21/ Roots
The purpose of the roots of a plant or tree, is to hold it in place, while at the same time providing water and food.
Colossians 2:6, 7
6/ Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with him.
7/ Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving.
Baby Christians
If you're a baby Christian use the above Bible verses as a prayer for your own life. If you know of a baby Christian, pray the above Bible verses to stop them from slipping away - otherwise the following will happen.
Matthew 13:6 But when the sun came up, it burnt the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.
When a person becomes a Christian let the Holy Spirit convict them what they should get rid of in their life. Don't you try to pull out all the weeds at once in a baby Christian's life, or else they could become discouraged and lose faith.
Matthew 13:28&29 "It was some enemy who did this", he answered. Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?" they asked him.
29/ "No," he answered, "because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them."
Mature Christians
Once you are a mature Christian make sure that the roots of the weeds in your life do not strangle the root of God. (Remember the Jimmy Swaggart story).
How to nourish the root system and thus the plant.
* Feed on the Word of God.
* Seek God continually.
Be productive - produce fruit
1/ Be like Isaiah 37:31 and John 15:4,5&8
2/ Do not be like Hosea 9:16
ARE YOU A TUMBLEWEED?
A tumbleweed is a bush that rolls around the desert because it dried up and then broke off at ground level. The bush is then blown around the desert by the wind. Is your life aimless, or do you have a definite purpose in life? Is Jesus the main focus of that purpose?
My tooth - killing off the root
In Jonah chapter 4, God commanded a worm to attack the root of the plant and it died. While teaching the story of Jonah during scripture, I had a toothache. I placed my hand on that part of the face where the pain was and commanded the root of the aching tooth to die. My prayers worked for the tooth stopped aching and has never ached again, nor did it turn black.
The Wart on my Finger
On several occasions I had prayed for people covered in warts and they had simply fallen of a few days later. Yet here I had a wart on my finger that I had prayed about for months on end and it hadn't fallen off. Finally God gave me the following prayer. Tie off the root system of that wart, so that it can no longer feed on your flesh. Within days the wart dropped of.
MAKE EPHESIANS 3:17 THE PRAYER FOR YOUR LIFE
"and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through
faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love."
1/ Fiji
2/ Egypt
3/ Israel
4/ Papua New Guinea
5/ Forgive or I cannot forgive you
6/ Jesus still heals today
7/ Suicide
8/ Long Bay Gaol
9/ Attempted murder
10/ Bathurst Gaol
11/ Angels
12/ How to pray
13/ Cords
14/ Counting the cost
15/ The heart condition
16/ Lorraine
17/ Dracula - fact or fiction
18/ If you love me
19/ Being gay
20/ Faith
21/ Roots
22/ Malaysia
23/ Fiji revisited - 1997
24/ What Jesus means to me
25/ My diary entries
26/ Conclusion