Fire Starter #7
LAC
July 30, 2006
Fred A. Hartley, III, Lead Pastor
“Playing In The Dirt”
Hosea 10:12 (Church Bible page 896)
“Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap
the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it
is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on
you. Sow for yourselves
righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your
unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and
showers righteousness on you.”
Hosea 10:12
(Church Bible p. 896)
God likes to play in the dirt.
On the sixth day of
creation
“The LORD God formed
the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Genesis 2:7
In the broken and
contrite heart
"I live
in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly
in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart
of the contrite.”
Isaiah 57:15b
In our physical
bodies
“…so that
His life may be revealed in our mortal body.” 2 Corinthians 4:11b
God invites us to play in the
dirt.
Planting
“Sow for yourselves
righteousness…”
Harvesting
“…reap
the fruit of unfailing love…”
Cultivating
“…break
up your unplowed ground…”
Watering/Fertilizing
“…until
he comes and showers righteousness on you.”
Some Planting Principles
God calls us to get
beneath the surface.
The heart of Hosea
10:12 is a call to prayer.
“Seek the Lord
until he comes.”
Prayer is where
collaboration with God begins.
Prayer plants seeds.
Prayer harvests
fruit.
Prayer cultivates the
ground.
Prayer waits
expectantly for God to give the increase.
“I
planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.”
1 Corinthians 3:6
We are too busy not
to pray.
“…until
he comes and showers righteousness on you.”
It’s time to pray.
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