Today Our Daily Bread Luke 10

Mt 13:23 But what is the seed that fell on the good ground? That seed is like the person who hears the teaching and understands it. That person grows and produces fruit, sometimes a hundred times more, sometimes sixty times more, and sometimes thirty times more."
How do I go from seed that fell, to seed that fell on good ground? Do I have any bearing on 30,60 or 100? It’s not about a plant growing in my life, it is about ME growing up. The key is #1 hearing teaching, then #2 understanding it, How do I hear? Place myself in places where the word goes forth or place my self in opportunities where I hear the word (Bible study group, daily bread, Christian programming when I could listen to everything else, books that teach scripture, church services where the word is taught and explained, etc). Then How do I understand it? By becoming a disciple, learning how to study the word at home and online :-) , ask lots of questions to your spiritual peers who’ve walked with the Lord for years, listen further and pray depending on the Holy Spirit, be willing to hear about self change, be willing to do what you hear. This IS being a steward over God’s harvest, the harvest of His word changing me and in so doing, changing my world.
Luke 10:1-42
Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
1 After this, the Lord chose seventytwoF29 others and sent them out in pairs ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go. 2He said to them, "There are a great many people to harvest, but there are only a few workers. So pray to God, who owns the harvest, that he will send more workers to help gather his harvest. 3Go now, but listen! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.
4Don't carry a purse, a bag, or sandals, and don't waste time talking with people on the road. 5Before you go into a house, say, 'Peace be with this house.' 6If peaceful people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you. 7Stay in the peaceful house, eating and drinking what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don't move from house to house. 8If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you. 9Heal the sick who live there, and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.' 10But if you go into a town, and the people don't welcome you, then go into the streets and say, 11'Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you.F30 But remember that the kingdom of God is near.' 12I tell you, on the Judgment Day it will be better for the people of SodomF31 than for the people of that town.
Jesus Warns Unbelievers
13"How terrible for you, Korazin! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles I did in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, F32 those people would have changed their lives long ago. They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show they had changed. 14But on the Judgment Day it will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15And you, Capernaum, F33 will you be lifted up to heaven? No! You will be thrown down to the depths! 16"Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever refuses to accept you refuses to accept me. And whoever refuses to accept me refuses to accept the One who sent me." Satan Falls
17When the seventy-twoF34 came back, they were very happy and said, "Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we used your name!" 18Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19Listen, I have given you power to walk on snakes and scorpions, power that is greater than the enemy has. So nothing will hurt you. 20But you should not be happy because the spirits obey you but because your names are written in heaven." Jesus Prays to the Father
21Then Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the people who are wise and smart. But you have shown them to those who are like little children. Yes, Father, this is what you really wanted. 22"My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell." 23Then Jesus turned to his followers and said privately, "You are blessed to see what you now see. 24I tell you, many prophets and kings wanted to see what you now see, but they did not, and they wanted to hear what you now hear, but they did not." The Good Samaritan
25Then an expert on the law stood up to test Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to get life forever?" 26Jesus said, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" 27The man answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind." F35 Also, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." F36 28Jesus said to him, "Your answer is right. Do this and you will live." 29But the man, wanting to show the importance of his question, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30Jesus answered, "As a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, some robbers attacked him. They tore off his clothes, beat him, and left him lying there, almost dead. 31It happened that a priest was going down that road. When he saw the man, he walked by on the other side. 32Next, a LeviteF37 came there, and after he went over and looked at the man, he walked by on the other side of the road. 33Then a SamaritanF38 traveling down the road came to where the hurt man was. When he saw the man, he felt very sorry for him. 34The Samaritan went to him, poured olive oil and wineF39 on his wounds, and bandaged them. Then he put the hurt man on his own donkey and took him to an inn where he cared for him. 35The next day, the Samaritan brought out two coins, F40 gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of this man. If you spend more money on him, I will pay it back to you when I come again.' " 36Then Jesus said, "Which one of these three men do you think was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by the robbers?" 37The expert on the law answered, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do what he did." Mary and Martha
38While Jesus and his followers were traveling, Jesus went into a town. A woman named Martha let Jesus stay at her house. 39Martha had a sister named Mary, who was sitting at Jesus' feet and listening to him teach. 40But Martha was busy with all the work to be done. She went in and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me alone to do all the work? Tell her to help me." 41But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things. 42Only one thing is important. Mary has chosen the better thing, and it will never be taken away from her."
FOOTNOTES:F29 seventy-two - Many Greek copies read seventy.F30 dirt…you - A warning. It showed that they had rejected these people.F31 Sodom - City that God destroyed because the people were so evil.F32 Tyre and Sidon - Towns where wicked people lived.F33 Korazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum - Towns by Lake Galilee where Jesus preached to the people.F34 Korazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum - Towns by Lake Galilee where Jesus preached to the people.F35 seventy-two - Many Greek copies read seventy.F36 "Love…mind." - Quotation from Deuteronomy 6:5.F37 "Love…yourself." - Quotation from Leviticus 19:18.F38 Levite - Levites were members of the tribe of Levi who helped the Jewish priests with their work in the Temple. Read 1 Chronicles 23:24-32.F39 Samaritan - Samaritans were people from Samaria. These people were part Jewish, but the Jews did not accept them as true Jews. Samaritans and Jews disliked each other.F40 olive oil and wine - Oil and wine were used like medicine to soften and clean wounds.F41 coins - Roman denarii. One coin was the average pay for one day's work.
~Lena’s Journalin’~
Didn’t it seem funny that Jesus was sending people and asking them to pray for other workers as soon as He sent these workers out? I mean, weren’t they workers, didn’t He just choose them for this "job"? Yes, they were, but God is looking to cover the earth, and the harvest of the revelation and reconciliation to Him and to the spirit of 1 is so vast and needy, that it will take as many as will. God needs, desires and so wants a whole army to cover the earth.
It doesn’t really matter who we were, where we came into the kingdom from, what we’ve done or how we did it. God is interested in harvest workers period! He will take care of the necessary changes we need to make to become a harvester. He’ll show us how to be more effective, and that is the point, being MORE effective, not changing more and more and more, but never harvesting souls! That is true introversion and selfishness, that the changes God makes in me are all for me and mine and no others. The reason He changes me is so I can influence and impact others and draw them to a better and clearer picture of Him! If I grow alone- that’s good (30), if I reach my own family that’s better (60), and if I grow, reach my family, and go forth to reach others and my family also reaches others, and the others I reach, reach others, all while we all are growing and changing, that’s the kingdom of God on full bloom (100).
We have so been veered off of the pathway of life. We just need to re-center in on what is really real. We’ve seen our battle as though we are engaged with spirits of darkness overthrowing us personally. We’ve got to move up into our heavenly seat with Christ and look at the battleground more clearly. It is about 1 (please see 8-1-05 Daily Bread), it’s NOT about me and my small part of the world and how attacked I am. When I rise up and look at the war from His perspectus, I will instantly get it. Isa 14 speaks of the fall of satan. This war is age-old and every war has its roots in this war, this war will not be over till 1 comes, and it begins in me. After I get it, I must give it so we can be 1 even as Jesus and His Father are 1 (Jn 17) The disciples marveled at the power of the name of Jesus over demons. Jesus’ reply was don’t center in on who you beat, center in on who’s you are! Do you know who’s you are? Do you know why you got saved? Or why God wants you saved? Do you know why you’d "go", when you could stay? Do you know why we are co-missioned? (Mt 28, Mk 16) The angels do. They know, do we?
Love God with ALL your heart, All your Soul, ALL your strength and your neighbor as yourself. You are a lover of a neighbor if you take time to notice they’ve been beat up by and enemy and are dying, you spend time to do something about it (think spiritually speaking), yes you even spend your life pouring into them ($ represents life, because you give your life when you work for someone and they exchange it for pay), you spend enough time with them to get them all the way towards restoration and to a place where they are thankful enough and ready to turn around and go do the same. You take them into the house, where they can be sheltered, clothed and fed continually (the house of God, the church).You provide for their needs to make sure they are healing and being changed from one state to another. You join them in the fellowship of others. You give them opportunity to be filled with God’s Spirit themselves (oil & wine). You carry Him to where he needs to go, if needbe and you keep coming back into his life again and again, till he’s also ready to be a reconciler of any, of many. Be like Mary who sat at Jesus’ feet hearing His words….not as Martha was who was so busy working and complaining. If I feel a complaining "spirit" trying to vie for my attention I know I’ve not been at His feet enough. If in my working I’m complaining, I’ve not received a revelation of why I’d be working. I’ve got to sit down and choose the better part, hearing His voice is the best part of all, being in His presence is even better. That’s a part I have to choose, setting aside all that seems to call me that is not Him calling me.