Wednesday, March 17, 2021

BLESSING INSTRUCTIONS THROUGH PARABLES

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Jesus Christ's ministry in the world He healed diseases, cast out demons from people and taught about the soon coming into the earth of My kingdom of God which ushers My blessings into the lives of My Children.  Concerning seeds sown and the ground upon which the seed is sown, His first parable that Jesus taught was concerning the condition of the ground.  The condition of the seed of My kingdom of God that I sow is always the same, with supernatural power to heal diseases, the power to cast out demons and the power to bring new life to people.  The difference in the amount of blessings that are able to come into the lives of people is clearly the condition of the ground.  All seeds have life in them for generations, able to produce a crop depending upon the condition of the grounds in which they are sown.  My Seed of the Holy Spirit never, ever loses its power to heal, to regenerate and to produce blessings.
    After Jesus taught some lessons about the devil's desire to conquer the life of every human being when He taught the Pharisees about their being judged by their deeds, their words and their actions, He left the house in which He was teaching and sat beside the sea.  As always happened, a crowd gathered around Him so He got into a boat and sat in the boat while the crowd gathered by the sea.  He taught to them many allegories, called parables which illustrated many things.  The first concerned seed and the condition of the soil.  Of course it concerned My seeds of truth being taught by Him at the time, but it also encompassed the seeds sown by My Holy Spirit through anyone who speaks for Me.  His emphasis was in describing the condition of the different grounds on which the seed is sown.  He named four types of soil, the hard ground on the roadside which had been trampled down by people, animals and carts, and He also named rocky ground, thorny ground and the good ground which yields either 100%, 60% or 30% grain. He also told the crowd that anyone who had spiritual ears to hear and understand Him, saying for those people to listen closely, to consider His words and to perceive the meaning of His words.  (Matthew 13:3-9)
     His own disciples complained to Jesus about the fact that He spoke to them and the crowds in parables instead of explaining the truths in them.  Jesus replied to His disciples that they had the ability to know the secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the other people it had not been given to them to understand and perceive the truths.   He went further in explaining the reason for his teaching the truths in the parables.  He said whoever has spiritual knowledge will receive into the good ground of their understanding even more truths and those people will be furnished abundantly with blessings.  He also said of the people who have no spiritual insights, that even the little that he or she has will be stolen away by the devil because there is no good soil in them for which My seeds to root.  (Matthew 13:10-12) 
    Jesus explained that the reason that He spoke in parables was because the rest of the crowds had the power of seeing but they did not see and they had the power of hearing, but they did not understand and grasp the meaning of His words.   It was the devil who had blinded them and deafened them to the truth, not Me.  Jesus explained more fully that it had been prophesied by Isaiah, speaking of the Jewish leaders, "You shall hear and hear and hear but never truly grasp and understand the truth; and you shall look and look, but never truly see and perceive.  (Matthew 13:13-14; Isaiah 6:9-10)  Because their hearts were made either hard or rocky or thorny by the devil, sometimes because of the teachings of other religious and political pharisaical hypocrites, they could not see My Son as their Messiah nor could they hear His truths.  The devil had done that dastardly work in their lives so that they would not be able to see with spiritual eyes and hear with spiritual ears, and as a result turn and allow Jesus Christ to heal them. (Matthew 13:15; Isaiah 59:1-4) 
    The works of the devil had cut the leaders of the Jewish nation off from recognizing and acknowledging My kingdom of God when they looked upon Jesus Christ, who was the administrator of My kingdom of God.  The common people who were poor in spirit, blind, deaf, crippled and demon possessed enjoyed the truth of My kingdom of God being taught by Jesus and so they were healed.  It was in this same teaching session that Luke wrote that Jesus told the crowds that if He cast out demons with My finger, meaning by My Holy Spirit, it's no doubt that My kingdom of God had come upon them. (Luke11:20)
     It is good that a person prays for his eyes to be opened to see and recognize My miracles, and his ears to be opened so that he can hear and understand spiritual truths.  Jesus told His disciples that they were happy and fortunate that their spiritual eyes saw and their spiritual ears heard the truths that Jesus taught.  They became abundantly blessed on the day of Pentecost when My kingdom of God came to live inside of them and surround them. (John 10:10) My blessings were beyond their wildest imaginations! (Ephesians 3:20)
    Your Father of Ears That Hear and Eyes That See

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