Sometimes, the Lord will use time to level down the stony places in our hearts. Where at one time, it would’ve been hard to plant a seed into the ground of your heart that was impenetrable. Yet, time is a gift, because it can be used as a tool to wear down some of the areas that could not be reached, touched or changed.

“Lord, let those hard to reach areas within our lives be made available to your word. That even at the prompting of the Holy Spirit, we would learn to yield to what is being said. Holy Spirit move within us and continue to make us new.”

Matthew 13:5-6,20-21

5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

(Jesus then provides the explanation)

20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 

 

“Change us from the inside out and further develop those undeveloped places and let us be ready to hear and swift to respond.