Keeping: https://youtu.be/k7fUP105dLM?si=kejPyw3P7x_nhb_QDiscipleship Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLld8NUxoM8_HkQr_adv7urLujEfZhiGkw&si=v6jDWapKKl5sH2ODDescription: In Part 35 of their discipleship teaching, Drs. Michael and Mary Davis delve into the crucial role of preparing the heart to receive God's word and bear fruit. They emphasize the need for repentance, the power of God's law, and the transformative impact of meditating on scripture.Key points explored in this video:- The Importance of Planting the Seed: Highlighting that making disciples involves planting God's word, which has the power to change lives.- Three Unfruitful Soils: Reviewing the hardened heart, shallow commitment, and double-mindedness that hinder the growth of God's word.- The Need for Repentance: Emphasizing that changing our hearts requires repentance, which involves allowing God's law to reveal our shortcomings.- God's Law as a Plow: Introducing God's law as the plow that breaks up the hard, fallow ground of our hearts, making them receptive to the seed.- The Good and Honest Heart: Describing the good soil as a heart that is both intrinsically good (justified) and benevolently good (giving and benefiting others).- Holding Fast to the Word: Stressing the importance of seizing and holding fast to God's word to bring forth fruit.- The Power of Patience: Underscoring that spiritual growth and fruitfulness require patience, allowing God's life within us to mature.- The Field Analogy: Using the analogy of a farmer plowing a field to illustrate how God works in our hearts to remove obstacles and prepare the soil for His word.- Removing Rocks and Thorns: Explaining how God's law helps to remove the "rocks" of shallowness and the "thorns" of worldly desires that hinder spiritual growth.- The Impact of Meditation: Sharing personal experiences of how meditating on scripture, particularly the Sermon on the Mount, led to conviction and transformation.- Living the Sermon on the Mount: Encouraging believers to live out the principles of the Sermon on the Mount as a result of meditating on God's word.- The Fruitfulness of Abiding: Concluding that abiding in God's word and allowing Him to work in our hearts leads to a life that reflects Christ.**#Discipleship #HeartPreparation #Repentance #GodsLaw #Meditation #Fruitfulness #Patience #ParableOfTheSower #SermonOnTheMount #Transformation #Faith #MichaelAndMaryDavis**In the Great Commission, there is a statement: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…” (Matthew 28:19 NAS) Discipleship is a command that is overlooked by many! There is a lot of focus on converting people, but not enough on actually discipling those converts. In this teaching series we will be discussing the biblical importance of discipleship and how the Bible tells us to do it. We will be looking at a key element in this topic: the parable of the sower.