Maureen Y. Smith - Conquering the Seeds of Destruction

As you continue to be on this journey with God, there are times that you choose to follow Him and then there are times where you may do things outside of His Will. The disobedience that you choose may not seem as bad in the beginning of it, but over time, the adversary will continue to guide you to a path of negativity and destructive outcomes. Prayerfully, you will say no to the enemy (and even y...

As you listen to today's podcast, you will hear the experience that Ezekiel had in His encounter and vision that He had with God. The experience was so great that I am sure it was hard for Ezekiel to verbalize the glory of God. As you spend time with God today, I pray that you will also have an encounter with Him that leaves you seeking and glorifying Him daily.

Although it is never easy to face difficult things that come into your life, it becomes necessary to address and resolve those issues so that they won't continue to keep building up inside of you.  God wants you to know that He is with you every step of the way if you keep trusting and believing in Him to help you through it. You can do this and you have to keep telling yourself that you can.

As you listen to today's podcast, you will see that it becomes important to make a conscious choice or decision to be concerned about the needs of others. There are times that some things can be minimized or you may not have a care or concern about what others may be going through. It is one thing to respect someone's privacy but it is a totally different thing to disregard their situation...

In today's podcast, you will hear how God's Seed of Survival - The Seed of Compassion can be planted into you to uproot the Seed and Roots of Disregard if you continue to remain open in hearing His voice. You will see that in order to operate in this new seed, you will need to put self to the side and allow your compassion to be displayed to others. The true test is when you have a sincere...

As you listen to the podcast today, you will hear how the Root of Frustration (the last destructive root that comes from the Seed of Disregard) can cause more challenges in your life. When you are at this stage, it becomes hard to see the positive in things, sometimes in anything. It will take some conscious effort to not re-live things continuously, especially if it is going to take you down a pa...

As the next root starts to develop from the Seed of Disregard, you will see yourself falling into a deeper level of turmoil within. When you are in the Root of Despair, you don't see ways of overcoming challenges in your life. As things start to spiral downward, you not only don't have the motivation to pull yourself out, but you don't have a desire to do so. Things seem hopeless and y...

In today's podcast, you will hear how the first root (The Root of Indifference) can be developed from the Seed of Disregard if you allow the adversary to whisper into your ear to create negative thoughts into your mind. He will keep trying to get you to ignore, avoid, or become indifferent with the people who may be around you or with people in general. The more you become desensitized to peop...

In today's podcast, you hear how a new destructive seed (The Seed of Disregard) can be planted into you if you choose not to seek God's voice. This particular seed can cause you to either minimize the things or people who are around you or to not care at all. This seed creates a negative persona within you which causes you to not show a feeling of concern, an act of kindness, or a level of...

As you continue to seek God and follow His will, there may be times where you may not do what is expected of you because you don't feel like it. As time goes on, you may not see things moving in the direction that you would like for them to go. It will require you to want to follow and to listen to God. It will require you to be obedient and disciplined to what He is asking you to do. It will...

As  you start your day, I hope things are getting better with you in spending time with God. It becomes important to make the necessary time so that you can hear His voice and know what your next steps should be. Also, there may be times where things become difficult to achieve and you may not want to continue on your journey. Please don't get discouraged and try your best to find a way to dig...

As you journeyed through the Seed of Jealousy and the Roots of Grudging, Judging, Vengeance and God's Seed of Faith, how will you apply the information to your own life? What steps will you make to not only prevent you from operating as Joseph's siblings did, but what things will you do moving forward to show that you will have complete trust or FAITH in God? How will you grow with God? Li...

In today's podcast, you will hear the new seed that God plants into you to uproot the Seed of Jealousy and its roots. It will require you to have complete trust in God and for you to believe what He says He is going to do in your life. You will also hear how Joseph handled things with his brothers and from those lessons, I pray that it will give you the tools to operate in your own faith and n...

As you listen to today's podcast, you will hear how the adversary can plant the last root that comes from the Seed of Jealousy into you if you are not careful. He wants to keep you focused on you by allowing the hurt, jealousy, or insecurity to get the best of you. If you give in to this, you will try to find ways to operate in the Root of Vengeance by trying to "get even" which is n...

In today's podcast, you will see how "outward judgments" can cause you to have a destructive behavior towards others. The enemy will always try to have a deeper hold onto you if your focus is more on what you may want instead of what God wants for you. Each person on the earth has a breaking point; therefore, it is vital for you to understand God's teachings of reaping what you s...

Today, you will hear how the adversary can plant the second root into you from the Seed of Jealousy if you are still open into listening to his voice instead of the voice of God. The Root of Jealousy can affect you in different ways. As you listen to today's podcast, I will be sharing with you the effects that "inward judgments" can have upon you and how God wants you to trust in wha...

As you listen to today's podcast, you will hear that there are situations that can cause you to stay stuck in them and as a result, the first root from the Seed of Jealousy can form which is the Root of Grudging. Within this root, the adversary will try to keep replaying in your mind all of the things that have caused hurt, or frustrations, or even insecurities. If you allow yourself to go dow...

When the adversary plants the Seed of Jealousy into you, he tries to make sure that you are looking at other people's progression in life. The goal for him is for you to compare yourself to them and conclude that your life is not going well while also creating resentment of them inside of you. You must find a way to turn off that negative voice and listen to what God is saying to you. God know...

As I share with you some insight from Chapter 8 of the book, you will hear how important it is to connect and be guided by God. As you focus on your goals, it becomes necessary to be in tune to God's voice because the enemy will try to find different ways of distracting you to take you off of your path.  As you listen to today's podcast, you will see how helping others can also be challeng...

As you journey on this earth, there will be opportunities for you to grow. There may also be times where you will need to make some choices in your life that will cause change to occur.  If you keep an open mind, you will be able to see how God guides you on the path that you are on. However, if your focus becomes centered on you and you alone, you can have some challenges that probably could have...

As you try to apply all that you have heard and learned with the seed and roots of idols, stay encouraged. Some situations may be hard to handle with yourself and some may be hard to deal with in others. If you continue to keep God front and center, He will help you and lead you into the direction you need to be going in. Believe in Him and also, believe in yourself.

As you continue to listen to Part 2 from the Seed of Deliverance, please allow yourself to be open in hearing the voice of God. Regardless of what has happened in your life, God can still turn things around for the better for you, but you must be willing to let Him guide you. Prayerfully, you will start a new journey with Him as you give yourself the permission to be free.

Although the Seed of Idols and its roots may have had a detrimental hold on you, God always has a plan to help you conquer the attacks from the enemy. The more you keep listening to God's voice and staying obedient to what He has told you to do, the more you will be delivered from these acts of destruction that the enemy tries to tempt you with. As you listen to today's podcast, stay encou...

As I continue to share about this last root from the Seed of Idols, you will see that it is one thing to have this root inside of you. It becomes even more challenging to deal with someone else that has this root inside of them. How do you handle it when they have wronged you? What steps do you take in trying to resolve the situation? Prayerfully, you will include God in every step that you take w...

When the adversary has you participating in this root, it can have a major stronghold on you. You will want to continue in it and it will be up to you to make the conscious choice to follow in the will of God or to continue to operate in how you want to do things, regardless of the hurt that it may cause others, and yes, even "you." You will have to be committed to God completely in orde...