Ask for wisdom, and listen to God’s leadings. Strive for financial responsibility in thought and action. Trust God to supply your need, then look beyond your wallet. If there’s not enough to pay legitimate expenses, do your best and then let go. Your possibilities aren’t limited by past or present circumstances. We look at the situation and say, “No way.” That’s the time to trust God. The psalmist wrote, ‘Joyful are those…whose hope is in the Lord their God.’ (Psalm 146:5 NLT) One author writes: ‘Sometimes when there’s not enough money to make ends meet, people tell us to budget and we chuckle. Lucinda, here is a devotional that I read. This post was taken from a SOAP article in the LifeConnect Study Bible Notes. How has God “cultivated” your life or someone you know? Do you see how that caused a more fruitful life? Post a comment below! Create an open heart, readily yielded to your Word and your commands. SOAP STUDY: PRAYERįather, create in me a soft heart. Can I “cultivate” my life? How correctable am I? How quickly do I repent? Can I self–correct? The greater my yielding to God’s cultivation the greater the capacity of my fruitfulness in life. How I apply this passage is by asking questions. But the ones who will produce the most fruit will be the ones most yielded to cultivation. Everyone has potential for the harvest, living a fruitful life. The soil in each condition received seed, but not all produced quality fruit.Įveryone receives seed, the Word of God. The greatest amount of fruit produced was not determined by how rich the soil was, but how yielded to the plow it was. Only one area fully yielded to cultivation-being changed and prepared for planting. Here, weeds overtook the crop.Īll the types of soil mentioned here are actually in the same plot of ground with one major difference. It is where the plow can’t reach, in the corners of the field. The third type of soil mentioned is the thorny soil. This soil produced only plants with weak, shallow roots. The second type of soil mentioned in the parable is the “rocky places” or the shallow soil where the plow didn’t cut deeply enough to break up the shale or hard ground just below the surface. So, the condition of the first soil is hard and impermeable. In the parable, the seed that is sown on the path cannot penetrate the ground because of the constant use. Over time, the soil on the path would compact. In order to get to the fields, the farmers would walk along the boundaries bordering each field to avoid stepping on the growing plants. Also, every farmer’s plot was adjacent to their neighbor’s. A family would be appointed a section of land to farm. When the New Testament was written, communities were agriculturally based. What made one soil more responsive and the other less? Yet, they are in different conditions and respond in different ways to cultivation. Why? Because all four types of soil are essentially the same dirt. Matthew 13:3–8, NIV SOAP STUDY ON MATTHEW 13: OBSERVATIONĪlthough this is often known as the parable of the sower and the seed, it can also be said this is a parable about the soil. Some fell on rocky places…Other seed fell among thorns…Still other seed fell on good soil.” As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. If you don’t know what SOAP is, we’ll teach you. Read through this easy but thoughtful SOAP study on Matthew 13, the parable of the sower.
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