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07 25 2024 Parables of Growing Seed · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Thursday, July twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Mark, and our caption for today is Parables of Growing Seed. Parables
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  of Growing Seed. We'll take a peek at that and also look at mustard
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  seed just for a little bit today. But before we do, I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily
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  Portion book and let us know where you are in the world at your daily
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  portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open
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  up your word again. Please give us the seed of faith, the seed
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  of truth, the seed of reconciliation and of repentance, so it can all
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  grow into holiness. Father, teach us how to yield our will to you
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  today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again parables of growing
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  seed. Let's go ahead and begin by reading from Mark chapter four, beginning
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  at verse twenty six. Mark chapter four beg at verse twenty six, and
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  the Bible reads, and he also said the Kingdom of God is like someone
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  who spreads seed on the ground. The Bible continues. He goes to sleep
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  and gets up night and day, night and day, and the seed sprouts
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  and grows. Though he does not know how I can tell you, let
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  me just pause right here, that I have that experience like I grew up
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  in the city, one of the most notable cities in the world, as
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  they say, and a whole lot of people in a tiny little place,
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  too many people in a tiny little place. And then I had the privilege,
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  many years later to have a rural home in West Virginia with Simone,
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  my wife. Right, and yeah, well we got rid of we got
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  rid of, well not got rid of. We got somebody to chop down
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  thirty trees in a particular area we needed to. And then I rented a
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  back home and pulled up the stumps. And now the ground is is fertile
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  for something, but nothing's really there, just weeds and so forth. So
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  I'm not a like I say, I'm a city guy. Right. So
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  I went and bought some a big bag of grass seed. And because you
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  know, I'm just basic, I put my hand down in the bag and
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  I pick up the biggest handful of seed. And because the ground you can
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  even smell how fertile it is, I just start flinging the seeds everywhere,
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  flinging the seeds everywhere. Some people might say I was sowing the seeds.
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  I didn't use one of those little seed spreaders. I just handfuls of seed
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  and just broadcast them everywhere. And wouldn't you know, within just a couple
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  of days, we started to see the seed springing up, and within a
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  couple of weeks. I don't know how it happened, but now it looks
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  like a green carpet of beautiful grass, and it's like, oh, I
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  get it. He goes to sleep, and he gets up night and day,
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  and the seed sprouts and grows. Though he does not know how.
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  I promise you, I didn't know how that happened. I just knew that
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  I did whatever the little bag said at the back. It was a big
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  bag. Really, it's like fifty pounds of seed. Hah, don't laugh
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  at me. It's just one of those things. I didn't know what I
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  was doing. But it says here by itself, the soil produces a crop,
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  first the stalk, then the head, and then the full grain.
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  In the head, of course, is speaking of a certain crop. And
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  then in verse twenty nine, and when the grain is ripe, he sends
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  in the sickle because the harvest has come. We used to see all kinds
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  of crops growing in those beautiful lands of West Virginia. Yes, and so
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  now I get it. Now I get it. We don't really understand how
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  this thing works. I don't care what kind of ologists you are you're a
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  biologist. I get it, Like I know, you can teach the principles,
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  But the way that God puts life into these seeds and the way that
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  it springs up so it can be beneficial to the earth and to people and
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  to creatures, we don't really understand. But I think that's kind of the
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  way our faith works. That's kind of the way that the gospel, when
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  it's sown in the hearts of people works. We know that we've done the
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  right things. We know that this is a pathway to growth, but how
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  God actually does it, the jury is still out, okay, and so
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  there are some lessons I'd like to share with you as usual, okay.
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  So versus verse twenty seven, He goes to sleep and gets up night and
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  day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
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  This is beyond human sight. While we're resting, God is growing while
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  we're resting. The process is happening while we are resting. God does something
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  miraculous. So growth occurs beyond our sight or even our ability to see.
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  Here in verse twenty nine, and as soon as the grain is ripe,
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  he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come. It's time to harvest
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  the ripened grain or the crop. It's time to do that. The Gospel
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  or the Kingdom of God has an inevitable, inevitable conclusion. God is not
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  aimless with how he so seed like how I was. I just basically could
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  have closed my eyes and I'm flinging seed everywhere and whatever happens happens. No,
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  God is intentional. God has a specific outcome in mind. He has
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  a particular process in mind how he will accomplish his will in the lives of
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  every single individual who receives the seed. And so the Kingdom of God in
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  every aspect has an inevitable conclusion. Harvest. That's the conclusion. Harvest comes
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  for anybody who receives the seed with thanksgiving. Harvest comes at the appointed time,
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  just as the Kingdom of God will reach its fulfillment at the second coming
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  of Jesus Christ. And so small beginnings. We didn't read about the mustard
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  seed, but it is here in verses thirty one and thirty two. It
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  is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground or on the ground,
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  is the smallest of the seeds in the earth. But when it is
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  sown, It grows up and becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and
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  puts out large branches so that the birds of the sky can nest in its
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  shade. Small beginnings. When we yield our will to God, small beginnings
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  yield massive outcomes. Let me say it again, when we yield ourselves to
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  God, we yield our will to God. All beginnings yield massive outcomes.
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  So little as much when God is in it. Have you ever heard that
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  song little becomes much when it is placed in the Master's hand Ordinary people?
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  Look up the lyrics for that song, ordinary people. God chooses, He
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  uses ordinary people. He uses people just like me and you, who are
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  willing to yield to God's command people. God uses ordinary people. And so
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  we must not look at ourselves and have a misconception about who we are or
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  how we are. Whatever tiny little faith we have, whatever tiny what we
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  consider to be gifts that are tiny in our mindset, that we have,
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  whatever energy, tiny little energy that we have, whatever it is about us
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  that we give into the Master's hand, into God's hands, will miraculously grow
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  into a specimen of ministry. Remember that tree grows so that all kinds of
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  flying creatures can nest in its branches. Are you willing? Are you willing
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  to be a seed that God grows for the benefit of people? Are you
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  willing for God to grow you so that you can be a manifestation to others
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  who feel like that they're insignificant that wait a minute, If he can grow,
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  if she can grow, then so can I. Yeah. God is
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  so good. How good is he? He's willing to use you, He's
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  willing to use me to allow others to grow. Make it a wonderful day,
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  Peace, douch peace, Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,