ROOT SYSTEM

What is your VALUE system?  What do you BELIEVE in?  Whom do you TRUST?  Jeremiah 17:7-9 says "Blessed is the man who BELIEVED in, TRUSTS in, and RELIES on the Lord, and whose HOPE and CONFIDENCE the Lord is.  For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its ROOTS by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green.  It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit."

The Lord is our SOURCE of BLESSING!  The "key" to blessing is to put your hope and trust in the Lord  "Isaac sowed in a year of famine and he received 100-fold; and the Lord BLESSED him."  [Genesis 26:12]  Our blessing does not depend on the economy, other people, or the weather--it depends on our RELATIONSHIP with God.  God will use circumstances to draw us to Him, but the circumstances won't determine the outcome...our relationship with Him will!!!

The LIFE of the tree comes from its ROOT.  Therefore, it is imperative that we be "ROOTED and GROUNDED in [His] LOVE."  [Ephesians 3:17]