God will provide.
Trees are mentioned 4528 times in the Bible. Trees are so important that it’s mentioned at the beginning of the Bible in the first book “tree yielding fruit” Genesis 1:11 KJV.
There are many important trees throughout the Bible. Examples of important trees: the gopher trees to build Noah’s ark, the fig tree in the desert, the tree in the garden of Eden, and the tree that Zacchaeus climbed.
“For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit,” Jeremiah 17:8 KJV.
God planted trees, not reed that gets blown by the wind. He planted strong trees that yield fruit. Trees also produce according to what they are.
Such as:
Coconut trees cannot produce blueberries.
Orange trees cannot produce pineapples.
Apple trees cannot produce lemons.
In the same likeness:
A dead church cannot produce the supernatural.
A baptist church cannot produce a pentecostal.
A worldly church cannot produce holy saints.
When you produce much fruit, you are true disciples. “This brings great glory to my Father” John 15:8 NLT.
What are you producing? How much are you producing? Trees start from seeds. Seeds are not buried, they are planted. Seeds are planted intentionally with the intent to grow.
Trees can not live, function, or produce without roots. New trees or small trees can not have large top growth without first growing sufficient roots. Roots are the foundation of a tree. We are a one God church, there is only one throne in heaven, we believe in baptism, and these are our roots. “Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness,” Colossians 2:7 NLT.
Trees also have branches; if you have the right roots, you will have the right branches. “And it was told to the house of David, saying, ‘“Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.’” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind,” Isaiah 7:2 KJV. They did trust that God would take care of them, and they were moved by the wind.
“Which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches,” Mathew 13:32 KJV. When it is grown, it becomes great, but first, you have to let the branches grow or it will not be great enough for birds to nest in its branches. The branches are those in leadership in the church.
Seasons do not prove you are a tree, the leaves do. Leaves will go in their season. Sometimes leaves go to show off the tree. You can’t take a leaf and put it on another tree. Leaves change. Leaves are the people in the church. Trees can be identified by the leaves they bear.
Every tree has bark. Bark will never leave a tree no matter the season. If a Church has no bark it has no bite. If you take a single strip of bark off a tree all the way around the trunk the tree will die. For a church, holiness is its protection. Bark has a Special Chemical that protects it from insects and other pests such as holyness protect people.
