Good Ground: How to Guard Your Heart and Guarantee Your Harvest

by Donte Banks

If the Word works... why isn't it working for me? You've heard the sermons. You've claimed the promises. You've planted seeds, prayed prayers, and stayed faithful when walking away would have been easier. And still — the harvest hasn't come. You're not backslidden. You're not faithless. You're just tired of staring at dirt where fruit was supposed to grow. And somewhere between the altar call and real life, you stopped expecting God to show up the way He said He would. You didn't lose your faith. You just quietly turned down the volume on hope. In Good Ground , Pastor Donte Banks takes you into the Parable of the Sower — not as a Sunday school lesson, but as a mirror. With the honesty of a pastor who has been every kind of soil, the humor of someone who has lived through it, and the clarity of a teacher who refuses to let you stay stuck, he walks you through the journey from hard ground to harvest.


Inside these pages, you'll discover how Soften what life has hardened — and let God's Word take root againGuard what God has planted — against the thieves, thorns, and offenses that steal your harvestPosition yourself for the fruit that is already on its way — through daily habits that turn intention into breakthroughThis is not another book about sowing a financial seed. This is a book about the condition of your heart — your mind, your will, your emotions — and what happens when you stop performing for God and start partnering with Him.

Good Ground includes Reflection Prompts and Declarations at the end of every chapter, a Scripture Index for deeper study, and The Good Ground Challenge — a 21-day practice designed to soften your soil, plant your seed, and guard your field.

The Sower is faithful.
The Seed is perfect.
The only variable is the Soil.

And you are good ground.

Pastor Donte Banks is the Lead Pastor of GodChasers Community Church in San Antonio, Texas, and the author of I Will NOT Fear (Amazon #1 New Release), Begin Again (Amazon #1 New Release), 99 Lessons for My Teenage Son, and Iron A 40-Day Devotional for Men.

www.GodChasers.Church

119 pages, Hardcover

Published April 7, 2026

Reviews

[Jacquelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jacci Copeland

I throughly enjoyed this read. It is insightful, encouraging and provokes the reader to believe for more no matter where you are on your spiritual journey. So glad to proclaim that I am good soil.

Thank you