Thanks, thanks. Many ministers are painfully discovering this late, being a good seed does not guarantee a harvest. If you keep falling on the wrong ground, then the sure ministry is not going to be a sweet thing for you.
The scripture actually said it and tells the story of how Jesus talked of the parable of the sower where some fell on the good ground and some fell on the bad ground. This also goes in lines with ministry. There are some pastors that are anointed, powerful, God is using them, they are even sincere but the people that they are in the midst of are terrible people that will not allow them to grow, they will dishonor their grace and weaponize their familiarity.
There are also some people that the congregation is hungry, teachable and generous but the pastor is a very bad person, extremely manipulative and lazy, carnal and uncalled for. This may smash as made some churches to close down in previous time and made some pastor to look unproductive, which is very bad. There is one truth that people don't even know, which is that leaders and believers must accept that not every crowd in your congregation, not every platform in your pulpit, and not every church in your home, be it a healthy church or a non-healthy church, have the right or same conditions.
And the requirement for the right combination of seed, soil and condition for growth is crucial for church growth. That means the right people must listen to the right pastor, the right pastor must preach to the right people. When a pastor spends years preaching to the same people and their life is not changed, then something is wrong somewhere.
Then the pastor might actually go and pray harder to come and meet the wolf that is preaching to which will become another round of mess. Sometimes this can easily give a sign to some pastors who are very understanding and can calmly look at things to see that they are preaching to the wrong crowd. So as a pastor or a minister, you must be able to find your soil before you labor so that you don't labor in the wrong ground and it doesn't waste your years of hard work.
The principle has always been simple. Seed and soil must match if we are ever going to wait for a bountiful harvest.
