Heaven's M.O.

This message challenges us to examine the very foundation of our spiritual lives: everything we have comes from heaven. Drawing from John chapter 3, we're reminded that we cannot receive anything except what is given to us from above. This isn't about passivity, but about understanding that our pursuit of God is actually a response to His pursuit of us. We love Him because He first loved us. We seek Him because He opened the way. The parable of the sower becomes central here, revealing that the same Word falls on different hearts with vastly different results. The problem isn't the seed or the sower, but the condition of our soil. One heart allows the enemy to steal the Word through lack of understanding. Another receives it joyfully but falls away when persecution comes. A third gets choked by worldly cares and the deceitfulness of riches. But the good soil hears, receives, and produces fruit in varying measures. This calls us to honest self-examination: What is the condition of our hearts? Are we preparing ourselves to receive from God, or are we merely showing up? The measure of thought and study we give to the truth will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to us. We must move beyond being converts to becoming disciples who engage with the Word, allow it to transform us, and then go out empowered by the Spirit to transform the world around us.