Luke 13:8 (KJV)
"But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also,
until I dig around it and fertilize it."
"But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also,
until I dig around it and fertilize it."
Frustrated, fruitless, faithless are three things that run together. This weekend I am speaking at a women's conference and the theme is "Reset." To prepare my heart and mind as well as my spirit for this time with women, I have been studying the subject of "Reset." Apostle Les Bowling, a friend of mine did a series on this subject and as I listened to the CD's, he taught "Reset" is also defined as "Replant or Replanted"
Never fear being uprooted or pruned. Never fear the hand of God working in your life. Sometimes we are rooted, and entangled with people that do not have the capability of helping us to grow and flourish. We need uprooted and dug around. We need to shake somethings loose from our roots and be fertilized, then placed in good soil and maybe even placed in the "Son-shine". The light of God will cause us to grow. Meaning the light of revelation in our life. When a tree is overshadowed by larger trees, and have the forrest (people we are surrounded by) keep us from being in the light, we don't grow properly. God tells us to be fruitful and multiply.
We can be destroyed by distraction. The word distraction comes from an old word meaning torn apart. A tree will grow deformed trying to get to what it needs. You have probably heard someone say, "I feel torn", "I feel like I'm coming apart." These terms are usually spoken when a person becomes distracted from their purpose and calling of God. It is a rootless season in our life. Many places in scripture we are referred to as the trees of the Lord. We must die to what we want. We need to focus on what God wants. Focus is what we get closest. What has your focus?
We can be destroyed by distraction. The word distraction comes from an old word meaning torn apart. A tree will grow deformed trying to get to what it needs. You have probably heard someone say, "I feel torn", "I feel like I'm coming apart." These terms are usually spoken when a person becomes distracted from their purpose and calling of God. It is a rootless season in our life. Many places in scripture we are referred to as the trees of the Lord. We must die to what we want. We need to focus on what God wants. Focus is what we get closest. What has your focus?
"The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like the cedar in Lebanon" (Psalm 92:12)
"The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted."
(Psalm 104:16 NRSV)
"The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted."
(Psalm 104:16 NRSV)
ACTION STEP: God is about to jerk some of us up by the roots, not to destroy us but to insure we grow and flourish. God is going to dig around lives. God is demanding it is time to be fruitful! Learn from the fig tree (Mark 11:12-25). Get in the sun (Son). Spend time in the Word of God. Disconnect from those who are choking you from growing. Embrace the hand of God in your life. Get planted in the courts of our God. When we get planted properly we will produce.
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