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Mine your business!

The term “mind your own business” is not a new term. The Apostle Paul told the church back in his day to mind their own business and to work with their own hands. This way they would be able to walk worthy of their call and lack nothing. 1 Thessalonians 4: 10-12 says: “But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;  that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.” The Lord Jesus told His parents that He had to be about His Father’s business (Luke 2:49). So the focus for those who succeed in their endeavors is to not only mind or tend to their business, but to also “mine” their business. the word mine has various meanings. One of the meanings is: a place where there is a rich source of supply that needs to be accessed by digging. Gold and silver is found deep within mines. We also have rich resources within us. God has already equipped us with wisdom, abilities, potential, partnerships, resources and seed to be prosperous and lack nothing. So it’s time to stop looking for others to make things happen for us, and to look at what God has already placed in our hands. Say like Jesus and Paul: “I must be about my Father’s business”, and begin to “mine” your own business!

Luke 2:49 “And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

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Is your heart good soil for God’s word?

In the parable of the sower, Jesus teaches that the seed is the word of God, and the good ground is the heart (Mark 4: 14, 15 Amplified version). Jesus taught that when the heart is receptive, it receives the word, and the seed will yield many times over. Here is the challenge: many Christians are not growing in their faith! What this means is that they have allowed conditions into their hearts that alter their hearts’ ability to receive. the parable of the sower actually describes four different kinds of soil. The first area allowed the enemy to remove the seed once it had been sown. The second didn’t allow a good root system to form, so the little plants would die quickly. The third seed was planted next to weeds, so the plant was choked and suffocated. The fourth seed was planted on good soil, so it yielded much fruit. If you are allowing conditions into your heart which cause doubt and fear, the enemy will steal the wisdom of the word from you. If you don’t ground yourself in God and His word, the infection of problems and challenges to your faith will destroy your faith. If you are always listening to those who only criticize, complain, doubt and fear, it will choke your faith, and you will become spiritually paralyzed and dull. This will kill your spiritual discernment, so you will become spiritually dead. Which soil does your heart represent? Make sure it is good soil, receptive to God and His Word. Allow His word to saturate, penetrate and take root in your heart. It will bear good fruit, thirty, sixty and one hundred fold!

Matthew 13:8 “Other seeds fell on good soil, and yielded grain—some a hundred times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty.”