' Breaking Up The Fallow Ground '

If so you will not allow your heart to become hardened against the word and spirit of God!

You will break up the ground that has been left unattended !

Unattended means simply something not dealt with !

Understand that we can not allow things in our heart that we fail to DEAL with!

Because the result is we will become hardened and the seed of righteousness will not be able to produce in us!

Issues in our lives will not simply go away – they become an hardening agent and cause us to justify our feelings and actions! We feel that we are right in holding resentment for wrong done against us!

The problem is we harden our hearts when we fail to deal with issues of resentment and unforgiveness.

III - Fallow ground is UNUSED GROUND

( Unused – Haven’t done anything with it in a long period of time)

Saints who are not involved in the work of God often in time become hard and callused when it come to the harvest.

In other words – God wants to use us to REPRODUCE and bring forth a harvest. But he can not if the our life is not ready and cultivated for use

We breakup the fallow ground when we pray for sensitivity to the needs of others in our world of influence.

Simply our lives should be bringing forth a harvest of souls!

Unused home bible study charts is evidence of fallow ground!

Lack of interest in soulwinning and witnessing is evidence of fallow ground

Too busy with secular activities to get involved in the work of God is evidence of fallow ground!

IV- When the fallow ground is broken – you are able to easily receive the word of God!

When it is difficult to receive the word of God –it is often because of the hardening of the heart!

Prayer softens our heart to enable us to receive the word.

We call for prayer before services to allow our hearts and minds to become sensitive to the moving of the Spirit and allow our hearts to be softened to the receive the word of God.

Hosea said that ‘breaking up the fallow ground ‘ will proceed the rains of refreshing that come from the Lord!

In other words

Revival comes after we break up the fallow ground!

We are foolish to think that REAL revival will come with

Hardened attitudes,

Feelings of unforgiveness, or a

Lack of interest in the work of God

Revival always come after the breaking of the fallow ground!

If you will humble yourself and pray – Breaking of fallow ground

God will heal your land – Revival will come !!!

Before the flood of Noah’s day!

There had never been rain from above!

Scripture says ‘Before the heavens opened up the fountains of the deep were brokened’

Before heaven ever opens up for a person or church assembly - The fountains of the deep ( our heart ) must first be opened up!

The only prayer God can not answer is the one not prayed!

Too often we want revival to be poured out without OPENING our heart and soul before God.

Closing

Notice – Hosea said before the RAINS fall upon us that we MUST realize that it is TIME TO SEEK THE LORD!

To both realize and do it - To seek the Lord with a broken and contrite heart will break up the fallow ground and doing so will open our hearts to receive the revival that God has for us!