9/19/21

Camp Meeting

Dean Love

 

Mark 4:13 Parable of Parables-Sowing and reaping. Jesus wants us to understand the Kingdom of God.  It is based on a natural principle of sowing seed.

4:26 The Kingdom is similar to casting seed into the ground.  Everything comes in seed form.  When the seed goes into the ground, the process begins.

When the seed is put into the ground it “looks like” subtraction instead of multiplication.  Be careful that you do not get discouraged.  It always looks like it’s dying before it starts to live again.  

A root system must be established.  You have to KNOW it is being established even when it is unseen.  Something is happening when you don’t see it happening.

It is a challenge to maintain as you go through the day in and day out. Don’t let the mundane rob you of your promise. WAIT FOR IT!. You must learn to navigate the mundane.  Through the monotonous, hold on to your faith. Something is happening in the monotony.

DON’T GIVE UP! Everybody wants everything RIGHT NOW! You have to manage the monotony- the day in and day out. Sometimes you don’t know if you are buried or planted.  What do you do?

Your miracle is found in the waiting. Wait on it! IT is coming! Keep on walking. Walk it out. KNOW that something is happening. Keep on walking. Be consistent.

While you are being consistent, something deeper is happening. Your character is deepening. Nobody wants to wait.

You gotta know how to walk, how to wait, how to navigate the monotony. Hold on to the end.  We don’t know how a seed sprouts, we just know something is happening under the ground where we can’t see it. You will abort your miracle if you don’t know that something is happening that you can’t see.  When you are believing for something, you have to be okay when you don’t know.  Don’t give up too soon..

What you know (what you can see) can be your worst enemy. God will take you to a place where you don’t know.

Then it will spring up! The first blade is not what you expected. But when you see activity SHOUT! It is the first phase of the miracle. Shout on day one. Shout over the sprout! Don’t try to harvest too soon. Don’t abandon ship. Wait.  The full fruit will develop. The immediate is preceded by the process.