Perfecting our faith: receiving the word of God

Text:Hebrews 4:2,Mark 4:20,24 Text:Hebrews 4:2, Mark 4:20-26 This month ,the Holy Spirit has been teaching us about perfecting our faith. In this blog we wish to learn the missing seed in the faith work. Our text tells us that it is the gospel of grace(Acts 13:43) that mixes with faith to produce profit. Faith is of the heart and the mixing takes place in the heart. In Mark 4:2 we are told the kingdom operates under the principle of seed time and harvest.Faith seed(Luke 17:6) mixed with the Word seed(Luke 8:11) will produce profit. When we became born again, we received the seed of faith into our heart as a component of the fruit of the spirit(Galatians 5:22). Our text tells us in Mark 4:20 that the good ground which produce 30,60 and 100 fold fruit is such as which HEAR the WORD and receive THE WORD.So until you receive the word into your heart ,conception of the fruit cannot take place.The process of receiving the word into your heart is called MEDITATION:constantly speaking the word to yourself,to others and in every situation. The word tells us that there is seed, time and then harvest.The time is a time of watering the seed with the rain of the word. Paul planteth, Apollos watereth, then God gave the increase(1 Corinthians 3:6).The process of watering is called MEDITATION:constantly speaking the word of God to yourself, to others and in every situation until it sparks an inner image or picture of the harvest you are expecting or until you receive the harvests. It is pertinent to say here that as you set out to engage yourself in the growth cycle of the word of grace to produce a harvest, Satan will work hard to take the word sown in your heart by sponsoring affliction,persecution,worries from the cares of this world,deceitfulness,lusts of the eyes(covetousness, pride,strife,contention),lusts of the flesh(adultery,fornication,ego,pride) ,unforgiveness and offences etc. Most of the happenings in the families is Satan's program to steal the word.Be wise.