Birthdays are special
Birthdays are statements in our lives
Birthdays are defining moments
Birthdays are reminders of God’s steadfastness
But above all of these things
Each year you celebrate ought to pull you deeper into intimacy with God. Now here’s what I mean, you can't have an outlook that presents you as being busy and on fire for God when your inward self can bear witness that the pictorial representation you give of who you are to the public is false.
We must never in our walk with God come to the point where we are actively chasing ministry (in whatever sphere of ministry you've been called into) above chasing and investing in a relationship with God.
In Matthew 13, we see the parable of the sower and more closely we see four categories of people and what happens with their seeds.
Category 1: The seeds that fell by the wayside
Category 2: The seeds that fell on stony places
Category 3: The seeds that fell among thorns
Category 4: The seeds that fell on good soil
For category 1
“When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.”
Matthew 13:19 NKJV
Category 2 Explained
“But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.”
Matthew 13:20-21 NKJV
Category 3 explained
“Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.”
Matthew 13:22 NKJV
And finally Category 4
“But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.””
Matthew 13:23 NKJV
With all the above. I want to truly examine what category you belong to?
Think deeply on this.
That people do not think you are rooted in the Word but the life you live is an actual deficit of how bereaved you are of the Word and of a relationship with the SON.
May the Lord help us in Jesus name.
Ps: Today is my birthday kindly pray for me🫶🏽💓
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday,my dear Fiyin!❤️