The Parable of the Sower

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 Narrative: Welcome to Insights on Healing a weekly podcast. Today’s Episode is “The Parable of the Sower” You will learn from this parable the types of persons who receive God’s word and where you fit in.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. Insights on Healing Podcast includes the reading of scripture, praying for my audience, reading from one of my books, or telling  stories of how individuals through the healing power of God, found purpose in their lives.

I pray as you listen to this episode, that God would bless you and provide you with hope that you have been longing for. Today’s podcast is taken from the book of Mark Chapter 4: 3-20. I am reading from the NIV version of the Bible.

The Parable of the Sower

³ “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴ As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶ But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. ⁸ Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”

Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

¹⁰ When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. ¹¹ He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables ¹² so that,“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’^[a]”

¹³ Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? ¹⁴ The farmer sows the word. ¹⁵ Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. ¹⁶ Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. ¹⁷ But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸ Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; ¹⁹ but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. ²⁰ Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.

Prayer: Father, I thank you that you are almighty, and you continue to rule over the nations. We pray about the Pandemic and the war in Ukraine and ask for your help. I pray that you will provide for those who are in need. May those who listen to this message receive the word of God and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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