World

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may the Holy Spirit please be with us guiding and protecting us in every deed and thought, on every path that we tread on this day. Please show us our blessings as You walk with us on our paths of thought and give us peace of mind and all strength necessary to overcome what negativity will be generated on our paths this day by the hate and greed of the world. Please give us the energy we need to have productive deeds finished at the end of this day, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. 

Quotation:*
The great need of the world today is the spiritual power necessary for the overthrow of evil, for the establishment of righteousness, and for the ushering in of the era of perpetual peace; and that spiritual power begins in the surrender of the individual to God.  It commences with obedience to the first commandment. --William Jennings Bryan 

KJV*
Mt 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mt 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mt 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 
Mt 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 
Mt 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: 
Mt 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mt 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
Mt 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mt 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 
Mt 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Mt 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mt 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mt 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 
Mt 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 
Mt 13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Mt 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Mt 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 
Mt 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 
Mt 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Mt 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 
Mt 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.