While living on a farm, in a rural community in South Carolina, we grew a certain fruit called a watermelon. To
prepare for the planting of this fruit, you would break up the ground and rake it off with a harrow to remove the
debris. Then, you would take a turn plow and make an embankment, which was slightly above the rest of the
ground. You could not put fertilizer under the seed, and you would space each seed at least 4 feet apart to allow for
the growth of the plant and the running of the vines. The reason you could not use fertilizer is because the
watermelon would have its normal growth, but they would rot on the ends. "That doesn't work."
One thing about the planting of this fruit is that you could plant other vegetables in the lower level of earth beside
the embankment."This works". God speaks to us in His word regarding the sower and the seed. The sower is God,
the seed is mankind. God planted us in His garden, and is looking for a harvest. Some of the seed fell by the
wayside and the birds came and ate them up. Some fell in stony place, where they had not much earth, and when
they grew up and had no depth, the sun rose up and scorched them, and they withered because they no root. Some
fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them. Others, fell on good ground and produced a great
harvest.
Anyone that hears the word of God, and understand it not, Satan can come and snatch the word out of their heart.
These are the ones that fell by the wayside. He that has not root in the word, when tribulation or persecution arise
because of the word of God, they are offended (shallow ground), but he that receive the seed among thorns, is he
that heareth the word, but the cares of this world choked the word out of them, and they become unfruitful. But they
that receiveth the word into their heart, and understands it, produces fruit, some thirty, some sixty, and one
hundred-fold.
I was led by the Holy Ghost, to speak to you in a relative term called farming, which some of us understand. God has
thrust in His sickle, and is reaping His harvest.