Scattering Seeds
Dearest Father, Thank You for helping me grow rich as I scatter seeds, even the tiniest ones, in the soil of your Kingdom. As written in the Gospel.
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Today's Readings
First Reading: Hebrews 10: 32-39
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 37: 3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40
Alleluia: Matthew 11: 25
Gospel: Mark 4: 26-34
Reading 1, Hebrews 10:32-39
Hebrews 10:32-39 NLT
[32] Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering.
[33] Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
[34] You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.
[35] So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! [36] Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
[37] “For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. [38] And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”
[39] But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40
R. (39a) The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
Trust in the LORD and do good,
that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.
Take delight in the LORD,
and he will grant you your heart’s requests.
R. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
Commit to the LORD your way;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make justice dawn for you like the light;
bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.
R. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
By the LORD are the steps of a man made firm,
and he approves his way.
Though he fall, he does not lie prostrate,
for the hand of the LORD sustains him.
R. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
R. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
Gospel, Mark 4:26-34
Mark 4:26-34 NLT
[26] Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground.
[27] Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.
[28] The earth produces the crops on its own. First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens.
[29] And as soon as the grain is ready, the farmer comes and harvests it with a sickle, for the harvest time has come.”
[30] Jesus said, “How can I describe the Kingdom of God? What story should I use to illustrate it?
[31] It is like a mustard seed planted in the ground. It is the smallest of all seeds,
[32] but it becomes the largest of all garden plants; it grows long branches, and birds can make nests in its shade.”
[33] Jesus used many similar stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand.
[34] In fact, in his public ministry he never taught without using parables; but afterward, when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them.
Dearest Father,
Thank You for calling me to scatter seeds, the tiniest ones, like Mustard seeds, so I could grow rich in Your Kingdom. As written in the Gospel today.
Mark 4:26-27 GW
[26] Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground. [27] He sleeps at night and is awake during the day. The seeds sprout and grow, although the man doesn’t know how.
Today is the end of the month.
The very first month I implemented the RichLife Playbook consciously.
I've been implementing it actually but inconsistently years before.
Now I want to see what will happen if I do those things I said I would do consistently for a year.
So at the start of the year, I wrote my intentions for the 6 areas of my life, with no particular order cause I want to grow in all these areas simultaneously.
Then I identified action goals I can do daily to move these intentions forward into reality:
Financial - I have total time and financial freedom with my family and friends, with monthly passive recurring interest income, freeing our shoulders from the burden allowing us to lay aside the laborers’ basket (Psalm 81:6) and I'm able to focus my full-time and attention to prayer and ministry of the Word (Acts 6:4).
Action Goals
Implement 50-30-20 financial Rule: Keep my needs and bills at 50%, Grow my wealth, 30% (by giving 10% tithe, 10% sowing in ministry, 10% investing), Debt Freedom, 20% of my active income.
Save 30k wealth buffer in my bank to pay my bills and debts on time
Spiritual - Receive and implement God-inspired ideas that bless billions of people and produce trillions in profits
Action goals:
4 am Wake up to seek Wisdom in prayer daily
Scripture Journal - daily
Receive Holy Communion in Holy Mass - daily
Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament - 30 mins (ASL, as the Spirit leads)
Health - You supercharged my life and renewed my youth like an eagle soaring in the sky (Psalm 103:5).
Action goals:
Thankfulness meditation - 5 min.
Prayer Walk - 30 mins
Core training 5 mins.
Yoga stretching - 20 mins.
Professional
Achieve financial freedom with my monthly passive income more than my monthly expenses to meet every conceivable need and abundance for every good work, at least £1M/month in recurring residual passive profits from my online businesses
Build a GREAT (Generous, Raving, Engaged, Apostolic, and Tribal) SpeakChrist Angels community in my RichLife Club living the rich life in Christ daily and consistently achieving what God wants them to be, do, and have this year (I have zero members at the moment).
Earn 74,600 in active income monthly to support my audience-building endeavor.
Action goals:
Short-form content on all social media - Daily
Scripture Journal published - daily
Once a week YouTube video
10 hours work for 2 online jobs, 2 hours for audience building
Personal Development - I grow in wisdom and favor before God and men.
Action goals:
Listen to at least 1 educational YouTube video - membership, writing, business
Listen to at least 1 motivational YouTube video
Relationship - I'm blessed and blessing all those around me.
Action goals
Spend focused time with family on Sunday
After I've identified my intentions and action goals that I can focus on daily, I wrote them all out in a Google sheet so I could look at all of them at a glance. See on the left? Those are my focused life areas in green and my intention in red. And then below those are my action goals for each intention.
Then I track my action goals execution daily on that Google sheet giving myself 1 point for every action goal done each day. At the end of the month, the perfect score is a total of 30 or 31 (here below, in yellow at the far right side, which means I've done those action goals I said I would do daily.
As you can see, some of those I’ve done for 30 days, the lowest was 6 days for Core training and Yoga cause I wasn’t really keen on doing those yet for this month. So I now know I can focus on improving these next month.
Every Sunday, I do a weekly reset where I note what worked, what didn't, and what adjustments I need to make.
I also do that at the end of every Month for my monthly reset.
This way, it makes it easy for me to course-correct, daily, weekly, and monthly.
That's the beauty of the RichLife Playbook You have given me.
Before, I was all about dreaming but so inconsistent with the doing. But now, the RichLife Playbook helps me take my future vision with a present action.
This is Pillar 4 of the 4-Pillar RichLife Playbook that I implement in the RichLife Club.
Pillar 4 is 24-Hours Activation.
The past is gone. Tomorrow is a promise.
All we have is today. All we have is 24 hours to activate God's inspiration that He gives to us at the start of the day.
He reveals to us His will because we are His children and heirs (Pillar 1: Divine Identification), showing us His vision for our life (Pillar 2: GodX vision), as we seek Him daily in His word (Pillar 3: Rock Foundation) and implementing what He says daily (Pillar 4: 24-Hour Activation).
That's THE rich life in Christ that He wants us to live daily.
That's what we are going to implement in our RichLife Club membership community. I haven't completed the details yet (just written out Pillars 1 and 2) but I'm inviting you to join me. So together we can live rich in Christ daily even right now.
These actions that I do each day are like the seeds that I scatter on the ground of my life.
Before, I would get discouraged when I look at my efforts and I would see no results after a short period of time.
You're telling me today in the Gospel to be like that sower who just scatters his seeds on the ground without minding how those seeds will grow.
My business is on sowing the seeds daily.
The results are not my business. The results are God's business. He will make those seeds grow. He will cause the harvest.
Mark 4:28-29 GW
[28] The ground produces grain by itself. First the green blade appears, then the head, then the head full of grain. [29] As soon as the grain is ready, he cuts it with a sickle, because harvest time has come.”
The harvest time will come. But now is the season of sowing and scattering.
And even though those seeds are like the mustard seed, the tiniest of all the seeds, I believe that one day, those seeds will grow into strong trees able to take in the birds to rest in their shade.
Mark 4:31-32 GW
[31] It’s like a mustard seed planted in the ground. The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds on earth.
[32] However, when planted, it comes up and becomes taller than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that birds can nest in its shade.
That's my vision. To have the rich life in Christ that is blessed - everything in abundance, more than I expect until I overflow - and blessing billions of others, now and forever.
But I focus on each day, to scatter the seeds You have told me to sow and scatter.
Live the rich life in Christ today:
Be like a sower in the God's Kingdom.
Scatter those seeds of good deeds.
Soon, God will cause you to harvest.
What seeds are you scattering today?
Reply in the comments.
Mark 4:26-27 GW
[26] Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground. [27] He sleeps at night and is awake during the day. The seeds sprout and grow, although the man doesn’t know how.
Now Your Turn
What verses spoke to you strongly and powerfully from the scripture readings?
What is God saying to you in these verse or verses?
What does God want for you to do today?
Journal prompts of the day:
(You can reply in comments too)
What seeds are you scattering today?
What seeds does God want you to scatter today?
What harvest are you looking for?
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