Wow! Last Tuesday was a great night at Kynetic! (And no -- that's not sarcasm!) We continued our series on faith with Dayton's topic title "Faith to Pull You Through When Others Are Pulling Back."
We went back over Hebrews 11:1, and we talked about sowing our seeds in faith and not letting them die. Dayton reminded us that we water the seeds we sow in faith with the words we speak. He took us through the parable of the sower in Mark 4, and we talked about how most of us don't lose our seed at the beginning -- it's when we have to deal with the "cares of this world" and other things that we struggle with keeping our seed alive and healthy. Speaking the Word of God concerning the things we're believing for is how we keep those things those seeds growing towards a full harvest. The verse Proverbs 18:21 also applies to your faith -- the life and death for your seed is in the power of your tongue. (And you thought "talking something to death" was just a phrase.)
Dayton also took us to Mark 4:30-32, which talks about faith being "like a grain of mustard seed." He pointed out how the growth of the "seed" benefits more than just the person receiving the harvest. In the same way that birds and other creatures (humans included) benefit from the tree that grows from the mustard seed as it produces fruit, other people can benefit in the own way from the results of the seeds we've sown as they grow and produce fruit in our lives. God even brings people into our lives for that very purpose.
We also talked about being thankful and speaking that thanks to God (instead of complaining, which is what we tend to do). Reminding ourselves of what our seed is going to do -- for us as well as for the people/places the seed is being sown into. It's just another way to water your seed for growth. Dayton reminded us to stretch ourselves in our faith. We look at what we've had faith for and seen God do in our lives and build on that for the even bigger things we have to have faith for. That's not trying to believe God for something silly and outlandish (yes I used that word), but knowing that He's come through before and He will do it again, no matter the circumstance.
Additional verses we looked at during the discussion:
Philippians 4:19 (AMP)
Deuteronomy 8:18
Psalm 23
Psalm 34:10
Proverbs 10:22
John 10:10 (AMP) -- Dayton's favorite verse!
Like I said, we had a very encouraging time! For those of you who were there, what was your favorite part? What other faith attributes have you thought about since this past Tuesday? For those of you who missed our discussion, are you encouraged by the ideas on how to keep your faith growing toward harvest? What do these verses inspire in you? Don't let the discussion die! Sound off in the comments section below!
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So yes, Tuesday was great, and as always this week I had a chance to use the Word that was given. Wed morning my car broke down @ work. The week earlier a mechanic had worked to fix a problem on my car, apparently he did not put the part on properly. I called him on wed and He said that it was not his problem. So I sowed a seed. A small seed, but none the less, but God is faithful to his word. And I spoke over so many scriptures over that seed. Man did this test my faith. So to make a longer story short. He fixed my car free of charge and gave a me a free oil change, but wait it gets better. On Thursday I traded in my car or a totally new 2008 car. I could not believe the deal that I got. So God took care of the situation, and gave me overflow, He gave me more that enough. I must say thank you to Dayton for teaching what God told him. It was the seed and the teaching about speaking over that seed that pulled me through. So GOD IS GOOD!!!
I want to make some witty comment about Kevin’s post but I can’t come up with anything; maybe I’m just bitter that he beat me in posting :-)
Tues. night was really good and I was reminded of things that I’ve grown up hearing but I guess just forgot about. By sowing seeds, we’re constantly investing in the unseen. We’re believing for things that we want to see take root and have to have the faith that it’ll happen. I think the point where we run into trouble is when we’ve decided that we know exactly how we want our prayers to be answered and could possibly be overlooking what’s staring us right in the face. We think we know better than God what the right thing for us is but He may have different plans in store. I really like what Mayor Bill Haslam said yesterday: God’s not a safe God but He’s a good God. The cool thing about sowing seed is that we have no idea of the magnitude of the fruit that’ll be produced. I took Elizabeth’s idea and when I stopped at Chick-fil-A the other day I paid for the guy behind me, too. As I was pulling into the drive thru, I was all excited because I had decided to do this and found myself constantly checking my mirror to see if someone was behind me. I had a moment of panic when thinking about a mom with her kid’s play group coming behind me but I breathed much easier when a guy pulled up. I placed my order and then drove up to the window. I told the girl I also wanted to pay for the guy behind me and, as Dayton predicted, she gave me a rather odd look. She asked if I knew him and I said no. She just nodded and rang up the guy’s order. Part of me really wanted to pull in some corner and hide so I could see the expression on the guy’s face but I drove off, content in knowing I had sown a seed. The whole rest of the day I kept thinking about the guy and thought about how cool it’d be if he had decided to pay for the person behind him and then so on and so on. Talk about a domino effect! I know people say that only one person can’t make a difference but I beg to differ. Doesn’t it take just one drop of water to start a ripple that touches the entire body of water? One person can begin something that can, seriously, change the whole world. I think I’ve drifted away from the main point of the discussion Tues. but let me bring it back into focus by saying that when we sow a seed, we don’t know who all the fruit will touch. I don’t think we should underestimate the impact even a small seed can have because Dayton mentioned how a mustard seed, though small, grows into a ginormous (and yes, that’s really a word) tree.
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