Thursday, June 27, 2019

JOHN Good Morning! I’m John Branning the Lead Pastor of Central United Methodist Church. Matthew 13:23 says “the one who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." If you keep a grain of wheat in your pocket, it will look exactly the same ten years from now. But place it in the right environment—some good ground, enough water and it will sprout into a living sheaf of grain! It's no different with the seeds of the fruit of the Spirit in our hearts! God has readily made available to us the seeds of success. He gives us the opportunity to live a life of much fruit! A life abounding in the fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. But here they are – just seeds – sitting in our pocket waiting 'til we decide to plant them and allow them to become trees of plenty in our lives. Let's plant some seeds today and invite the Lord to water and nourish them so that we can produce fruit one-hundred-fold for the Kingdom.