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Verse(s): Mark 4:8
 
Today’s Confession: “I am believing God for His results in my life and in my giving!”
Devotional:
“Give attention to this: Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.” Mark 4:3-4 (Amplified)
Notice that Jesus tells us at the very beginning of that verse that He wants us to pay close attention to what He is fixing to say. That means it is important.

This man has sown seed, but the birds consumed it; therefore, his seed produced no harvest. Now this tells me that there is the possibility that even though we are sowing, some of our seed can be consumed and not produce a harvest. So, let’s find out why.

If you read further in Mark 4, we see the same man sowing again. “Other seed (of the same kind) fell on ground full of rocks, where it had not much soil, and at once it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil; And when the sun came up, it was scorched and because it had not taken root withered away.”

Notice this seed does what it was supposed to do. The seed doesn’t know anything else but to grow, increase and multiply. You can put a seed under a rock, and it will try to push that rock up. Why? Because all seeds know to do is grow.

So, we have one man sowing much seed but no harvest – the birds ate it and the sun scorched it. In other words, he’s sowing but not reaping. There is nothing wrong with the seed. And there is nothing wrong with the spiritual law that the seed operates by. God made those laws.

Many times, the first thing we want to do when we’re not getting the kind of return on our sowing that we are entitled to is to question God’s integrity, or we question the validity of His Word. But neither one of those are the problem. The sower was sowing in the wrong place.

Let me ask you today: Are you sowing much and reaping little? If you are, then begin to check where you are sowing. Is your seed being eaten and never producing a harvest? If that is the case, then let me encourage you to begin to check where you are sowing, check the ground you are sowing in to, and ask God what is going on. He will answer you. He will tell you exactly what you need to do. And when He does, do what He says

Jerry Savelle