Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the Masters.

We're going to devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

We're picking up with a three of our Cultivate Joy devotional in the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along

with us.

As always, I'm going to read the scripture, and then Tori's going to pick it up with

the Divo.

Let's do it.

The scripture is Matthew chapter 13 verses 3 through 9, and it says this.

He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one.

Listen, a farmer went out to plant some seeds.

As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came

and ate them.

Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock.

Those seeds soon sprouted because the soil was shallow, but the plants wilted under

the hot sun because they didn't have deep roots and they died.

Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants, and then

other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was 30, 60, and even

a hundred times as much as had been planted.

Someone with ears to hear should listen and understand.

The devotional says, if joy is a fruit to be cultivated, what are the barriers that keep

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