Song we all know it, so please join us to sing this song, OK.
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity
from sin and the grave. Weep all the hearing one, lift
up the fallen, tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying.
Jesus is mercy, for Jesus will save.
Rescue, rescue the perish here, for the dive slots them in peace
from sin and the grave. Weep or weep or the pariah live
top the folly. Tell them of Jesus the Mighty
to. Rescue.
Rescue that narration. Live for the dying.
Jesus is merciful. Jesus rescue the perish in
Matthew the perish in care for the damn him.
Jesus is merciful. Jesus will save the Lord.
They are slighting him. He is waiting, waiting the penny
that child to receive. Lead with them and asleep.
Live with them gently. He will forgive if they are
liberally Rescue, rescue the perishing, care for Oh, Jesus is
merciful Jesus. Rescue, rescue the perishing.
Care for the dying. Jesus says mercy for.
Jesus will say rescue, rescue. Apparently she care for that
lion. Jesus says Mercy for Jesus,
rescue the parishes, kill the parishes here for that day, and
Jesus is merciful. Jesus will say.
Delivering this morning, Sir. This morning, Sir.
Delivering this morning Salmon is no other person that our
resident minister in the person of Pastor Emmanuel or say Akosa.
Shall we welcome him? With a club offering.
Praise the Lord, May grace and peace for our Father and our
Savior Christ Jesus be multiplied unto us all.
Oh I can't feel your Amen. Your Amen is a bit down now.
You have come to church. Amen.
We thank God for today and for this week.
This whole week is area week and we are ending today and
throughout the whole week we have been looking at prophetic
grace and Christian living lessons from the prophets, Hosea
lessons from the book of Hosea. And today as we end I want us to
look at another sub team from that same bigger one.
Plow any unplowed land in your life.
Plowing any unplowed land in your life, that is what we want
to look at. So as part of the prophetic
Greece and Christian living, we want to picture this from the
book of Hosea. So read our texts as you have
seen there on the screen. Hosea 6 verse 6.
And then we'll go to Hosea chapter 10, verse 12 to 13,
Jeremiah 4 verse 3, and then finally Isaiah 32 verse 15,
Hosea 6 verse 6, Hosea 10 verse 12 to 13, Jeremiah 4 verse 3,
and Isaiah 3215. So read from Hosea 6 verse 6.
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, an acknowledgement of
God rather than bent offerings. Amen.
And move on to Hosea 10 verse 12 and 13.
Hosea 10 verse 12 and 13. Sow righteousness for
yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up
your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the Lord,
until He comes and showers his righteousness on you. 13 Please.
But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have
eaten the fruit of deception, because you have depended on
your own strength and on your many warriors are men.
They read from Jeremiah 4. Three.
Jeremiah 4/3 This is what the law says to the people of Judah
and to Jerusalem. Break up your unplowed ground,
and do not sow among tongues. Break up your unplowed ground
and do not sow among thongs. And then finally, Isaiah 3215.
So the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert
becomes a fertile field. And the fertile field seems like
a forest when we read from the same text from the NLT.
Let's take it from the NLT and let's see.
Until at last the spread is poured on us from heaven.
Then the wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile
field will yield bountiful crops.
Amen. So Hosea, what we are looking at
today, essentially Hosea's message is a call to repentance,
is a call to repentance and spiritual renewal.
What are we going to look at? You see that if you take your
time and read the entire book of Hosea, which I would have wished
that you take an hour to read and not celebrate, you can do it
within a very short time, though you may be thinking about many
things, how to comprehend it, but just read and you catch the
import of it. And then it also shows us that
God has a desire to restore. Though He had threatened them to
bring judgments. God, on the other hand, too, was
trying to say that He will restore them.
Then He tells them that their religion was so superficial,
they were just doing something to represent another thing.
They came to serve God, but their hearts and their minds
were far away. So God was saying that I desire
mercy, not sacrifices. God wanted them to come and know
Him personally and relate to Him, not just doing something to
represent something. And then as we end, we look at
the issue of sewing, plowing, sewing and ripping.
So that is what we want to look at.
So let's start from Hosea's time.
Hosea lived in a very chaotic time.
His time was very bad. He lived in a troubled and
chaotic time. After the 40th reign of
Jeroboam. The second they were they were
cools, there was instability and the social conditions were also
very bad. The social condition there was
bad spiritually to Israel had abandoned their God and they
were they had a form of worship that was syncretic, meaning that
they had picked other things and they claimed to worship God, but
they were worshipping bow and they were also having the calf
and we were worshipping all these things.
So he leave he was called in a time when things were very bad.
Leadership had filled, priests had ignored God's word and the
kings trusted others. They wanted to seek help from
Egypt instead of seeking help from him God and this thing
happened in the northern Kingdom.
By this time Israel had been divided into two 10 tribes had
formed the northern Kingdom. And they when you read this
book, you'll be seen God referring to them, Samaria
because it was their capital. You see, God mentioned Ephraim
because it was the most prominent of the tribes in the
north and it was level 2 down. And that was what we refer to
Judah. So the Judah now, they now call
themselves the real Jews because they have the pure blooded Jews.
The northern tribes after Hosea, you will see their name.
God banished them and they were mixed up also because they
failed to listen to God. So God, his heart was not at at
ease. In fact he wanted to call them
to himself. So from the Kingdom to the
priests to the worship, to the social structure, everything was
crumbling, everything was upside down.
And that was the time that the word of the Lord, the prophetic
grace came upon Hosea. So the word of the Lord came to
him and he was told to go and act.
So the prophetic grace was God's response to what was happening.
God wanted to talk to them. So God anointed all the word
that grace came upon Hosea to go and deliver God's message to the
people of Israel who were living in sin.
So God's response to the chaotic world was that he bestowed
prophetic grace. So God gives his prophetic grace
a response to what is happening amongst us.
God intentionally raised some individuals from nowhere to come
and declare his way that that sears the Lord.
And that grace is what we are praying that in our time to you,
May God raise us up so that in our homes, wherever we are, we
will be the mouthpiece of God at our workplace.
So as you evangelize, receive this grace to you so that you
will not only evangelize, but you will carry the prophetic
anointing. Hallelujah.
So the prophetic grace came in a time where there was a mess.
In a time of mess, God gave a message to take them out of that
mess. And that was what came through
the prophetic mouth of Hosea. So God's prophetic grace brings
prophetic messages to a messy world to forestall order.
So there was so much chaos and they needed order and God
unleashed His prophetic grace to go and restore order.
So the prophetic grace we are talking about came so that they
would know God's intention. It was revealed so that they
will have a better life and direction for themselves.
So now they were doing everything they could.
They were doing it anything, but they were not doing it according
to what God wanted. So as a loving Father and as a
faithful God, He didn't want to destroy them.
Because when you read the book of Hosea, you see the God being
just and at the same time being merciful.
So he says that he deserves mercy so that he wouldn't want
to destroy them. At the same time, you will not
sit down on concern while they keep on sinning.
So he he called the the grace of the prophetic grace came to warn
them that if you don't stop, I will destroy you.
And it's the same thing with us now.
So as a father, anytime he sees things going wayward, bad,
messy, he intervenes. And he intervenes by declaring
his intention. He intervenes by seeking for a
mouthpiece to tell them that this is what I want to do.
So if you would change and come to me, I too, I'll return unto
you. May we be the mouthpiece of God
in our time. So God told him to go and marry
Goma, a promiscuous woman, an audifu, a prophet in Israel.
In fact, of all the minor, of all those who from Daniel and
Cole, from Joel up to Malachi, it was only him who came from
the Northern tribe, and he was called to preach unto them, this
man. And of all the women in the
world, God didn't ask him to marry anyone except a
promiscuous woman. So he said that when the Lord
began to speak through Hosea, the first word, the Lord said to
him, Go marry a promiscuous woman and have children with
her. For like an adulterous wife,
this man is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.
So God wanted to let the world, God, you wanted human beings to
feel how he felt. So he wanted to demonstrate,
dramatize his feelings by asking a righteous man to get marry a
very evil and evil woman. So God was saying that through
your relationship, I'm going to use you to demonstrate my
faithfulness and my mercy onto the land of Israel.
So that woman to receive mercy, because at a point in time she
went about following other men to the point that Jose had to go
and pay half a price of a slave to redeem her.
Go told him, Hosea, go and pay this amount and redeem her and
bring her back to your home. And Hosea said yes, Lord.
And he went and paid about 15. I've forgotten the exact amount,
but he went and paid to redeem that woman.
That evil woman, she had descended below the price of a
slave. She was worth half the price of
a slave, yes. So he bought her for 15 shekels
of silver and about a Homer and a lactic of Bali.
That amount there was half the price of a slave.
So she had degenerated her to the lowest point, that her
wealth was half a slave. And God told him that go and
bring her back. That was the sense which God
wanted to demonstrate love unto them.
So go there. His love for us is so great.
And that was the message, mercy towards Goma, who did not
deserve that mercy. But God told Hosea, go and
redeem her and bring her back. And that whatever word, the word
that Hosea told her, that now you will live here, you will be
left alone. And that is what the Lord will
also do to His nation, Israel. So through that grace, God
demonstrated his love towards us.
May God's love for us be seen through and through our lives in
Jesus name. So the first fruit of the
prophetic grace, the first fruits of the prophetic grace is
repentance. Repentance.
So Hosea himself had to repent. He had to change his mindset
towards Goma in order to marry her.
Repentance. When you receive the grace, your
ministry will work on you first before it will affect others.
If your ministry does not affect you, the impact on others.
Will be shallow. The grace of God upon you will
have to affect you in the same way we have been called, we have
been called and we are the people of God.
So the calling of God upon your life, she caused repentance in
you before we can try or attempt to preach to somebody.
So if you don't repent, you cannot preach and bring souls
unto the Lord. So the grace, the prophetic
grace transforms both the messenger and the audience.
Unfortunately, in the case of the nation, Hosea was
transformed, but the nation was adamant to ghost call to repent.
May we not hide under I go to church.
Sorry, I am a member of this and still do whatever you want to
do. May God's grace upon you produce
repentance. Hallelujah.
Hosea's message were just simple and two return and know that the
Lord of all the sermons he preached, of all the things you
read, these two words are key. Return to the Lord and know the
Lord. So it is repentance and the
knowledge of God. So the basic issue of the
Israelites was that they are turned away from the Lord.
Their backs were now facing God and God was saying that repent,
come, come to me and then let us sit down together for you to
know me and know me well. If you are one mile apart from
God, God is saying come back to Him.
If you are here and you need to return to God in prayer, return
to Him. You cannot survive if you go
alone. If you drift and drift and drift
and drift and drift, a time is coming.
You will lose your way back. Then coming to this hall will be
the most difficult thing in your life.
Coming to church will be like, hey, carrying a log of wood
because you have drifted and it comes subtle, slowly.
Before you say, Jack, you are one mile apart.
May we return unto God in prayer.
Remember your first love, your first love.
The day you first believed how you were you were yearning to
fellowship with God. How you you, you used to pray
read the Bible. The day you don't even read, you
feel like something is missing with you and check today with at
you and see if you have gone off.
God is saying that may we return unto him.
Return in your faith. Some of us, if we don't take
care. The world can spin you.
This world, it can spin you. Because from the day from
morning, from dawn to dusk. Obeyashi true of us.
Everybody make wild. Hey, everybody, you in a car
crowd. Yeah, it'd be too serious.
Because don't know your your you open your eyes and plants,
inquire plants from the home. And if you are a wife and a
mother. Dear.
Deionia Manhunu. What dear, dear, where's how to
cook? You know you are tired and you
have to carry yourself up, take care of the small ones and take
care of the mountain before you move out.
You are late to to even make your way out to your office.
Traffic, the horns everywhere, fatigue, but in this time to God
express us throughout that relationship with him.
So if you are drifting, come back to him and may we repent.
So God's repentance, he wants it to be genuine God.
He doesn't want superficial things.
He wanted them to return unto Him and to come to Him with
genuineness of hearts that will reflect in their daily life.
God, you wanted them to to show integrity of hearts.
You wanted to see that they have truly repented in their actions.
And that was when God used the example of plowing, sowing and
then reaping. So after the prophetic grace
came, God used a lot of things to draw the attention.
But we are just picking just one that God wanted to communicate
to the heart that what they are doing will end in West things.
It will end in wickedness, in evil.
Instead, they should turn around and begin to sow righteousness
so that what he desires as mercy, they will reap it.
So let's just now turn and go through the imagery of
agriculture and the call to repentance.
One of them is ploughing. That's go and plow.
In the same way you may think that in our time to what do we
have to do with plowing? What do I have to do with
agriculture? We are just using that one as
the imagery that God used for them because by that time they
were all into farming. In fact, it was the most
abundant thing that they used to do.
So we'll look at that one and then try to bring it down, down,
down, down to 10. So plowing then God meant that
they should break their hard hearts.
Before you sow a seed, the ground must be loose.
It shouldn't be compacted. It shouldn't be a hard ground.
Otherwise they cannot gain much strength to go through and to
gain roots. So follow grounds.
So before we look at what you have there, let's look at
unplowed grounds or fallow soil. It is simply a ground or soil
which has been left unplanted for a period of time.
In other words, fallowed land is a land that has been left there
for a while. So the NIV calls it on plowed
grounds and the King James and GO calls it fallow grounds.
They are the same words. So it is a land that could be
used to produce good things, but has been neglected, has been
left idle, has been left untilled.
Though it can be tilled to produce many things, it has been
left for whatever reasons known best to them.
So for it to be planted again, it has to be broken, it has to
be prepared, it has to come back so that it will be useful for
that which has to be done. In the same way, God's Word came
to them to break up the fallow ground of their hearts.
Their heart now had been hardened.
Nyameka Shia. Their song will be Yentiobia
Yentiobia. In fact, when God speaks, they
don't even hear. It was strange.
They didn't even they couldn't even comprehend what God was
saying. So God needed them to draw the
attention that just as before you plant a seed, you work on
the ground to make it loose and soft.
You to your heart, your your your heart is adding and
therefore my word as a seed cannot gain grounds there to
produce seeds and fruits that I desire.
That was the the thing that God was was saying to them.
So there are two things that we want to show to you about how to
plow a plowable land. The first thing is that the
follow grounds someone has just seen is that the grounds though
is unusable. It's not used.
It can be used, but it has become unusable because of the
occupants on the grounds and the fellow grounds had also been
left to be there. And that was what how Ralph,
please see if you can go to the slides that have what is sparky.
It is there. So Ralph Wilson is the man who
identified it from the book that follow.
Ground is unusable because it is hard.
God could not use them. God could not use the the nation
for his glory because their fellow ground was unusable.
They needed to break it up before God could allow them or
before they could sow things. So fellow ground is unusable
because it is hard. You cannot put a grain of maize
on this street as fats and expect it to grow.
Why? Because the that ground, it is
sealed. It has not linked to the soil,
it is hardened and you need to break it before you get access
to the real soil. And it can produce fruits in the
same way. Their hearts were so hardened
with sin that they could not even hear God when He was
speaking. So follow grounds on you.
Please go back when we compare slides 3.
Otherwise I will tell you to move when it is so the seed
could not get access to gain roots.
So God's Word could not get access into their hearts and
they needed to break it. And fellow grounds you have to
before you work on them. You need to remove stamps.
You have you you all of you grew up in Accra and see how you draw
a palm. They don't see it, but you, you
let me show you a very simple way.
If you buy your own land and you want to build your house, you
need to go and hire a nuclear honor friend and say a machine
to go and clear the whole space. That's act of clearing is what I
am referring to, breaking up the ground so that it will make way
for you to do whatever you want to do good.
In the same way, whenever you go to a ground which has been
abandoned, left for a long time, you need to go and clap the
whole space, remove stumps, break up rocks, dislodge them,
gather tongues and bend them before you can get access to the
soil. So the nation had brought many
things on their hearts except God.
And for God to get through to them, He was warning them that
clear your hearts, get over everything which has occupy your
hearts and break it up so that my way can produce what I
desire. Also follow.
Grounds are unused. They are there.
You cannot just go and stand there and throw seeds there.
It cannot grow. It is, it cannot grow.
I pray that if anything has occupied our hearts, may we
clear them off Hallelujah. See, when you leave Bible
studies, devotions, your own one.
If you leave it for a long time, if you want to go back, look at
how difficult it is. If you have become prayerless
for a long time and you want to go back, hey, their struggles,
it means that you are breaking through.
The struggle is part of what breaking through whatever you
have left in this church. Anything that you used to do for
God and you have left, God is saying return on threats and do
it for Him. Hallelujah.
Also, if you constantly allow any land to be idle for some
time, gradually it will become a fallow ground in your Christian
work. Whatever spiritual discipline
you live for some time will become your fallow ground.
Prayer, evangelism. When was the last time you went
out to preach to somebody that Jesus says God loves you for God
so loved the world because you have not been doing it.
Now that area of your Christian work has become fallow.
Break it up. You need to go and clear all the
weeds, the cobwebs, everything on that ground and occupy it.
If you fail to do it, you become numb to God, especially in your
work with the Holy Spirit. At first probably used to hear
his voice, but you started drifting, sinning, small, small.
When he convicted you, you refuse.
And so now when he speaks, you don't hear because your, your,
your spiritual sharpness has been clouded by the cobwebs of
sin. You need to remove them, break
it up so that when God speaks, you hear.
If you don't take care and you become numb, then you get to a
very serious state of apostasy. Why?
There is no way coming back to
God. May God help us so that we did
not go to that point. Fallow grounds too.
Another thing is that fallow grounds, they have nutrients and
they have unwanted things. So as you live your Christian
life to become fallow, your potentials in you are trapped
and weaknesses are also abounding in you.
So breaking up your fallow ground is a way of harnessing
your potentials and working on your weaknesses.
There is a gift in you, but you have allowed it to follow for a
long time. Every believer you have a gift
of God, you have gifts. Some of us, we have multiples,
but whenever we are praying, God gives the Holy Spirit deposits.
He deposits good things in us, but because you have left it to
follow, now you think that you don't have anything.
But if you will break your fallow ground, if you will go
back and clear all the unwanted things, God will work with you
again. Hallelujah.
Don't justify your weakness. Anything you have left to
follow, don't justify them. Allow God to work on them.
Don't do what? Justify them.
Next one please media team, next slide.
Don't justify your weakness. There is something great in you.
Until your your ground is broken, your land is
unprofitable to God. Until you break your heart for
God, you cannot bear fruits of repentance.
Thank you. So break up your fellow ground
and May God help us. Hallelujah.
Oh, I said Hallelujah. So without repentance there is
no restoration. Next slide please.
I want to take you to the fellow grounds in the parable of the
sewer. So let's go to the parable of
the sewer and let's read from Matthew.
OK, let's go to Luke. What Luke gave us is what I
like. Luke 8/11/50, 11 to 15.
Luke chapter 811 to 15. Let's take it from the NLT and I
will try to end with the parable of the sower.
This is the meaning of the parable.
The seed is God's word. Next verse.
The seeds that fell on the footpath represent those who
hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away
from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being
saved. Next verse.
The seeds on the rocky soil represent those who hear the
message and receive it with joy, but since they don't have deep
roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they
face temptation. The seeds that fell among the
thongs represent those who hear the message, but all too quickly
the message is crowded out by the cares and the riches and the
pleasures of this life. And so they never grow into
maturity. And the seas that fell on the
good soil represent look at the words he used there.
Represent honest, good hearted people.
Who hear God's word and they do what?
Cling to it and patiently produce what a huge harvest.
That is what I want to link up to time now.
So we have 4 different kinds of hearts there.
Those 4 soils there represent the conditions of our hearts.
The first hearts is the footpath.
It is hardened and exposed to the enemy, so they also hear.
They only hear and they lose their word easily.
The footpath is a hardened land, constantly trampled by men and
animals, so birds easily notice the seeds because that's ground
is exposed and the devil had access to their hearts, so he
just came there to steal it. The hearts are exposed to the
devil's spray for the devil to pray on the precious seeds.
So when your heart is hard, you cannot receive the word, it will
be stolen. The second group is the rocky
hearts, the rocky soil, They are shallow, they are enthusiastic,
but which they come to church. So as we speak now, whenever we
preach the word of God, 25% of us will produce fruits.
I don't know about you, whenever the word is preached, 75% will
not end up in bearing fruits, only 25%.
And the reason is that the first one is that the footpath group,
their heart is hardened. Urban women, we've got a bouncy
off. I pray that may we come to God
with a softened heart. The second group is that they
are enthusiastic. They hear the message and
receive it with joy. Oh preach, oh, preach preacher,
oh glory. And and they will start them
doing. I'm not saying that those
preacher almost sorry, you know, preach preacher.
I'm not good, but they are enthusiastic, but they are
shallow, very, very shallow. They don't have deep roots and
they fall away when there is what temptation.
So they are enthusiastic, shallow and weak.
They receive with joy. Hallelujah, are you this one?
But the moment they go, this time I won't drink again.
They will cry and weep. But the moment they go home and
they see the star with that sweat and so here, baby, next
one. I'm Emre.
They always call this the spirit is willing.
But Oh God, you know that the flesh the flesh is weak,
enthusiastic, but they are weak in the when they attempted.
No, they given the third group is the thorny 1 the thorny soil
that one, their heart is occupied with thorns.
They are crowded. They receive they to the hill,
they hear the word. They to the here they hear the
word. They hear the word, but too
quickly things crowd the word, and then they lose.
They lose, they lose it. I pray that we will not lose our
hearts. May God give us a good heart so
that we will always bear fruits. So they they cannot grow into
maturity. There is a competition, the
tongues are competing with the seed for nutrients but the
tongues were the first occupant. So among when you need a Dada
were full, Abuja said. And they have all these sharp,
sharp things. So they would choke the wet,
which is young, and they will kill it, and they will not grow
into maturity. And the first one and the first
one is the broken and the plowed land.
That one, no tongues, no rocks, nothing.
It is not hard, it is soft, it is loose, and they call it good
soil. The reason why they are called
good soil is that they are honest.
They know that God, God, what we are saying, I am at fault.
Blessed are the poor in spirits. So this group, they are poor in
spirit. They accept that we don't have
it all. So God help us.
They know they need help. They are good hearted and when
they receive the word, he says that they cling to the word.
They are receptive and then they patiently produce a harvest.
May our hearts be broken. So there will not be like the
first train, which is the which is the fallow ground.
So by by what I have said so far, the first train, the
footpath ground, the rocky soil, the thorny soil, they are fallow
grounds because they are still occupants on it.
But the first one is a good soil because it has been broken, it
has been cleared, all the bad things have been taken away, all
tongues are burnt. There are no rocks to interfere
with, with with taking roots, and they are nothing but them
except good soil which has been exposed to receive a seed.
May I have been broken in Jesus name, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
So I want to ask you, what competes for your heart?
What is competing for your heart?
Are you hearing or clinging? Fruitfulness requires brokenness
and patience. Next one, next slide.
Fruitfulness requires brokenness and patience.
James one. Let's see how James admonishes
us as way of ending James 1. James 121 and 22.
Get therefore get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is
so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you which
can save you. Next verse.
Please do not merely listen to the word and so deceive
yourselves. Do what it's do what it what?
Let's take the same text from the old man King James.
I like how King James puts his wherefore lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness.
This guy has elevated its super, just a super which is also
fluid. It means that it is volatile,
very bad until after Falcon naughtiness or size stubborn and
receive with meekness the engrafted Word which is able to
save your souls. Be ye, but be doers of the Word
and not hear us, Only deceiving your own selves.
So if you don't break your unplowed guts, you are deceiving
yourself. May God have mercy upon us.
May God help us to remove every filth and evil, even evil.
Evil spirits cry when they get a hat.
They sweep the place before they occupy evil spirit.
God, this is the one. And evil spirit leaves a person
at a point in time, it comes back to come and check if the
stick of the hat if he finds that the place has been left
that evils read I first found it.
We'll see the place clean evils read cry, but no more open.
How much more God and go and invite seven others more wicked
than itself to occupy it. So if evils read, if you want to
occupy good hearts to operate, then our God deserve a much
better hearts. So let us remove all fields and
break our hearts. Whatever you have left idle for
a long time, please go back and let the word of the Lord be sown
in your hearts. Follow grounds in COP are
intercessory prayers now in the church?
It's for himself, God for us. So you hardly hear anybody
praying for others. Intercessory prayers has become
a fallow ground. Commitment.
Commitment in the church has become what a fallow ground God
is calling us back to commit ourselves sacrificial giving and
paying of tithes. Some of us it has become a
fallow ground and the most conspicuous fallow ground is
evangelism and discipleship. As for this one will be anpe.
We are meeting to go and witness for yet yesterday night when we
met here, we were harmony, our harmony 6.
We have left it for a long time. May we go back and clear the
land of evangelism and let God deal with us.
So by ending, we have seen that you need to break up your fallow
ground, let repentance lead to restoration and allow God to
unlock the potentials in your fallow ground and allow Him to
also deal with your weakness as you pray.
We are using Isaiah 3215 to pray shall be on our feet as we read
it and pray Isaiah chapter 3215. Let's move to the newly living
one. NLT Yes, let's all reach
together. Ready go until at last the
Spirit is poured out on us from heaven.
Then the wilderness will become Word, a fertile field, and a
fertile field will yield bountiful crops.
So we want the Holy Spirit to fall afresh on us as we
contribute our path to break up any unplowed ground, the Holy
Spirit who will help to break us.
So we are praying unto God that oh God, whatever I have drifted
away from Indiana, my work with you for a long time.
Father, forgive me as I repent and return unto you.
Let us talk to the Lord. You know whatever you have left
doing for a long time, you yourself, you know anything that
God wants you to do for him that you have neglected doing for a
long time. Talk to God, that the Lord will
be merciful unto us. Whisper a prayer to his ear.
Pray, pray, pray unto the Lord anything that you have left
undone as a child of God for a long time.
We are praying unto Him the Oh God, bring me to the first,
where I first believe, to the first relationship that I had
with you, my first love, my first love.
God is calling us to return on to doing the wax, the first wax,
and to the first love. Oh God help us, Oh God help us.
Whatever we have left, any unplowed grounds in our
Christian work, we pray that, Oh God, bring us back, bring us
back, bring us back, bring us back, bring us back.
We repent. O God, forgive us, forgive us,
forgive us. O Lord, forgive us.
O God, forgive us. O God, forgive us.
O Lord, forgive us. O Lord, in the name of Jesus.
We want to sing this song. After that, we are committing
our hearts onto the hands of God that made the Holy Spirit help
us to clean our hearts, any aspect of our hearts
representing our relationship and communion with God, which we
have left to follow. We have left for a long time.
We are not attending to them. We want to go back and ask God
to clean every rock, every thong, every hardened part, so
that it will be loose to receive His word.
I surrender all unto Jesus. I surrender unto Him.
I freely give. I will ever love and trust.
So we want to sing the song. Please sing with meaning.
Let's go. I will ever.
Love and trust in His presence. Daily I surrender I.
Surrender. Oh.
I surrender. I surrender.
Oh. I surrender, oh oh, to be my.
Begin to pray unto the Lord. Surrender your hearts, Lord, we
repent of our sins. We repent of our sins.
We act.
The Lord forgive us, Lord, forgive us, Lord, forgive us by
repentance. They are heartbroken.
Hey. Listen, repentance is the one
that actually breaks the ground. Until you don't see the need to
repent of what you are doing, you will continually do it.
So today we want to repent of anything that we have been doing
of drifting away. Anything that you used to do for
God and now you have stopped. God is calling you to return
unto Him whatever thing that you need to return unto.
Showing love to your spouse, showing love to your spouse, you
need to return. You need to return in tithes and
offerings. You need to return in loving God
with all your hearts. What do you have to return?
In this morning? As we stand before God, may the
Holy Spirit reveal unto us the state of our affairs and our
work with Him. What do you need to return in
Repent? May repent.
May repent the nation after they were adamant to God's call to
repent. God eventually punish them.
If you fail to repent, a time is coming.
God will punish you unless you repent.
Unless we repent from doing the way we do church, the way we
serve God, we don't have to be superficial.
Serving God is not a Sunday affair.
It is an everyday relationship with God.
You need to return to your personal devotions, reading the
Bible for yourself. Hours upon hours we spend on
social media, but we don't spend.
In the mirror of God checking how do we look before God this
morning God is calling us to repent.
If you don't eat and you continue to drift a time is
coming. You never find your way back to
God. Coming to church might be the
bedding something to you if you don't repent.
Now if we all of us, we need to repent every day.
So as we are standing, let the Holy Spirit remind you, Lord, in
what do I have to repent? Asking you give you an answer,
Lord, in what do I have to repent?
Probably you don't even know in what do I have to repent?
Talk to God, ask him, Lord, in what do I have to repent and
hear the word that you give to you.
God wants you to have a good heart.
Let's please sit because of our time.
I pray Father we thank you in Jesus name.
Forgive us Lord for the times that sometimes we drift because
of your grace. We think we can do anything we
like, but today You have reminded us that there is a day
that You will judge us and that You want to show mercy to us,
and that You deserve mercy. Help us, O Lord, to get this
understanding. Help us, O Lord, that as You
have bestowed Your grace upon us, You deserve for us to
conform before we perform on Your behalf.
Help us to know that You desire our sanctification, not our
sacrifice. Help us to break our fallow
grounds that we have neglected for a long time and that is
causing us to drift away from You.
Lord, today we repent of our sins and we say that forgive us
as a corporate body, church and as individuals, have mercy upon
us. Bring us back to Yourself that
we may know You, that we may know You and the power of your
resurrection, that we may conform to the image of Your Son
and become like him. Lord, as we repent any fallow
ground, let it be broken. Make Your word take seed and
roots in our hearts and produce fruits.
We agree that Lord, we have weaknesses.
Help us to diminish them, they are great things in US.
Harness them for us as they come forth to shine so that men will
see our good deeds and glorify your name.
Help us Lord, in Jesus name we have prayed our men.