept it into our soil, and we put it. We’ll get there. So move with the messages in your mouth, and in your heart. This is the Word of Faith that Apostle Paul said, “This is the Word of Faith that we preach. The Word is very near you. The messages are very near you. They keep coming to you. They keep proceeding. And you shall not live by bread alone, but you shall live by every proceeding Word that comes out of the mouth of God. You shall live by that.” That’s what we should be eating. The proceeding Word. Who is heeding? The one who is heeding is the one who is proceeding. It’s the proceeding. You shall not live by bread alone, but you shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. These are current words that God is speaking about. He’s speaking about what the Spirit of God is saying now to you. Now to us. Hallelujah.
And so, the planting. The planting. So, I plough my field, my soil is tilled and soft. I have my seed. I have my soil. I have my seed. And so, I think I’m going to finish at this point before I’m going to start. I’m going to finish by just saying to you that – ‘The Sower Sows the Word’, is personal and corporate.
So there are things for your life and in your life that God wants you to find the seed in the Word of God and plant it in your heart. But then there are things that He is saying to us as a Church that He wants you to take the seed. He wants you to take some seed, and we’re going to have a look at the planting process next Sunday evening at the same time. We’re going to look at how powerful a little mustard seed of the Word of God is. How large it can grow in your heart and in your life. So this planting now, this ploughing is personal, but it’s also corporate. When we’re personal with God, we are Judah, we are yadaing. We are praising Him. And when we come together, we are learning by now that we’re taking everything with high praise, whether we’re in our personal, when we’re in our car, when we’re in our room, or wherever we are with high praise.
Oh. Oh, the power of the shout. Shout unto God with the voice of triumph. The power of the shout, the power of high praise. High praise means my heart is high with God. High praise, this means it’s just not my ordinary ‘thank you.’ It’s high. My heart is high with You. The Spirit of God in me is lifting my heart up high with You. I give You my highest praise. Hallelujah. It’s always the Holy Spirit that’s helping me to do that. Glory. But when He’s doing that, I’m yielding, and I go there with Him personally and corporately. Glory to God. That’s why I’ve said to you many times, I don’t know what a quiet time is with God. Sometimes, maybe. But I don’t have a quiet time with God because the Holy Spirit, He has always done that in me and with me with a high praise and a high praise and I am like especially in my car. Wow, I tell you, it does things in me and it refurburates in the realm of the Spirit. The Word of God says that praise silences the enemy. My high praise silences him. It stops him in his tracks. I must have a high praise. When God put me here, Pastor John put me in this place I never ever wanted to be part of music ministry. I had my own music ministry going with God in my private closet with Him for years. And then one day he just made the announcement, you were here. He said, “And from today Sharon will operate as chief psalmist.” Because he’s heard me for years and obviously evidently the Lord showed him something about how God would use me to activate you in high praise.
So that you can get the things that are yours. So that you can become what you are supposed to become. So that you can have it all. Hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to God. Praise the Lord. I tell you, Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh. I think it’s time for me to teach again because I did teach one time on leaping. Do you remember that I taught on the leap? It’s what happens in you, the Holy Spirit puts it in you. Leaping and praising God. The Bible talks about shouting and leaping, leaping and I brought the meaning of the word leap. What that word in the Bible means. It means to take off from your feet and lift yourself off the ground. It does something in me. Hey Nikao? It does something in you. It’s like He does something in you … leaping and praising God. It says of Jesus that He rejoiced, He igalliote in the Holy Ghost. He was leaping. That word means leaping. Jesus lept for joy. And that’s just something that happens here. And so don’t hold back if you feel like the Holy Ghost is lifting you up and wanting to lift your feet off the ground. Don’t hold back. Don’t hold back. He has done great things for us whereof we are glad and therefore I’m leaping and praising and rejoicing in God. Leaping and shouting and praising and rejoicing, hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Yes, it’s part of my victory it’s part of my armour. It’s part of my armour to win and to get everything. It’s part of my armoury. Part of my weaponry when I have the Word of God. I don’t win with high praise. I win with the Word… but with the Word with high praise. They go hand in hand. Glory to God. Praise the Lord.
And so, we have had a wonderful hour together. Haven’t we? Most marvellous, most enlightening, most inviting. God inviting us to come and to be in that forcible place of praise. And to get for ourselves a soft heart and to believe that Judah shall plough. May this word be firmly fixed in you and may you meditate on it. I just want you to say this with me, Judah shall plough [congregation repeats after Pastor Sharon] My praise will plough my hard heart. [congregation repeats after Pastor Sharon].
You see, you may not have all hard hearts. In your heart, in some places there may be calluses. You know? Just stuff of the world and stuff of the system and the cultures just got in there and they’re calluses. So, that’s why this is so powerful for you to stay in the place of praise, of yadah, for the rest of your life so that you can find; now God will work on that area, okay… now, this over here, now this over here. Keep praising. You know how powerful it is, Sharon. Don’t stop now. Your heart’s getting soft. You’re heart’s getting soft. Don’t stop now. Come on. Come on. Okay. Hallelujah. You silence the avenger. Actually, that’s what the Bible says; praise will silence the enemy. It silences him. Because he comes to lie to you to say to you, “This is not going to change. It’s always going to be like that. This is going…” No, no, no, no, no. I’m praising Him. I’m praising Him. I’m receiving seed in my heart. I’m growing seed. And we’re going to see in the two Sundays to come how beautifully we can cooperate with the seed that we sow in our heart. But we must have soft soil. Soft soil, in Jesus’ name.
Well, may this seed that I’ve been sowing, that He has sown tonight, of His Word, find a place of rest in your heart. May it sink deep in the soil of your heart, that you be a doer of it. Be a doer of this seed and not a doubter of it. And may you personally experience, as I did, because it is a money back guarantee, you fill find as you stay in that forcible place of praise, in time to come, you will find yourself with a changed condition. You just will find yourself. And so, may you be blessed in your life of obedience. As you obey, right? As you obey. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Well, shalom. Shalom to you all. This is part of God’s teaching for you to have nothing missing and nothing broken in your life anymore. Amen.
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