Matthew 13.1-9; Luke 8.4-8 From the New Testiment in Contemporary English "God Sets You Free" p50.

        The next time Jesus taught beside Lake galilee, a big crowd gathered. It was so large that he had to sit in a boat out on the lake, while the people stood on the shore. He used stories to teach them many things, and this is part of what he taught:
        Now listen! A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. While the farmer was scattering the seed, some of it fell along the road and was eaten by birds. Other seeds fell on thin, rocky ground and quickly started growing because the soil wasn't very deep. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched and dried up, because they did not have enough roots. Some other seeds fell where thronbushes grew up and choked out the plants. So they did not produce any grain. But a few seeds did fall on good ground where the plants grew and produced thirty or sixty or even a hundred times as much as was scattered.
        Then Jesus said, "If you have ears, pay attention."....

Jesus told them: If you don't understand this story, you won't understand any others. What the farmer si spreading is really the message about the kingdom. The seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But satan soon comes and snatches it away from them. The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it right away. But they don't have any roots, and they don't last very long. As soon as life gets hard or the message gets them in trouble, they give up.
        The seed that fell among the thornbushes are also people who hear the message. But they start worrying about the needs of this life. They are fooled by the ddesire to get rich and to have all kinds of other things. So the message gets choked out, and they never produce anything. The seeds that fell on good ground are the people who hear and welcome the message. They produce thirty or sixty or even a hundred times as much as was planted.

I feel that understanding this is SO very important to being a Christian. Look at those around us who are so concerned with money and posession that they forget about being good and doing good for God, and they, instead stray away from the bible. They are those who fell on rocky ground.

Look at those who have suffered in life and now give up on their belief in God... They fell on rocky ground. When people say they no longer believe because "God has done nothing for them", I would like to ask "What have YOU done for God?" "Did you ever give yourself up to be his servant? Have you disconnected yourself from material and what YOU want enough to listen to what GOD wants?"

This may be a silly story, but I'm telling you anwyay. Being human, I want to find the perfect life paterner so I've prayed to God for a list of qualities in a man... I asked for a man with a sense of humor, along with some other qualities and I got the man... but the relationship soon failed. I asked for someone who was PERFECT...someone who followed God, didn't want sex again till marriage, has learned from mistakes, someone who knows the value of the dollar but isn't obsessed with it, someone who will have time for me and come see me who doesn't drink or smoke and is handsome and successful and close to my age... Well he showed up a day or two later but I didn't even get so far as to date him despite our interest in each other. I just felt like it wouldn't work. This has happened! I get what I...want what I... think I...need... but then I realized that what I...wanted didn't work because it's not up to me. Serving God and following God means giving in and trusting Him with what I need and what I should have. Knowing this has helped me. If a relationship fails, so be it, God knew He wasn't right for me!

All this to say, give in and don't worry about the future because it's in Gods hands! Don't just sit and wait though, carry on your life but don't have worries and dread...don't SEARCH for something like a life partner and don't worry about that promotion because that will lead you, as a seed, to rocky ground. You must believe in God and trust him and you will have success.