The Seed of The Word & The Soil of The Heart | Andy Elmes | 16th March 2025

Continuing the series on Magnify & Multiply, Ps Andy refers this week to John 12:32 (NIV) " And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself". There is a principle - when He is lifted, there's a drawing that begins to take place. His word is like a seed that has the ability to cause multiplication in our lives. Every word of God is a powerful seed. Ps Andy talks about approaching the word of God as seed. Then when we look at our hearts and our lives, we understand that this represents the soil.

PS Andy goes on to teach about the relationship between seed and soil using the parable of the sower as an illustration. There is a simple relationship between healthy seed and good soil. His word was and will always be eternally relevant. 

Ps Andy goes on to challenge us to examine our own lives and check out the condition of the soil in our hearts, are we chocked by thorns or barren as hard land or have we good healthy hearts ready for his word to flourish in our lives.

There are five areas we can look at to gain healthier soil in our hearts....

• Keep freshly ploughed ground - keep worshipping, intimacy with Jesus keeps our hearts in a condition ready to receive seed
• Have faith, we cannot please God without faith!
• Humility makes good soil because God resists the proud and give Christ to the humble
• Obedience to God takes our lives from be a barren land to a fruitful forest
• Heart health "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" (Proverbs 4:23, NIV).