Share the Gospel

"And the other seeds fell into good soil and produced...a hundredfold. 

...those that were sown on the good soil are 

the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit..." 

Mark 4: 8,20.

God has given each of us unique talents and select spiritual gifts. But the one thing He gives universally to believers is the command to share the Gospel. He calls us to different fields of service and gives us variety in the venue for sharing the Good News, but wherever he plants us we are to sow the Gospel message. I've heard some believers before say, "Evangelism is not my gift." He may not have called you into full time vocational evangelism, but we are still to share the message of Jesus with our family, our friends, our neighbors...anyone God puts on our path. His Spirit will tell us what to say and with whom to share. He creates opportunities every day if we but have eyes to see and obedient hearts.
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Art Talk: I created the background by tapping a piece of bubble wrap to my ink pad then pouncing the bw directly onto the page. If you do a dry pounce, it producing relatively distinct shapes. For something more splashy, you can spritz water on the inked bw before pouncing. The tab, paper strip and flower pot are from my Garden of Grace Printable Bundle available at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. The words are stamped with one of their sets, Send Me. Appropriate set, right?

 Garden of Grace Printable Bundle

Send Me

Love God's Word

With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments! 

 I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. 

 Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes! 

With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. 

In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches^.

 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. 

 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

 Psalm 119:10-16

 

If we really love God's Word we will seek Him and His direction through it. We will treasure the gift of His Word and hide it in our hearts (memorize scriptures) so when tempted to wander from His commands the Spirit will bring the Word to our mind and we are strengthened through it. When we become students of God's Word we move to disciples...following what it says. Instruction is empty if we don't follow it, live by it, set our course by it. Loving God's Word is more than the journaling and art work we do in its pages. Loving His Word means we rejoice and delight in what He shows us through it. His Word becomes rich in our souls and we delight in finding God through the Word, living it and proclaiming it to others...both the beauty in it and the judgments of it. We embrace the whole counsel of His Word and it stays on our hearts and in our minds always. 

I used watercolor paints and bubble wrap to create the background drying between the two colors. The top portion is a digital stamp (Love God's Word) from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I used it as a traceable then colored parts of it with Copic markers. The lower half contains stamped words, also from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Send Me). I used watercolor paint to highlight the passage using a brush, then accented the page with Washi tape, and a clip with ribbon.