Hosea 10:12 – Break Up Your Fallow Ground

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Hosea 10:12 – Break Up Your Fallow Ground

January 26, 2008 by Irmgarde Brown

“Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, til He comes and rains righteousness on you.” Hosea 10:12, NKJV

This is the first scripture that is used in the Seeking Him bible study that I will be leading over the next 13 weeks. I write it here because I want to remember these beginnings. It is time to break up old ways. It is time to put the sharp plow to the ground that is not bearing fruit. This is not an easy scripture because there is a moment where I must look with honesty at my heart… there are too many fallow areas there. I am busy and yet, I am not fertile. I have experienced barrenness in my life but I have forgotten what that looks like in the heart. I believe it is time to look again… to accept the plow of God’s Spirit.

Posted in Random Thoughts | Tagged barren, fallow ground, Hosea, Seeking Him | 7 Comments

7 Responses

on September 30, 2008 at 9:18 am | Reply Angelique

Dear irmbrown

As I was reading my bible last night God lead me to this scripture. At first my eyes were enlightened to what I read because the scripture came so alive for me I didn’t really understand what I was reading but I knew that God was trying to tell me something. So today I searched for the Passage of Hosea and came across your writing here. I just want to thank you as this post makes it very clear to me as to what I should do and as to what God expects me to do.
on September 30, 2008 at 9:25 am | Reply irmbrown

I’m so glad these words were the confirmation you needed. God works in the most amazing ways. You will be in my prayers this day. ib
on April 8, 2009 at 12:05 pm | Reply irmbrown

While looking at my stats for this blog, I discovered that this post has the most hits…. not sure why… but I do think it’s interesting that since these days, the fallow ground in me has also been my view of the church … I am very interested in the Emergent Church and looking toward renewal.
on March 24, 2011 at 10:10 pm | Reply Nancy

I am also leading the Seeking Him Study… Just got started this week, but this is the second time I’m doing it.
on March 24, 2011 at 10:12 pm | Reply Nancy

This is my Seeking Him Website.

http://seekingoursavior.blogspot.com/
- on March 25, 2011 at 6:34 am | Reply irmbrown
  
  That’s cool. Here’s the “discussion” summaries from the blog I kept when we did the study at the church.
  
  http://wisdomseekers.wordpress.com/category/seeking-him/
on August 11, 2012 at 11:58 pm | Reply AKIN JOHNSON

thanks for this post,its indeed a re awakening one to our duty Romans 12:1 and 2. Akin Johnson,Nigeria.

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