Dealing with the Giants in Our Land - Part 1 - Charles D Harris

[Jhn 17:15-23 KJV] 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Covenant is what the Father is about.  Being one with Him, the Son and the Spirit. He made a covenant with Israel.  He named the land after the covenant also.

[Deu 7:1-2 NASB] 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Even though there are people groups in the land representing these strongholds, the battle is bigger than people groups.

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[2Co 10:3-6 NASB] 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Kingdom of God is within you.  It has to have territory not just eupherial.  Requires a territory and a King.  It is very physical in nature.  Example...Healing

To the degree you have his kingdom in you you will have kingdom around you.
[Luk 17:21 NASB] 21 nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."
Israel has covenant God and the land of Israel.

[Jer 31:33-37 KJV] 33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.


Yeshua provided a way for gentiles to be reconciled to and the covenants of promise.  We are in covenant now with Israel not replacing them.  Their enemies are our enemies and their God our God.  What happens to Israel affects me and what happens to me affects Israel. The condition of our oneness affects the condition of the land and people.
[Eph 2:10-14 KJV] 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];
It's important to come into alignment with the Word of God and order.  It is important to conquer these kingdoms to bring God's rest and prosperity.

You can track every move of God to something that happened in Israel.  You can map every disaster in America to how they treat Israel.  Touch not the anointed of God.  That doesn't mean perfect.  You are anointed of God and you are not perfect.

God wants to reconcile us to his land and people and rest.
[Heb 12:22-23 NASB] 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Allow the spirit of God to deliver these enemies into your hands and smite them.

[Heb 4:12-16 NASB] 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

All of these kingdoms represent an iniquity or bent pointing you away from God ways.

Know this that these nations are

• Greater and stronger - you don't stand a chance
• God will deliver us
• They will be defeated
• They must be annihilated

Hittites חִתִּי - Chaos and False Order (appearance of Looking Good)

Name means terror - they are the architects of terrorism.Its the kind o.f terror that causes things to come apart.  Causing you to come unglued. A return to chaos.  In Gen 1:2 the Lord hovered over chaos and spoke order. God would go into formless and void and say "light".  His nature was to create order out of chaos.  Their nature was to create chaos out of order. This is the spirit of this age.  The antichrist.  Take order and create disorder so there can be a manipulation of a new order. To the degree you are operating in the disorder and chaos in your life the Spirit is trying to get a hold of you and reveal order.
Hittitim were known from a spiritual context of absorption context.  Just add their gods to their gods.  All gods are cool.  Keep including people.  Prototypes of the one world religion. Its interesting that the same people who use terror are the same people that use one world religion.  Its interesting that the most "tolerant" people are the most terrorist like people.  The most liberal seem to be the most intolerable. 


Intercession is be focused on who we are in the love of the Lord.  When the focus is present the humility is present the power is present.  Be the light the world is in need of.

Scriptures to meditate on to deal with Hittite spirit in your land

Hear His voice.  Know who you are in Him.  Then release love to others
[Mar 12:29-31 NASB] 29 Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; 30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' 31 "The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Be humble...
[Jas 4:6-10 NASB] 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE." 7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Be the light...bring order

[Jhn 8:12 NASB] 12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."


[2Co 4:4 NASB] 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Manifesting Your Destiny, Eternal Weight of Glory - David Mitts

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, (2Co 4:16-17)

We live lives with an eternal weight of glory which exceeds our struggles.  Though we are set in a temporal context with its attendant issues, there is within each of us and collectively together a destiny which can thrill our hearts if we can but grasp it.  This destiny is reflected in this world but is NOT of this world!!

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This is so important to grasp.  We are living lives for eternal crowns, not temporal trinkets that are mere physical ornaments dressing up dead bones.  It isn’t for external approval that we live for but for His Glory.  Yeshua spoke about this in Matthew 23:26-29

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, (Mat 23:26-29).

It isn’t the outer success that man approves of that really matters.  What matters is what is enduring and eternal, what is happening on the inside, in that part of us that is the Glory of God.  

That Glory is the seed, that is incorruptible and yet refined by the trials of life.  You see God has seed, potent and full of identity and destiny.  That seed is deposited in the womb of our lives by His Holy Spirit, as His Word, His Torah, alive and making alive unto eternity.  That seed then has a glory.  That glory is the weight from eternity in the seed.

You can buy different seeds.  you can buy common seed, organic seed and something called heirloom seed. The DEFINITION:

“Heirloom seeds produce vegetable varieties that have been around for 50 years or more. These are the vegetables your grandmother grew. These are the vegetables that were around before the food pyramid, before the Department of Agriculture, before the huge agribusiness's that create most of the "food" on store shelves today.”

The seeds may all look similar but there is an entirely different plant depending on the seed and its potency and power.

God’s living Torah, His “heirloom” seed, the one that produces His children, His heirs is producing a fruit, His children that are living on the inside with destiny.  This destiny contains eternal glory.

Glory is also another word for value.  We weigh things on scales that evaluate glory based on measurements that compare and contrast with a standard.  We used to have a country that was based on the gold standard.  That meant that every dollar produced was an instrument of commerce that was backed by a measurable quantity of gold that was stored in a treasury.  Gold is actual wealth.  It contains unique properties of scarcity and tangible value.  Land is actual wealth.  That’s why God made a Land based covenant with Abraham for Israel.  It is tangible and has properties of provision, being fertile, and identity as a home.  A land deed is like a dollar used to be.

Today that “glory” of currency has been unlinked from the gold standard to man’s speculative value.  We have currency markets that determine the value of currencies based on pure speculation. This means man’s opinion has been elevated above God’s standard of gold which He connected with value by calling it “tov” or good.

The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (Gen 2:11-12).

This should makes us pause in our understanding of what God values.  He is NOT anti-Gold.  He is against mammon.

Man, relying on speculation has undermined the age that we live in and is actually anti-God or anti-Christ.  In the last book of the Gospel, called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which could be called the 5th Gospel, the Anti-Christ is personified:

He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev 13:16-17)

Many have been expecting a physical “mark” and so have been a little paranoid about chips, gps, passports etc.  Another perspective is that the right hand is the biblical symbol of power and authority and the forehead is where the face or image of the seed is seen. Look at Deut 6:4-9

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deu 6:4-9)

The seed of God’s living Torah, His seed is expressed in covenant through the hands, the symbol of our power and talents and gifts expressed, through our foreheads, the place of His countenance in our lives, and on our homes and gates, the consecrated Land that He gives to us to be stewards over.  All of these are elements of true wealth, the wealth that comes from God giving the us the power to get wealth in order to establish His covenant. Deut 8:18.

This is expression of His eternal Glory in our lives.

As an aside the speculation of man and his anti-God, anti-Christ value system will also be attacking our tangible property wealth and convince us that their is no value in land ownership.  This is really what is underlying the banking scandal.  The banks crashed because of what?  They made loans based on speculation.  They used to make loans based on wealth, a mans word and God given talents, character.   They ditched that and used speculation.  This is a devilish wisdom source that seeks to make everyone renters subject to the authority of the man’s speculative value system.  Can you see the link??

This is also occurring in the attitude towards Israel and their covenant Land of Promise.  Speculation, man’s “demonic” wisdom as embodied in the man centered institutions of power and identity, the UN and assorted coalition entities that rely on military power and other man centered “glories” are sitting in counsel deciding the fate of Israel and the miracle of Her return as proclaimed in the Scriptures.  

Speculation is nothing more than glory or value being derived by man’s opinions and NOT by God’s standards.  Ultimately it is about devaluing ALL that God’s Torah has breathed into existing as Or, Light, which is His created order and substituting death-ladened perversions of marriage, sexuality, parenting, etc.

God proclaimed this as a shaking, in Hebrews 12:26-29

whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO HEAVEN." Now this, "YET ONCE MORE," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb 12:26-29)

We are living for that unshakable kingdom which is working inside of us, to produce the vision of God in the seed that is in us.  So, we have to remember that our afflictions are NOT a problem but a refinement or a proving, a testing which produces in us an eternal weight of glory.

Lisa and I were watching a movie about violins.  There is a man named Stradivarius who made the most amazing violins, in the early 1700’s.  He developed a method for treating the wood that has not been improved upon to this day.  His classic violins sell for millions of dollars.  Why?  Because the gift of God that was in Him produced something of wealth that the world has never duplicated. That is the glory of god, His seed in Stradivarius. The irony is that the super rich have made these violins super costly, because of speculation.  The violins are rare and exceptional, but man always tries to make the fruit his own without learning how to go to the root, the inner glory.

You have the same thing, a seed with an eternal weight of Glory.  It is priceless beyond compare.  It is the pearl of great price.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. (Mat 13:45-46)

The pearl is the seed of your unique destiny.  The Kingdom of heaven scriptures are mostly about the inner qualities that are in a person who has that seed in their hearts.  Yeshua is telling us that being sold out yo a destiny-seed and selling all, that is of the old man to pursue it is a quality of the Kingdom.   Remember all of His listeners knew about leaving Egypt and that was of Egyptian life and pursuing a destiny!  Let’s back yup a few verses here in Matthew and we can see it.  Beginning in verses, Mathew 13:37-43

He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Mat 13:37-43)

You have a destiny!  There is seed planted in your heart.  It will bear incorruptible glory!!  This is glory which carries the weight of eternity!

The Lord is speaking of a separation of harvests from different seeds.  The seeds of the world, the outer glory are the fares and are gathered to their destiny.  The seeds of The Lord, incorruptible are shining like the sun, in the Kingdom!

Look at one final Scripture to build your faith for the time you live in and what this ministry is in your lives:

Malachi 4:1-6 (NKJV)

MALACHI 4

 The Great Day of God

[4:1] “For behold, the day is coming, 

Burning like an oven,

And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.

And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”

Says the LORD of hosts,

“That will leave them neither root nor branch.

[2] But to you who fear My name

The Sun of Righteousness shall arise

With healing in His wings;

And you shall go out

And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

[3] You shall trample the wicked,

For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet

On the day that I do this,”

Says the LORD of hosts.

[4] “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,

Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,

With the statutes and judgments.

[5] Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet

Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

[6] And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

We see again the division between those whose seed is death and it's glory.  They are burned like stubble , both root and branch.  This means that the seed itself is destroyed.

The righteous seed arise with the sun of righteousness, shining in their glory and destiny!

Moses is the seed, the Torah.  Elijah is the Spirit of prophecy and prophetic awareness.

Restoration of honor and relationship is the fruit!  T his is what Destiny House is all about.  We are Destiny House and we are building Destiny House.

This destiny is being refined in our lives through trials.  Many may evaluate you by external standards. But God evaluates you with eternal values, His plans and purposes for you.  The plans are glory producers,  They are value enrichment.

Sh'ma Yisrael- Receiving the Father's Love- Fathers Day - David Mitts

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." Then He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." (Mar 4:23-25)

Hearing seems to be the key to entering into our inheritance.  I began to reflect on my own listening one morning as I mediated on the scripture in the book of James:

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; (James 1:19)

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I began reflecting on what it meant to be quick to hear?  I thought about how I hear. Often I hear through filters.  I got this picture in my mind as I reflected on this.  Back when I was building the Amway business, one evening I took my son Josh to the meeting with me.  I can see this in my mind as if it were yesterday, it affected me so.  Josh was maybe 10 and he was sitting on the edge of his seat absorbing every nuance of my communication.  I realized in that moment that I had a sacred responsibility to communicate what was true and important.  What I had before me was a sacred trust. As Father's we have that place of credibility, that window into the hearts of others.

This is a picture of the heart space that the Lord is instructing us to have when we listen.  When they asked Yeshua, what was number one on the Father's  heart, He answered:

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; (Mar 12:28-29)

He responds with the Sh'ma.  Sh'ma means both to hear and to obey.  This means an openness of heart that allows what is said to be received without reservation.  There is a loyalty in this type of listening.  I was speaking with someone about this week, and they said well it depends on who is speaking and if I trust them.  This makes sense.  We do need to take heed in our decision to listen.  Yet, we also need to recognize when we aren't really listening with our whole heart to one another!

Like anything else, listening becomes an acquired taste.  We get habitual in how we listen.  In biblical terms this is called hardness of heart.  It affects our fruitfulness for the kingdom.  It affects how we are as sons and daughters.

Let's look at Mark 4:3

"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. "Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. "And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. "Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. "Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." And He was saying, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."(Mar 4:3-9)

The seed, in this case, the communication.  Every communication is seed.  It sows unto a harvest.  We can seed blessing or we can seed cursing into the lives of those around us.  But the condition in this parable is the hearing, the listening.  The hearing determines what the seed can do.  We can all hear the same information with the same potential to produce a harvest in our lives.  Some will seize the day and capture the vision embodied in the seed and others will depending on their character be able to receive, to sh'ma. Let's continue in Mark 4:10-13

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN." And He *said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables? (Mar 4:10-13)

The key to repentance is hearing and seeing.  You see there is a turning that is necessary in life.  We all need to constantly hear so we can be on course.  James tells us that the tongue is like a rudder on a ship.  

Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! (Jas 3:4-5)

This is admonition to be careful of how we speak, but it also reflects how speech can affect the actions of others like a rudder.

But the rudder is controlled in impact by the listening heart we bring to the words.   You the Father loves us and it is His desire to instruct us in all things but we have to be open to listen.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. (Jas 1:17)

The key is NOT in Him but in us!  How do we shma?  Back to Mark 4:14

"The sower sows the word. "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

How does satan do this?  How does he steal the Love of The Father?  He does it through hardness of heart.  What is hardness of heart?  The loss of basic trust.  Without trust it is impossible to please God.  To trust we have to forgive.  To forgive, we have to repent of idolatry.  You mean.... if I'm not forgiving someone, I'm in idolatry.  You bet.  If Yeshua could be crucified and forgive then if you don't forgive, you have put something or someone above the cross.You have made your offense bigger than God.  When you make something or someone bigger than God, you do it by entertaining accusation against them.  This is how Satan can steal the Word from you.  The need to be right is stronger than the need to be righteous.  REPENT!

"In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. "

Persecution is part of the seed bearing fruit.  God's word only grows in a climate of resistance.  Persecution is to Word, like wind to the trees.  If the trees are not rooted in strong wind they fall away.  If we are not rooted when persecution comes, we will fall away.

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 

The deceitfulness of riches actually has very little to do with riches.  It has to do with the fear of man.  it is when fear runs our lives that we enter into deception, which actually keeps us from prospering, because we cannot hear well in a state of fear and so our rudder, God's voice cannot operate.

"And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." (Mar 4:14-20)

It is all about listening with our heart, having a childlike eager to listen and prompt to do attitude.  

So, it is Father's Day weekend.  And we want to honor our natural fathers and our spiritual fathers.  And most of all, we want to honor our heavenly father.  How?  By receiving their words and paying attention.  Fathers do NOT need more ties and underwear.  What they need is respect and honor and paying attention with an open heart to their words.