Trust Me More

Which means, they will not perceive it. In other words, it can be raining blessings all around them, but they will be living in the atmosphere of perpetual drought.

While God is pouring out his blessings, they will be dry as a corn shuck, because they will not have the capacity, to perceive or receive what God is doing.

So the goodness of God will be manifesting all around them, but they are living in the land of drought. Rain is falling all around them, and they’re complaining about how hot, and dry and desolate and miserable it is.

Why? Because their eyes are blinded to the goodness of God.

But I love the next part, because this part is talking about me.

God says… Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 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.

The LVG Bible says it this way… But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. 8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank,with roots that reach deep into the water. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

So…

• Blessed, happily favored, and fortunate are those whose hope and trust and confidence is in the Lord.

• These trees are planted along a river bank.

Which means they are in a place of continuous and abundant supply. But then it says…

• Their roots reach deep into the water.

• The water represents both the Spirit and the Word of God.

What is it like for these tree’s that trust in the Lord, in contrast to the shrubs that put their trust in the arm of flesh?

• These trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought.

• Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

Here is what I want to bring to our attention to today. The trees and the shrubs both are in a natural sense enduring the same physical circumstances or conditions.

Notice that it says these trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by the long months of drought. It doesn’t say the heat doesn’t come, or the drought doesn’t come.

What it does say is “It doesn’t matter” We the trees that are planted by the rivers of water, who have a continual supply of the Spirit and the Word, are not like the useless fruitless shrub that can’t perceive when good comes.

We’re just the opposite. We’re tapping into the goodness of God, in the middle of the drought. Right there in the midst of the heat.

Our roots have found the source of strength and refreshing. We have learned how to seek out the anointing and the presence of God.

So again, what is the ultimate result of these who put their trust and their confidence in the Lord?

• Their leaves shall always be green, and they will never be fruitless.

So this is what I heard the Lord saying about this. He said in 2024, my people must trust me more.

He said there is going to be a clear line of distinction in 2024 between those who are trusting the arm of flesh, and leaning to the arm of flesh, and those who are trusting in the Lord.