“Hybrid Seed”   

Teaching by Don Johnson   

10-18-2008   At DLTC           

As I’ve said before it still amazes me what the Lord does when he gives me these messages.  I just put the thoughts down and start writing them. Tonight I’m going to be sharing some little things with you on Hybrid Seed.  We were at Leadership and during some of the discussion I said you know that sounds like a hybrid seed to me.  And they said what do you mean?  Well a hybrid seed can only be used once after it’s developed.  They said you’ve got a teaching right there go with it.  It was stacked up there in my mind and it started to go.

            I want to encourage you guys to put things down. You know I’m having fun doing it and I think you could have fun doing it too. Just a couple of weeks ago somebody asked me did you ever try www.blueletterbible.org?

 I said no, never heard of it.  I found it is just great.  I tell you it has made it exciting.  You have a word that you want to look up or you can put in a phrase. You can look at it in the Old Testament or New Testament.  Also if you have an idea what book it’s in then you can put in the book and chapter. So I put the word in and plop it’s there.  Over on the side you can go to the lexicon or you can go to the concordance and you hit the little button and its right there along with the verse that you had.   I got excited about this thing.  With our other program I’d spend 5 or 10 minutes trying to get what I wanted.  I’d click over here and then go back and find this one and then the one I had was in the Strong’s and you’ve got to go down to it and you have to go A-Z.  O.K. so I’m looking for faith and I go down and press F and here comes all the words that you have to scroll through all the way till you find F and then you come to faith.  The blueletterbible has it right there and it goes boom.  I got excited.  It makes studying just a lot more exciting. I’m going to use some words I looked up today and I’m not going to use the Greek or Latin because I can’t pronounce it anyway, let alone the English language.           

The teaching tonight is on hybrid seed and the scripture that came to me is out of Matthew the 13^th chapter the 3^rd verse through 9.   Jesus is talking to his disciples “³Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.  ⁴And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.  ⁵Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.  ⁶But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.  ⁷And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.  ⁸But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.  ⁹He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”      That’s the basic scripture that I want to use.  Now God gave me a picture and I hope I can explain it right so you can understand it. When I read these scriptures I started seeing an area in my life where I participated in farming so I can relate to it. When I started reading things like fields and sowing I remembered when I helped my grandfather up on his little farm.  It was a little farm because he’d retired, he was already in his 70’s . Aron, Aron where’s Aron?  Aron come here.  Aron is 11 years old and I was 11 when my mother allowed me to go work with my grandfather.  So you start picturing this, 11 to 13 about three years when I was able to work with my grandfather.  Thank you very much Aron you can go back to your place.           

 Well my grandfather had a small place after he’d sold the dairy. He just resided on a farm and they downsized the farm.  It was about a hundred acres but it was divided up into five or six row plots.  It had fences running down through it with a lane where you drive the horses or the cattle so they could go from one plot to the other.  Granddad was the kind of person who liked to help people in the community because he was involved in the community.  He raised sheep -- lambs for the local market. He raised cows for the local market. They’d butcher a beef about once a week or every two weeks and sheep every so often.             

 He also raised potatoes, corn and some other vegetables that he used to sell at the market or the people would come to get them.  You know when the corn was ready to harvest he’d open up the gate and say ‘free corn.’ And people would come and pick the corn.  He had some areas just for hay.  You know he plowed it and disked it then he’d put a mixture of rye and wheat in there which he’d cut and put it in the old haystack.  I call it the bread because when it was all stacked up it looked like a loaf of bread.  He had good soil.  You see all these things just go through my mind when I read the scripture because I could see that.          

  Well Granddad had to bring the tractor over to his place and he had a team of two horses.  Now they were draft horses and I was 11 years old and the mare -- I swear she was 20 feet tall!  She was wide and big, compared to the gelding; she was about 6 inches higher than he was, with feet that could walk across the cattle guard.  How many know what a cattle guard is? She would walk across the cattle guard because she had honkers for feet so that she’d walk across that thing, no problem.  We had to string a wire across the cattle guard to keep her from walking and transferring from one pasture to the other.  So you got the cows and you got the team of horses with the equipment behind and you’d start down to the corn field.  You’ve got to string the horses behind so it is harder and you have a corner there that you can’t get to.  It’s not like now with a tractor where you set your foot and back around so you can reach it when you go out the gate.  Then that corner can be taken care of.  I see all of these things in my mind and I say wow, that’s it; that’s where it is. Now I’ve given you the background so when I’m talking about this you’ll have some idea of what I’m talking about.  I’ve got some other stores that go along with it -- I’ll tell you those in a little bit.             We’re going to be talking about the seed.  I looked up the plant cycle of a seed and how it grows.  I noticed it had three distinctive things.  You have the seed.  There are all kinds of seeds.  When you take a sunflower seed it’s got the hull around it when you buy it.  The guys around here stick it in their mouth and chew and chew up all the hulls, seeds and all.  Well it’s got a big hull.  Now if you take a walnut – that’s a seed.  It’s kind of hard to open but inside is the nut and the oil in it.  And then you have the tiny seed.  The scripture talks about the mustard seed. I think the petunia seed is the smallest seed.  How many have planted petunias from the seed?  I open the package and there’s a package inside the package and there’s little tiny thing that you open up and you look in there and there’s some thin, little seed that look like black little dots.  On the outside it says 30 seeds and you look in there and think there are 30 seeds in this thing?  So when you get out there to plant them you are very cautious with them.          

  Seeds come in different sizes.  You have seeds with hulls on them.  You have white potatoes or tubers. You have all these different types.  They grow different types of food but they all have the same thing in common except the tubers, tubers are a little different. You have the seed and in the seed you have the leaf and within that leaf you have the shoot which sometimes are called a root.  I started looking at that thing and thought hum, the seed is like the trinity --Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  It gives life it’s a beginning.  That’s my thinking.  It’s awesome to look at this.  It’s awesome all together, the leaf, the seed and the root. The leaf represents something, the seed represents something else.  There are three different items within a seed that grows and life begins.            

 Let’s go down to the scriptures there in verse 3 it says, “Behold, a sower went out to sow.” O.K. we’ve got the seed we’ve got to put it in the ground.  We’ve got the ground all ready to go and we sow the seed.  How are we going to sow it?  It depends on the type of seed.  We can broadcast it, we can drill it, or we can plant it by hand.  It depends on what you want to do and the type of seed we were working with.  Sowing usually refers to broadcasting.  You broadcast the seed.  You get the seed in your hand and throw it out. Different seeds need different things before planting depending upon the type of seeds you have.  I’ll refer to wheat and oats ‘cause that’s what I remember my grandfather using in the field.  When you select the seed you are careful where you go to purchase your seed because you want  good seed that will germinate well.  If it’s stored in a place that’s hot or a place that’s got a lot of humidity you’re going to have problems with the seed. It needs to be kept dry and in a good place.  You know I’ve said that I like to garden and I have found different places where I can get my seeds that have been reliable.  I don’t pick my seeds from everywhere because I’ve tried that.  Oh, boy, these seeds are cheap well, I got cheap seeds but half of them didn’t produce or very few produced.  I like to be careful when selecting seeds.              

Selecting seeds is like selecting what words we say because words are powerful.  Words are meaningful.  We can sow the seeds or we can sow the words.  You know hearing Cinda’s testimony tonight I thought she was sowing words there in the hospital to the medical people.  Sowing words, when Don was praying for somebody all those people were hearing.  Words and seeds are alike, they germinate they grow together.  Because when we sow we expect a yield.  When we sow the word we are going to expect a yield.  We are expecting that something is going to happen.  So we become sowers of seed or sowers of the word.             In Matthew 13 verse 18 it says “Therefore hear the parable of the sower.” In Mark 4:14 “The sower sows the word.”  Look at how unique those are.  It seemed that way this evening as we shared the different testimonies.   In 2 Corinthians 9:10 “¹⁰Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.”  We sow the seed or we sow the word – we see examples and we expect it.  We expect a yield there because Jesus considered his word as binding.  When he spoke it that was it, no if’s and’s or but’s.  It was there.  He spoke his voice with authority and truth was in the teaching or in the word.  The seed is in the truth.  The seed is in the yield when we plant.  We look far forward.  Jesus said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God.  His word will never pass away.  Jesus said that his word would live or remain for eternity.           

Matthew in chapter 24 verse 35 says “³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” A little comment that I picked up says wise people listen to his words but foolish ones do not.  You want to be wise? Then listen to the word.  Jesus compared those who obeyed his word to wise men.  He said those who did not listen to his teachings were to be compared to foolish men.  We need to select our seeds wisely.  We need to select our words wisely.           

 I mentioned hybrid seed.  Hybrid seed is a crossover that is made so much today.  A crossover takes a good seed and fixes it so that it will produce a good yield.  But if you take a seed off that yield you cannot plant it again next year and expect to get the same thing. What happens to the good crop? That’s half way gone.  We’ve got to start all over again.  We keep doing that.  We keep doing that.  What’s going to happen to the original plant?  Oh, it’s quiet in here! Well you can go to a seed laboratory, in fact there is one over at CSU. They collect and save all the heirloom seeds. They keep a supply because after a while the hybrid seeds are going to deplete so you’ve got to come back to an heirloom seed and start all over again.  So somebody is wise to do that.  I can’t think of the name of the lab I’ve done work for them in our business and it’s a unique place.  It’s amazing what they do over there.  Praise the Lord that somebody was wise enough to save some of those seeds.           

 Heirloom seeds -- O.K. I bought some cucumber seeds, English cucumbers, they grow about this long you’ve probably seen them in the store.  About 1 ½ to 2 inches in diameter, Armenian cucumbers that’s what they are, thank you.  Well we enjoyed them last year and at the end of the season about this time of year there are still some little ones growing that didn’t grow very much.  That’s O.K. the frost hit them and they turned dead and I took the cultivator and chopped them all up and this year I saw them coming back up again!  I said, well, I’ll just see what happens so I just let them go.  Well, what did I get? I don’t think there was one over this long it was about this big around.  It rounded off just like that instead of being long and thin it was fat and round and little.  That’s your hybrid seed.  It still tasted like cucumber on the inside but the skin was hard.  It was hard compared to the original one.  So the type of seeds you select or the words we put out are important.             

What type of things are the sower going to sow?  We have a squash I call it the Johnson squash now.  A friend of mine gave me this particular squash and it looks like a Hubbard squash but its grey and it doesn’t have stripes on it.  It’s just plain grey.  I’ve looked in all kinds of catalogs and never found any like it.  The meat is just beautiful golden orange and it’s so sweet.  I think it is awesome so I keep saving the seeds each year and I keep getting the same squash all the time.  So I gave some to a friend of mine and he stated planting them and he raved about them.  One day I saw him and he said, well, your squash is in Russia now.  I said it is?  He said yeah, they grow great big ones over there. Well a friend of his son works for some type of study on tigers up there in cold Siberia where they have short summer months.  He was over there a year ago so he left some seed with him.  So I get a report every year now. The heirloom seeds are growing.  The word is growing.  Watch what you sow!             

Let’s go back to the last example on the sowing of how my grandfather sowed.  You’ve seen these people who carry a little baby in front.  The sower my grandfather had was a little thing you carry in front of you and it has a little propeller.  There is a little slot right there that measures how much you want out.  I always liked to see him when he was sowing.  He would put about 30 pounds in that thing and then he would walk the field and I’d walk behind him.  The seed comes out in a light circle.  Well over here it was light but this area would be covered from side to side. I said before that the fence goes down on each side and down at the end you’ve got a little square over there.  The fence has changed over the years. There is a nice fence row over here and it kind of goes up a little bit because over the years the dirt gets up there and is pushed up there.  You can’t get a bit closer to the fence to bring the soil back in unless you want to do it by hand.  While we’re out sowing seeds some of it goes there and it’s called the wayward side.  The seeds get over there on the wayward side. Boy you hate to waste seeds but they get down there on the wayward side anyway.  Where I said we pulled two horses around and you’ve got this area over there by the corner of the fence that you can’t get to it but the seeds go there. You try to spread some by hand and even then you get seeds on the wayward side.             

 Matthew 13:19 says, ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.”  If it’s not in the word it’s not in the good ground.  You pick it up and just hear part of it and the evil one comes and steals some of that. Those are the words by the wayward side which is stated in Luke 8:12 “¹²Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.” So the wayward side is kind of like the people on the outskirts.             

Here’s another example we are here but the people outside they would be on the wayside.  They’re just listening – it sounds pretty good but they don’t want to come into this area of the good ground. If you are not on the good ground you could be on the wayside.  The scripture was says you could be devoured.  The birds come and devour the word.   My grandfather tried to keep the seeds from falling on the driveway but the birds were there standing on a pole.  Once he turned around and started back up who was in the roadway?  The birds, they were in there devouring it.  Most of them were blackbirds and meadowlarks.  They came in there and cleaned them up.  By the time we got to the end of the field the seeds were all gone, they had picked the road clean.  You look down in the dirt and you could see their tracks just all over the place.  They devoured it all.  Devouring is making war, eating everything, prevailing.  Those birds prevailed over those seeds that we had.  We do not take the word seriously enough but we can research it and understand the word even if it’s outside of our area.  We don’t take it and look at it.  Just what I’ve been saying here, you don’t take what I’ve been saying, look in the word and read it and digest and then look back and say he was wrong on that one point because the scripture says such and such here.  That’s the kind of looking that we need to do.  We need to understand the word and learn the right things. Because if we allow the birds or the devil to come in and devour what we’ve learned then we become weak and we need to be strong.             

 In Luke 8:5 it says ⁵“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.” And also in Luke 8:6 “⁶Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture.”  Where did the seeds fall?  Into the stony area; a stony area is rocky ground, disturbed ground, it is a stronghold like a fortress is a stony area.  Well let’s look down by the south end because that is where it was located in the field and that’s where the gate was.   What happens to the stones that are in the road on the roadway that we go up and down?  Do they stay in the middle of the road?  No, they move across this way to the sides don’t they?  You’ve got the stones down there.  They are kind of loose.  Well when the sower comes down the seed goes over into the stones.  They fall on the stones.  The stones are not compact are they? The seeds fall down in between the stones and the birds can’t find most of them.  When the seed grows there their roots are going to be shallow because they are really not reaching down into the ground level. So there is little moisture.  When it rains then they get wet and the moisture reaches down in there so the seed will germinate.  And because it is hot they are plumped up in a day or two.  You see the little green shoots and you think, boy, I didn’t know I had that much seed in that stony area.  It comes up but you know about 4 days later then it’s all gone.  Buenas dias, good bye plants, over. They don’t have moisture.  It gets in the stony area and they dry up, they wither away. It says here that withered means ashamed, shameful.  I thought that was interesting, shameful utterly dry.           

The next area of scripture says thorny area, they fell among the thorns and the thorns sprang up and choked them. Thorns mean brambles, pot, washpot pans, fishhooks, that is kind of interesting. So in that corner that’s where all the weeds and thorns come up. In our area I guess you’d call them Russian thistles and, you probably know the name, it’s a little cow hoof thing that used to hang on cow’s legs.  I don’t know what they are.  Hobbles?  No, Devil’s claw that’s what they are.  It really is a good name for them!  And Russian thistles will grow in that area too.  It’s got moisture and it’s got water for a short time.  Something that we are finding out about all these things is that they come back. Wowee! The scriptures talk about sowing the seed on the rocky area, the pathway, the wayside, the stony area.           

It was all good seed that was thrown out.  The things had foliage but they weren’t good grain.  Remember the seed is the word -- our words.  We need to keep it in the good ground.  Down towards verse 13 in Matthew 8 it says that others fell on good ground and yielded crops some a hundredfold and sixtyfold and some thirty.  Kind of interesting, it said a field is a country, a land, a farm or a piece of ground.  Good ground gives rewards, it ripens, it serves, it yields.  Good ground, when you have good ground it does supply a yield. Look  also in Mark 4:8 “But other seeds fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced some thirtyfold some sixty and some a hundred.” Now if you think about it is there any difference between Mark 8:4 and 13:8?  Look at that I reversed the numbers, think about it -- you need to catch my errors! That is it possible I do make mistakes. Luke 8:15 “But the ones that fell on the good ground are those that who having heard the word with  a noble and good heart, keep it  and bear fruit with patience.”       I’ve felt with DLTC we can teach the word that is the true word to the best of our ability.  I thought about Curry Blake.  Curry is no different than us and we are no different than Curry.  Curry has taken the time to study read and find out what is right and wrong and he is sharing to the best of his ability, the truth.  That is what we need to do.  We need to study the word.  I was asking Don yesterday we take the time to pray for a person and we spend some time there praying --  is it just time for healing and God is there? Or can you go out where I’m working in the shop or in the yard where I’ll be praying and speaking in tongues and being conscious of what I am doing at the same time.  I’ve done all that. Yeah, God is there all the time.  We don’t have to go into the closet and shut the door and spend our time in there as though we were apart.  We are in the word we are speaking the word even when we are doing other things.       And then we talk about how Jesus shared these parables because the people did not quite understand.  We have the opportunity to hear.  We have the opportunity to take the word and study it and work on it.  So the disciples said, Jesus, why do you share everything in parables?  

In Matthew 13:10-13. “¹⁰And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”¹¹He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.” We have the scriptures we have that opportunity.  Here earlier last year we talked about the kingdom, the kingdom authority, the kingdom of God and they didn’t have that.   ^“12For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.  ¹³Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.”  And I thought about that in relation to sowing the seed -- the opportunity, the freedom that we have to take the word and study it and use it and apply it so we can get thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold with that word.             Matthew 13:16-17  “¹⁶But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;  ¹⁷for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”  The first thing that popped into my mind while reading this scripture was the Pharisees. They were all rigid – this is the way it’s done.  You’ve got to stand, you’ve got to preach, you’ve got to stand behind the pulpit with your hands crossed and look down your nose and don’t look anywhere else.  They were all rigid; this is the law, this is what you do.  But in Jesus we’re free, take it, use it, move with it, learn it, let it supply a yield beyond your imagination.             

 We need to be in prayer.  In Matthew 7:15 “¹⁵Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” We’re not to limit anybody but we need to be aware of some of these other organizations or things that come along.  As we’ve shared before Billie and I have gone to some of these places to try to learn more until we came to Curry who showed us how to understand and use and apply the words.  But these others were ravenous wolves because they wanted you to come.  They also wanted you to buy all these books and you had to pay a good fee to come to the conference center.  They wanted what they could get from you but as far as the word they shared -- it was partly accurate and some of it was not accurate.  They were spreading it for their profit and not for the Lord’s profit.  So we need to be aware of some of these things.     

We are going back to Matthew 13:18-23 where Jesus explains the parable of the sower now.  He said to them “¹⁸“Therefore hear the parable of the sower:  ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.” Even here we’ve had some people come in and then leave and not come back.  When we give them a call and ask them how we are doing.  They say we are not teaching the true word.  We’re not? Well they’re getting other teaching from an evangelist down in Colorado Springs or somewhere.  So we study that and we can see where they are coming from.  It’s kind of like ravenous wolves they take you part way and they don’t bring the rest in.  They don’t tell you the complete truth and combine that with scriptures. They don’t understand and then the devil will come and snatch it away.  When you are planting seed, when you plant the word in good ground you need water, need to do weeding, to keep it in good shape.  We need to keep the enemy out.  You keep good plants growing.         

Tim Jorgensen was here a couple of weeks ago.  Billie and I are enjoying his book Spirit Life Training. We are going over it again because it takes us right down to the word, the truth and light and how to pray and minister from the spirit.  He shared about speaking from your spirit (in the midst of you) when he was here.  He said you need to get the Holy Spirit out of your spirit and we’ve been trying that and wowee it’s made a difference in us.  Scripture talks about our groanings -- that Holy Spirit will come out in our groanings.  In our teaching sometimes people will ask questions to substantiate their doubt in what you are saying. I was sharing a little bit with Billie about this and she said yes, I remember when I was teaching a class on the Holy Spirit Baptism over in another church.  She saw this woman and you could tell she had a blank face and she didn’t understand.  Then when Billie was all done this gal asked a question, well what about the ones in China? Completely irrelevant to what the teaching was.  So you may have this. You need to stay in the word.  You need to fight.  We want to stay out of the wayside.  We want to stay in the good ground.       

How do you stay in the good ground? Get in a fellowship like this; get in a home group; be somewhere with somebody that you can be accountable to; share the word, teach the word, and correct one another.  This is what we need to do.  Check out the word.  When you buy a CD or a book, check it out.  Where does it line up?  Some will have real good things. I remember one of the things said when Curry shared his testimony with Sid Roth.  This other guy was going to precede him or come after him.  He had written a book and published it. He had several thousand copies and after Curry shared he said, Oh, gosh, what you’re saying I guess all my books are worthless now.  He just hadn’t done his homework.  He just did his work in one little area not the complete scriptures.  So we need to stay together, to study and help one another and be cautious of what we do because we need to be aware of where we put our roots. We don’t want to put our roots in stony ground we need to keep our roots in solid ground.  Praise God.       When we are in tribulation or getting persecuted we need to be together and solid in the word so we can help one another.  We are going to get attacked; we are going to get people puffed up and we need to stand together.  We’re helping a young lady now and we told her you can call us anytime.  She called recently and Billie picked up the phone and asked how are you doing? I’m not doing so well.  Billie said let’s pray, they prayed and Billie said I want you to start praying in your prayer language, O.K.?  And she did start praying in her prayer language and Billie asked, now how do you feel?  She said a lot better now.  You just keep going and if you run into any more problems you can call but keep positive, read the word, pray in your prayer language.  That’s what we need to do with one another.  That keeps us accountable, knowing the word, using the word.  If we don’t sow the word it does not give us a yield and we need to get a good yield.       “Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he becomes unfruitful.” You know there is one phrase in there that caught my eye, ‘deceitfulness of riches.’  In the world we live in today how does it affect us to have riches?  I watch the stock market and how the Dow Jones goes up and down and the comments of what some people say.  Some say I just lost it, everything, gone, gone all my life savings.  But I say I’ve got Jesus.  I haven’t lost anything because he supplies my need and I’m not concerned about savings but they’ve lost everything because that is all they had.  Their thinking was on riches.  If I’m in the world I will do the world.  The word of God got chocked in rocks because there was no solid ground and we need solid ground and that is in the word. Jesus said “But he who received seed in the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces some a hundredfold some sixty some thirty.”  I don’t know about you but I’m going for that hundredfold because I believe I can get there remember that.

In 2 Corinthians 9:10-15 I read part of this earlier “¹⁰Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,  ¹¹while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.  ¹²For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men, ¹⁴and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you.  ¹⁵Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”  He has given us everything and we need to take it and use it and not be a hybrid seed to just do it for a short yield or have a short attention span.  We need to be heirloom seeds and make a yield of thirty, sixty or a hundredfold because it would be for the glory of God and we will be receiving his incredible gifts that he has for us.      There is one more verse that I’d like to read in closing.  It’s in Matthew 13:24-30 “²⁴Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;  ²⁵but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.  ²⁶But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.  ²⁷So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’  ²⁸He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’  ²⁹But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.  ³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”  

We’re going to have tares come into our midst and when they come in we minister to them.  We cultivate them we encourage them.  We heal them.  But those who do not listen we separate the tares from the wheat.  We will have those who do not listen because when we look at the scriptures we have the Pharisees.  We’ve had them all the time down through the ages.  We minister to them, we need to heal them but if they continue to be tares we may set them aside.  Some of them are hybrid seed trying to corrupt the good seed.      Matthew 13:33 “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” I feel we are being leavened and we are to go out.  We are to minister.   We want to grab this and run with it.  We are here to help, get you excited and go.  These are things the Lord gave me and I kept putting scriptures to them.  I enjoy this time more than anybody and I hope you have learned a little tidbit.