Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. Hey, what is up? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive where we spend a few minutes

each weekday, just sticking some truth from God's word in our hearts.

We've been talking this week about miracle grow, not the fertilizer stuff you put on plants,

but the supernatural way God grows you and me from the inside out.

We talked on Monday about how God grows us through pivotal circumstances, those defining

moments in life to get our attention

in some way. It could be a mountaintop kind of experience, but it's usually in a valley where the

growth takes place. And so many of us personally know how God shaped our character and grew our

hearts through some of the hardest things we've ever been through. And as we look back,

we wouldn't necessarily want to go through that again, but we wouldn't trade the way our relationship with him

got so much deeper because of it. We started talking yesterday about how God not only uses

pivotal circumstances, but he also grows us through practical teaching. And we left off with a story

that Jesus tells about a farmer,

some seed, and different types of soil. In the last episode, we talked about how the seed that

Jesus said fell on the path, how it represents hard, unreceptive hearts. God can't teach you

and me if we remain unteachable. Jesus goes on to talk about another type of soil in verse 5 of chapter 13 of

Matthew. He says some of the seed fell on rocky places where it didn't have much soil. It sprang up

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