A psalm written by Loaves and Fishes residents on June 16, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based on Galatians 5: 22-23, Matt 13: 3-9, John 15: 1-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barren Soil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear God, I come here to worship You and learn Your Ways. Soften my heart of stone. Make me be rich soil that Your Word will grow in and produce much fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, You brought my wretched soul out of the Pit of hell and placed me on Your high ground. Because of Your love for me, O Lord, I now have love and hope in my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After all the years of being worthless and bearing no fruit, now Your Word grows in me and I can share the Word and the fruit with others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before knowing You, I was a lost cause. But with love and faithfulness, you are teaching me humility, patience and self-control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I saw Your wisdom, I was a lost sheep among wolves. But now You are my shepherd, protecting me with love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Seed and The Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Father God, You are the gardener. Jesus, You are the vine. I am the branch. Cut off the dead branches in me so I may produce more fruit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of your seed, Your Word, falls on deaf ears; some people hear the Word and rejoice but are distracted; some seeds fall on rich, deep soil. May my heart be rich, deep soil for Your Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your Word is the seeds of love and faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Strengthen my mind to know wrong from right. Give me the wisdom to always know the difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Strengthen my belief in Your holy Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without Your Water and Food, the plants in my soil will wither and die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And when I mature, may I witness and give my fruit to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Congregation Rejoices <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Humble us too so we hear Your purpose for our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Give us also the fruit of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We too want to be the deep, rich soil that bears much fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prune from us dead branches so that we too produce more fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now send us out into Your world, Father God, to share the fruit of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A psalm written by Loaves and Fishes residents on June 16, 2021. Based on Galatians 5: 22-23, Matt 13: 3-9, John 15: 1-4 Barren Soil Dear God, I come here to worship You and learn Your Ways. Soften my heart of stone. Make me be rich soil that Your Word will grow in and produce…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loavesandfishesnc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}