WE ARE LIKE PLANTS BEFORE THE LORD, SO LET'S GET GROUNDED IN CHRIST.

NKJ Genesis 1:29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

WE ARE LIKE PLANTS BEFORE THE LORD, SO LET'S GET GROUNDED IN CHRIST.

FAMILY ARE LIKE PLANTS

NKJ Psalm 128:3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table.

NKJ Psalm 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;


MEN OF JUDAH LIKE PLANTS

NKJ Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.


JESUS GROWING UP LIKE A PLANT

NKJ Isaiah 53:2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

FALSE TEACHERS SHALL BE UPROOTED AND THROWN OUT.

NKJ Matthew 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

LET'S GET GROUNDED IN FAITH

NKJ Ephesians 3:13 Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
NKJ Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
NKJ Ephesians 3:15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
NKJ Ephesians 3:16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
NKJ Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
NKJ Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height --
NKJ Ephesians 3:19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

NKJ Colossians 2:6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
NKJ Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

PRAYER

FATHER GOD, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD HELP US KNOW YOU BETTER THROUGH YOUR WORD SO WE CAN GROW MORE IN YOU.

IN JESUS NAME.

AMEN.