19/10/2025
OCTOBER EDITION OF YOUTH SUNDAY
Ministering: Sis David Joy
Topic:: Breaking Fallow Ground
Text: Hosea 10:12
📖INTRODUCTION📖
Breaking means to separate, damage something or divide something into parts.
Fallow is a piece of land that is left idle, not cultivated, that leads to dormancy.
Ground is an earth surface.
Case Study: A farmer, a seed and a piece of land
Spiritually: A fallow ground means a heart that has gone cold, that has lost the zeal to do the work of the father.
God is the farmer, the HEART is the soil, the SEED is the word of God, the NUTRIENTS is the truth, grace and all forms of spiritual substance, while the LAND is the Kingdom of God and WE are the labourers.
N:B All seeds have the potential to become a harvest but not all seeds reach that potential, for the word for God to survive in our heart; we must do it carefully by fellowshipping and being intimate with God daily.
📖PURPOSE OF BREAKING FALLOW GROUND📖
📌 There's an urgency (Matt 9:37-38).
📌 Every delay in seeking God allows the soil (heart) to become harder.
📌 God is calling his people to intimacy, revival and restoration.
📖HOW DO WE BREAK THIS FALLOW GROUND📖
📌 Through repentance; (Jer 4:3-4), from those things that is making the heart hardened.
📌 Through the word of God: (Ezk 36:26), allowing it to pe*****te and renew the heart.
📌 Through prayer: (Ps 51:17), brokenness before God isn't weakness but you drawing near to God in humility.
🔺When the ground is broken and the seed is sown, God promises the rain of righteousness which is the holy spirit.
📖REFLECTION📖
What ground are you standing on? Luke 8:5-15
Is it a good ground or a stony ground?
📖CONCLUSION📖
A good ground doesn't happen by accident, you have to labour for it but sometimes impatience, pleasures of the world, jealousy, pride and so many others will not allow some Christians to wait for the ground to yield.
🙏PRAYER🙏
1. Lord, please restore me to that glory and give me a new heart and also help me to be consistent in your word so that I can be fruitful.
2. Father, in any way I have deviated, anything that is a stumbling block that is stopping me from yielding, please in your mercy take it away.