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Luke chapter 8, verses 4 through 15.

So I want to do something a little bit different.

I want to read a longer passage of scripture and then just go right into praying according to it.

So it's the parable of the sower and Jesus' explanation of it. When a great crowd

was gathering and people from town after town came to him, Jesus said in a parable, a sower went out

to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds

of the air devoured it. And some fell on the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it,

and some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away because it had no moisture,

and some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it,

and some fell into good soil, and grew and yielded a hundredfold. As he said these things, he called

out, he who has ears to hear, let him hear. And when his disciples asked him what this parable

meant, he said, to you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. But for others,

they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see

and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God. The ones along

the path of those who have heard, then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts,

so that they may not believe and be saved and the ones on the rock

are those who when they hear the word receive it with joy but these have no root they

believe for a while and in time of testing fall away and as for what fell among the

thorns they are those who hear but as they go on their, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

As for that in the good soil, they are those who hearing the word, hold it fast, hold it fast, in an honest and and good heart and bear fruit with patience.

Oh God, thank you for this parable and the way it leads us to pray, God, one, for soft hearts

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