Pull the Weeds

Jesus warned of three kinds of pesky weeds that can squeeze the life out of fruit-producing seedlings. (Luke 8:4-15)

1- The Weed of Worry
*This kind of weed will pull you in more than one direction.
*Removes your focus off Christ.
*Causes anxiety.
"Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to God Himself...Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way...Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God." ~Oswald Chambers

2-The Weed of Deceitful Riches
"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:9,10

3- The Weed of Desire
*sexual lust
*addiction to pornography
*perversions
*success
*food
*clothing
*jewlery
*car
*job, etc, etc

We want our lives to be the kind of good, fertile soil in which the gospel can take root and produce fruitfulness. ~Taken from MarriageBible...Dennis & Barb Rainey