Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to trust you when bad things happen24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. 26 But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. 27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did…
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Give us grace today tol live at peace alongside all that is good and all that is not good in the world.28 “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
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30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the seed of the Kingdom grow in us31 He set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven to do your work in us33 He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be attentive to the hidden things of the Kingdom of Heaven34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,“I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to do what is right36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”37 He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,…
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Give us grace to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven today44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid.
In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek for what is finest and best today and deal with everything else appropriately.45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be of use in the Kingdom of Heaven.47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,
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48 which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach.
They sat down and gathered the good [useful] into containers, but the bad they threw away.
49 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
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Give us grace today to discover new things about the kingdom of God51 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”
They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
52 He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
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