Two things the Lord revealed to me this week. One: trees don’t work at producing fruit. They are firmly rooted and they produce fruit, but they don’t will themselves to do it. They can’t pull themselves up by the bootstraps, chant, pray, nada… Nothing they do will produce fruit outside of them being rooted.

Two: I read Zephaniah. The first 2 chapters of that book are pretty rough, but then halfway through chapter 3, the Lord starts giving His promise of provision/protection/love. Despite the terrible circumstances that appear to be going to overtake them, the Lord is still there and promising to drive back their enemies and sing over them. I can’t tell you how much that has blessed me. Throw at me what you will, God goes before me and He is my rear guard. If I step out of the way, He is right there to take the onslaught.