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Neil McIver - Breaking Up Our Fallow Ground |
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Neil McIver, observing that only after plowing or breaking up fallow ground can one sow and reap, applies this principle figuratively to our hearts and lives. Breaking up the fallow ground is the equivalent of repentance, in which old ways, habits (spiritual thorns and thistles), and errors are plowed under, making way for fresh planting of spiritual seeds. The heart is figuratively a garden which will produce weeds unless it is plowed up (symbolizing repentance) and planted with the Word of God. We need to accept this word with meekness and teachability, waiting patiently for spiritual fruit or produce to appear. We should continuously cultivate, water, and tend the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 4:22). Hard soil makes it easy for birds to gobble up the seed. Thin soil is not conducive to producing a root system. Weed-choked soil (symbolizing worldly cares) will not allow spiritual seed to grow. Rich, fertile, cultivated soil will yield bountiful crops. We must remember that there is no making without breaking, no harvesting without plowing. Breaking up the fallow ground * Broken health * Broken hopes * Broken up * Children of wrath * Crops * Defilement * Desires of the flesh * Dirt * Eggplant * Endure to the end of the season * Enthusiasm * Ephesians 2:1-3 * Farmer for the word of God * Farming * Fertilizing our hearts * Filthiness * I Corinthians 3:5-9 * I John 1:9 * I Thessalonians 3:10-13 * First harvest * Fruit of the Spirit * Galatians 6:9 * Guarding our hearts * Hailstorm * Hardened * Harvest of the firstfruits * Farrowing * Helping one another * Hidden sin * Hosea 10:12 * James 1:21; 5:7-9 * Jeremiah 4:3 * Longsuffering * John 12:24 * Luke 8:7-11;12:3 * Mark 4:3-15, 29 * Matthew 7:14-15 * Meditating * Meekness * Narrow and straight gate * Parable of the sower * Patience * Plowing * Prince of the power of the air * Producing fruit * Proverbs 4:23 * Psalms 30:5 * Repentance * Romans 28:29 * Seasons of spiritual life * II Corinthians 5 * Shortcuts * Soil * Sow righteousness * Spiritual farmers * Superfluity of wickedness * Squash * Thistles * Thorns * Unfit soil * Waiting patiently * Wax in the ear * Weather * Weeds * Wickedness |
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