Vices Are Spiritual Weeds
Do you know what weeds do to crops in the farm? They eat up the soil nutrients which are meant for the crops, thereby making the crops go hungry and dry up. The crops then become sickly and unable to bear good fruits. Weeds are parasites and they must be rooted out if we are to have good fruits from our crops. In the same way, our hearts are spiritual lands where God has planted His good crops – peace, joy, humility, progress, etc. Our lives are supposed to be so wonderful, because we are God's farm (1 Corinthians 3:9) and God has planted in us good seeds (Matthew 13:24-30).
But the devil has filled our lives with his vices, which are spiritual weeds.
These are tares which the wicked one planted in the field of the good man – as told by Jesus in His parable of Matthew 13:24-30. These tares (vices, weeds) are the causes of the problems we have been having all these years. They have hindered us from growing up and yielding good fruits as we ought to. These weeds (vices) have occupied the space where God's blessings are supposed to be deposited in our lives. As a result many believers are not in the position to receive real blessings from God. When we have anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, rebellion, disobedience, etc. these are terrible weeds that hinder blessings. Unless they are uprooted and destroyed, they will not allow what is ours to come to us. This explains why many believers have been fasting and praying and doing all sorts of things for them to receive blessings, all to no avail.
It is not prayers nor fasting. We need the weeds in our lives to be removed by the LORD God. Some believers even wonder if God really loves them! They wonder so because of the difficult conditions they find themselves in – no joy, no life, no peace, no progress, no blessings. God loves all of us and would want to bless us. But the truth is that many of us are far away from Him. We don't come to His presence, for Him to weed our lives. We don't come to His table for Him to feed us. Those who want their lives to be fruitful and blessed should learn to spend time in God's presence. We should go to His presence every day and ask Him to remove every Whose IMAGE Are You? weed (vices) that are in the farm of our lives.
These weeds spring up every day, therefore we should go to God everyday also – for Him to uproot them.
Ask for Revelation Now.
you are God's farm, but what is the condition of that farm? What is the condition of God's farm in your life? Do you know? Have you asked God? Or do you think it doesn't matter? Now, it matters a lot, for the spiritual condition of our hearts (God's farm) determines what happens to us physically. Some of us are farms with overgrown weeds! And we know that bushy farms overgrown with weeds cannot progress and do well.
The weeds must be removed first. It is not enough to pray and fast and do other religious things all in the name of seeking God's blessings. Yes, God wants to bless us, and it is good to expect Him to bless us, but with which heart are we going to receive those blessings? With these bushy dirty hearts? When those blessings come where are they_ going to stay? Will they stay in these bushy farms that are overgrown with weeds?. Surely not!
God's blessings are good and they make us rich, and they add no sorrow, but our hearts must be made right before we can receive them. Therefore stop all your prayers for blessings and “breakthrough” and instead pray and ask God to reveal to you the condition of your heart, that is, the condition of God's farm in your life. This is the wisest thing to do. This is the starting point for those who want real progress and blessings from God.
Do you know what weeds do to crops in the farm? They eat up the soil nutrients which are meant for the crops, thereby making the crops go hungry and dry up. The crops then become sickly and unable to bear good fruits. Weeds are parasites and they must be rooted out if we are to have good fruits from our crops. In the same way, our hearts are spiritual lands where God has planted His good crops – peace, joy, humility, progress, etc. Our lives are supposed to be so wonderful, because we are God's farm (1 Corinthians 3:9) and God has planted in us good seeds (Matthew 13:24-30).
But the devil has filled our lives with his vices, which are spiritual weeds.
These are tares which the wicked one planted in the field of the good man – as told by Jesus in His parable of Matthew 13:24-30. These tares (vices, weeds) are the causes of the problems we have been having all these years. They have hindered us from growing up and yielding good fruits as we ought to. These weeds (vices) have occupied the space where God's blessings are supposed to be deposited in our lives. As a result many believers are not in the position to receive real blessings from God. When we have anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, rebellion, disobedience, etc. these are terrible weeds that hinder blessings. Unless they are uprooted and destroyed, they will not allow what is ours to come to us. This explains why many believers have been fasting and praying and doing all sorts of things for them to receive blessings, all to no avail.
It is not prayers nor fasting. We need the weeds in our lives to be removed by the LORD God. Some believers even wonder if God really loves them! They wonder so because of the difficult conditions they find themselves in – no joy, no life, no peace, no progress, no blessings. God loves all of us and would want to bless us. But the truth is that many of us are far away from Him. We don't come to His presence, for Him to weed our lives. We don't come to His table for Him to feed us. Those who want their lives to be fruitful and blessed should learn to spend time in God's presence. We should go to His presence every day and ask Him to remove every Whose IMAGE Are You? weed (vices) that are in the farm of our lives.
These weeds spring up every day, therefore we should go to God everyday also – for Him to uproot them.
Ask for Revelation Now.
you are God's farm, but what is the condition of that farm? What is the condition of God's farm in your life? Do you know? Have you asked God? Or do you think it doesn't matter? Now, it matters a lot, for the spiritual condition of our hearts (God's farm) determines what happens to us physically. Some of us are farms with overgrown weeds! And we know that bushy farms overgrown with weeds cannot progress and do well.
The weeds must be removed first. It is not enough to pray and fast and do other religious things all in the name of seeking God's blessings. Yes, God wants to bless us, and it is good to expect Him to bless us, but with which heart are we going to receive those blessings? With these bushy dirty hearts? When those blessings come where are they_ going to stay? Will they stay in these bushy farms that are overgrown with weeds?. Surely not!
God's blessings are good and they make us rich, and they add no sorrow, but our hearts must be made right before we can receive them. Therefore stop all your prayers for blessings and “breakthrough” and instead pray and ask God to reveal to you the condition of your heart, that is, the condition of God's farm in your life. This is the wisest thing to do. This is the starting point for those who want real progress and blessings from God.
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