by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2025
(Oct. 7, 2025) — October concludes my third year of writing on Substack, making this a good time to recognize the Lord’s goodness and to tell you about a few other thoughts on my mind.
True to His word, God has grown By Green Pastures.
In October 2024, I had 72 subscribers and now have 94, an increase of 23%. My following (which includes subscribers) has grown from 97 to 182, an increase of 47%.
This growth is God’s doing. The Apostle Paul used agriculture to illustrate a spiritual law when he told the Corinthian church that one plants, another waters, but “God gives the increase.”1
I have planted by publishing on average every 11 days, and I have watered, splashing comments on others’ posts. Apart from this, I have shunned the persistent grow-your-Substack schemes and relied on God to grow this publication. I desire readers who are drawn, not by gimmicks, but because the writing resonates (see a previous post).
I point this out to encourage others who are also doing “small” things for the Lord. The Apostle Paul recognized that we may grow weary while serving. Rest assured, God is faithful. May we be like the farmer in one of Jesus’s parables who didn’t understand how his crop grew but sowed and tended his field regardless, confident that God was doing His work while he did his.2
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