SOIL: How To Grow
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Jon Fredricks
Today’s Scripture: Luke 8:16-18
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Luke 8:16-18 NIV: A Lamp on a Stand
No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.
Ephesians 2:10 NIV
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Deploying is at the center of the call
Mark 1:17 NIV
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
We are empowered
Acts 1:8 NIV
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Chosen
John 15:16 NIV
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
Commanded
Matthew 28:18-19 NIV
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go..."
1. Decide What Will Win In Your Life
Luke 8:18 NIV
Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.
2. Dedicate The Stuff
Philippians 3:7-8 NIV
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ...
Matthew 6:33 NIV
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
3. Depend On God More Today Than Yesterday
Psalm 146:5 NIV
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.
Psalm 20:7 NIV
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 121:2
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.
4. Do What Is Right In Front Of You
Luke 8:16 NIV
No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
Colossians 3:23 NIV
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters
Ecclesiastes 9:10 NIV
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
5. Development Is In God's Hand
Matthew 25:23 NIV
His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
