This can include church, personal prayer and worship, reading Scripture, and other activities that strengthen us.Mark 4:19 could not have been more clear in Jesus' parable of the sower, ...And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh un