Prophetic Grace and Christian Living - Pastor Emmanuel Osei-Akosah

Song we all know it, so please join us to sing this song, OK.

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity

from sin and the grave. Weep all the hearing one, lift

up the fallen, tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying.

Jesus is mercy, for Jesus will save.

Rescue, rescue the perish here, for the dive slots them in peace

from sin and the grave. Weep or weep or the pariah live

top the folly. Tell them of Jesus the Mighty

to. Rescue.

Rescue that narration. Live for the dying.

Jesus is merciful. Jesus rescue the perish in

Matthew the perish in care for the damn him.

Jesus is merciful. Jesus will save the Lord.

They are slighting him. He is waiting, waiting the penny

that child to receive. Lead with them and asleep.

Live with them gently. He will forgive if they are

liberally Rescue, rescue the perishing, care for Oh, Jesus is

merciful Jesus. Rescue, rescue the perishing.

Care for the dying. Jesus says mercy for.

Jesus will say rescue, rescue. Apparently she care for that

lion. Jesus says Mercy for Jesus,

rescue the parishes, kill the parishes here for that day, and

Jesus is merciful. Jesus will say.

Delivering this morning, Sir. This morning, Sir.

Delivering this morning Salmon is no other person that our

resident minister in the person of Pastor Emmanuel or say Akosa.

Shall we welcome him? With a club offering.

Praise the Lord, May grace and peace for our Father and our

Savior Christ Jesus be multiplied unto us all.

Oh I can't feel your Amen. Your Amen is a bit down now.

You have come to church. Amen.

We thank God for today and for this week.

This whole week is area week and we are ending today and

throughout the whole week we have been looking at prophetic

grace and Christian living lessons from the prophets, Hosea

lessons from the book of Hosea. And today as we end I want us to

look at another sub team from that same bigger one.

Plow any unplowed land in your life.

Plowing any unplowed land in your life, that is what we want

to look at. So as part of the prophetic

Greece and Christian living, we want to picture this from the

book of Hosea. So read our texts as you have

seen there on the screen. Hosea 6 verse 6.

Hosea 6:6

And then we'll go to Hosea chapter 10, verse 12 to 13,

Hosea 10:12–13

Jeremiah 4 verse 3, and then finally Isaiah 32 verse 15,

Jeremiah 4:3 Isaiah 32:15

Hosea 6 verse 6, Hosea 10 verse 12 to 13, Jeremiah 4 verse 3,

Hosea 6:6 Hosea 10:12–13 Jeremiah 4:3

and Isaiah 3215. So read from Hosea 6 verse 6.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, an acknowledgement of

God rather than bent offerings. Amen.

And move on to Hosea 10 verse 12 and 13.

Hosea 10:12

Hosea 10 verse 12 and 13. Sow righteousness for

Hosea 10:12

yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up

your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the Lord,

until He comes and showers his righteousness on you. 13 Please.

But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have

eaten the fruit of deception, because you have depended on

your own strength and on your many warriors are men.

They read from Jeremiah 4. Three.

Jeremiah 4/3 This is what the law says to the people of Judah

and to Jerusalem. Break up your unplowed ground,

and do not sow among tongues. Break up your unplowed ground

and do not sow among thongs. And then finally, Isaiah 3215.

So the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert

becomes a fertile field. And the fertile field seems like

a forest when we read from the same text from the NLT.

Let's take it from the NLT and let's see.

Until at last the spread is poured on us from heaven.

Then the wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile

field will yield bountiful crops.

Amen. So Hosea, what we are looking at

today, essentially Hosea's message is a call to repentance,

is a call to repentance and spiritual renewal.

What are we going to look at? You see that if you take your

time and read the entire book of Hosea, which I would have wished

that you take an hour to read and not celebrate, you can do it

within a very short time, though you may be thinking about many

things, how to comprehend it, but just read and you catch the

import of it. And then it also shows us that

God has a desire to restore. Though He had threatened them to

bring judgments. God, on the other hand, too, was

trying to say that He will restore them.

Then He tells them that their religion was so superficial,

they were just doing something to represent another thing.

They came to serve God, but their hearts and their minds

were far away. So God was saying that I desire

mercy, not sacrifices. God wanted them to come and know

Him personally and relate to Him, not just doing something to

represent something. And then as we end, we look at

the issue of sewing, plowing, sewing and ripping.

So that is what we want to look at.

So let's start from Hosea's time.

Hosea lived in a very chaotic time.

His time was very bad. He lived in a troubled and

chaotic time. After the 40th reign of

Jeroboam. The second they were they were

cools, there was instability and the social conditions were also

very bad. The social condition there was

bad spiritually to Israel had abandoned their God and they

were they had a form of worship that was syncretic, meaning that

they had picked other things and they claimed to worship God, but

they were worshipping bow and they were also having the calf

and we were worshipping all these things.

So he leave he was called in a time when things were very bad.

Leadership had filled, priests had ignored God's word and the

kings trusted others. They wanted to seek help from

Egypt instead of seeking help from him God and this thing

happened in the northern Kingdom.

By this time Israel had been divided into two 10 tribes had

formed the northern Kingdom. And they when you read this

book, you'll be seen God referring to them, Samaria

because it was their capital. You see, God mentioned Ephraim

because it was the most prominent of the tribes in the

north and it was level 2 down. And that was what we refer to

Judah. So the Judah now, they now call

themselves the real Jews because they have the pure blooded Jews.

The northern tribes after Hosea, you will see their name.

God banished them and they were mixed up also because they

failed to listen to God. So God, his heart was not at at

ease. In fact he wanted to call them

to himself. So from the Kingdom to the

priests to the worship, to the social structure, everything was

crumbling, everything was upside down.

And that was the time that the word of the Lord, the prophetic

grace came upon Hosea. So the word of the Lord came to

him and he was told to go and act.

So the prophetic grace was God's response to what was happening.

God wanted to talk to them. So God anointed all the word

that grace came upon Hosea to go and deliver God's message to the

people of Israel who were living in sin.

So God's response to the chaotic world was that he bestowed

prophetic grace. So God gives his prophetic grace

a response to what is happening amongst us.

God intentionally raised some individuals from nowhere to come

and declare his way that that sears the Lord.

And that grace is what we are praying that in our time to you,

May God raise us up so that in our homes, wherever we are, we

will be the mouthpiece of God at our workplace.

So as you evangelize, receive this grace to you so that you

will not only evangelize, but you will carry the prophetic

anointing. Hallelujah.

So the prophetic grace came in a time where there was a mess.

In a time of mess, God gave a message to take them out of that

mess. And that was what came through

the prophetic mouth of Hosea. So God's prophetic grace brings

prophetic messages to a messy world to forestall order.

So there was so much chaos and they needed order and God

unleashed His prophetic grace to go and restore order.

So the prophetic grace we are talking about came so that they

would know God's intention. It was revealed so that they

will have a better life and direction for themselves.

So now they were doing everything they could.

They were doing it anything, but they were not doing it according

to what God wanted. So as a loving Father and as a

faithful God, He didn't want to destroy them.

Because when you read the book of Hosea, you see the God being

just and at the same time being merciful.

So he says that he deserves mercy so that he wouldn't want

to destroy them. At the same time, you will not

sit down on concern while they keep on sinning.

So he he called the the grace of the prophetic grace came to warn

them that if you don't stop, I will destroy you.

And it's the same thing with us now.

So as a father, anytime he sees things going wayward, bad,

messy, he intervenes. And he intervenes by declaring

his intention. He intervenes by seeking for a

mouthpiece to tell them that this is what I want to do.

So if you would change and come to me, I too, I'll return unto

you. May we be the mouthpiece of God

in our time. So God told him to go and marry

Goma, a promiscuous woman, an audifu, a prophet in Israel.

In fact, of all the minor, of all those who from Daniel and

Cole, from Joel up to Malachi, it was only him who came from

the Northern tribe, and he was called to preach unto them, this

man. And of all the women in the

world, God didn't ask him to marry anyone except a

promiscuous woman. So he said that when the Lord

began to speak through Hosea, the first word, the Lord said to

him, Go marry a promiscuous woman and have children with

her. For like an adulterous wife,

this man is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.

So God wanted to let the world, God, you wanted human beings to

feel how he felt. So he wanted to demonstrate,

dramatize his feelings by asking a righteous man to get marry a

very evil and evil woman. So God was saying that through

your relationship, I'm going to use you to demonstrate my

faithfulness and my mercy onto the land of Israel.

So that woman to receive mercy, because at a point in time she

went about following other men to the point that Jose had to go

and pay half a price of a slave to redeem her.

Go told him, Hosea, go and pay this amount and redeem her and

bring her back to your home. And Hosea said yes, Lord.

And he went and paid about 15. I've forgotten the exact amount,

but he went and paid to redeem that woman.

That evil woman, she had descended below the price of a

slave. She was worth half the price of

a slave, yes. So he bought her for 15 shekels

of silver and about a Homer and a lactic of Bali.

That amount there was half the price of a slave.

So she had degenerated her to the lowest point, that her

wealth was half a slave. And God told him that go and

bring her back. That was the sense which God

wanted to demonstrate love unto them.

So go there. His love for us is so great.

And that was the message, mercy towards Goma, who did not

deserve that mercy. But God told Hosea, go and

redeem her and bring her back. And that whatever word, the word

that Hosea told her, that now you will live here, you will be

left alone. And that is what the Lord will

also do to His nation, Israel. So through that grace, God

demonstrated his love towards us.

May God's love for us be seen through and through our lives in

Jesus name. So the first fruit of the

prophetic grace, the first fruits of the prophetic grace is

repentance. Repentance.

So Hosea himself had to repent. He had to change his mindset

towards Goma in order to marry her.

Repentance. When you receive the grace, your

ministry will work on you first before it will affect others.

If your ministry does not affect you, the impact on others.

Will be shallow. The grace of God upon you will

have to affect you in the same way we have been called, we have

been called and we are the people of God.

So the calling of God upon your life, she caused repentance in

you before we can try or attempt to preach to somebody.

So if you don't repent, you cannot preach and bring souls

unto the Lord. So the grace, the prophetic

grace transforms both the messenger and the audience.

Unfortunately, in the case of the nation, Hosea was

transformed, but the nation was adamant to ghost call to repent.

May we not hide under I go to church.

Sorry, I am a member of this and still do whatever you want to

do. May God's grace upon you produce

repentance. Hallelujah.

Hosea's message were just simple and two return and know that the

Lord of all the sermons he preached, of all the things you

read, these two words are key. Return to the Lord and know the

Lord. So it is repentance and the

knowledge of God. So the basic issue of the

Israelites was that they are turned away from the Lord.

Their backs were now facing God and God was saying that repent,

come, come to me and then let us sit down together for you to

know me and know me well. If you are one mile apart from

God, God is saying come back to Him.

If you are here and you need to return to God in prayer, return

to Him. You cannot survive if you go

alone. If you drift and drift and drift

and drift and drift, a time is coming.

You will lose your way back. Then coming to this hall will be

the most difficult thing in your life.

Coming to church will be like, hey, carrying a log of wood

because you have drifted and it comes subtle, slowly.

Before you say, Jack, you are one mile apart.

May we return unto God in prayer.

Remember your first love, your first love.

The day you first believed how you were you were yearning to

fellowship with God. How you you, you used to pray

read the Bible. The day you don't even read, you

feel like something is missing with you and check today with at

you and see if you have gone off.

God is saying that may we return unto him.

Return in your faith. Some of us, if we don't take

care. The world can spin you.

This world, it can spin you. Because from the day from

morning, from dawn to dusk. Obeyashi true of us.

Everybody make wild. Hey, everybody, you in a car

crowd. Yeah, it'd be too serious.

Because don't know your your you open your eyes and plants,

inquire plants from the home. And if you are a wife and a

mother. Dear.

Deionia Manhunu. What dear, dear, where's how to

cook? You know you are tired and you

have to carry yourself up, take care of the small ones and take

care of the mountain before you move out.

You are late to to even make your way out to your office.

Traffic, the horns everywhere, fatigue, but in this time to God

express us throughout that relationship with him.

So if you are drifting, come back to him and may we repent.

So God's repentance, he wants it to be genuine God.

He doesn't want superficial things.

He wanted them to return unto Him and to come to Him with

genuineness of hearts that will reflect in their daily life.

God, you wanted them to to show integrity of hearts.

You wanted to see that they have truly repented in their actions.

And that was when God used the example of plowing, sowing and

then reaping. So after the prophetic grace

came, God used a lot of things to draw the attention.

But we are just picking just one that God wanted to communicate

to the heart that what they are doing will end in West things.

It will end in wickedness, in evil.

Instead, they should turn around and begin to sow righteousness

so that what he desires as mercy, they will reap it.

So let's just now turn and go through the imagery of

agriculture and the call to repentance.

One of them is ploughing. That's go and plow.

In the same way you may think that in our time to what do we

have to do with plowing? What do I have to do with

agriculture? We are just using that one as

the imagery that God used for them because by that time they

were all into farming. In fact, it was the most

abundant thing that they used to do.

So we'll look at that one and then try to bring it down, down,

down, down to 10. So plowing then God meant that

they should break their hard hearts.

Before you sow a seed, the ground must be loose.

It shouldn't be compacted. It shouldn't be a hard ground.

Otherwise they cannot gain much strength to go through and to

gain roots. So follow grounds.

So before we look at what you have there, let's look at

unplowed grounds or fallow soil. It is simply a ground or soil

which has been left unplanted for a period of time.

In other words, fallowed land is a land that has been left there

for a while. So the NIV calls it on plowed

grounds and the King James and GO calls it fallow grounds.

They are the same words. So it is a land that could be

used to produce good things, but has been neglected, has been

left idle, has been left untilled.

Though it can be tilled to produce many things, it has been

left for whatever reasons known best to them.

So for it to be planted again, it has to be broken, it has to

be prepared, it has to come back so that it will be useful for

that which has to be done. In the same way, God's Word came

to them to break up the fallow ground of their hearts.

Their heart now had been hardened.

Nyameka Shia. Their song will be Yentiobia

Yentiobia. In fact, when God speaks, they

don't even hear. It was strange.

They didn't even they couldn't even comprehend what God was

saying. So God needed them to draw the

attention that just as before you plant a seed, you work on

the ground to make it loose and soft.

You to your heart, your your your heart is adding and

therefore my word as a seed cannot gain grounds there to

produce seeds and fruits that I desire.

That was the the thing that God was was saying to them.

So there are two things that we want to show to you about how to

plow a plowable land. The first thing is that the

follow grounds someone has just seen is that the grounds though

is unusable. It's not used.

It can be used, but it has become unusable because of the

occupants on the grounds and the fellow grounds had also been

left to be there. And that was what how Ralph,

please see if you can go to the slides that have what is sparky.

It is there. So Ralph Wilson is the man who

identified it from the book that follow.

Ground is unusable because it is hard.

God could not use them. God could not use the the nation

for his glory because their fellow ground was unusable.

They needed to break it up before God could allow them or

before they could sow things. So fellow ground is unusable

because it is hard. You cannot put a grain of maize

on this street as fats and expect it to grow.

Why? Because the that ground, it is

sealed. It has not linked to the soil,

it is hardened and you need to break it before you get access

to the real soil. And it can produce fruits in the

same way. Their hearts were so hardened

with sin that they could not even hear God when He was

speaking. So follow grounds on you.

Please go back when we compare slides 3.

Otherwise I will tell you to move when it is so the seed

could not get access to gain roots.

So God's Word could not get access into their hearts and

they needed to break it. And fellow grounds you have to

before you work on them. You need to remove stamps.

You have you you all of you grew up in Accra and see how you draw

a palm. They don't see it, but you, you

let me show you a very simple way.

If you buy your own land and you want to build your house, you

need to go and hire a nuclear honor friend and say a machine

to go and clear the whole space. That's act of clearing is what I

am referring to, breaking up the ground so that it will make way

for you to do whatever you want to do good.

In the same way, whenever you go to a ground which has been

abandoned, left for a long time, you need to go and clap the

whole space, remove stumps, break up rocks, dislodge them,

gather tongues and bend them before you can get access to the

soil. So the nation had brought many

things on their hearts except God.

And for God to get through to them, He was warning them that

clear your hearts, get over everything which has occupy your

hearts and break it up so that my way can produce what I

desire. Also follow.

Grounds are unused. They are there.

You cannot just go and stand there and throw seeds there.

It cannot grow. It is, it cannot grow.

I pray that if anything has occupied our hearts, may we

clear them off Hallelujah. See, when you leave Bible

studies, devotions, your own one.

If you leave it for a long time, if you want to go back, look at

how difficult it is. If you have become prayerless

for a long time and you want to go back, hey, their struggles,

it means that you are breaking through.

The struggle is part of what breaking through whatever you

have left in this church. Anything that you used to do for

God and you have left, God is saying return on threats and do

it for Him. Hallelujah.

Also, if you constantly allow any land to be idle for some

time, gradually it will become a fallow ground in your Christian

work. Whatever spiritual discipline

you live for some time will become your fallow ground.

Prayer, evangelism. When was the last time you went

out to preach to somebody that Jesus says God loves you for God

so loved the world because you have not been doing it.

Now that area of your Christian work has become fallow.

Break it up. You need to go and clear all the

weeds, the cobwebs, everything on that ground and occupy it.

If you fail to do it, you become numb to God, especially in your

work with the Holy Spirit. At first probably used to hear

his voice, but you started drifting, sinning, small, small.

When he convicted you, you refuse.

And so now when he speaks, you don't hear because your, your,

your spiritual sharpness has been clouded by the cobwebs of

sin. You need to remove them, break

it up so that when God speaks, you hear.

If you don't take care and you become numb, then you get to a

very serious state of apostasy. Why?

Why? There is no way coming back to

God. May God help us so that we did

not go to that point. Fallow grounds too.

Another thing is that fallow grounds, they have nutrients and

they have unwanted things. So as you live your Christian

life to become fallow, your potentials in you are trapped

and weaknesses are also abounding in you.

So breaking up your fallow ground is a way of harnessing

your potentials and working on your weaknesses.

There is a gift in you, but you have allowed it to follow for a

long time. Every believer you have a gift

of God, you have gifts. Some of us, we have multiples,

but whenever we are praying, God gives the Holy Spirit deposits.

He deposits good things in us, but because you have left it to

follow, now you think that you don't have anything.

But if you will break your fallow ground, if you will go

back and clear all the unwanted things, God will work with you

again. Hallelujah.

Don't justify your weakness. Anything you have left to

follow, don't justify them. Allow God to work on them.

Don't do what? Justify them.

Next one please media team, next slide.

Don't justify your weakness. There is something great in you.

Until your your ground is broken, your land is

unprofitable to God. Until you break your heart for

God, you cannot bear fruits of repentance.

Thank you. So break up your fellow ground

and May God help us. Hallelujah.

Oh, I said Hallelujah. So without repentance there is

no restoration. Next slide please.

I want to take you to the fellow grounds in the parable of the

sewer. So let's go to the parable of

the sewer and let's read from Matthew.

OK, let's go to Luke. What Luke gave us is what I

like. Luke 8/11/50, 11 to 15.

Luke chapter 811 to 15. Let's take it from the NLT and I

will try to end with the parable of the sower.

This is the meaning of the parable.

The seed is God's word. Next verse.

The seeds that fell on the footpath represent those who

hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away

from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being

saved. Next verse.

The seeds on the rocky soil represent those who hear the

message and receive it with joy, but since they don't have deep

roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they

face temptation. The seeds that fell among the

thongs represent those who hear the message, but all too quickly

the message is crowded out by the cares and the riches and the

pleasures of this life. And so they never grow into

maturity. And the seas that fell on the

good soil represent look at the words he used there.

Represent honest, good hearted people.

Who hear God's word and they do what?

Cling to it and patiently produce what a huge harvest.

That is what I want to link up to time now.

So we have 4 different kinds of hearts there.

Those 4 soils there represent the conditions of our hearts.

The first hearts is the footpath.

It is hardened and exposed to the enemy, so they also hear.

They only hear and they lose their word easily.

The footpath is a hardened land, constantly trampled by men and

animals, so birds easily notice the seeds because that's ground

is exposed and the devil had access to their hearts, so he

just came there to steal it. The hearts are exposed to the

devil's spray for the devil to pray on the precious seeds.

So when your heart is hard, you cannot receive the word, it will

be stolen. The second group is the rocky

hearts, the rocky soil, They are shallow, they are enthusiastic,

but which they come to church. So as we speak now, whenever we

preach the word of God, 25% of us will produce fruits.

I don't know about you, whenever the word is preached, 75% will

not end up in bearing fruits, only 25%.

And the reason is that the first one is that the footpath group,

their heart is hardened. Urban women, we've got a bouncy

off. I pray that may we come to God

with a softened heart. The second group is that they

are enthusiastic. They hear the message and

receive it with joy. Oh preach, oh, preach preacher,

oh glory. And and they will start them

doing. I'm not saying that those

preacher almost sorry, you know, preach preacher.

I'm not good, but they are enthusiastic, but they are

shallow, very, very shallow. They don't have deep roots and

they fall away when there is what temptation.

So they are enthusiastic, shallow and weak.

They receive with joy. Hallelujah, are you this one?

But the moment they go, this time I won't drink again.

They will cry and weep. But the moment they go home and

they see the star with that sweat and so here, baby, next

one. I'm Emre.

They always call this the spirit is willing.

But Oh God, you know that the flesh the flesh is weak,

enthusiastic, but they are weak in the when they attempted.

No, they given the third group is the thorny 1 the thorny soil

that one, their heart is occupied with thorns.

They are crowded. They receive they to the hill,

they hear the word. They to the here they hear the

word. They hear the word, but too

quickly things crowd the word, and then they lose.

They lose, they lose it. I pray that we will not lose our

hearts. May God give us a good heart so

that we will always bear fruits. So they they cannot grow into

maturity. There is a competition, the

tongues are competing with the seed for nutrients but the

tongues were the first occupant. So among when you need a Dada

were full, Abuja said. And they have all these sharp,

sharp things. So they would choke the wet,

which is young, and they will kill it, and they will not grow

into maturity. And the first one and the first

one is the broken and the plowed land.

That one, no tongues, no rocks, nothing.

It is not hard, it is soft, it is loose, and they call it good

soil. The reason why they are called

good soil is that they are honest.

They know that God, God, what we are saying, I am at fault.

Blessed are the poor in spirits. So this group, they are poor in

spirit. They accept that we don't have

it all. So God help us.

They know they need help. They are good hearted and when

they receive the word, he says that they cling to the word.

They are receptive and then they patiently produce a harvest.

May our hearts be broken. So there will not be like the

first train, which is the which is the fallow ground.

So by by what I have said so far, the first train, the

footpath ground, the rocky soil, the thorny soil, they are fallow

grounds because they are still occupants on it.

But the first one is a good soil because it has been broken, it

has been cleared, all the bad things have been taken away, all

tongues are burnt. There are no rocks to interfere

with, with with taking roots, and they are nothing but them

except good soil which has been exposed to receive a seed.

May I have been broken in Jesus name, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

So I want to ask you, what competes for your heart?

What is competing for your heart?

Are you hearing or clinging? Fruitfulness requires brokenness

and patience. Next one, next slide.

Fruitfulness requires brokenness and patience.

James one. Let's see how James admonishes

us as way of ending James 1. James 121 and 22.

Get therefore get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is

so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you which

can save you. Next verse.

Please do not merely listen to the word and so deceive

yourselves. Do what it's do what it what?

Let's take the same text from the old man King James.

I like how King James puts his wherefore lay apart all

filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness.

This guy has elevated its super, just a super which is also

fluid. It means that it is volatile,

very bad until after Falcon naughtiness or size stubborn and

receive with meekness the engrafted Word which is able to

save your souls. Be ye, but be doers of the Word

and not hear us, Only deceiving your own selves.

So if you don't break your unplowed guts, you are deceiving

yourself. May God have mercy upon us.

May God help us to remove every filth and evil, even evil.

Evil spirits cry when they get a hat.

They sweep the place before they occupy evil spirit.

God, this is the one. And evil spirit leaves a person

at a point in time, it comes back to come and check if the

stick of the hat if he finds that the place has been left

that evils read I first found it.

We'll see the place clean evils read cry, but no more open.

How much more God and go and invite seven others more wicked

than itself to occupy it. So if evils read, if you want to

occupy good hearts to operate, then our God deserve a much

better hearts. So let us remove all fields and

break our hearts. Whatever you have left idle for

a long time, please go back and let the word of the Lord be sown

in your hearts. Follow grounds in COP are

intercessory prayers now in the church?

It's for himself, God for us. So you hardly hear anybody

praying for others. Intercessory prayers has become

a fallow ground. Commitment.

Commitment in the church has become what a fallow ground God

is calling us back to commit ourselves sacrificial giving and

paying of tithes. Some of us it has become a

fallow ground and the most conspicuous fallow ground is

evangelism and discipleship. As for this one will be anpe.

We are meeting to go and witness for yet yesterday night when we

met here, we were harmony, our harmony 6.

We have left it for a long time. May we go back and clear the

land of evangelism and let God deal with us.

So by ending, we have seen that you need to break up your fallow

ground, let repentance lead to restoration and allow God to

unlock the potentials in your fallow ground and allow Him to

also deal with your weakness as you pray.

We are using Isaiah 3215 to pray shall be on our feet as we read

it and pray Isaiah chapter 3215. Let's move to the newly living

one. NLT Yes, let's all reach

together. Ready go until at last the

Spirit is poured out on us from heaven.

Then the wilderness will become Word, a fertile field, and a

fertile field will yield bountiful crops.

So we want the Holy Spirit to fall afresh on us as we

contribute our path to break up any unplowed ground, the Holy

Spirit who will help to break us.

So we are praying unto God that oh God, whatever I have drifted

away from Indiana, my work with you for a long time.

Father, forgive me as I repent and return unto you.

Let us talk to the Lord. You know whatever you have left

doing for a long time, you yourself, you know anything that

God wants you to do for him that you have neglected doing for a

long time. Talk to God, that the Lord will

be merciful unto us. Whisper a prayer to his ear.

Pray, pray, pray unto the Lord anything that you have left

undone as a child of God for a long time.

We are praying unto Him the Oh God, bring me to the first,

where I first believe, to the first relationship that I had

with you, my first love, my first love.

God is calling us to return on to doing the wax, the first wax,

and to the first love. Oh God help us, Oh God help us.

Whatever we have left, any unplowed grounds in our

Christian work, we pray that, Oh God, bring us back, bring us

back, bring us back, bring us back, bring us back.

We repent. O God, forgive us, forgive us,

forgive us. O Lord, forgive us.

O God, forgive us. O God, forgive us.

O Lord, forgive us. O Lord, in the name of Jesus.

We want to sing this song. After that, we are committing

our hearts onto the hands of God that made the Holy Spirit help

us to clean our hearts, any aspect of our hearts

representing our relationship and communion with God, which we

have left to follow. We have left for a long time.

We are not attending to them. We want to go back and ask God

to clean every rock, every thong, every hardened part, so

that it will be loose to receive His word.

I surrender all unto Jesus. I surrender unto Him.

I freely give. I will ever love and trust.

So we want to sing the song. Please sing with meaning.

Let's go. I will ever.

Love and trust in His presence. Daily I surrender I.

Surrender. Oh.

I surrender. I surrender.

Oh. I surrender, oh oh, to be my.

Begin to pray unto the Lord. Surrender your hearts, Lord, we

repent of our sins. We repent of our sins.

We repent of our sins. We act.

The Lord forgive us, Lord, forgive us, Lord, forgive us by

repentance. They are heartbroken.

Hey. Listen, repentance is the one

that actually breaks the ground. Until you don't see the need to

repent of what you are doing, you will continually do it.

So today we want to repent of anything that we have been doing

of drifting away. Anything that you used to do for

God and now you have stopped. God is calling you to return

unto Him whatever thing that you need to return unto.

Showing love to your spouse, showing love to your spouse, you

need to return. You need to return in tithes and

offerings. You need to return in loving God

with all your hearts. What do you have to return?

In this morning? As we stand before God, may the

Holy Spirit reveal unto us the state of our affairs and our

work with Him. What do you need to return in

Repent? May repent.

May repent the nation after they were adamant to God's call to

repent. God eventually punish them.

If you fail to repent, a time is coming.

God will punish you unless you repent.

Unless we repent from doing the way we do church, the way we

serve God, we don't have to be superficial.

Serving God is not a Sunday affair.

It is an everyday relationship with God.

You need to return to your personal devotions, reading the

Bible for yourself. Hours upon hours we spend on

social media, but we don't spend.

In the mirror of God checking how do we look before God this

morning God is calling us to repent.

If you don't eat and you continue to drift a time is

coming. You never find your way back to

God. Coming to church might be the

bedding something to you if you don't repent.

Now if we all of us, we need to repent every day.

So as we are standing, let the Holy Spirit remind you, Lord, in

what do I have to repent? Asking you give you an answer,

Lord, in what do I have to repent?

Probably you don't even know in what do I have to repent?

Talk to God, ask him, Lord, in what do I have to repent and

hear the word that you give to you.

God wants you to have a good heart.

Let's please sit because of our time.

I pray Father we thank you in Jesus name.

Forgive us Lord for the times that sometimes we drift because

of your grace. We think we can do anything we

like, but today You have reminded us that there is a day

that You will judge us and that You want to show mercy to us,

and that You deserve mercy. Help us, O Lord, to get this

understanding. Help us, O Lord, that as You

have bestowed Your grace upon us, You deserve for us to

conform before we perform on Your behalf.

Help us to know that You desire our sanctification, not our

sacrifice. Help us to break our fallow

grounds that we have neglected for a long time and that is

causing us to drift away from You.

Lord, today we repent of our sins and we say that forgive us

as a corporate body, church and as individuals, have mercy upon

us. Bring us back to Yourself that

we may know You, that we may know You and the power of your

resurrection, that we may conform to the image of Your Son

and become like him. Lord, as we repent any fallow

ground, let it be broken. Make Your word take seed and

roots in our hearts and produce fruits.

We agree that Lord, we have weaknesses.

Help us to diminish them, they are great things in US.

Harness them for us as they come forth to shine so that men will

see our good deeds and glorify your name.

Help us Lord, in Jesus name we have prayed our men.