Week #1
Psalms 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Memory verse: Luke 8:11
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
A. Why do we need to plant seeds?
- We need plants for food
- We need plants to feed our animals
- We need plants for oxygen
- We need plants for building things, and for shade
B. Why do we need to plant the seed of God?
- We need to obey Gods Word
- The Word of God tells us to
- To increase our attendance
- To receive blessings from God
- If we have Jesus in our heart, then we will want to please God
Week #2
Memory verse: Luke 8:12
- What to do first!
- Need to get the ground ready
- Break up the ground
- Get the rocks out of the ground
- Keep the weeds out of the ground
- What we need to do to get ready!
- Get saved
- Break up our hard hearts
- Confess our sins
- Read the Word of God
- Pray! Pray! Pray!
- Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any hidden sin
Week #3
- Need to water our garden
- Sometimes we must water our plants or they will die
- You can give too much and sometimes not enough water
We need to weep over the lost
- The Bible says to sow some tears
- The Bible says that some are rewarded only by tears
Week #4
- The Seed: Luke 8:4-15
- It’s hard, small, and dormant.
- Needs to be in the ground
- Birds may eat the seed if on the top of the soil
- The wind will blow it away
- The rain may wash it away
- The sun may burn it up
- Needs sunlight
- Needs water
- The Seed:
- Is the Word of God
- In order to propagate it must be sown
- Holy Spirit brings the seed to life
- For nourishment, it needs prayer & reading the Word of God
Week #5
A. Weeds Matt. 13:24-30
- Grow in any kind of soil
- Weeds will choke our good plants
- Some weeds look like the plants
- Weeds grow, even without water
- Weeds: Reasons to be careful of the weeds
- False preachers, and evangelistic music
- Reading material
- Friends
- Family members
- To days trends and fashions
6. Language and actions
Week #6
- Fertilizer:
- To much of it could hurt or kill the plants
- Not enough gives you poor quality
- Water helps to activate the fertilizer
- Fertilizer:
- Reading God’s Word is our fertilizer
- Prayer is our water
- Obeying God’s Word makes us grow
Week #7
A. Baring Fruit Luke 8:15 John 15
- good strong vine
- husbandman (someone to weed the vine of bad branches)
- branches
- Baring Fruit
1.Jesus is the vine
2.God is the husbandman
3.We are the branches
Week #8
- Baring more fruit
1.stronger branches
2. healthy branches
- Baring more fruit
1.We are strengthened through Gods Word (abide more in the vine)
2.God takes care of us for bearing fruit